In the Second World War‚ the Japanese captured approximately 3 million prisoners of war. The sufferings of these people were horrific‚ with an extremely high death rate. This essay will compare and contrast the treatment of Prisoners of War between Japan and the Allied forces during the Pacific War. Prisoners of the Japanese‚ including Australians were treated much worse than those of the Allies because provisions in Japanese camps were low and Red Cross packages were denied‚ and the rate of death
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operating outside the U.S. It has been under U.S. control since 1898 but it was not used to hold prisoners from the Afghanistan war until January 2002. Since then‚ hundreds of “law combatants” have been held there against the Geneva Convention and their rights have been removed. Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp became a matter of international concern when it was stated that the prisoners were‚ in fact‚ prisoners of war and therefore entitled to some rights‚ as specified in the Geneva Convention. Since that
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The Bataan Death March "Their ferocity grew as we marched ... they were no longer content with mauling stragglers or pricking them with bayonet points. The thrusts were intended to kill." - Capt. William Dyess‚ 21st Pursuit Squadron commander 75‚000 soldiers were captured. 65 miles were marched. Thousands perished. The Bataan Death March was the result of a four-month long battle in Bataan‚ a battle that was lost for the Allied forces. American and Filipino soldiers were forced to walk this
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Exploring Transitions - Educating Rita Defining the concept Transition means to move from one situation or place into another different situation or place. The transition from one phase of life or social context into another can change the person who is moving as well as those they meet along the way. (How is this related to Educating Rita?) The process of transition can affect people in various ways. Some may be challenged or confronted by the experience while others may find the transition
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METHODS OF INTERROGATION OF A PRISONER OF WAR Introduction 1. A ‘Prisoner of War’ is a person‚ whether combatant or non-combatant‚ who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The treatment of prisoners has always been matter of debate in the world and many declarations and resolutions have been made in this regard including Geneva Convention of 1949. War is a time of confusion and while many suffer from it‚ there are many who benefit in the fog of it
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Dear sir/madam‚ I am writing to you in response to your extremely biased and unfair newspaper article on Educating Essex. Your harsh report portrayed young adults as dumb‚ overdramatic and stubborn. When in reality the majority of young adults are hardworking‚ successful and determined. I am shocked by the way you have portrayed the young adults of Passmore School to the nation. You refer to one self confident girl as a ‘panda-eyed teenager’. Did you know 56% of teenagers feel that the media’s
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Hampton Sides. Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission. New York. Doubleday. 2001 The Ghosts of Bataan Hampton Sides succeeded in representing the missing‚ forgotten‚ unheard‚ and often misinterpreted stories of some of World War II”s most dramatic missions. The goal of Ghost Soldiers was to bring together the scattered tales both horrific and heroic aspects of the conflict from a historically factual and unbiased point of view. The situation of the
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Civil War Casualties: The Numbers The American Civil War‚ also known as the War Between the States‚ was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States of America after seven Southern slave states declared their separation from the North and formed the Confederate States of America. The ACW is widley refered to Americnas bloodiest conflict and more Americans both Union and Confederate‚ ended up as causalities than in any other war in U.S. history.Casualties were those soldiers who were
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of their HSIE assessment during the Week 4 assessment period. The essay is to be completed during their scheduled HSIE assessment period. Question: describe the experiences of Australians in WW1 and WW2 for either: Australian Nurses OR Australian Prisoners of War Part 1 – research log and essay scaffold (10%) You are required to complete the attached research log and essay scaffold. The purpose of the log is to develop your ability as an historian to select and analyse sources. The purpose of the scaffold
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of serious offences being committed by individuals‚ the community serves as an open prison for non custodial sentences‚ the ageing prison population needing special care to survive‚ the state government and expenditure on prisons‚ human right and prisoners rights being two separate matters and violence in prisons are all negatives of the prison system. The only substantial positive really worth mentioning is that prisons do keep dangerous off the streets and incapacitates them from doing any more physical
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