Hidden Religion

 

                 

                         Stand up for what is right, even if you stand up alone.

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In the Military, Army, Navy, and Air Force, every individual has the same purpose, to serve and protect their country. What makes them different is what the meaning behind every single soldier is. Mary McCarty, a soldier, is surrounded by men everyday. She is used to the sly stupid comments that are incorporated in the everyday conversations. One day that all changes when Mary overhears the Colonel talking and his conversation leads to discrimination against McCarty’s people. People that her acquaintances have no idea about. Mary is half Jew. In a bar with her fellow acquaintances, the talk of the evening consists of spiritual, moral and historical backgrounds dealing with Jews and Communists. Besides hating on communists and mentioning that there happens to be a Communist professor who is working at Harvard, one way or another, Jews get brought into the conversation. Mary regards this as a disrespectful conversation and leaves to find comfort in her own space. This then leads to questioning herself and her background. It is not something that she should be ashamed of, nor is it anyone else’s business. She takes a stand and approaches the Colonel in a civil way; by refusing to go to lunch with him until he decides to hear her out. She is determined to take his hurtful words into words of respect and understanding. While going back and forth in conversation, Mary makes sure to keep her religion hidden, playing smart with her spiritual and moral supportive examples. She out wits the Colonel with his own tongue, making him pay the check for lunch and admitting that he was wrong. Mary McCarty later reveals her last name, identifying her Jewish background to him. This created a mutual respect between the two. It also created a respect between the reader and Mary, for her description in words let us see her harsh perspective and the spiritual and moral background let us believe her credibility.

                                                A Beautiful Crooked Line

 

             

             A poet is unsuccessful when they’re trying to be something that they’re not.

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Roses are red, violets are blue, Robert Frost reached his goal, and his poetry has a nice tune. All poems need to be different but not different with their words or sounds, they have to be different with their meaning. A poem with deeper meaning to the reader rather than a deeper meaning to the writer is a true art. Poems have to be different, also they do not have to be wild. Poems are tunes that create their names as the words of the story carry you along a wild yet calm adventure. Every single poem has a beginning, a middle, and an end. In what order that poem is in, that is up to the writer, but every poem has that standard. Having a different order in the standard is what creates a different mood. The reader may perceive a completely different mood in the beginning than in the end of the poem. Regardless of the mood, a poem still holds the same purpose. It is to entertain the audience, to bring up a memory that the audience has once forgotten about. Individuals will try to be a Walt Whitman, a Edgar Allan Poe, or an Emily Dickinson, yet they never truly allow the name to be created by themselves through the story. It is best for someone to love a good crooked line’s straightness rather than adore a mechanically straight line. Musicians and poets both have a similar tune, even with their different techniques. Both incorporate a free handed solo that can uplift a sad heart or do the complete opposite. That is what creates such a full and effective tone in writing. Two different audiences with similar characteristics is what makes a successful prompt. Robert Frost accomplished his purpose that it should be the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. With lacking credibility, it is his passion for both arts, poetry and music, that helped portray the ideas of his personified words in a corresponding way.

 

Fighting Without A Purpose

Fighting Without a Purpose

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by

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War starts with blood shed and ends with blood shed. The only difference between modern war and past wars is that now there are more weapons and more people who are narrow minded towards alternate ideas; alternative ideas that could have saved millions of innocents lives. When Athenians went against other tribal groups, centuries ago, it was considered brave and victorious. Keep in mind, land was never given freely, native tribes were killed by neighboring tribes who wanted more than what they possessed at that time. Lords would tell knights that if they wanted more money, they had to take this land and protect it. When a land was picked out, knights weren’t told of previous owners, they were warned of ‘enemies’. Wars to this day consist of no purpose; wars are merely to hold pride, authority and honor. Although militarism has been successful, it is surely not the only tactic that could be successful. War is sometimes needed because a country doesn’t have any positive or stable tactics to fall on. This doesn’t mean that it always has to be taken to such cruel some ways of warfare. A large quantity, out of millions and millions of military personnel, do strongly believe that if the government didn’t take militaristic actions, the country would be weaker than it is now. Many will agree, but that is simply because no other way has truly been tested. Military is what gives authority and power over most countries; it sets high standards, limits towards enemies, and friendly allies too. It’s a president’s best friend in a time of suffering. William James has failed at achieving his goal of making people aware of the necessity of war along with an optimistic mind of other options. By solely mentioning tribal wars that occurred centuries ago, and authors who supported the idea of war, it lacked in credibility towards his purpose. Finding soldiers who are passionate about fighting wars is wonderful; finding groups of people with that same passion towards another strategy would be spectacular.