The Greek air was crisp and cool breeze ruffled up the colored leaves that cluttered the ground. Soldier Aturmica stopped for a moment. She closed her eyes‚ and allowed her senses to amplify; from a deer chewing while grazing the fields to a leaf falling on the ground she heard it all. “What’s the hold up?” Realizing that she was not in her own world she blushed. She was holding up the rest of the soldiers behind her. “Are we there yet?” Another asked. “We keep heading east‚” The commander
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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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one of the few escapees from a war-stricken country. How do you think he was able to flee? Do you think sheer luck saved him by evading bullets from hundreds of guns? Or did he brutally slaughter every soldier he saw? Not everyone knows about these child soldiers. In general‚ for some parts of the world‚ there are kids holding guns and killing adults. For people like the family of Sgt. Christopher Speer‚ the idea of child soldiers are of the utmost importance. Child soldiers are one of the most controversial
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The Wounded Soldier A blast of cold air hits on his face like the blade of a shredding knife. Bodies of fallen comrades and enemies lay all around him. The smell of flesh from both sides of the war together with the dust and smoke almost made him sick. He has never been more aware and cautious‚ cowering in fear at the sounds of machine guns. The thought of reuniting with his family is the only hope that gave him the strength to continue‚ allowing him to forget about the inclement taste
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males served in the British forces during World War One. Since there was no compulsory enlistment for state service‚ approximately 140‚000 of these joined during the war as volunteers. Some 35‚000 Irish males passed away. Irish males enrolled in the armed services.For the war effort for a variety of reasons. Some‚ just like their fellows in other fighting states‚ joined up for the discern justice of the effect. But in Ireland‚ which in the year of 1914 was deeply separated between nationalist and unionist
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dragged out of your own home‚ taken away from your parents‚ being armed with a weapon and are forced to go into combat.. killing people; perhaps even your own family. Well that’s just a glimpse at what it’s like to become a child soldier. Former child soldier‚ Ishmael Beah says he ‘sometimes feels that living in New York City‚ having a good family and friends‚ and just being alive is a dream‚ that perhaps this second life of mine isn’t really happening.’ (Beah) But what are child soldiers you might ask
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and Contrast of “Soldiers Home” and “How to Tell a True War Story” Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” and O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story” are two similar yet contrasting stories. The Protagonists in both stories are soldiers of war but they fought in different wars. In Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” Harold‚ was a soldier returning from the First World War in Germany. In O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story” Bob (Rat) Kiley was a soldier in Vietnam during the Vietnamese War. Both plots and
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The use of child soldiers is one of the most blatant abuses of international human rights. There have been a number of treaties that have tried to prohibit these practices‚ but the use of child soldiers has become more prominent and occurs in approximately 75% of conflicts around the world. Primary causal factors of recruiting children are: social disruptions due to globalization‚ disease and war which has resulted in further global conflict and generation disconnection which has created a pool of
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environment to soldiers at war. For example‚ in the rapper Jay Z’s 2002 song “A Ballad for a Fallen Soldier” he points out‚ “On one side we got a hustler getting ready for the block (human beings) Other side you got the soldier getting ready for boot camp (soldiers) They’re both at war (this is life)” (Genius‚ 2015). Jay Z grew up in Brooklyn’s Marcy Projects where he was exposed to drugs‚ poverty and violence which contributed to his lyrics in the song connecting his experience to a soldier at war. I think
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Professor Boeker Ghost Soldiers The novel‚ Ghost Soldiers is a great book written by Hampton Sides. It depicts the true horrors of war‚ friendship and hope. The story takes place in the Philippines during the Japanese takeover of the island from 1942 until the year 1945‚ after the outbreak of World War II‚ when the Japanese assaulted the Philippine islands and captured it. This resulted in many prisoners of war. The American armies ran out of supplies and were tired from fighting and it led to the
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