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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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    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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    Letters from the Samantha

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    An interesting short story is "Letters from The Samantha" by Mark Helpin. This story tells the fascinating tale‚ in the form of never sent letters‚ of an ape brought aboard an iron-hulled sailing ship in 1909 by Samson Low‚ the ship’s captain. Although the author makes a point to tell the reader‚ through Samson Low‚ that the animal does not symbolize anything or mean anything‚ in fact‚ "He stands for nothing" (280)‚ several arguments can be made to contradict this. One could argue

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    1. Martin Luther King Jr. used a lot of ethos in the Birmingham letter. For example when he says “But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth‚ I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms. He is showing that he cares about what they think and see their criticisms as being genuine and sincere so he wants to answer their questions in a reasonable time and manner. Another form of ethos he uses

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    Letter from hospital

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    Letter: Ms Vanessa Johnson 16 Whitehall Lane London‚ Essex AB12 3ZY 7 July 1916 Dearest Mother‚ I thought I should write to let you know im safe and im recovering. I miss you and the rest give everyone a hug from me and tell Rosie I hope she’s being good. The hospital is constantly got new soldiers coming in suffering from nervous exhaustion and shell shock too so im not the only one‚ the doctor said it is an injury to the nerves and told

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    Letter from the Trenches

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    this way though. It’s perfect right now‚ beautiful snowfall and this I am happy for‚ brings us back the old memories of me and you. Unfortunately it will not be like this forever‚ it will be summer in a while and that is going to be bad. I remember last year’s heat wave. The rotten smell of those innocent bodies‚ just dreadful and those pesky rats will be coming out too‚ eating every bit of the remaining corpse‚ but thankfully‚ I am in the dig out of the trench to get away from the freezing‚ but memorable

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    Birmingham Segregation

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    segregation was the rule of law in almost all public facilities in the City of Birmingham. Since the mid-1950s‚ Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth‚ pastor of the Bethel Baptist Church‚ had been waging a war against segregation. Due to his efforts‚ he may hold the distinction of being a named petitioner in more Supreme Court cases than any other person. On April 2‚ 1963‚ Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ arrived in Birmingham to join Shuttlesworth in a direct action campaign to end segregation. Non-violent

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    Letters From Odysseus

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    knowledge that the longer I remain here‚ the more I am evolving into a person I do not recognize‚ but I would like you to know me‚ the me that I am becoming‚ very much.‚ Amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus‚ remember? Well here is your venom. At 1:30 the general gave me a memorandum with regards to sending out a Tennessee battalion on the line. He told me that it seemed they “were looking for a fight.” He is a brash thing‚ rotted teeth‚ permanent scowl‚ more beast than man‚ you would hate him. Regardless

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    A Letter from the Trenches

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    brown rats ripped through the Germans brains and was still hungry. In fact‚ he got scared so much‚ we tried to hide in No Man’s Land to get away but their snipers shot through him quite literally. By the time it was safe‚ we had finished breakfast from the last of our uncontaminated supplies. And just after that we got on ‘Lice Duty’‚ picking out all those eggs was futile‚ as there were some hidden in the seams of the clothing. Those slugs and beetles were worse than ever‚ crowding the walls of the

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    Birmingham Bombing

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    English 101 001 Dr. Roger West May 13‚ 2013 The sixteenth street Baptist church in Birmingham‚ Alabama used for meetings to protesting the cities unwillingness to desegregate it’s public schools on September 15 1963 a bomb exploded during Sunday school killing Denise McNair‚ Caroline Robertson‚ Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins‚ it would be fourteen years before anyone was even charged with the crime and many more before all were brought to justice. On that same day Governor George Wallace sent

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