For three months Charlie Company went from village to village, seeking the enemy, along the way 4 men were killed and 38 wounded all by booby traps or snipers, but they never came face to face with these evasive, guerilla warfare specialists- the Vietcong. They anxious, fearful and sought revenge. On March 15, 1968 plans were drawn up to attack My Lai, a village close to the coast of Vietnam known as Pinkville, believed by intelligence to be the headquarters of the Viet Cong. “The men of Charlie Company, seeing fellow
By March 1977, the pain had intensified and he finally went to a hospital, where he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a form of cancer that often starts near the knees.Terry Fox believed his car accident weakened his knee and left it vulnerable to the disease, though his doctors argued there was no connection. He was told that his leg had to be amputated.With the help of an artificial leg Terry Fox was walking in three weeks after the amputation. The Marathon of Hope began on April 12, 1980, when Fox dipped his right leg in the Atlantic Ocean near St. John's, Newfoundland, and filled two large bottles with ocean water. He intended to keep one as a memory and pour the other into the Pacific Ocean upon completing his journey at
After publication, the photo became world famous, significantly raising the international awarness of Minamata disease and the struggle of the victims for recognition . At the wishes of Tomoko Uemura's family, the photograph was withdrawn from any more publication in 1997, 20 years after Tomoko's death. In class I picked up plaety of books buy various photographers, but out of all of them, the one by Eugene Smith caught my attention . The images in the book all tell me a story and always has some ssort of feeling or emotion behind it. None of them are boring to me, they always make me think or take a second look.
Rheumatic fever left Dean with a heart condition, resulting in frequent absence from school, and he seemed to welcome the change when his mother remarried, moving the family to Texas. A part-time business making candy soon expanded to become their livelihood, and Corll was generous with samples as he sought to win new friends. Corll was drafted into the United States Army on 10 August 1964, and assigned to Fort Polk, Louisiana for basic training. He was later assigned to Fort Benning, Georgia, before his permanent assignment at Fort Hood, Texas as a radio repairman. Corll reportedly hated military service; he applied for a hardship discharge on the grounds that he was needed within his family's business (Candy Shop).
In 1984 tragedy struck when Greg Abbott was jogging with a friend following a thunderstorm when a tree fell on him. The tree broke his back and several of his ribs. After this catastrophic event Greg Abbott became a paraplegic and bound to a wheelchair. WHen he was doing intense rehabilitation at TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston he had two steel rods inserted in his spine and he has been bound to a wheelchair ever since. After he got done with the rehabilitation Greg Abbott sued the homeowner of the home in which the tree fell on him.
Article #2 “Seamless Transition, Jimmy: A Case Study,”is an article that describes Jimmy’s success story after proper transitions and IEP meetings were held throughout his educational career. Jimmy, at the age of 7, suffered head injuries from being struck by a truck when riding home from school on his bike. He was thrown more than 30 feet in the air and hit a rock wall. Sadly, the driver fled the collision, leaving Jimmy bleeding and unconscious for more than 30 minute until another driver found him. He was taken to the hospital, where he faced surgery, rehabilitation, and a referral was made to hisprimary physician.
A war between the two immediately broke out. In 1964, the USA entered the Vietnam War. The inconclusive war in Vietnam cost many American and Vietnamese lives, devastated the country, and achieved nothing but misery for anyone caught up in it; including the Cambodians. Cambodia had become part of the Vietnam battlefield. During the next four years, American B-52 bombers, using napalm and cluster-bombs, killed up to 750,000 Cambodians in their effort to destroy North Vietnamese supply lines.
Later, in March of 1968 the My Lai Massacre devastated a town of North Vietnamese citizens. American solders fed up and angry with the war killed the entire town of mostly women and children. The Military covered this event up for about a year, but in December of 1969 when the American public became
Neuropathy prevented Ian seeing where his body was which is a petrifying feeling; literally Ian was “The Man who Lost His Body”. It took a year for Ian to stand up safely and six months to put on his sock, this sensory process was long and tedious. This documentary taught me how we are fortunate to have sensory abilities; most people take it for granted because it’s natural. It was unbelievable how Ian recovered from this illness. The doctors told him that he will be in the wheel chair for the rest of his life but he was determined to regain his strength and movement.
In early June Hemingway traveled to Milan and upon his arrival he was quickly initiated into his job when a munitions factory exploded and left many dismembered bodies for Hemingway to transport to a morgue. On July 8, 1918, only a few weeks after arriving, Hemingway was seriously wounded by fragments from an Austrian mortar shell which had landed just a few feet away" (Lost Generation). Though he was badly injured he managed drag an Italian solider out of the fire and was given a badge of honor and courage for his act in duty. Though getting his badge of honor from the government, the injury humbled him