Affield’s memoir illustrated the very real and raw aspects of war. Wendell’s personal account of life as a soldier started with the horrors of boot camp, eventually explained the terrors of war and finally ended with the rejection and ridicule that he and other soldiers endured on his return home. His detailed accounts helped readers better understand the situation and events that occurred during and after the war in Vietnam. Once Affield enlisted with the United States Navy he was originally stationed on a gunner Naval ship, USS Rogers, and traveled to Vietnam to aide in fighting the Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin. This West Pac cruise was difficult, yet it ended up being one of the least devastating assignments of his Vietnam experience.
Sydney relied on Dith to get the scoop for him due to the language barrier.—not to mention, to get the coveted award-winning story—, while Dith needs Sydney to send his family to the safety of America. But Dith’s role and need for Sydney goes beyond a connection in the embassy. It is clear through the movie that Dith takes pride in being a journalist and because he knows Sydney needs him, Dith’s love for and loyalty to the American makes the allegiance even stronger. The movie suggests the dependencies between and exploitation of correspondents and the local assistants. The movie suggests it goes further than just translator and guide.
Sean Hoeffner Antietam: Crossroads to Freedom Essay Did Antietam Change the Course of the Civil War? In the book, Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, by James M McPherson, McPherson gives us, the reader, a rundown of the battle which is referred to as; according to Karl Max and Walter Taylor, as the main event of the entire Civil War. The question at stake here though is if this battle did change the course of the Civil War? After previous studies and a thorough reading of this novel, It’s almost shortsighted to say the Battle of Antietam didn’t change the course of the war. The infamous Battle of Antietam in Sharpsburg, Maryland, occurred on September 17th, 1862, being known as one of the most gruesome and significant battles of the entire war.
“Top Gun” and the D.O.D The Department of Defense has guidelines to ensure that the movies they support show the military in a positive light. Hollywood needs military support to cut costs and create a more accurate depiction of war. The movie “Top Gun” was no exception. This film takes the viewer into the world of Navy F-14 pilots. Thanks to support from the department of defense, “Top Gun” has spectacular scenes and seems very realistic to the audience.
How poetry of World War 1 reveals the varying attitudes to war that existed at the time from the two war poems Margaret Peterson’s “A Mothers Dedication” and Siegfried Sassoon’s “Counter Attack. A Mothers’ Dedication displays the patriotism during the time whereas Counter Attack depicts the reality of war and the horrors faced by the soldiers such as Sassoon in the war. These two poems display the binary attitudes that people had to war at the time. “A Mother’s Dedication”, by Margaret Peterson reflects the strongly nationalistic, propaganda driven views that mobilized Britain in response to the war. The ballad in itself has a unique attitude that one is destined to fight in the war, revealed in the metaphor of birth, in “your birth has brought you” and the militaristic “I fought to give you birth.” A military attitude is furthered through the idea of determination and patriotism; in words such as “uphold” “lead” “shield” and “fight” which highlight the attitudes of heroism and “honour” that existed within British propaganda.
Journalism became a way not only to spread information, but also a way to spread awareness that could lead to change. Journalists like William Russell whose criticisms about the army, particularly the way the army was managed, lead to real change. Upon first seeing how poorly the soldiers were treated, Russell wrote a letter to his editor, John Delane, in which he asked, “Am I to tell these things or hold my tongue?” Russell’s uncertainty about whether or not he was allowed to write about British wrongdoings demonstrates how novel honest reporting was at the time. Delane urged him to record everything he witnessed. After spending time at the battlefield with the soldiers, he shed light on the mismanagement that would otherwise have been overlooked.
The first is the bais that is show in American History textbooks, and the second is historiography, or the study of the development of how history is written. “Lies My Teacher Told Me” facilitates its process of depicting the writing of American History. Bias is one of the major problems in not only American textbooks, but throughout the world. Am example of bias that is a continuous through “Lies My Teacher Told Me” is heroification. In the book, Loewen decribes it as, "A generative process that makes people over into heroes.
You're body can take the rigors of physical training and you're body will recover from injury, but what you take from an experience such as WWI stays strong in your mind. Erich Remarque's book titled All Quiet on the Western Front uncovers the harsh reality of war. Of course the tragedy that comes with war cannot be understood unless you have experienced it first hand but in his book, Remarque tries to portray the life of a German Soldier. There are a few different possible messages that the author, Erich Remarque, is trying to convey. I think the most obvious message is that the life of German soldiers was more horrifying than you might think.
The above said is widely confirmed in his next published novel, Three soldiers. With this novel, Dos Passos expressed his true feelings about war. Is one of the key American war stories, and we can see its influence in various works done recently. Two well-known examples of this are the movies Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) and Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987) since both movies talk about the de-humanizing factors of war, and how we get to do a great amount of things that heard and seen from another point of view seem ridiculous. Three soldiers is not about the war, is about the impact of the war and times on the ordinary soldier, just like the movies mentioned above.
“Brooke presents us with a highly idealised view of war in his sonnets”. Referring closely to the three sonnets you have read, would you agree with this statement? Yes, I believe that Brooke’s sonnets do present a highly idealized view of war. Such an idea is because when Brooke’s wrote these sonnets they were just starting the war, meaning that war was seen as an ‘adventure’ and recruitment was necessary. His sonnets were made to be passionate and patriotic and to show hope and rid the fear of future soldiers.