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.
In the Sassoon’s poem “Aftermath,” he explains war as something that can never be forgotten. The distasteful thought haunts everyone to the point where war completely takes over the human mind. He documented the war environment as something that was unbearable to live at. Waking up next to a fellow member and seeing their body decay was worrisome. The rats crawling everywhere because the environment was not clean and unsanitary was frightening to see.
They had to use their tins and duck behind the sheds in the trenches. Not only was this incredibly unhygienic and caused many diseases among the soldiers, but they were also dodging bullets. The enemy would shot them as they went to the toilet and because they were pre-occupied they could not defend themselves. The toilets were a grim place to be, cans of overflowing sewage, undetectable bullets and often the bodies of men who had died in the act. Another terrible problem was the rats.
Vimy Ridge, Captured by: Klement Bernadet Merely a week ago, 20,000 Canadian soldiers scrambled up the sleet-swept slopes of a long, low hill in northeastern france. A place called Vimy Ridge. The attack came on April 9, 1917, marking the first time in the first world war that we,the Canadian force, had fought as a unit. Vimy ridge- studded with machine guns ,dog-toothed with tunnels, and covered barbed wire- was a cornerstone of German defenses in the region. The Ridge, not far from the Belgian border, was a strtegic attle ground and had defied the Allies for months.
They did not make the mistakes the made before and incorporated their successes from past battles. The Canadians had to learn from their mistakes the tough way. They lost 10,602 men in the battle of Vimy ridge. And in the battle of Somme Canada lost 1,373 men. The Canadians prepared for the attack on Vimy Ridge by digging tunnels under no man’s land.
Canadians in the Second Battle of Ypres Sean Chia Wei Hsiung Social Studies 11 2-4 Mr. Schroeder November 4th Canada was dragged into an irrelevant war by Britain after its declaration of independence in 1867 against Germany due to its unchanged foreign policy. Canada played an essential role for Great Britain in many battles in World War I (WWI). The most important battle was the second battle of Ypres. In order to support its mother country, Canada shipped large amount of soldiers and volunteers to Britain, and provided numerous weapons and ammunition, which resulted in the success of the second battle of Ypres. Canadian forces saw their first engagement of WWI as part at the second battle of Ypres, showing their valour in the battle of Gravenstafel, Kitchener’s Woods, and Saint Julien.
Orwell also goes on to explain how much he dislikes his job as well as his home-country by saying, “All I knew was that I was stuck between my hatred of the empire I served and my rage against the evil-spirited little beasts who tried to make my job impossible.” The story begins with a simple call to the police station, asking for help with an elephant that had been terrorizing the village. He grabs his smaller rife, an old .44 Winchester, knowing very well that it was no match for a grown elephant. On the way to the other part of town, he is stopped by various people and is told that the elephant is not wild, but a tamed one that had managed to escape on its own. The natives of that area were also unarmed with any weapon that could protect them against the elephant. Especially one that had already damaged bamboo huts, killed livestock, and even attacked a van.
Joe Bonham was a soldier who almost lost his life fighting for his country. If he wasn’t unconscious when the bomb dropped and he lost his legs and almost died, I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t be thinking for himself, ’‘this is great, I fought for my country and died with honor.’’ Almost everybody wants to live and taking another persons life is to me the worst think anybody can do. There is not anything worth killing for, not democracy, not peace and certainly not when u have the intensions of
Aside from the challenges that he has had to confront in his life, we can see that he is a very joyful man with no self-pity when he stated “… I’ve been called a ‘lost boy’, but I’m not lost from God. I’ve lost my parents, but God’s helped me… ” (60 Minutes documentary). In her childhood, Farah lost her leg when she stepped in a land mime. She was sent to Germany for recuperation; while she was there, she had to get her leg amputated. When she returned to her homeland Afghanistan, they were in the midst of a civil war.
Animal experimentation continues to make living a pain-free life impossible for some animals. Every year eighteen to twenty-two million animals die due to experimentation. The most common species used in the biomedical research are mice, rats, birds, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, dogs, and cats. The majority of animals in laboratories are purpose-bred. The government needs to ban animal experimentation because of the harmful chemical testing, inaccurate medical testing, and the pointless cosmetic testing.