casualties were deaths or wounded. The wounds could have been something simple as a missing limb to as extreme as shell shocked. When soldiers were shell shocked they would often have no interest or a bad feeling about something they did while at war. In the short story‚ “A Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway‚ Krebs is a former college student and discharged soldier who is suffering from shell shock. Before the war‚ Krebs was going to college to become a minister. He enlisted in the Marines and was
Premium World War I Trench warfare
The Kritios boy belongs to the Late Archaic period and is the first sculpture that displays accurate human features that would later be the foundation of classical sculptures. The Kritios boy was named because it is believed to be the work of Krito‚ the teacher of Myron‚ from around 480 BCE. The statue is made of marble and is considerably smaller than a life-size human‚ standing at 1.17m. The torso of the sculpture was first found buried outside the Acropolis in 1866.The head was later found 23
Premium Sculpture Statue Human anatomy
A Long Walk to Water Packet Chapter One: 1.The main character in the first storyline is Nya. 2. Nya is eleven years old. 3.The main character in the second storyline is Salva. 4. Salva is at school when the story begins. 5. Salva is tibe is called Dinka. 6. Salva is eleven years old. 7. Salva realizes he lucky because he has a lot of of cows‚ which means his family is well off. 8. Salva family is considered rich for having a lot of cows. He has two sisters who keep care of the house with his mom
Premium Sudan
complicated for him. So john had gone back inside the school building to get help from his teacher. As he was receiving help from his teacher‚ she had received a phone call from the police saying that john parents was involved in a very cruel accident and sadly neither one of his parents was able to live. After receiving such a phone call she was confused about how she was going to tell a eight year old little boy that he has lost to his parents to a very bad car accident on the way to come pick him up from
Premium Walking Automobile Sustainable transport
My memoir will be about something I rarely ever talk about much less let my feeling about it show through. I am going to writ about the time that someone tried to physically hurt me while I was working out. I work out in the weight room of the school I work at. I was in there one day‚ alone‚ when someone began to bang on the doors that thankfully were shut. He threatened all kinds of bodily harm to me while beating on the doors with a concrete trail and metal pole. He was not there in a
Premium High school Thought College
In what ways was the Cold War a long-term conflict‚ and in what ways can it be thought of as long-term peace? Which do you think best describes the period? Why? During the 1947-1991‚ The Cold War was known to be one of the longest standoff feud between the United States and Soviet Union. The United States and Soviet Union was sworn allies when fighting the Nazi Germany. However‚ the aftermath conferred to political powers and struggle of influence became a factor after the United States‚ Great
Premium World War II Cold War Soviet Union
Memoir Draft I was laying in bed on just another normal sunday not knowing what was yet to come‚ when I suddenly looked outside. Snow as white as a polar bear as far as the eye could see. Right at that moment I ran out of bed‚ looked at my brother and said‚ “Griswold. Sledding.” My brother looked at me with excitement and we both ran to our rooms to get dressed. When we were dressed‚ we were off to find our sleds as happy as can be. Once we found them we told our parents where we were heading off
Premium English-language films Family Snow
Lost boys I have chosen to write a feminist analysis of the short story “Lost boys”. “Lost boys” is a feminist short story written by Deborah Moggach. A feminist analysis of a text focus on the way men and woman are portrayed and the overall message‚ which I am going to deal with in this following analysis of “Lost boys”. The short story “Lost boys” is about a couple and their relationship to the narrator’s mother-in-law‚ Lily. The story starts in “in-medias-res”‚ which I can see because the
Premium Gender role Gender Woman
The Area of Study: Belonging ‘The Bra Boys’ The ‘Bra Boys’ directed by Sunny Abberton‚ sets out to explain the story of the Bra Boys and their connection to Maroubra and each other. The documentary shows the audience how they feel connected to the suburb‚ the self culture‚ the ocean and the group. The Bra Boys relate themselves to a tribe that embodies mateship‚ honour and loyalty to all members. Each member is renowned with a Bra Boys tattoo to identify him as part of the group. Their sense
Premium Sociology English-language films Raimond Gaita
The Uncivilized Memoir You told me‚ “Life is made up of two things. The smartest morons and the dumbest oxymorons.” Rewind. When he was nineteen years old he had worked in a Transylvanian Bauxite mine. Sixteen months later he was choked with lung disease‚ yet God had answered his prayers. He was rosy-cheeked and right as rain just in time for the year when war came. He had spent his life with his head in the clouds and heart in the air fleet‚ yet he was a charmingly down-to-earth person with a
Premium