Throughout my twenty years of Naval service, I was separated from my family extensively with fourteen of the years onboard various ships. ... During times of peace and conflict, deployments are an integral part of Navy life, but it is important not to underestimate or take for granted the incredible physical and emotional sacrifices that a long deployment imposes on our sailors and their families. ...

• Word Count: 592
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many times, we try to separate ourselves from the world around us; we distance ourselves from the society. ... Throughout the story, Paul wears a red carnation to symbolize that his mom his alive in his minds and in his heart, but at the end, he buries that flower under a white blanket of snow, finally making peace with her death. ...

• Word Count: 886
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the end of the story, Raskolnikov confesses for the murder, goes to prison in Siberia, and realizes that surrender to true love and equality finally puts his mind at peace and ease. ... Raskolnikov's theory upon the existence of two separate types of man - the ordinary and the "extraordinary" – is quite egotistical and arbitrary. ...

• Word Count: 1095
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate