I’m sorry I haven’t written in a few days‚ the war has kept me engaged. The Battle of Ypres has become quite dangerous because of all the new technology that has been developing. During the battle‚ the Germans sprung a new trap on us;poison gas. No one had ever used it before and we could never have anticipated that they would use it. Since we had no idea‚ the only way we had to protect ourselves was to use urine-soaked cloths and hold then hold it up to our face so we wouldn’t breathe in the poison
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In the novel “Letter from the coffin-trenches”‚ written by Ken Catran‚ is about a young lad participating in the army to fight for his country and also writing to his girlfriend for communication. So whenever he is away they won’t lose their bond. One of the characters that I like in the novel is Harry Wainright and he is the youthful guy among the soldiers. He is the bravest man that they’ve had in the team as well. I like him because of his characteristic of heroism‚ by showing us his courageous
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set itself apart from other wars mostly in the way of trench warfare‚ and the use of poisonous gas. The trenches in which the soldiers were in was so grotesque‚ and filled with diseases that it was almost a death sentence to stay in them. In this war‚ a simple cut or scrape could be as fatal as getting shot‚ because of all the diseases going around in the trenches from the bacteria in the trenches. The conditions in which Jean Dartemont and the millions of other soldiers that fought in WWI‚ depicted
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5th Period AP European History 11 November 2011 Unit 4 Essay 3. Isaac Newton once said‚ “I have stood on the shoulders of giants.” Explain this statement and explain how Newton was the product of time and circumstance. When Isaac Newton said‚ “I have stood on the shoulders of giants‚” he demonstrated that he knew his place in the scientific community. In the relay race of astronomic science‚ Newton was the last of the runners to be passed the baton‚ and he‚ adding to the work of many
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fought in the trenches? Life in the Trenches There was nothing glamorous about trench life. World War 1 trenches were dirty‚ smelly and riddled with disease. For soldier’s‚ life in the trenches meant living in fear. In fear of diseases (like cholera and trench foot) and of course‚ the constant fear of enemy attack. Trench warfare WW1 style is something all participating countries vowed never to repeat and the facts make it easy to see why. Photo- British troops sitting in a dug out trenches in WWI.
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attacked or even be ordered to attack. I can’t promise you both my safe return‚ but I can promise you that I will do my very damn best to make it home alive‚ maybe not in one piece especially cause’ of this trench foot‚ but alive. Life in the trenches is worse than I could ever imagine. We wake
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In 1951 Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted and in 1953‚ executed on the count of conspiracy to commit espionage. Julius Rosenberg was born in New York to Polish immigrant parents. In 1940 he joined and became the leader of the Young Communist League‚ where he met Ethel Rosenberg. Julius and Ethel became full members in the American Communist Party but by 1943‚ the couple dropped out of the Communist Party‚ supposedly to pursue Julius’ espionage activities. Early in 1945‚ Julius was
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Suicide in the trenches Title and Author: “Suicide in the Trenches” is a poem written by Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon wrote this poem during his First World War military service and published in his 1918 collection: “Counter-Attack and Other Poems” Form and style This poem is a lyric which contains of three stanzas each containing four lines. This is written in rhyming couplets‚ the style of the poem seems very simple and song-like War is destructive of youth and innocence. There is a change
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Isaac Newton was a product of his time period. He was born in the midsts of the scientific revolution‚ a time when a strong emphasis was placed on learning and disciplines such as physics (Hatch‚ Robert A. "The Scientific Revolution"). Newton was strongly influenced by these scientific trends‚ as they would eventually become fields in which he specialized in. The movement started when Copernicus’s heliocentric viewpoint was first proposed‚ and ended with Newton’s death in the early 1700s (Hatch
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The Hiss and Rosenberg trials were very politically convenient for the federal government. The trials were politically convenient because the federal government finally provided proof that there was something to fear and that “communist infiltration” and “espionage” was real. During the time there was a "culture war" going on in America because of the current “Cold War”. Throughout the “culture war” fear of treason‚ terror‚ and espionage threats was one of the ways that the government supported
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