The Confederate forces had destroyed the union troops’ corps and although the Confederate forces had clearly won they had to retreat because their troops were short numbered and they had low amount of supplies. The Battle of Gettysburg left more than 160,000 Americans either wounded or killed. I found this information on the website http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/battle.htm. The Gettysburg Address was a speech by Abraham Lincoln delivered on November 19, 1863. The Battle of Gettysburg and the speech were four months apart from each other.
Joe Schwartz August 27, 2012 Jen Ferretter English III Beowulf Heorot and Grendel’s lair are two very different things. In Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf the word choice and figurative language can be used to compare Heorot and Grendel’s lair. Heaney uses lots of similes and personification to tell the story of the two dissimilar places. When Heaney describes Grendel as “fatherless creatures” (l. 1355), he is talking about how he has a hidden past and no recollection of their ancestry. This becomes an important factor throughout the book when the battles take place.
Would you lie to them or would you tell them the truth? In the Story “Ambushed” More than twenty years after the end of the war, O’Brien’s daughter Kathleen asks O’Brien if he has ever killed anyone. O’Brien, however, insists that he has never killed anyone. Reflecting on his lie, O’Brien wishes that she will ask him again when she is older. O’Brien saw a young soldier wearing an ammunition belt coming out of the fog.
In a section of the book called “The Truth about the First Thanksgiving,” Loewen examines and unravels the actual facts of this event versus the fabricated tale being taught to children for decades, concluding that authors of American history books have been ignoring certain significant occurrences in order to sanctify this country’s past, leaving people unknowledgeable. In order to support his thesis, there are many historical events that Loewen expanded on, one of them being the role of the Indians during the “discovery” of America. After realizing that many of his students could not recollect learning anything about a plague, Loewen started investigating there. He states, “Only three of the twelve textbooks even mention Indian disease as a factor of Plymouth or anywhere in New England.” When the first settlers arrived on Indian land, they brought over vast amounts of disease that the Indians had no immune system to defend, therefore killing 90% of their population. By admitting there was a catastrophic plague, allowing villages and cleared land to be abandoned, authors would be openly telling students that our founders did not work as hard as we thought they did.
They don't represent my command, or the United States Marine Corps. JLC Introduction As I reflect back on the past month that I spent in Iraq fighting the war, I'm amazed at what we accomplished. On a personal
When I first went to fight, mom I didn’t know what to expect at all. They made it seem like if I defeated the enemy I would be a hero, but no one ever proved how dangerous it really is. I can’t even explain the feeling; you would have to be in my shoes to understand. Most of us definitely learned the horror of trench warfare as we lost the war by being the victims of the first poison gas attack. More than 6000 Canadians lost their lives, I’m just thankful that I am here today to write you this
Cecil R Palmer 99th Infantry Division For over 40 years I seldomed talked about my war-time experiences with anyone except maybe another buddy from my company—they are the only ones that can understand. Life goes on, and you try to forget the horrors of war, try to forget that I was involved in a kill-or-be-killed mode for many months. Was I scared I would die and never see my wife or my parents again? Or never get to see my daughter that was born while I was overseas? You better believe it.
Jack Pine 11 August 2011 Mr. Singler English 102 What the “Huck”? N-Bomb! Mark Twain's novel, Huckleberry Finn, published over a hundred years ago, has stirred controversy from racism to censorship due to some of the vulgar language. Although, one of his greatest books of all time many educators and parents support the removal of Huck Finn from elementary and high school curriculum's because of the abundant use of the ‘n-word’ used approximately 219 times through the novel. The derogatory term makes it hard to appropriately depict the true meaning of the book to a group of children without raising countless unspoken questions.
Throughout ‘Mametz Woods’ the fallen soldiers are constantly referred to collectively, never as individuals. The use of pronouns for referral, such as ‘them’ and ‘they’ makes the reader realise that there were many soldiers involved in the battle of Mametz Woods, and question how many lives were lost. It also makes the reader question the value of the soldiers in a war, and whether they had a distinct value or not, or whether they were just ‘wasted young’, so Sheers presents the effects of war upon the soldiers as being meaningless and worthless. However, when ‘them’ is placed in the opening line of the poem ‘For years afterwards the farmers found them’ as a reader, it places the pronoun in a different perspective, excitement, and we are intrigued
All too often, students in most colleges and universities have been guilty of deriding the liberal arts core courses as simply “those course youhave to take before you begin completing your major academic program.” Even reading of the liberal arts curriculum as a set of “required” or “core” courses leaves the connotation that these courses are simply a collective hoop for the student to jump through, and nothing more. Even academicians, individuals who devote their professional lives to the pursuit of knowledge within a given academic discipline, are sometimes skewed in their views of a liberal arts education. Most go to great lengths in attempting to defend and justify the teaching of their respective disciplines. It is their livelihood; one would expect nothing less. Yet, in defending a specific academic subject, professors and teachers can become just as near-sighted in approaching a higher education as the anonymous student quoted