An adult’s understanding of the seriousness of war can be seen through the imagery used where Martin ‘edges out the firing pin’ of the grenade, ‘fingers the serrations’ with ‘his father’s bleak skill’. This shows that the skill was not something to be proud of, and that Marin was treating the grenade with respect. However, Foulcher cleverly presents the conflicting view of children as the ‘dead weapon hurls across mind fields’. The word ‘mind’ in this phrase is a pun which means mine fields that are in the children’s minds. The metaphor of ‘desk trenches’ clearly expresses the children’s imagination.
He is always giving more evidence stating that the Indians were not being taken care of unless the British needed them for war. His evidence all points back to his thesis, saying that the Indians fought really well and so the British would always try to make them happy when they knew they might be going to war soon. He really only has one primary source that he uses throughout the essay, and that is previous writings by
The imaginary friend that I picked is Lou, the article I think that he would find most convincing is “Don’t Withhold Violent Games” because one of his hobbies is to play games. This is a summary of the article “Don’t Withhold Violent Games” by Jessica Robbins. In this article, Robbins begins by acknowledging how far technology has come and how video games have become more graphic and violent (1). Due to a lot of crazy events that have taken place in the recent years involving violent acts, there has been concerns if violent media games have influence. Robbins spoke on the laws that some states have passed banning minors from viewing or purchasing violent video games without an adult and feels such law should not exist (1).
You don’t believe me? Here, let me explain to you my opinion. The first question that popped into your head would probably be the question “What could be good about war?” It’s a pretty good question because, most of the time when we think of war we think of shooting and fighting and killing, but if you really think about it, that is not what war is all about. Its really just the tip of the iceberg. What we don’t think about is the fact that most medical and quite a few technological advancements evolved because of war.
Philip Caputo was born in Westchester, an urban community in northern Illinois that constantly had him yearning for an adventure. In 1960, John F. Kennedy was the president and Caputo was ready to ask what he could do for his country. At age twenty-four, he decided to quit the country life and join the marines. He had heard the gallant stories of battles fought in years past and was looking for the same glamorous war stories he could tell of himself. However, the heroic battles and stories he had hoped for turned out to be a figment of his imagination; Vietnam was the ugliest war the United States has ever encountered.
I went in, and had todo cognitive testing: an IQ test, a reading test, and a slew of other things that I was just lost in. I felt an unbearable sensation of anxiousness growing with every new task we started. All I could think of was testing and wanting to get out. I questioned why I was even going through all of this effort. Every time I walked out for a break, the tension was eased, and I reminded myself why I was there.
The classic anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), directed by Lewis Milestone, has been restored by the Library of Congress Motion Picture Conservation Centre. Based on the best-selling novel by Erich Maria Remarque, the book and film tell the story of a group of German students who volunteer to fight in the 1914-18 War. It is not a story of heroes, but of ordinary young men trapped in a terrestrial hell; a bitter critique of war that resonates as powerfully today as it did before the next ‘war to end all wars’. All Quiet on the Western Front was not the only film inspired by the First World War. One of the most famous, Abel Gance’s J’accuse (whose title echoes the notorious Dreyfus affair of 1894) appeared in 1919.
How did the attitudes of the British soldiers and civilians change during the course of the war and what caused these shifts in attitude? The soldiers went into war expecting the war to be glorious and easy. How did their experiences in war shift there attitudes about the war later on. The attitudes dramatically shifted from the beginning to the very end of the war. The opinion, as discussed in class by Professor Eacott, was it was going to be a very short war and he mentioned that there was a big sense of nationalism when he mentioned that each country didn’t want to feel humiliated by each other.
Paul says, “[the] images float through my mind, but they do not grip me, they are mere shadows and memories.” It becomes apparent to the reader that the war has effected Paul in every aspect of his life. The images that once captivated him do it no longer; he calls them “shadows and memories,” but when he read the books that took him far beyond his small German village before the war, they were still only shadows and memories. Nothing about the books had changed, only Paul had. The war had tainted the innocence he had as a child that allowed him to dream of adventure. Paul even realizes it when he thinks, words, words, words-they do not reach me.
All Quiet on the Western Front: This novel was very interesting and very vivid. Also the novel is so intense and very detail of the lifestyle of war. The way the book is different from the others is by how the novel takes the readers to the war by telling the vivid details and the characters thoughts and also the lifestyle of the characters. The novel tells the story of Paul Baumer, the main character of the story, a soldier who was persuade and urged by his school teacher Kantorek to join the German army shortly after the start of world war 1. Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.