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    Ww1 Life in the Trenches

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    present‚ with heavy war machinery and severe casualties. The picture in the Stearns text book on page 808 displays a group of soldiers during World War I in the trenches‚ their homes and in most cases-their death beds during combat. In this picture it is clear to see that life in the trenches was dismal and uncomfortable. Trenches were basically dug out pieces of land that soldiers fought from and sought refuge in upon returning attacks. They were not fun places to live and consisted of numbers

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    Letters from the Trenches

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    Dear my Beloved wife and children‚ At last‚ my opportunity to write you a letter has come. This opportunity will not come for awhile so sit comfortably and have a cup of tea with the children when you read this. I miss you‚ Elena. Every day I yearn to hear the soft voice of yours and your touch against my skin. I miss hearing and seeing the kids fight with each other over a wooden toy. Although it irritated and caused me stress‚ I would rather hear that than hear the faint cries of young innocent

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    Sassoon has released some of his most famous poems which at the time were highly controversial representations of the horror of war. “Suicide In The Trenches” is one of Sassoon’s most well know poems. Sassoon composed this poem to reflect on his own service and to show the effects of World War 1 on himself and on the other soldiers in the trenches. Sassoon felt hatred for the political leaders and for the people back home who felt safe and comfortable in their own country‚ their own home‚ whilst

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    suicide in the trenches

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    1st stanza ’There was a simple soldier boy who grinned at life...and whistled early with the lark’ ’lark’ ~ a spring bird‚ spring connotes youth ’simple’ ~ implies innocence the fact he rose with the lark ’early’ presents enthusiasm and also touches on the caricature of the typical ww1 soldier ~ a young man from the country‚ hoping to find adventure and to see the world - explicitly presented in pieces like A.E Housman’s ’ Oh‚ my lad‚ stay home and plough’ 2nd Stanza he boy is described

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    The Trenches – WW1 I’m encapsulated in the unending nightmare of fear. The rain continues to bore on infinitely‚ pounding on the grubby ground and turning it into vast lakes of murky water. The miserable‚ grey clouds covered the sky‚ only letting a few rays of sun slip through. The monotonous sound of raindrops beating on the helmets of the soldiers thundered down like bullets. Everything was miserable‚ grey‚ and lacklustre. The thick layer of mud squelched beneath my feet as I struggled to walk

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    Memoirs from the trenches

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    lice and the rats that I can find. I haven’t taken a shower in over two weeks. I wish I was home right now wrapped up in that warm blanket you made me. These trenches they have us in are so small. It seems like everything around me is crammed up. Maybe it’s just me. You know how claustrophobic I get sometimes. It’s horrible here. Every day‚ every hour‚ one of the friends I had made here at this war is gone. Their bodies‚ lifeless and cold on these floors. No one cares to pick them up and move them

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    Letter from Trenches

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    A letter from the trenches Grade 9 Humanities - Assessment Task AOI: Health and Social Education Imagine you are a soldier fighting in the First World War in 1915… Your character could be in the trenches on the Western Front as: British‚ French or German soldier a native conscript from one of the colonies in Africa or Asia a volunteer from a commonwealth ally like Canada or South Africa Alternatively‚ your character could be: a German or Russian soldier on the Eastern Front a Turkish

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    force of communist fear. Many normal families were scared of being ‘caught’ a communist‚ or even worse‚ communist spies. Yet‚ there was one couple that was affected more than any if these terrified groups of people; they were the Rosenbergs. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were a happily and lovingly married Jewish couple that had been married since 1939. But‚ on July 17th‚ 1950 Julius was arrested by the FBI in front of his two sons for conspiracy to commit espionage. Almost a month later Ethel was

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    in the Trenches is rough and horrible. We get woken up in the middle of the night due to fire falling on us. I then have to take cover and crouch in a corner. “ Each man lays hold of his things and looks again every minute to reassure himself that they are still there.” (Source 1) The troops and I have to hold are things and every minute we need to look see if they are still there. In the trenches there is rats. “ The rats have become much more numerous lately because the trenches are no

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    Sir Isaac Newton

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    Zikia Griffin Ms. Eunice Cavalcanti Algebra II‚ 7th period 11th March 2013 The Life and Works of Sir Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton‚ (1642-1727)‚ mathematician and physicist‚ was one of the greatest scientific minds of all time. Sir Isaac Newton was born at on January 4th (December 25th old calendar) at Woolsthorpe‚ a farmstead‚ in Lincolnshire. Woolsthorpe is the place where he worked on his theory of light and optics. This is also believed to be the site where Newton observed an apple fall

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