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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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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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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The forbidden fruit; a beautiful fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, that God warned Adam and Eve not to eat. ... Macbeth changes throughout the play from a moral and loyal soldier to the point of being ambitious and treacherous, creating an evil, heartless tyrant. ... Firstly, at the dawn of Macbeth's gradual change, he starts off as a good, kind and loyal soldier. ... It is clear that Macbeth was a man held in high regard by the citizens of Scotland as a brave and honorable soldier. ... In today's society, a person may be considered good and successful by many, b...

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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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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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As we can see, there was nothing wrong with Haig's starting point and it was obviously for the good of Britain. ... The main point that shaped Haig as a good general was that the British troops were in wonderful spirit and the French had relief, after all, his aim was achieved. ... The British generals sent waves and waves of soldiers out onto the battlefields although the more they sent, the more soldiers died. ... Although the British attempted to spy the Germans with planes, the surveillance wasn't good as there were no cloud cover for the planes. ... On the contrary, the outcome...

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As we can see, there was nothing wrong with Haig's starting point and it was obviously for the good of Britain. ... The main point that shaped Haig as a good general was that the British troops were in wonderful spirit and the French had relief, after all, his aim was achieved. ... The British generals sent waves and waves of soldiers out onto the battlefields although the more they sent, the more soldiers died. ... Although the British attempted to spy the Germans with planes, the surveillance wasn't good as there were no cloud cover for the planes. ... On the contrary, the outcome...

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As we can see, there was nothing wrong with Haig's starting point and it was obviously for the good of Britain. ... The main point that shaped Haig as a good general was that the British troops were in wonderful spirit and the French had relief, after all, his aim was achieved. ... The British generals sent waves and waves of soldiers out onto the battlefields although the more they sent, the more soldiers died. ... Although the British attempted to spy the Germans with planes, the surveillance wasn't good as there were no cloud cover for the planes. ... On the contrary, the outcome...

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These soldiers were fed up with the war because of all the burdens it put on each soldier. ... One soldier stated that soldiers seemed "pathetic" and not like warriors at all. ... Soldiers did not know how to cope with these things. ... Mental stress that impacted a soldier's psychological stability was another factor setting American soldiers up for combat exhaustion. ... Soldier Harry L. ...

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Next, we see soldiers in file, marching through the field. ... The wood are smoke filled as the soldiers walk through. ... As the union soldiers emerge from the forest, the confederate soldiers open fire, propelled cannon balls into their midst. ... The Confederate soldiers open fire upon the soldiers. ... As the Confederate soldiers cheer the Union soldiers are in full retreat. ...

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The reader gets a good picture of what kind of a person Mr. ... Claude takes a liking to the soldier because he can relate to the way the soldier walks around in the story in pain, with love in the back of his mind and woman trouble over his head. ... After the scene with the couple Claude's curiosity with the soldier does not die out. ... Trueman who refers to the soldier as the "star patient" (Cather 1200) from the hospital. ... Claude's feels more connected with the soldier as he discovers new information about him. ...

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A good example of this is the Ogoni tribe in Nigeria whose lands were taken and exploited by American and Scandinavian oil companies. ... His poetry as told by the common British soldiers show his ability maintain his status as poet laureate of the Empire while telling the stories of its victims, and at times, condemning it for the way it treated those soldiers. ... A collection of poems written in the voice of a London cockney, they display Kipling's remarkable breadth of understanding of soldiers and soldiering during the Victorian era. While reading The Young British Soldier one can pe...

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It is told that, Hateful soldiers prodded and kicked the old and sick on their march to the camps. ... Soldiers pricked friends and family with bayonets to keep them from turning back to help (Brill, 45). ... And then all American children know that The only good Indian is a dead Indian. ... Jackson said he wanted this only for the good of the Indians. ... For the good of the Indians, Andrew Jackson humbly believed, but was it truly for the profit of himself and the country first before the good of the Indians (Andrew Jackson's case for removal of the Indians). ...

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These soldiers would help out around the house, and "could be seen cleaning up the kitchen, washing dishes, chopping wood, peeling potatoes, washing linen-in short, doing all the chores like four good boys working for their own mother."" ... As she was preparing dinner, the soldiers were able to bring back a rabbit so they could have something good to eat for dinner. ... She continues to help the soldiers gather straw and take it into the loft where they sleep. ... The soldiers more or less helped dig their own graves without even knowing it. ... She was holding these soldiers accountable f...

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In Boston, the King sent over soldiers to insure that the rules of England were being followed. When news hit the citizens of Boston would have to pay for the soldier's expenses they were outraged. ... Deborah set off with fifty other soldiers and made the two week march to West- Point. ... Many records show that Deborah was a very talented soldier. She was also well respected by her fellow soldiers because she did not complain. ...

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Having soldiers skilled in creating diplomatic treaties allows conflicts to be extinguished sooner (Fabian 223). ... Thus, intervention could cause more harm than good and may cause more chaos within the country causing the countries to feel intimidated. ... Occasionally a country's conditions exceed what the soldiers were trained in; this is referred to as "culture shock" (Loax 8). ... It would have had a detrimental effect on the United States gasoline prices for good if the operation had not been successful. ... Being a hero implies that a person puts the good of others before his/...

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Invigorated audiences defined their ideas of combat by watching films that glorified heroic soldiers. ... However, a film can be an excellent movie in spite of its use of myths and inaccuracies about the war and the soldiers. ... The film begins with reporters asking a group of green berets questions that enable the soldiers to explain why America must fight in Vietnam. ... By opening the movie with a moral confrontation between the soldiers and a cynical reporter, Wayne shows his focus on drama. ... In a sense, the film is undermined because its efforts to oversimplify a very complicated situ...

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Originally, young British soldiers had enlisted for the war with enthusiasm. ... Soldiers could spent days in the front line facing artillery fire and machine guns. ... Three hundred and six British and commonwealth soldiers were executed this way. In contrast, Germany only executed 25 of its soldiers and America executed none.... "Shell-shocked soldiers lacked "fiber"(Real 105). ...

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Rest and Recreation (R&R) sites are established for the soldiers for their personal enjoyment. These R&R sites, otherwise referred to my the soldiers as I&I (Intoxication & Intercourse), are clubs and bars in which the waitresses (prostitutes) especially cater to the soldiers sexual desires. ... Rarely has a war been fought where the soldiers have not used native women of the country they are invading sexually. ... Also that they were concerned with the health of their soldiers and this way they could have sex with women in good hygienic conditions; this way no sexually transmitted diseases...

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One aspect of this is how journalists report on the casualties and if they should actually show pictures of dead soldiers. Respected journalist Ted Koppel, who is reporting from Iraq, does not believe that broadcast journalists should be "notifying the next of kin through images of the dead soldiers- (Kurtz). ... So, it seems that almost all of the troop movements and locations that are reported by journalists do not endanger the lives of any of our soldiers. ... A good example of the second type of leak mentioned is this: "Earlier, in a July 5th page-one report by Eric Schmitt that also ...

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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. ...

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American soldiers who were disciplined by their commanders retaliated against them. ... Lots of soldiers became very depressed and feared that they would never be able to leave Vietnam. ... Drug use was very common as the soldiers refused to go on patrols. ... This showed that the soldiers would need much more training. ... Soldiers were growing very afraid of all Vietnamese and thinking that even civilians were the enemy. ...

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Surely many of these soldiers were extremely cruel and intolerant of the native populations. ... At times after a great military success, thousands of enemy soldiers were marched up the steps of the great pyramid of Huitzilopochtli and sacrificed to the god. ... Prescott's history of the conquest, Velazquez chose Cortes because "[he] came of an ancient, respectable family; his courage and prowess won him favor with Velazquez as much as his good humor, cordial manners, and wit made him a favorite with the soldier... Cortes purchased six vessels and commissioned 110 mariners and 553 soldier...

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The War had won, and would go on winning.""1 These are the words of Edmund Blunden, a British soldier who survived the Battle of the Somme, who came to the realization that nobody could claim victory in the twentieth-century mass warfare, because both winners and losers paid a high price. ... The soldiers that served in the war were hit especially hard by the horror of war. Erich Maria Remarque, a German soldier vividly portrays the carnage of World War II: "We have become wild beasts . ... Mustard agent was first introduced during the latter part of the First World War and caused lung and ...

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