Trench warfare Trench warfare is where rival armies dug themselves a trench, in order to protect themselves from gun fire from side. Life in the Trenches during World War 1 was terrible. Conditions were disgusting, the first thing a new recruit would notice was the smell, rotting bodies barely buried under the ground, men who hadn’t washed in weeks because there were no facilities for them to use. Although these smells were repulsive, new recruits soon got used to them and contributed to it with their own bodily odour. Disease and infection was very common in these conditions.
Trenches in WW1 The trenches in World War One were a terrible place to be. The soldiers went through many hardships and few survived to tell the tale. Some of these terrible problems included disease, malnutrition and the dreaded shells. When soldiers arrived at the trenches they were supplied with an equipment kit of 30kg. This included a rifle, two grenades, ammunition, a steel helmet, wire cutters, a field dressing, a spade, a heavy coat, a ground sheet, a water bottle, a heavy sack, a mess tin, a towel, a shaving kit, socks and rations of preserved food.
We are in a little peasant village; a score or so of neglected, half-ruined houses and as many barns, pigsties, sheds. The officers occupy a deserted chateau. My section is quartered in a large barn with a gaping roof. Successive battalions have rested here and have used the planks of the roof as fuel. We continue the tradition.
Finally, once inside the gas chambers, carbon monoxide or powdered Zyklon B would be poured down from the holes that were put on the roofs of the gas chambers. (Holocaust, 2008) The camp commandant was required to watch every gassing, and supervise both the preparations and the aftermath of the gassing. From 1941 – 1942 carbon monoxide gas was used to kill prisoners, which would take about 36 minutes to kill off all 900 people in the gas chamber. From 1942 – 1943 Zyklon B was used to kill prisoners, which would take about 15 minutes to kill all 900 people in the gas chamber. The Zyklon B had a paralyzing effect on the lungs, which ensured death.
To make the clay, 250 mL of distilled water was heated in a 600 mL beaker to 70° to be used as a hot water bath for the Erlenmeyer flask. 40 mL of distilled water was added to the flask along with .80 g of FeCl3, .40 g of FeSO4-, and .30 g of Bentonite. Using tongs, the flask was stirred in the hot water bath to disperse the iron compounds and the clay. The flask was then taken out of the hot water bath and 20 mL of NaOH was added drop-wise. After it was properly cooled, the solution was equally distributed to four centrifuge tubes and centrifuged for 5 minutes.
The world would never be the same. So many people feared this war that it acquired a name for itself, “The Great War”. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ a) Life in the Trenches (Misery in the Mud): Smelly, noisy and filthy are just some of the adjectives a soldier would use to describe the nightmarish place called a trench. A trench was dug to protect soldiers from being in the direct line of fire. A typical trench was seven feet deep and six feet wide, built in a zigzagged pattern to prevent the enemies from shooting straight down the line.
3. Set up the ring stand, iron ring, and clay triangle to support a crucible over the Bunsen burner. 4. Place the clean and empty crucible with its cover on the clay triangle. Turn the Bunsen burner on and ignite it.
Novel Title and Author: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Author’s Background: Kurt Vonnegut Jr., born on November 11, 1922, to a German-American family residing in Indianapolis, established himself as an American author best known for Slaughterhouse-Five. At Shortridge High School, Vonnegut served as the columnist, editor, and reporter of the school newspaper. Attending Cornell University (New York), he became the managing editor of the Cornell Sun before dropping out to enlist in the U.S. Army in 1943. During World War II, Vonnegut was captured by Nazis and was held prisoner in Dresden. During an Allie raid destroying Dresden, he survived by “hiding in an underground meat locker labeled ‘slaughterhouse-five’ along with other Allied prisoners of war.” This experience provided the inspiration for his premier novel.
No grass. No plants.” (Ninh 5) In the novel The Sorrow of War the jungle symbolizes the Vietnamese people who are affected by the war. From soldier to civilian, Vietnamese people who are dead in the war appears as ghosts in the Jungle as the long descriptive quote “This
He also writes "an ash-pile made by many fires". This shows that many men must have walked through this road to enter a lonely and miserable life, moving from ranch to ranch finding useless work. I think all the people living in the ranch are lonely. There are particular people in the ranch who have lonelier lives than others. The loneliest person on the ranch has to be Crooks, who suffers from extreme loneliness because he is black and he is living in a ranch and the surrounding area which is very racist.