Families are full of love and hope but to annihilate that all is a complete act of putrid evil and hate. War gives illusional rights to these inhumane beings that these acts are a part of life which they aren’t. Natural death should be the cause of all these lives, not innocent murder. War is the reason these families blood has been spilt. After all these past events, the 1800’s wars, The Boer War, WWI, WWII and The Cold War, you’d think we’d all have learnt our lesson that war was destroying people, along with the world.
I found his writing and thoughts very intriguing. Giovanni and many other authors write about the demographic disaster and how they viewed it. Any article, historian, or author will talk about how it severely impacted the economy, society, and pretty much everything and anything. These catastrophic events destroyed the country and people in it. The disaster
The dreadful reality of death in war is present within the story, “The Things They Carried”. The story makes it obvious that the Alpha Company Squad was deeply moved by the effects of war. Lieutenant Cross, took the death of Ted Lavender personally and struggled with it. There are a couple symbols that we can take from Ted Lavender’s death. The reader of “The Things They Carried” can become engrossed it the story and become easily moved.
Joe Marinaccio Mrs. McCarthy English 10 21 March, 2015 The Flag Raising at Iwo Jima World War II was one of the greatest and bloodiest wars in world history. When characterizing it, one normally thinks of Hitler’s domination and the Nazis. Although, that was a major part of the war, the war on the Pacific was as significant, yet unrecognized to the public today. The Great Depression was in full effect in the US when World War II began, giving many unemployed men a job in the army. This resulted in a surge of patriotism and national pride.
“Many socialists and working-class people who had criticized the military buildup announced their support for the war” (Hunt 860). People from these parties realized they needed to come together and unite as one in order to be successful. As Germany went through Belgium to conquer France many horrible things happened. Children were massacred and many women were raped. There is actually a poster made that refers to what
"French civilians, caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing, endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of liberation had their darker side. The war in northern France marked not just a generation, but the whole of the postwar world, profoundly influencing relations between America and Europe. As seen before, American forces began to foolishly kill innocent lives, both French civillians and Axis. This began to severley mark and tarnish American relations with European nations, as American soldiers were seen to be careless and vengeful.
The amount of death tolls that showed its true face in the war was unimaginable. The war truly was pure hell. Faust argues death’s significance for the Civil War generation further became more apparent during this time. She focuses on the staggering number of deaths during those four violent years that affected ordinary Americans and transformed the nation. So, the reason for the increased amount of deaths that had never been seen before was due to certain variables.
Some say that the soldiers' immune systems were weakened by malnourishment. The influenza pandemic circled the globe. Most All of these illnesses were the main cause of torture that the soldiers of World War I had to go through and were mainly caused by the life in the trenches. Trench foot and Trench fever were something more usual in the life of war. Unlike The Spanish influenza, which had more serious side effects.
9/11 has had a huge impact on Americans directly. There were many men, women, and children who died. The amount of death has made many Americans sullen and it has affected the way that we view terrorism. The fact that we were hit in the center of our trade, where no one thought we were vulnerable, still unnerves Americans today. We were attacked when we least expected it, and what's more, the attack, to some, was successful.
Especially after 1871 and the Franco-Prussian war when the Germans took Alsace-Lorraine from France. The public wanted Germany to pay because almost all families knew someone who had died. Also the government wanted to punish Germany harshly through Clemenceau to be popular with the public.