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. ...
A good leader should affected the war in such the way he/she wants with great leadership skills, making good decisions, and determined the outcome of the war. ... No one loved war or being able to command his/her soldiers as Patton did. ... He had good vision, and clear sense of direction. ... They should trust their soldiers just like their soldiers trusted him. ... He always put up a good fight and takes the offense. ...
Henry met the tattered soldier in the camp for wounded soldiers. ... He left the tattered soldier and tried to blend in with the other wounded soldiers. After the tattered soldier and Henry had witnessed the tall soldier's death, they went walking on through the fields. ... Good-bye,- (Crane 48). ... He felt no remorse for leaving the tattered soldier to die. ...
The first stanza describes the soldier's state of well being. ... This poor soldier is described as "waiting for dark" (1) in a "ghastly suit of gray"(2). ... This loneliness is emphasized by the soldier hearing the voices of young boys. ... This description is very helpful in understanding how the soldier is feeling. ... There is never a time when war has produced good after effects. ...
Is it the soldiers of a global war or the idiots of a global fight? ... Many of the wars start off as good wars such as World War II in which the Allies tried to stop Hitler from destroying the Jewish population of Europe. ... In the American Civil War, the Confederates and Union soldiers both used spies to gather information. In Ambrose Bierce's "AN Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", Peyton Farquhar was a planter who helped the Confederates by spying on the Union soldiers and also sabotage their plans. ... In general, wars are no good and all they bring is death and misery when...
He did not choose out of free will, but by his pressuring environment and the heroic perception of being a soldier. ... Most of the soldiers in his regiment are also "fresh fish" -- inexperienced boys nervous to go off to battle. ... He did not flee from battle because all the soldiers stayed and fought. ... The lieutenant even calls him a "jimhickey" and says he is a good man to have. This makes Henry change into a braver soldier and become a man. ...
Arrow shows she is 'different' from the other soldiers when she describes, "I'm not going to kill an unarmed civilian" (224). ... When Arrow rebels, she can be killed, which shows how true she is to her beliefs and how she is distinctive in this war from other soldiers. ... This is shown when she talks about the crimes the people on the hills have done which gives her tons of hate "Pulls the trigger because the soldiers have robbed her and almost everyone else in the city of this gift" (12), this links to the themes of survival/ hope and hate. ... The peopl...
Some of the areas I will be talking about in this paper as effects of war on children are: death, injury, disability, illness, rape and prostitution, psychological suffering, social and culture loss and child soldier. ... One of my friends who was really good on playing basketball, always told me that there is no way he will ever become a basketball star. ... Without good food and clean drinking water, you may end up having diarrhea or been malnourish. Refugee populations is more likely to have not as good as health indicators than the communities from which they came from. ...
The story revolves around Henry Flemming, a young soldier who has just joined the Union forces during the Civil War. ... He was met with the fear of running from battle and the visual effects of the war on the other soldiers. ... The good guy doesn't always live. ...
" Shannon don't only shows lack of respect to women but also the soldiers who have shell shock, like Hopkins. ... Kingsley intentions in the story are mostly good, he helps many other characters like when he saved the soldiers in the trench raid, also when he saved Violet from Shannon. ...
I have the firm and rooted belief that this situation, putting it mildly, should be eradicated form the face of the earth for good. ... Small girl and even boys are being used as sex slaves to "alleviate the sadness" of the soldiers. But you and I know that's just talk for the soldiers to get what they want when they want it. ... Soldiers older than them abuse these kids because they know no one or no law are going to stop them. ... Carrying loads of 60 kg every day for the soldiers were daily tasks that would weaken them more and more until the day they would be too tired to walk. ...
The image created by Cranes words is powerful, it shows the reader that war is like a blood thirsty animal, blotted and overflowing with blood, waiting for any and every soldier to be delivered to its grips by Death. ... The trouble that Henry sees is almost immediately displayed to the reader when Henry attempts to stop a fleeing soldier and receives his Red Badge of Courage. ... The reader is shown how Henry crumbles from the blow of the fleeing soldier's rifle. ... The youth has indeed been transformed from the dreamer who found good in all to one who knows death is never far behind. C...
Billy turns to alcohol to solve his problems which ends up not doing him any good. ... Rosewater, for instance, had shot a fourteen year old fireman, mistaking him for a German soldier. ... " Kurt Vonnegut uses a sympathetic tone when describing Billy the soldier, because he wants the reader to feel sorry for Billy. By breaking Billy down into a vulnerable, sad individual, Kurt Vonnegut exposes the generic big bad soldier as a broken spirit. ... Good bye!...
When people see good images of war and violence then they are going to think that war is a good thing, but in all reality we know that war is horrifying and freighting. Death, anger, and hatred swirling around us, why would people think that war is a good thing? ... So parents were pushing their young boys into the Army, Navy, or the Marines because they wanted them to become a hero and make their family look good. ... People that are not in the war are all happy because we won, but all the soldiers that actually came back are like we really did not win because we loosed so many lives in the p...
Many Canadians civilians suffered at the hands of American soldiers, these soldiers would burn and loot whole communities. ... Many of the American soldiers were unprepared for the highly trained, highly strategic British-Canadian attack forces. ... Although it is not well known that the American Naval officers retaliated against the British with their own form of impressment where they seized British soldiers and used them to man American ships (Deeben). ...
"What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge" (Tzu 77). ... One of these, completed by the Knowlton's Rangers, was an operation of sabotage; to cut off support for the British, who had been receiving soldiers from the Germans. Congress approved this mission and sent mercenaries to encourage this support to defect from the royal army, stating that the German prince was receiving money for each soldier killed in action. ...
He also shows to us, the reader, and the conditions that the soldiers had to live with and put up with. For example the fact that they only had a bath and got a new change of clothes once and a while as Les states "I"m felling particularly well today as I had a good bath & change of clothes." ... This helps us to understand the good things about war rather than the evil. ... But in the modern world, wars have drastically changed from men taking turns to shoot at each other as in WWI to more sophisticated war tactics and through the use of machines which usually mean lower casualties for the so...
Whilst the women did an extraordinary job while the men were away at war, they had to realize that it was all too good to be true and retire back to their old roles for the time being, giving the men back their roles. ... Apart from the nurses, traveling around to help out the soldiers at every battle zone that the Australian men were fighting at, there weren't that many women that traveled overseas throughout the war. ... The nurses were also in as much danger as the soldiers at times and some were even taken to prisoner of war camps for 3 ½ years! ...
Hand-held cameras help pull us into the horror of the beach invasion--as if we're watching newsreel cameramen as they follow the soldiers. ... Nor does it really make it clear that we must resist war, even if it is accompanied by the seductive speeches of political leaders saying that this latest war, unlike other bad wars we remember, will be another "good" one, like World War 2. ... Spielberg's real interest lay elsewhere: he wants us to understand the effect that war had upon the psyches of the men who endured its battles, he wants us to appreciate the great sacrifice that the sol...
As Henry forgets about the immature fantasies of a reputation he begins to earn one and quite a good one. ... Learned about being a soldier and got others opinions. ... It is here that the reader sees how similar the soldiers on both sides of the battle are and that the men are fighting other men just like themselves so really what is the point to this battle? ... The first is Jim "the tall soldier- also portrayed as the religious figure in the book, with his initials being J.C. many people see him as a Jesus figure, even his death depicts this with the "piercing- in his side and his blood c...
A "Separate Peace" (published in 1960) takes place during the Second World War in a New England Prep School called Devon (based on Phillips Exeter Academy). This is around the year 1943, the time period where teenagers had to make a decision, either to enlist or wait and be drafted. In this novel ...
The map would give students a good perspective of the locations of all the battles. ... The story goes that a party of Federals was pursuing a regiment of Confederate soldiers. ... The bibliography in the back of the book did give forty good references for research pertaining to information available on the Civil War in the Ozarks. ( p 125, 126, 127) The authors did a dedication of the book that reads as follows: "To the memory of our ancestors and early Ozark families who fought, died, and endured the hardships of the great Civil War and the contribution they made toward building the Ozark...
Training and arming soldiers is considered a bad thing in Lao Tzu's philosophy, for "Weapons are the tools of violence; all decent men detest them. ... Machiavelli once wrote, "One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons, as I said earlier, when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you they turn away" (44). ...
Women took jobs in factories working shoulder-to-shoulder with men making uniforms, weapons, ammunition, and helping build trucks, tanks, airplanes and other large engines. (4) When the war first began about 600,000 women in Canada held permanent jobs in the private sector, by mid 1943 1.2 million women had jobs. (1) Women rapidly gained a good reputation for their mechanical dexterity and fine precision due to their smaller physic. (4) Thousands of Canadian woman proved they had the strength, skills, and ability to do the work that man did. (4) After successfully proving themselves in soci...
Taken from a selection of Confucian analects, "13:29 The Master said, "Let a good man teach the people seven years, and they may then likewise be employed in war.... This is shown further in the commentary, "As soon as the invader is disarmed, his life should be spared; especially as individual invaders are usually private subjects of the invading sovereign, who have little option about their own acts as private soldiers" The reliability of this quote can be questioned because it is not from scripture, but is a commentary made by an individual. ... He says, "The good m...
