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Very Vivid Example Of The Way War
1,842 wordsThe Horrors of War, Through the Eyes of a Modernist Poet Modernism was a movement in literature that was the result of many events of the times. First, the industrial revolution, which changed the way many people lived, strongly affected the writing of the Modernists. Modernist writers started to believe that the world was getting darker, which lead some Modernists to believe that this downward trend would culminate in the apocalypse. This dark feeling of despair is a very common theme in a lot ...
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Little Effect On The Vietcong
1,076 wordsBy Gerard Chretien Tactics in Vietnam were an important factor in the victory of the Vietcong over the U.S. There were fundamental differences in their fighting methods, which the Vietcong were able to take full advantage of. The Vietcong used Guerrilla warfare, this meant that they used their knowledge of the area they were fighting in to hinder the U.S. The U. S army had been used to conventional warfare, in the form of bouts of fighting. Guerrilla warfare meant that they had to be constantly ...
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Tim O'brien
1,147 wordsThe things they carried, by Tim O'brien 'Oh man, you fuck in' trashed the fucker. You scrambled his sorry self, look at that, you did, you laid him out like fuck in's hre dded Wheat. ' I chose to start off my essay with this particular exert from the book because I think that it very much represents the story in itself. Azar said this, after Tim (supposedly) killed a Vietnamese soldier with a hand grenade. It shows that in times of war, how callous men can become. However, callousness varies, wh...
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Physical Pain Of War
1,077 words'One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing. That to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. ' - Agatha Christie We as people never stop to think about war and its definition. Accroding to the dictionary, war is defined as a state of hostility, conflict, antagonism and death. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque tells the story about Paul Baumer, the narrator and protagonist of the book, a nineteen year old German soldier who fights in the front lines...
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Nightmare Of The Vietnam War
1,297 wordsThe Vietnam War Purpose: To illustrate my view on the Vietnam War. Audience: Anyone with an interest in the Vietnam War. Some Can't Forget I awaken and bolt upright in bed, my heart racing and sweat beginning to bead on my forehead. My chest heaving with ragged breaths, I try to figure out what startled me out of sleep. Then I hear it: The terrified scream of my father piercing through the eerie silence. My heart skips a beat and I shuffle my feet under the covers, letting them fall off the bed ...
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Owen's Poems And Barkers Novel
3,981 wordsRegeneration The authorial purpose of Pat Barker and Wilfred Owen is to present the harsh reality, of World War 1 and to shock and move us through their portrayals of the horrors at the front and their consequences. Discuss. Regeneration is deliberately set in a psychiatric hospital, Craiglockhart, and this location highlights some of the major issues of war. Pat Barkers intention in terms of location is obviously because this emphasises some of the key elements of WWI she wishes to explore, suc...
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Success In Different Ways
426 wordsHist 136 Tuesday 1: 304/5/2005 Paper #2 The Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars of all time, and it was fought by people of the same country. It is amazing to think that such a thing could have happened to this country. About 260,000 rebel soldiers and 373,000 Union soldiers were killed (Text, pg. 378). The reason for such a high number of deaths is mainly because most battles of the war involved about 200,000 soldiers. With this many people fighting at once, there are bound to be a huge num...
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Full Metal Jacket And Platoon
932 wordsFull Metal Jacket and Platoon are clearly two of the biggest movies ever made about the Vietnam War; therefore, they will always be compared and contrasted to each other. Platoon was based on Oliver Stone's own experience so he used simple war movie techniques to give a realistic sense of what jungle warfare was like. Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket was based on Gustav Hasford's experience, but Kubrick wanted to use the story to explore what made people into killers. These two films take very differ...
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Few Examples Of Civil War Nurses
2,942 wordsWomen in the Civil War and the Roles They Played on the Battlefield and on the Home front By: VM HIST 1301 8/01/03 The Civil War, which lasted for four long years, was a "total war" involving every aspect of society. During this time in one of the bloodiest of wars, northern and southern women were as equally involved as their male counterparts, if not more. Because of this war, women were forced to abandon their traditional roles of the 19th century, and participate in the war effort. Some fear...
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Franz Kemmerich A Childhood Friend Of Baumer
7,611 wordsKEY LITERARY ELEMENTS 1. SETTING All Quiet On The Western Front is set during World War I, behind the German frontlines where Paul Baumer is assigned. The setting weaves back and forth between the war front and the camp where Baumer stays. Once during the novel, Baumer goes home on leave, but the setting quickly reverts to the war front. The only other setting in the novel is in the hospital. LIST OF CHARACTERS Major Characters Paul Baumer The narrator of the novel. He is a young German infantry...
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Couple Times By Soldiers
814 wordsMay 30, 1918 Dear Mother and Father, I am lying here in our trench, reflecting on how I miss the warmth of home and our family. The Battle of Cantigny broke out two days ago, and has been a living hell on Earth ever since. Cantigny is 60 miles north of Paris and was actually quite nice before the battle started. Now, it is smoke filled, muddy, and horrifying. As I am sure you have already heard, the United States made allies with England, France, Russia, Serbia, Romania, and Japan. I think that ...
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Enemy Trench
1,601 words17th January 19171st Winchester Regiment Dearest Mother, I hope this letter reaches you as many others who have sent letters have not had their letters reach their intended destination and have met a short end. I also apologise for not writing to you sooner, although finding time to write is becoming increasingly more difficult as we push towards the German front line. Every day we are bombarded by shells and a good man comes to the end of his life, whether it be from the aforementioned shells o...
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Ernie Pyles War
1,095 wordsErnie Pyle By: Jenny Trem bath March 20, 2000 Ernie Ply e When a machine-gun bullet ended the life of Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans spoke of him in the same breath as they had Franklin Roosevelt. To millions, the loss of him was as great as the loss of the wartime president. Since WWII correspondent Ernie Pyle was so famous, his death on the battlefront came as a shock to people around the world. Ernest Taylor Pyle was born August 3, 1900 to Will and Marie Pyle. He was ...
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Front Line Trench
1,074 wordsQuestion 1: Describe the conditions that soldiers experienced on the Western Front in the years 1915 to 1917. During the first world war both sides dug trenches. These trenches ended up stretching from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border, around 700 kilometres. Fighting in the trenches lasted 4 years. Soldiers on both sides were forced to daily face the dangers and conditions of life fighting in the trenches on the western front in the First World War. The trenches were laid out in certain way...
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One Muslim And The Other Serbian
1,946 wordsIn what can be considered a modern day Holocaust, between 1992 and 1995, an unthinkable atrocity against man reared its ugly head yet again in Europe; only this time the setting was Bosnia. What is clear is that all three nationalities' behavior (Croats, Bosnian-Serbs and Muslims) undermined any claim to moral superiority. Slobodan Milosevic, president of Yugoslavia, tired to deny any wrongdoing, but after numerous stories of the misconduct began to surface; it was only a matter of time before t...
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British Soldier
568 wordsThe Revolutionary War brought much disruption to the lives of women in America. Many of these women had to house the "Red-Coats", while others halted their lives to teach the youth of America, and some women even picked up a sword and joined the men in the fight for our country. Many of these women's "baby steps" towards freedom did not do any good, because they were still seen as inferior by the men of America. These women may have helped to change women's standing in society by inspiring women...
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Patriotic Duty And The Important Lessons
472 wordsOpening paragraph Start by talking about Vitai Lampada Late 19th century poem that talks about a young mans patriotic duty, and the important lessons that are to be taught at school. Starts with a public school cricket match. Describe this verse. Typical public school scene. Desperate situation, but of course it is not that desperate - it is only a game. The boy encouraged to do the right thing - to do his best no matter how hopeless the situation. Use quotations to help illustrate the points yo...
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Jimmy Cross His Memories Of Martha
1,163 wordsThe Emotions They Had to Leave Behind "The Things They Carried", by Tim O'Brien, is influenced by his memories and experiences of his tour of duty in Vietnam. Since O'Brien was born in 1946, the Vietnam War had a major impact on his life. He served in the war, and like many of his other stories, "The Things They Carried" was written about the soldiers in the Vietnam War. Even though O'Brien was against the war, he reported for service and was shipped off to Vietnam when he was involved in the My...
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Herr's View Of The Vietnam War
1,746 wordsHerr's view of the Vietnam war is diffucult to interpret because at times he describes it as a hell with brutal accounts of mutilation and death. At other times, he seeks so lice in the exhilaration that comes from the fear. He was there "to cover the war and the war covered me", is easiest way to describe what he encountered. Herr was nieve at when he first got to Saigon. He writes of the morning before he was dropped off on the front lines, he had purchased fatigues and dressed up in them, sto...
