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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Most soldiers returning home would rather drink than go the VA for doctors' appointments or support group. ... Meaning, if you were to put a soldier in a situation that triggers memories the brain will take over and recall procedures that were learned while overseas. ... The very last page was saved for him to write his final thoughts while on the way home for good. ... " We send our soldiers to war for our freedom and then when they get back they become prisoners of their own minds....

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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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The Soldier and the Stone" War. ... The majority of the story centers on all the things carried by soldiers during everyday combat; the stone itself isn't emphasized as much. ... A shore is a place were land and sea meet, and where soldiers leave their homes and loved ones behind (separated). ... I perceive the high tide to represent the highest burden of a soldier: burdens that finally bring composure. ... Near the end of the story, we read, "(Jimmy) would dispose of his good-luck pebble. ...

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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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Day in and day out soldiers carry the necessities that they need to survive. ... Tim O'Brien describes how each soldier carries something personal with them. ... Some carried there selves with a sort of wistful resignation, others with pride or stiff soldierly discipline or good humor or macho zeal. ... Especially for soldiers like Lt. ... Tim O'Brien describes the heaviest things the soldiers carry. ...

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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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• Grade Level: High School

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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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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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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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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Some believe that on the whole he was a fairly good emperor. ... Tiberius seems to have been an able soldier and administrator who retained the republican form of government as much as possible. ...

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When men (and women) began opening fire on the U.S. soldiers it explained everything. Many soldiers were hurt in this battle, and a total of 19 U.S. soldiers were killed. When the fighting began things looked good for the U.S. ... "Leave no U.S. soldier behind!" ... All in all, I thought this was a very good movie. ...

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The effect of the war on the soldier is very obvious when the new soldier come after all of the deaths. ... I think this book was a very good idea. ... I thought that when a soldier died his fellow soldiers grieved for him but in this story that is not really the case. This book educates the public and also is a good plot line so it is easy to read. ... Other than that I thought this book was very good. ...

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This badly armed and inexperienced army was defeated easily by Kuomintang troops, who were soldiers that opposed communism and were loyal to Kaishek. ... Without good leadership the Communist would have never accomplished anything. Mao was a good leader and he was victorious in the end. ...

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In the movie "A Few Good Men," a Navy lawyer named Daniel Kaffee, defends two Marines who have been accused of murder. ... In the movie A Few Good Men the code red leads to death. ... It is the behavior of military officers and soldiers that separates its laws and punishments from the way civilians are treated. ...

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He states a good point that I"d like to elaborate on. ... Good or bad, big or small, in the profession we choose these things do not matter to us. ... Can we say that the soldier is righteous, because he's defending us? ... The soldier's morale is placed not in the whole-hearted attempt at being good, neither is it placed in the attempt at being evil, his morality is established in the soldier's role itself. ... Try to imagine a soldier with no morals, no commitment, and no honor. ...

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However, when he describes the British soldiers' deaths, he writes that "horse and hero fell" (Line 46). ... By comparing the soldiers to 'old beggars', Owen lowers the reader's view of them, putting them on the lowest level of class, as opposed to Tennyson's descriptions of soldiers being the most noble of men. ... This makes the soldiers fighting the war seem almost pathetic, and lower the readers opinion of them. ... Tennyson uses imagery and diction to make the soldiers seem as heroes dying for a good cause, not focusing on the deaths and losses of war, ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Before World War one the perfect war tactics were cavalry charge with foot soldiers following. ... Soldiers had to wade through knee deep in mud for days. ... These bombardments were not anything good either. ... This even effected soldiers years after the war was over. ... This meant that the soldiers would go underground, and when the bombing stopped they would step out as they knew the soldiers were coming, and because the soldiers walked across "no man's land" this gave the German's enough time to ready their weapons. ...

• Word Count: 599
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• Grade Level: High School