Song Analysis American Soldier by Toby Keith I am proud to be an American. This song has always been close to my heart. I have family that has served in the military past and present. I pray every day that our service men and women are home safe in their beds at night. For those that have had to go overseas and serve‚ it is hard on them and their families. The time they spend away from their families in order to protect us is often not thought about. This song represents the men and women
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Vietnam era the phrase PTSD was not developed and the condition was not fully understood‚ with the advent of the recent conflicts in the middle east the need to diagnose the condition and elaborate on it has become apparent. The cause of PTSD in soldiers can seem obvious‚ but as I’ve noticed from personal experiences there is nothing common about the cause and effect of PTSD.
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The title of my book was Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes and it was a fiction book‚ published in 2003. Soldier Boys was during WWII in Germany and Brighman City‚ Utah. It tells the story of an American and German teenaged boy. They join the war and fight in the battle of the Bulge. Spencer Morgan on the American side and Dieter Hedrick on the German side. Dieter at the age fifteen got promoted from the Hitler Youth to the German army. He wants to prove to everyone that he is brave and that he can go
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EFFECT IN SOLDIERS Post traumatic stress disorder has many effects on people in everyday life; such as the effects in family‚ friends‚ and even their career. Post traumatic stress disorder‚ also known as PTSD‚ is quite common in today’s military. The reason for this can somewhat be explained in the definition of ptsd: The type of anxiety disorder that comes from an event in which you’ve seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death. Our soldiers‚ while they
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Shauna Crawford Mr. Meadows ENG 102 20 January 2014 Soldier Do not speak unless spoken to; always begin and end your sentence with “Drill Sergeant;” stand up straight; lace up your boots tighter; blouse your pants like this; do not say sorry‚ try harder; curl those damn fingers; thirty inch steps precisely not baby ones; just look forward to chow time; lights out is at 2100 sharp; wake up is at 0400; quit making excuses; this is how you shine your shoes; this is how you make a bed; this is how
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SOLDIER’S HOME by Ernest Hemingway Krebs went to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas. There is a picture which shows him among his fraternity brothers‚ all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar. He enlisted in the Marines in 1917 and did not return to the United States until the second division returned from the Rhine in the summer of 1919. There is a picture which shows him on the Rhone with two German girls and another corporal. Krebs and the corporal look too big for
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are made up of boys(“11 facts”). There are some girls taken away and put into their armies to fight‚ but most of them are used for other reasons. Over the past two years 20 states have reported to have child soldiers in government or non-government groups (“11 facts”). The use of Child Soldiers is inhumane because they are forced into the military at a young age‚ taken away from their families‚ and used on the front lines. Most of these kids are forced into the military at a young age. No matter how
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The Unrecognized Soldier In the beginning of the short story “Soldier Home‚” by Ernest Hemingway‚ the main character‚ Harold Krebs is introduced as a young‚ religious‚ college frat boy who joins the Army along with some of his fellow peers. He spent 2 years in the Rhine and even took a photo with 2 unattractive German Ladies. When Krebs returns home to an almost unnatural world he feels unfit and unwelcome due to the lack of compassion and notoriety from his home town of Oklahoma. Hemingway says
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The author in “Just Another Soldier” had a unique message: “I know war‚ have experienced it‚ but accept it though I do not understand it.” A rough message to say the least‚ and it is not without its flaws‚ but it is extremely effective in conveying the idea that war is inherently morbid and close-minded. The author showed us this through his mention of different casualties he had encountered thus far through the course of the war he was engaged in. For example‚ the author mentions that‚ “in situations
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Yianna Farley Dr. Cohen Lit. 3325 October 15‚ 2012 Life Is Easy When You Are a Child Ralph Waldo Emerson argues that “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.” In Hemingway’s “Soldiers Home‚” we learn of a struggle between Krebs and his small‚ hometown people. The lies that the townspeople want to hear and the truth that Krebs is attempting to pursue‚ keep him from conforming to society. Krebs’s lie about the war is his first attempt to fit into the norm‚ but soon after lying‚ he begins
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