Caputo graduated from the advanced course in August of 63. From there he went on to Officers" Basic School. This was more technical things than anything. He found Officers" school more pleasant than OSC. However he made the decision that the essence of the Marine Corps experience was pain. Through the pain Caputo also learned about loyalty and courage. He began to relate every aspect of the world to war. He was ready to fight.
Caputo finally got what he was waiting for. They were going to Vietnam. There was nothing but excitement as they were finally making there way to where the action was. Caputo as well as the rest of the marines where surprised to find that with Vietnam brought boredom. Day after day they sat around just waiting. It became a deadly routine of keeping watch and repairing things. Caputo began to think of the war as "phony." There was always talk of action, but nothing ever followed through. War wasn't amounting to Caputo's expectations. The men began to go into depression from the idleness of it all. Finally after day and days of the boredom, the men's spirits were lifted when it was decided that they were going to chase after the enemy. Once again he was disappointed when the actual combat merely became a manhunt. The combat never met up with Caputo's expectations and he began to realize there wasn't much chance of being a hero. All war really amounted to was people getting shot and soldiers losing their friends. This is when Caputo decided to get an administrative job. He began to see war as something breaking families apart. Caputo no longer saw war as a thrill. He no longer liked war. .
While Caputo served his administrative jobs he learned of the deaths of his close friends. One of his men was shot in the back while another was shot by a sniper. Sullivan, the man killed by the sniper, had an expecting wife. He took this news hard. As people kept dying Caputo began to think of himself as "Officer of the Dead.
For example, just when the book starts in the very first chapter Fredrick Douglas talks about his very first experience of seeing someone getting beaten. ... Another thing that shows how bad they treated them, is when in the second or third chapter Fredrick Douglas talks about how if the master caught anybody with tar on them they would beat them horribly for supposedly trying to steal fruit. ...
The first similar characteristic between Maya Angelou and Fredrick Douglas is that both of them were religious. ... The second point is that both Maya Angelou and Fredrick cared about Church. ... The second similar characteristic between Maya Angelou and Fredrick Douglas is that they were both perseverant. ... Fredrick's perseverance allowed him to rebel against Edward and to win a physical confrontation which stopped Edward from trying to beat Fredrick again. ... The first point is both Maya and Fredrick were abolitionists against slavery and Fredrick even became the leader of the abol...
In, "My Bondage and My Freedom-, Fredrick Douglas takes you back into his life long enough for you to gather the pieces of the puzzle that unveils the missing pieces of his future. ... In, Fredrick Douglass case, the weed killer was a book, "Columbian Orator."" ... Fredrick was now breaking through and getting a first look at a different world. ... Fredrick Douglass no doubt had a hard time. ... Fredrick was free. ...
Frederick Douglas has become a free man and that he is saying slavery was wrong to him. ... As the owner of Fredrick Douglas with his time at my plantation, I treated him fairly. ... Fredrick Douglas is the smartest person I have ever seen. ... I have high hopes and dreams for Fredrick, and I am happy he is a free slave. ... No, I did not let Fredrick Douglas escape. ...
Fredrick Douglas was born some were between 1817 and 1818. ... Harriet died when Fredrick was little so Fredrick only has a vague remembrance of her. ... Fredrick was late chosen to live with the Auld's in Baltimore. ... Fredrick did a good job to drag you right in the story. ... Fredrick Douglas brings you the real reality of life as a slave. ...
Fredrick Douglass was a man, which wanted more than to be a slave but a freeman,. ... Gore then, without consultation or deliberation with any one, not even giving him an additional call, raised his musket to his face, and taking deadly aim at his victim, and then in a poor instant Demby was no more (Douglas 14) ". ... Covey was a poor man; he was commencing in life; he was only able to buy one salve; and, shocking as in the fact, he bought her, as he said for a breeder (Douglas 37)". ... The truth was that he didn't whip me at all (Douglas 43)". ... Fred Douglas took this theory of fi...
Fredrick Douglas was born some were between 1817 and 1818. ... Harriet died when Fredrick was little so Fredrick only has a vague remembrance of her. ... Fredrick was late chosen to live with the Auld's in Baltimore. ... Fredrick did a good job to drag you right in the story. ... Fredrick Douglas brings you the real reality of life as a slave. ...
It is this concept that I went on to examine in the piece Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas. ... In Frederick Douglas' narrative, it is unknown whether or not his birth was welcomed. ... Assuming this was true, Douglas was probably both an embarrassment and a property asset to his father. ... This power also became equally clear to Frederick Douglas. ... This was a defining moment in Douglas' career. ...
Average men, such as Abraham Lincoln, Fredrick Douglas, and Walt Disney, put in some hard work and now are remembered as "self-made" men. ... Fredrick Douglas rose from the shackles of slavery to extraordinary success due to his virtue. Douglas did not give up when his master's wife, who had been teaching him the alphabet, was reprimanded for doing so by her husband. ... Douglas also did not give up when was traded to Edward Covey, a man who regularly beat him. ... When it comes to rags and riches, there are no rags worse than those that were given to slaves, but that did not st...
