November 2, 1916 My Dearest Virginia, Writing this letter to you is a great challenge to me, as I no longer have 5 fingers on my right hand. Just a few weeks ago I contracted a deadly skin infection and 3 of my fingers and 4 of my toes had to be amputated or I would have died a painful death. The conditions here in the trenches are getting tougher and tougher as the cold winter is approaching. The rats and lice have also become worse of a problem and I am constantly itching. I am currently on the front line and the smell of rotting flesh is unbearable, there are corpses of our own men and also those of the enemy lying not 30 feet from our trench but it is far too dangerous to go and retrieve them.
Interpretation Elie Wiesel went through many internal and external conflicts during the time he spent at the concentration camps. These conflicts can be broken down into three main categories; conflicts with others, conflicts with faith, and conflicts with the environment. Wiesel wrote about these conflicts in his memoir titled Night. There are many people, such as the Nazi soldiers, who oppose Elie and the rest of the Jews. Elie also questions how there can be a God when the Nazis are so cruel.
Others said it was to relieve the tension, and others said it was to ward off a dawn raid. Whatever the reason the first hour of the soldier's day became known, as "The morning hate." It was ear deafening! Today a cloud as dark as death covered all of no man’s land and the body’s laying across the long deserted death ridden field was unrecognisable many soldiers have been put through so much pain maybe not physically but mentally I think of all the family’s whose sons, dads, or husbands have died and I count myself lucky to be writing this diary now! Every day of war is one to forget but you would think you could escape the extreme depression during the night when you’re
In world war two only a few trenches were used but they were nothing like the trenches in world war one (answers.yahoo). 75,000 British soldiers lost their lives from a disease called trench foot which was caused by the dampness in the trenches (World at War, pg-25). When soldiers get trench foot their feet would go numb and the skin would turn red and blue. If you went untreated with trench foot it could turn into gangrenous and you the end result would be amputation (spartacus.schoolnet). The trenches were infested with rats, lice, frogs and other pests.
It was a rainy day in America when I received my friend's call from my country. It was a really sad day with the sound of rain outside the window and the crying sound of my friend. I have been living away from my country to go to the USA to study for almost a year, but I still updating every hot issues in my country everyday. There is a disease that is exploding over there, called the "rubella epidemic". This disease is so dangerous for the children, so there are a lot of children who pass away or in danger.
Trachoma and tuberculosis was among disease that killed children in the boarding schools, some even committed suicide from not being able to adapt and from being so lonely. The government tried so hard to Americanize the American Indians. They went as low as taking children from their families to try to force American ways into them at an early age. In a sense it was kind
Assisted Suicide PHI 200 Steven Carter February 27, 2012 Assisted Suicide Dealing with a painful and a long terminal illness is hard on everyone involved especially the person whom this is happening to. Susan Wolf’s article, “Confronting Physician-Assisted suicide and Euthanasia: My Father’s Death”, was very emotional and expressed the changes a dying person makes as the pain and all the treatments become too much to handle, especially when it is determined nothing else can be done. If this had been one of my parents, I would have dealt with the situation the same way that Susan Wolf did. I had an aunt that suffered with colon cancer and I agree that the most important thing to do is to keep the person comfortable and do only
Describe and explain how the society of “The Book Thief” impacted on Liesel. “The Book Thief,” an amazing and descriptive novel written by Marcus Zusak, gives a particularly good insight into the poor and vulnerable Germans of the Nazi German era. Liesel had the extreme hardship of witnessing the world of Nazi Germany turn to chaos, with almost everyone who she loved dying or suffering as a result. Liesel was affected immensely by the society, both physically and mentally, and her opinions were changed throughout the book. From the beginning to the end of the book Liesel has had to face many challenges, resulting only in herself being a good person and showing the good side of Germany.
The only beds these buildings had were three tiers of wood planks. She said, “Like fire in a stable fear grabs us, and like dried straw we burn inside. Tears cannot quench these flames of disaster. We are lost.” There was such a huge density of people living together in a small hut that was meant for far fewer people. Many of the people sleeping in these sleeping compartments suffered from dysentery, which only spread throughout the prisoners.
After being hit by Maurice, Holden feels very depressed and starts thinking about suicide. He says “What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory."