On this day, Armenians throughout the world remember the horrible tragedy of 1.5 million lives lost throughout the years of 1915 to 1923. ... Most walked on foot and carried on their backs what little they were allowed to take with them. Whole families, young and old, were thrown into the open, to walk by day, and sleep on the ground by night. ...
(movie) Canada walked away from the war as a nation who had contributed wisely to the war, and of all the wartime leaders Mackenzie King became the only one to be re-elected in peace time. ... King had a huge impact on Canadian identity, and will be remembered for making an alliance with the United States that is still strong to this day. ...
However, only a few are still known and remembered today for their unique and fascinating technique of delivery. ... "To His Love," depicts the frustration Gurney began to experience, foreshadowing his fragmented mind that would torment him indefinitely: "Knew it, on Severn River/Under the blue/ Driving our small boat through," emphasizes two conflicting memories of Gurney as he struggles to remember a peaceful setting with a horrific one (Greenblatt 2028). ... The poems dominating idea is memory and how the dead are remembered. ...
Another British vet, Donald Hodge, remembered, "We thought it was going to be a tremendous lark to knock the Kaiser off his throne, you see." ... Dead bodies were stacked on the trench tops to make them higher and on the ground so soldiers didn't have to walk in the mud (The Century). ...
History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war's outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" and that they should "Go!", the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way...
The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...
