The biblical allusion of the term ‘angel’ symbolises a moral conscience, in the hope of changing Abrams mind, as well as on a didactic level, symbolising the mothers and loved ones of the soldiers. This signifies the hope of reconciliation of the people who care about the soldiers, highlighting the horrific situation in which the soldiers reside and the governments deliberate inaction to do anything. Owen uses the bureaucracy’s pride and personifies it as a ‘Ram’ because it can be seen to the audience as arrogant and steadfast. This emphasizes the bureaucracy’s resolute notion on the use of conscription and the taking of many young men by force. By identifying the unjust experiences felt by the soldiers, Owen shed light upon the action of which the bureaucracy intends to
Listening to this song by Harry Chapin reminded me of the funtionalists perspective of the “nuclear” family. “Social problems arise, for instance, when parent can’t or don’t provide their children with the necessary financial and emotional support.” (pg.249). Children look up to their parents as examples of social stability and caregivers, and when the fatherly figure is out of the ordinary, the child will know only that to continue onto his future family. “Little boy blue and the man on the moon,” refers to children’s stories, in this case the son being the little boy blue, anxiously awaiting his dad’s return. His father, however, is the man on the moon and although he’ll be back, he’ll leave again.
You can tell this because of some of the vocabulary and phrases in the poem. Those are: “who’ll grip a tackle...who’ll toe the line…come back with a crunch.”In the first three lines of each Quatrain is about if you go to war you will be considered a hero and the last line is about if you do not go you will be considered a coward. This poem says nothing very bad about war apart from the fact you may come back with a crutch, but the truth was you probably wouldn’t come back at all and if you did you would be missing limbs or be seriously injured. But in comparison the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” written by Wilfred Owen aims to show war in it’s true form and in the worst possible way, so that people really know the truth and what it was like to be in the war. In the first stanza Owen describes the soldiers as they try to move away from their “shift” on the front line.
Source B supports this, saying that if any unit ‘retreats without orders’ they would be shot’. This created fantastic discipline among the soldiers, and meant that the Red Army was always moving forward, and any cowards were eliminated. Lenin also ruthlessly commanded from the top, ensuring that supplies got to all of the soldiers, by executing peasants in villages that did not supply sufficient grain. Source D suggests the leadership was fantastic, as it says the Whites were ‘unable to match’ the ‘skill and energy’ of Lenin and Trotsky. The whites had no true leader after the death of Kornilov, and the three generals in charge often disagreed.
“Hit and run” tactics are used against enemy bases and communications to demoralize the enemy. A good example of the ideal conditions needed for guerilla warfare is shown in struggles which have involved ordinary people going against an imperial power, such as at the end of WW1. During times like these, the rebels were often very poorly equipped and were therefore, unable to defeat the conquering power by conventional means and rather, had to rely more on the support of the people. The areas of the world where guerilla war has been very successful and which have been suitable for the practice of guerilla warfare,
Braveheart is a part of Leadership Movies, a series of films with leadership themes. Learn about how you can become a better leader by watching leadership in action. Various leadership styles were evident in Braveheart. Edward Longshanks epitomized a heavy-handed, cold-hearted tyrannical style, perhaps best expressed by his order to have archers fire on his own troops, in hopes of hurting enemy forces. Longshanks’ nobles similarly exhibited tyrannical traits.
This was good because it meant that they always had officers leading the troop. The Red army had a tight discipline like having a death penalty for desertion and disloyalty. The brutal discipline means by which they imposed power and they are the stronger ones. So the formation of the Red army was a crucial reason for the Red success because they showed that their one who has the power and they are stronger as well. The leadership of Lenin and Trotsky was also another reason for Red success in the war.
If a military expert or the president is questioned, he might think wars are good because they can boast about military efficiency. People go to war to prove a point or to fight for one’s country. In the war for independence, the colonists fought for freedom from Great Britain. There were many people who died or were injured, but they all risked their lives for an ideal, the essence of freedom. However, there are others who go to war for greed and power.
The movie “Paths of Glory,” portrays a war theme - more specifically an anti-war theme. The message of the movie is portrayed through the soldiers and the different “paths the soldiers took to get to victory and survive.” Every soldier went down their own path overall leading to somewhat “glory” which not all of them got to experience. Men died in battle, mental illness (and illness in genera), fellow soldiers doings, death sentences; just an endless amount of reasons. Soldiers believed that they were fighting for the glory of victory or “patriotism” which Sam Johnson described as the last refuge of a scoundrel. Soldiers were brainwashed with the idea of patriotism - leading their country to victory at all costs, even if meant going into battle knowing you were going to die enforcing the message of the movie that, “The paths of glory lead but to the grave.” At first, the movie described the trench warfare situation of World War I.
He needs discipline and intends to make soldiers out of these “bunch of incompetents” and doesn’t need the “non-starters” joining up. He is obviously concerned about training a competent army and feels it is his duty and responsibility as a major to do so, a quality that must be somewhat admired. ENDING: SUM UP WHAT YOU HAVE SAID Our first meeting with Glendinning is brief, but in that we see a character that is not there to be liked, but to be almost admired for his devotion to duty. It remains to be seen as to whether