Rifleman Dodd is a story of an 18th century war fighter named Matthew Dodd. The story begins by introducing the main character, Private Dodd, along with a squad of French soldiers lead by a sergeant named Godinot of the French Forty-Sixth. At this time Lord Wellington of the British Army was retreating to the Lines of Torres Vedras. Rifleman Dodd was left behind during the retreat and once he knew this he simply realized his situation and, most importantly, carried on with his mission which was solely to kill Frenchmen. Along his treacherous journey through enemy infested territory, constantly100 struggling to survive while battling starvation and fatigue.
Going against his orders from Sgt. Bradley Larson, Carter ran through a hail of bullets to retrieve Mace and get him back to the Humvee for treatment. That is one part of the Warrior Ethos, “I will never leave a fallen comrade”. Going against his orders, he risked his own life to be able to save a fellow comrade. With intense fighting for 12 hours, their ammo dwindling, and unable to communicate with anyone, they still kept fighting they had the opportunity to get to a radio to call for support.
The regiment earned its greatest fame on July 18, 1863, sadly, it was for their unsuccessful attack on the Confederate soldiers at Fort Wagner, cost them the lives of nearly 54 men from the regiment and about 200 men wounded. Now more than a century after the war The 54th Regiment of Massachusetts still remains the most famous black regiment of the war. Private Jupiter Sharts, nothing more than a young black man in the Union army, becomes a big rule in this speech. Sharts is a young man who is worried, but at the same time he shows confidence! He talks about how he is ready to die with a bible in his hand and a rifle in the other.
These courageous men saw sights that they hope a human being would never see in the lifetime. They had no bathrooms and no shelter. They had small rations of food and no change of clothes. Death was in the air and seen throughout the beaches. Soldiers saw their friends shot dead in the matter of seconds, or blown to pieces by heavy enemy artillery.
In Montana 1948, By Larry Watson, Wes matures by coming to terms with his Brother Frank’s Crime. While Wes knew his brother’s guilt from the beginning, it took Marie’s murder to drive him to action. Instead of crumbling under the pressure of his brother’s guilt, Wes rises to the challenge and becomes one of the strongest characters in the book. In the beginning of the book, Wes doesn’t take advantage of the position of headship he has with the law. He starts out not using his authority for the position as sheriff as a role in leadership: “As long as my father was going to be sheriff, a position with so much potential for excitement, anger, and bravery, why couldn’t some of that promise be fulfilled?” (5).
After hearing this Henry was angry with himself for running away. “He turned away amazed and angry.” (Crane, 47) Henry then decided that he could not return to his regiment because they would hate him for running away from the battle, so he ran off into the woods. He came across a regiment of all wounded men and joined them. While marching with the wounded regiment he felt out of place because he did not have any wound. “He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.” (Crane, 57) As he was marching with the wounded regiment he found his friend Jim, who was wounded badly on his side.
Nothing is confirmed yet, But investigators are trying to decide if this Sgt. is a hero or a deserter. Article 2 is related to Henry Flemming in the “Red Badge Of Courage” because Henry had the same case but different theme and setting. Henry fought the first skirmish but escaped the second one. Henry escaped to the woods during the second skirmish but met a source of motivation to go back and fight.
For his battlefield he chose the fortress-ringed city of Verdun, a position, he correctly believed, so essential to the French that France would fight to the last man to hold it. He hoped to lure French forces into the narrow, dangerous salient, laughter them with artillery fire and thus “bleed France to death.” He was the first commander to state clearly that the aim of an offensive was attrition though he did not tell his field army commander, the Crown Prince, this. On February twenty-first, the German barrage began and for the next ten months both sides threw soldiers and shells at each other in a nightmare of death. The German Army bled as well. As Verdun was a symbol of life for France, it's fall became a moral necessity for the prestige of the German Army.
Like all movies there is a focus, and the group of soldiers, mainly Tom Hanks’ character, are whose footsteps we follow through throughout the movie. This film is based off of true historical events, as most of us know, World War II and how incredibly gruesome it was, of how the soldiers fought and died and how they coped with what they went through. At the beginning of the movie, we see an old man walking through a maze of graves, obviously from the war, but we do not know who this man is and whose grave he is looking for. Then we see a heavy number of combat-boats carrying soldiers, and we can sense the tension of almost what exactly is going on. We see soldiers of many ages; almost all have faces filled with fear and anxiety while some are vomiting or praying.
The Grand Illusion The Grand Illusion, a 1937 black and white film by Jean Renoir, is an expository masterpiece about a group of French officers taken prisoner by the Germans during WWI. As one of the first truly great war films, The Grand Illusion has influenced many other films over the years. Jean Renoir, son of the well-known artist Auguste Renoir, fought in WWI as an aviator, which informed and influenced the film. Although The Grand Illusion is a war film, almost no fighting takes place on screen. Rather than focus on the horrors of WWI, Renoir chose to focus on the social dynamics of WWI.