Line 14: When the soldier dies he will go to an "English heaven." ... His heaven apparently will be chock full of memories of England-her "sights and sounds," and a whole lot of other good stuff. ... So check it out: like any sonnet, "The Soldier" has 14 lines. ... Well, just like the good sonnet that it is, "The Soldier" is written in a metrical form called iambic pentameter. ... ANALYSIS SPEAKER The speaker of "The Soldier," is the soldier. ...

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A soldier fighting for the North, as a soldier in the Union, was normally better feed than the normal soldier fighting for the South, also known as a Confederate. ... Along with the food most Union Soldiers drank coffee, on average a soldier would drink a quart or more of coffee a day. ... The Confederate government did not do a good job feeding the soldiers even though the south had an abundance of agriculture and a large amount of food. ... The soldiers were often bored out of their minds. ... A soldier's life was kept interesting, not always in a good way, throughout their service ...

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Shawna Hulen Professor McLeod English 104 Term2003C 6 July 2003 Analysis and Evaluation of "Soldiers Home" Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" presents the inner conflicts of morals and views of life one man faces after enlisting in the Marines and going to war: Krebs went to war from a Methodist college in Kansas. ... "I"ll try to be a good boy for you"(583). ... The author suggests that Krebs lead the interesting life of a soldier on deployment. ... Hemmingway's tone in "Soldier's Home" is melancholy and depressing. ... Any veteran can argue that war changes...

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In The Red Badge of Courage Henry, a youthful soldier, is the main character. Henry is a lone soldier, and Chamberlain is a courageous leader. ... Lee and Longstreet are the true definition of soldiers, the same goes for Henry. ... The Red Badge of Courage has a non- specific setting of each battle which gives more attention to the individual soldiers than their surroundings. ... (pg 51) "'Was a pretty good fight, wa'n't it?' ...

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Roman soldiers often died in battle, or from diseases caught on campaign. ... Despite this, many young men did volunteer to become Roman soldiers. This was party through pride in family tradition, because pay was good or because of the valuable privileges it offered following a successful campaign or on retirement. ... Then every man had to fight for his life, making good use of his weapons, his strength and his training. If successful, an officer could win fame and glory for himself and for his men, and for the tough or fortunate soldiers who did survive the duration of the service, the pro...

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Children take the place of adult soldiers killed in war. ... They become child soldiers when they are separated from their families. ... After war, the general health of the children declines, since they do not have good nutrition, clean water and access to healthcare. ... Learning enables the children to use knowledge for positive good and helps them to transform from the violent children they were taught to be during the wars (Every surviving war child has two stories: one from the war and one from its aftermath). ... As a whole, the effects of war on child soldiers are longstanding. ...

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"Steel My Soldiers" Hearts" Col. ... Soldiers had difficulty telling the "good guys from the bad guys" (p. 16). ... The soldiers also distrusted the ARVN soldiers, not sure who was truly a soldier and who may be a Viet Cong. ... The battle resulted with forty enemy dead and fifty American soldiers were wounded or killed (p. 170). ... The book would make a good learning tool for someone going into military leadership. ...

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Memories can be good and bad, sad and happy. ... The code of a soldier in training was silence because silence is what kept a soldier safe. ... A soldier always watched the back door, waiting for this moment. ... On command, every soldier dropped their gear simultaneously into a separate formation. ... We were soldiers now, given the right to return home from what we volunteered to do. ...

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Even if a soldier did get close to other soldiers, they had to go through the pain of losing them if they died. So if the soldier only worried about himself, then he would not have feelings for other soldiers. ... Generally there are basic motivators that keep the soldier actively fighting with unit pride, small group bonding and a strong belief that this was the good fight, and that the fight would be won, were not present in Vietnam (Goodwin 1989). ... That was hard, because all the nurses wanted to see every soldier make it back home alive. Overall the relationship between the male sold...

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Factors that led these children to become child soldiers include lack of education, social conflicts, and socioeconomic status. ... This led to child soldier recruitments. Enlistment of child soldiers came easily with little expense. ... These hardships make it easy to persuade the children of these families to become part of the child soldier army. Their ignorance and fear make them good soldiers because they do not question orders. ...

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The movie that I selected for my critique is called "We Were Soldiers", a movie set in November of 1965, during the Vietnam Conflict. ... These two also worked together on another movie, which would prove to be a good example of leadership practices, called "Braveheart". The first scene that I chose to analyze in "We Were Soldiers" is one that comes some 45 minutes into the movie. ... This is a good example of "leadership in practice". ... Plumley makes the comment that "he's a soldier that wants to win medals". ...

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Being a soldier of the United States Army taught me numerous values and ethos. ... "Hurry up and wait" was a saying that I had learned as a soldier. ... All I had was time on my hands to think about my journey, the good and the bad decisions that were made. ...

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Being a soldier of the United States Army taught me numerous values and ethos. ... "Hurry up and wait" was a saying that I had learned as a soldier. ... All I had was time on my hands to think about my journey, the good and the bad decisions that were made. ...

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This is just a small example of the doubt and hatred that was bestowed on the African American soldiers. ... Even though an antislavery minority existed in the South, most Southerners found slavery to be highly profitable and in time came to consider it a positive good. ... The north began to use black soldiers in 1863. The South did not decide to use blacks as soldiers until the closing days of the war. ...

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FALLEN SOLDIER IN THE MIDDLE EAST And we, what are we? ... The father doesn't care about other people's thoughts of his son was a good soldier. ... Olive tree is a symbol of good uses. ... In this stanza, the word "they" (line 12) might refers to another soldier or people who will come to his place. ...

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Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" is a story of a soldier who returns from World War I as a changed person. ... The main conflict in "Soldier's Home" is between Krebs and the community to which he returns. ... Especially, Krebs's mother wants him to get married and have a good job like everyone in the society. To encourage him to get married she states about "Charley Simmons, who is your age, has a good job and is going to be married" (68). ...

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"Soldier's Home" is a prime example of this art of echo and indirection. ... An incestuous relationship between brother and sister is suggested in Hemingway's later, posthumously published work "The Last Good Country" and its related manuscripts. But here, in "Soldier's Home," there is no hint of incest. The brother-sister relationship remains a simple form of love in "Soldier's Home. ... Ernest Hemingway has abundantly used symbolism and ironies throughout "Soldier's home". ...

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King Henry is not a king who still "savors his youth" but a good, strong king. King Henry is a trustworthy and strong king because he is able to put aside his personal feelings for the good of his kingdom and has a good relationship with the commoners and nobles. ... A good king also has to have good relationship with the commoners and nobles. ... Henry would not endanger his soldiers for anything unless he knew that it was the right thing to do. ... Another example that makes him a good and caring king is at the English camp the night before the final battle; he dresses himself up like a co...

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Although, the Union was quite primed for the next battle, the Confederate army had very good leadership behind it. ... Lee was an exceedingly aggressive soldier. ... Both Meade and Lee were professional soldiers and graduates of West Point. ...

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Along with looking good in the eye of the public, it will also encourage participants to purchase tickets in the following years. ... Generation after generation of fathers and sons has walked through the triumphal columns at Soldier Field, all with the anticipation of seeing a battle of the gridiron. ... With each victory tallied, the fan will be able to brag to others how well his team is doing and explaining to others what it is like to actually experience a live game at Soldier Field. ...

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AAlexander was as much a soldier as a commander, seeking for himself the rich trophy of killing the king.A Page 42. ... A This victory, however, the King owed more to his own heroism than to good luck: it was his courage not the location as before, that won the day.@ Page 90. ... People believe that Alexander is a good excellent leader but good leaders don=t kill people when they disagree with him, for example his best friend didn=t say that he was a good king. ...

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Our base consisted of Coop, myself, and eight other gentlemen making up a small base of ten soldiers. ... We started making our way to the enemy base as quickly and quietly as possible taking periodic stops to recon the area for opposing soldiers. ...

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His daughter is engaged to Galiotso and Benito is happy because he was good friends with his father. ... There was a meeting with The Grand Council to have Mussolini step down and give Italy to the allies before all the Italian soldiers are killed. ...

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Montgomery made the soldiers feel that they are uneducated. ... In the movie, we see that the African-American soldiers didn't have good shoes and uniform for the battle. ... Furthermore, these soldiers were also paid less than the other soldiers. ... The time when he also tore his paper, when the soldiers are fighting for equal payment, shows us that he supports his soldiers no matter what. The fact that he made sure that the soldiers will have new good shoes for the war shows us that he is concern for them. ...

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Also once when soldiers were on the stage background was again blue but the front lights of the stage colored soldiers in red, showing us that they are good and that the people in their background who were leading them are actually bad. This way lightening effects of blue and red showed me that soldiers were good guys and mostly innocent for things that happened, and that the blamed or a bad was a US government. ... Sounds that were following soldiers were scary, and always when hearing those kinds of sounds I was expecting soldiers to come on stage and background to change in blue. ... Amer...

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