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    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 as ’cowed

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    The same reading‚ “Echoes and Voices‚” also explains that‚ “Ahead of us‚ wave after wave of British troops were crawling out of their trenches and coming towards us at a walk.” This shows how all these soldiers had just given up and accepted their fate‚ because of all the people that they saw die. This idea is demonstrated in the quote because if these soldiers had not given up‚ they would

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    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 young boys were sent off to fight in huge battles that

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    Life in the Trenches The war on the Western front (from 1914-1918) was one of almost exclusive trench warfare. The Western front stretched across Belgium and Northeast France spanning a distance of about 600km. Millions of men were killed along it but it’s line never moved more than 15km in any direction. On the Western front French and British troops together with thousands of men from Australia‚ Canada‚ New Zealand and South

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    to sit down and write you a letter. I miss you and father a lot. I am overjoyed to be writing this letter to you. The mood here is one of jubilation. Our assault on Vimy Ridge began at 5:30 am on Easter Monday‚ eight days ago. We lost a lot of good boys but I am so very pleased to inform you that the Canucks got the job done! What the French couldn’t do for two years and the Brits too we‚ Byng’s Boys did in three days. I was assigned to the front line in the trenches as part of the 7th Canadian Infantry

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    Life: Sleep and Home

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    Life’s Maturity Outline: Thesis: Being far from home has many differences from being near home. I: Intro II: The similarities that they both have if I was far or near home a) Talk to family b) Love family c) Meet new people III: How it is when I’m near home a) Sleep in my own bed b) Enjoy mama’s cooking c) Enjoy the family IV: How it is when I am far away from home a) Adapted to new settings and environment b) Learn how to mature c) Set my own rules/ no one to answer to V: Conclusion

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    Courtney Zamarione Mr. Neuber Pre-Ap English II 1st hour February 8‚ 2013 In life‚ everyone has a time where they question their chance of survival or their mortality. In Break of Day in the Trenches‚ by Isaac Rosenberg‚ he makes a reference that a rat has a better chance of surviving that he does. That even someone more worthless than him is going to survive this terrible thing called war. In this narrative poem‚ he is at war fighting in France during World War I‚ questioning his chance of

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    letter home nurse ww1

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    My dearest Mother‚ I am missing you dearly and I hope everything is well. I am getting very home sick‚ life here is different than over there. I can hear sounds of the battlefield and it’s very frightening. We also get very little sleep and it is so cold here. The food is so plain; we rarely eat meat. We eat mostly beans‚ potatoes and soup. I’m getting so tired of it. Many of the things I see are very disturbing but it feels good to help these men. Some of them have talked to me about their families

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    warfare and outline the life in the trenches for the soldiers. The characteristics of trench warfare are that it was a static war due to the impregnability of a side’s frontline once trenches were dug. Within these trenches‚ soldiers lived and often died in conditions that began as horrendous‚ but as the war progressed the trenches developed into a comfortable living space. Often the soldiers were not alone as they lived alongside large rats and lice. For the soldiers in the trenches‚ there was a constant

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    Balancing Work Life and Home Life The purpose of the article is to discuss what organizations can do to adopt more effective management of professional and private life. Organizations need to help employees define the boundaries between home and work. These boundaries should be more flexible than they currently are‚ the value of transition time between home and work should be recognized‚ and family should

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