Harper sat down with a hot cup of coffee when there was a knock on the door. She opened the door and standing before her was a man she didn’t recognize. “Sorry to just spring up on you like this but are you Harper Woods?” said the man. “Who is asking?” said Harper. “I’m Kingsley. I recently moved into a house in Lakeside and found this box in the attic. It was addressed to this house,” Kingsley said as he handed a box to her. “Thanks. Do you know who it’s from?” said Harper curiously. “Sorry. I have no idea. I didn’t open the box, I’m not one to invade privacy but I do have to get going now. Have a nice day and I hope you find out soon enough,” said Kingsley as he turned away from the door. Harper walked into her living room and placed the box onto the glass table. She opened the box and a wet, musty smell filled the air. There was a leather bound journal situated at the bottom of the box. She picked up the journal and blew off the dust. She opened the journal and began reading the age crinkled pages. The first page was titled “Alexander Woods”. ------------------------------------------ It was 1941 and I was located at Ford Island Naval Air Station located in Oahu, Hawaii. It was located in the middle of Pearl Harbor. I was awakened to the sound of explosions bombarding my ears. I quickly got up onto my feet and felt the ground tremble beneath me. I threw on my gear hurriedly with my fingers tightened around my gun and ran outside. There was commotion everywhere. I was aboard the USS Maryland. It was morning and we were under attack. I looked up at the sky and it was swamped with a string of planes heading towards the island. On the side of the plane, it was etched ... ... middle of paper ... ...ouse and the way my wife’s face lit up when I told her it was going to be ours. 20, Did my family still love me or want me to be apart of their lives? 18, They must really hate me. 15, My mind was racing. 12, There was a change in the atmosphere, I could feel it. 10, My legs were going numb as I inched closer and closer to the dreaded door. 9, My throat was dry. I really needed water. 8, I didn’t even know the first thing to say to my wife. I wanted her to know that my love for her was everlasting. 7, My stomach was doing somersaults now. 6, I was feeling really hot and stuffy. I couldn’t breathe in this sweater. 5, I was at my front door. 4, My hands were trembling now as I pulled out my keys. 3, I missed the keyhole. It took me a few tries to get it in. 2, With a slight turn, I opened the door. 1, Home didn’t feel so much like home anymore. I couldn’t stay.”
...wis a little about her life before she entered the institution. She tells a story about how her and her father used to go duck hunting, but instead of using a dog to get the dead ducks out of the cold lakes, her father used to make her go out and fetch the ducks. This helps to enhance Cherry’s role as a mental patient, as we are all left wondering if this story is true, or if it merely a story with small bits of truth, concocted by Cherry’s own mind.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to December 7, 1941- the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor- as “a date which will live in infamy.” This description has continued to be accurate, nearly 70 years after the attack on American soil. However, not many people have the same emotional connection to the events at Pearl Harbor, as does the former Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, the man who was in the position of “Commander-in-Chief” at Pearl Harbor. The events of this day caused his rank of “Admiral” to be removed.
... treats Piney as her own child, and is moved with the couples love. After ten days of living in the cabin, she died from starvation. She requested to Oakhurst to give the rations she has been saving to Piney. He felt all them were already hopeless, so he ordered Tom to hike to Poker Flat and try to get some help. After a couple of days, when the help arrived in the cabin, the found two women huddled together, frozen to death, and close by Oakhurst was found with a gun near him, a bullet right through his heart, and a suicide note saying “Beneath this tree, Lies the body of John Oakhurst, who struck a streak of bad luck on the twenty third of November, 1850, and handed in his checks on the seventh of December, 1850.” (Harte 458). This story shows that people can change their life when they want to, and that anyone can develop feeling despite whatever they did before.
My grandfather was asleep one night on a Coast Guard cutter when another ship, a destroyer, appeared in the distance. The destroyer hit my grandfather's ship in the exact spot where he was sleeping. When he awoke, he found himself in the freezing water, watching his friends swim ashore to safety. They were leaving my grandfather there to die.
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date that will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval
At 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time (12:55 p.m. EST) on December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes attacked the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, launching one of the deadliest attacks in American history. The assault, which lasted less than two hours, claimed the lives of more than 2,400 people, wounded 1,000 more and damaged or destroyed nearly 20 American ships and more than 300 airplanes. Almost half of the casualties at Pearl Harbor occurred on the naval battleship USS Arizona, which was hit four times by Japanese bombers. As we commemorate the anniversary of this “date which will live in infamy,” as President Franklin D. Roosevelt described it on December 8, 1941, explore five little-known facts about USS Arizona and the attack that plunged America into war.
It’s a beautiful sunny morning, on a tropical island that everyone would love to take a vacation at. It’s approximately 6:00 am, December 7, 1941, when a first group of 181 kamikaze planes attacked; targeting key naval bases stationed at Hawaii; a sustained crippling of U.S. naval forces for about 6 months. The death toll was 2,500. Out of the 9 battleships, 8 were heavily damaged by the assault on Pearl Harbor and out of the 8, three were unrepairable, USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma, and the USS Utah. 160 aircrafts were put out of commission, and nearly 130 were heavily damaged. This was the first incident in which there was an act of war, committed on U.S. soil, outside of the American Revolution and the Civil War. The world was at war, and the U.S. remained neutral until now. Before the attack, the U.S. was in great debate whether to enter the war or to stay out of it. The act of war forced the U.S. into the War and triggered a controversial debate in whether to retaliate against Japan with the use of nuclear arms.
On December 7th, 1941, to the astonishment of the United States, the Navy fleet at Pearl Harbor was unceremoniously attacked resulting in the immediate involvement of the United States into WWII. As a new day began over the U.S Navy’s Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines, slept peacefully fully unaware that their lives were about to be changed forever. The forces stationed on Oahu had no idea that they would soon be involved in the single largest attack on American soil, which would inevitably thrust the United States smack dab into the middle of World War 2. December 7th, 1941 began as any typical Sunday morning, that is, until shortly before 8 a.m. when the Japanese Imperial
Pearl Harbor may have happened seventy-five years ago but the survivors can still recall the bombing in great detail. Many of the military servicemen and the people who were there during the attack have given first-hand accounts in interviews. These accounts have shed light on how those affected acted in the chaos. For example, in an interview with Captain Douglas G. Phillips of the US Navy, he recalls his shock of the attack and the orders he was given by his commanding officer. The details expressed in this interview as well as all the other interviews are shocking and some may find it disturbing.
I was age 30 and in the United States Navy and had been in the U. S. Navy for 11 years. I was attached to the USS Abraham Lincoln and we were currently in Honk Kong for a port visit. I remember I met a girl there and we spent the day together just had fun while she showed me around Hong Kong. I ended up asking the girl that I was with why she did some of the things she did in life. She explained that she came from a very poor background and that this was the only way she could get ahead. I remember seeing the sadness in her eyes and the hurt of doing what she did. It was at that moment something strange happen to me. I said some things to her, but what was odd was that it was like something speaking throu...
The memoir that I chose was the autobiography of Robert B. Oxnam, A fractured mind: My life with multiple personality disorder. The book is the account of a man with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). DID, once referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), is characterized by a person having more than one personality identity. This means that an individual person has separate minds within his/her brain. These different personalities, sometimes also referenced as alters, identities, or multiples, exist together and are thought to be a result of either physical or sexual abuse in early to mid childhood. The validity of the disorder has been criticized, but is recognized by the American Psychiatric Association and is published in the
One cold, snowy night in the Ghetto I was woke by a screeching cry. I got up and looked out the window and saw Nazis taking a Jewish family out from their home and onto a transport. I felt an overwhelming amount of fear for my family that we will most likely be taken next. I could not go back to bed because of a horrid feeling that I could not sleep with.
Jane was going to ask Mrs. Fairfax about the sounds she was hearing but then she heard a door. She also began to smell smoke and she sees that Mr. Rochester’s door is open. The curtains around his bed are on fire and he’s fast asleep. Jane tries to wake him but the smoke has kept him in a d...
...alone, because I was afraid my life would change radically after this, and I was not prepared yet for them to see this change. After a few minutes, I realized I was so weak I could feel the cold reaching my bones, but that was also the best feeling I’d ever had. I was thinking I had only a few weeks left to start college, which had been my dream since I can remember. My dad had already paid for my tuition, I was so exited I had promised to do my best, but I’d just had my daughter, and I was so nervous about being a young mother in college. I tried to open my eyes to admire my baby’s beautiful face and thought I was so brave, because I had decided to have this little girl. When I saw her I knew I would want her to be better than me, she would be my strength, because nothing would ever make me give up on my dreams, and that was another promise I had made to myself.
A new melody started up and like the wave at a baseball game the “ooohhs” and “aaahhs” from the crowd started on one side and ended on the other. From around the corner I could see the very top of a balding head. After they came around the corner of the crowd, I could see the wonderful sight of my stunning new bride accompanied by her father, a tall rugged man who is slightly balding. They walked towards me one step at a time slowly, but surely. It felt like time had slowed to a crawl as I waited for her to reach me.