1. What role does honor play in the novel? Honor played a major role in novel‚ Killer Angels. Throughout the book‚ Honor was a concept that remained important to members of the armies‚ regardless of whether they were supporting the Union or the Confederacy. Every action and decision was made with the intention of being heroic and as honorable as possible. 2. From your reading of Killer Angels‚ what do you think was the main reason the Civil War was fought? While the North lightly interpreted
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Mr. Iam Nobody 8 Howling Lane Hackney London E15 6PP United Kingdom Mr. Iam Nobody 8 Howling Lane Hackney London E15 6PP United Kingdom Dear Iam Nobody‚ Early today I arrived in Ellis Island‚ as you know I went via steamship which was crowded with all different kind of people from all different places. On the way there I was talking to a German man his name was Kurt even though he was German he spoke very good English I would even say he spoke better than me to a certain
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George Newman finished reading the telegram that had been sent to him by the War Department‚ in early 1861. He was to report to the War Department to serve in the Supply Department. He sighed softly as he had hoped for a field commission. He was at the top of his class in West Point‚ and had served at Camp Cooper‚ Texas‚ in a cavalry outfit that had fought the Comanche. George was quite a marksman‚ and also an expert horseman and crack shot with both a pistol and rifle. His military career had been
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war‚ and others opposed this action. The story called Waiting for Dan and a letter which is called A Letter Home are texts written about some of the events that took place during this time in history. Although these pieces of text are about different protests‚ the protestors in them have similarities that are significant to the overall happenings of this time period. Although the protesters from both the story and the letter have similarities between them‚ they also have differences that distinguish
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August 12‚ 2012 Title: The Killer Angels Author: Michael Shaara Historical Event Depicted: This novel illustrates the Battle of Gettysburg‚ often known as the turning point of the great American Civil War. Southern slave-holding states‚ known as the Confederate States of America‚ fight the war with loyal Union states for secession. The Battle of Gettysburg is where Union Major General George Gordon Meade’s Army of the Potomac defeats Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia
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I was only a member of the Fallen Lamb for a few nights at the time‚ but never had I seen the sea as beautiful as it was then. She glistened a deep blue‚ and clashed against the hard wood of the ship‚ waves rising until it hit the hull then falling back into the sea. Getting used to the constant rocking of the ship was incredibly difficult at first‚ but I managed to retain my balance after a week or so. Anyways‚ I made my way to the main deck‚ passing through the kitchen first so I could grab a bite
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In the stories called "Waiting for Dan" and "A Letter Home" will both be talking about the 60’s and 70’s and what happened and at that time. What people fought over where freedom and there life. That most people didn’t really have a life there were treated like slaves. The white people had more power than the black people in the 60’s and 70’s. That the blacks did the there best for freedom and they put in all that work and they got an answer and that answer was freedom and a real life. The two
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drastically. Their father left in the summer and has not yet came home‚ it is currently fall. The action of him standing up for his rights and trying to make the world peaceful and not divided made him end up at a prison in Mississippi. So briefly‚ Dan made a courageous choice and his family stands by him and hope that soon he will come back to them. In "A Letter Home" On May‚5 1970 Kara a college student of Kent State University sent a letter home to her parents expressing her feelings on the recent disaster
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Orsell’s location during his leave of absence is not said in the letters‚ but it seemed he was still working within the army and was loving his time there. The happy and positive attitude seen in his first letters has returned as he writes to Olivia about how he was doing. “Oh! I am having a gay old time here with Baldwin and I’ll assure you I was treated like a white man” He was happily working his job in a safe location. He was getting the respect he deserved and this is truly a high point in his
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city to develop a framework for a fitting memorial to Vietnam War veterans. The memorial was to be a glass-block structure etched with excerpts of letters sent to and from servicemen during the Vietnam War. Due to the overwhelming response to the commission’s request for letters‚ Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam came to be. Consisting of 208 letters‚ poems‚ and journal entries written by 125 people‚ this book is a heart wrenching‚ first hand account of the personal experiences of soldiers both
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