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A Man For All Seasons : In All Quite on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the question of who’s a hero and who isn’t is in World War I. Relationships between soldiers, officers, and the government led to the question being answered.A hero doesn’t expect to be rewarded for their efforts. Paul’s former teacher in high school filled his students minds’ with propaganda. Kantorek was a part told the boys lies of how war was. The boys got hooked onto this propaganda and registered for WWI.
On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began and it lasted until April 9, 1865. Throughout the course of the four year battle between the Northern states and the Southern states. There were several comparisons and contrasts between General Ulysses S. Grant and General Robert E. Lee. The Civil War was started because of the economic, racial, and social issues between the Northern and Southern states in the United States. The aftermath of the war was a complete an utter devastation when it came to casualties.
Smith was part of the medevac unit and with every injured or dead American life he saw his anger toward the Vietnamese increased. Smith realized while attending a Vietnam veterans group that all his hatred for the Vietnamese was from all the pain that he saw the young soldiers go through when they were hurt. Smith saw no reason for fighting and the American lives lost in the conflict were for nothing. People were killed and fought for this country to achieve nothing in the end. The Vietnam War affected millions of veterans and showed the United States that even though they had the most powerful and best military in the world they could still lose a war.
Paul Baumer, the main character and narrator in All Quiet on the Western Front has been enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Throughout this novel, the author, Erich Maria Remarque expresses the horrors of war and how Paul’s friends and his life was impacted negatively because of such a bloody, terrifying war experience. Before the war, Paul was a compassionate and sensitive young man who loved his friends and family very much. The war had done horrible things to him and destroyed him both mentally and physically. Paul and his friends experienced death scenes from the ones that stood by them since they stepped foot on the battle field to the ones on the other side.
Trench Warfare World War One was a horrific event, the number of known dead sits at about eight million people. The main method of combat during the first world war, also known as the Great World War, was trench warfare. Trenches were dug mainly to protect troops, but ended up being one of the major reasons so many men died. These men had to live through miserable times, daily life was filled with horror, and death. Death was a constant companion to those serving in the line, even when they weren't under attack, many would die of disease.
Fiction Essay “The Things They Carried” a short story by Tim O’Brien is about soldiers in the Vietnam War. O’Brien being a war veteran himself knows what the war was like, and he reflects this in this story. This story is about the many things that the soldiers carried. This story was one that made me want to keep turning the page and it is a story that gave an amazing inner view of what life on the frontlines is really like. The soldiers in the Vietnam War and for any War for that matter are constantly scared for their lives and just living day to day is a struggle they are forced to face fighting, death, and sickness on a daily basis.
Analysis The author lists the objects the soldiers carried to represent the emotional burdens the soldiers bear. One is the necessity for the soldiers to face the tension between fantasy and reality. These emotional burdens are intensified by their young age and experience; they no perspective on how to rationalize killing someone or witnessing their comrade’s death. One major effect the war has had on these soldiers is turning them cynical or gloomy. In the story “Love,” O’ Brien’s tells the story of the reunion of Martha and Cross; this is a reference to the fallout of Vietnam.
He is looking at each soldier, everyone with a different injury and becomes resentful of the men. He begins to think that a wound is something of "a red badge of courage," to show to others that only the courageous survive and can walk with pride and valor. Fleming meets a soldier who's name becomes the " tattered soldier," who has been shot twice and speaks with great flamboyance of his regiment not fleeing during the heat of the battle. The soldier begins to ask Henry where he is injured, a mixture of this and his "arrogance" leads Henry to wander to a different part of the column where he sees his friend Jim Conklin deathly wounded. Henry promises Jim that he will take care of him and not let anything happen to him, at this moment Jim gets up and starts running frantically to his
Chen-Yu Lee Carol Fry Hist 1301 10/28/2011 What They Fought For There have been many different theories on why the Civil War began, and what caused the soldiers to fight for either side. These theories include such things as slavery, idealism, patriotism, protection of homeland, independence, and pure hatred for the opposition. It is difficult to pick out one good reason from above, that caused the soldiers to fight, but letters and diary entries give us some insight as to what motivated many of them. This paper will look at various reasons as to why the Confederate and Union soldiers fought with such endurance. Many Confederate soldiers seemed motivated by the mere memory of the Revolution; they can still remember the period their ancestor fought with English.