The Trenches – WW1 I’m encapsulated in the unending nightmare of fear. The rain continues to bore on infinitely‚ pounding on the grubby ground and turning it into vast lakes of murky water. The miserable‚ grey clouds covered the sky‚ only letting a few rays of sun slip through. The monotonous sound of raindrops beating on the helmets of the soldiers thundered down like bullets. Everything was miserable‚ grey‚ and lacklustre. The thick layer of mud squelched beneath my feet as I struggled to walk
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reading both of these short passages I have pulled out many similarities and differences between them. In these two novels “A Letter Home” and “Waiting For Dan‚ ” they are well written and really both have one big idea about the whole entire story. Firstly‚ the main thing these two have in common are that there is someone writing a letter to the people at home. In “A Letter Home” a girl in college Kara is writing to her parents about protests in her school. On the other hand‚ Dan from “Waiting For Dan”
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What were the trenches? Only a small number of the army actually spent their time in the trenches.The trenches were the equivalent of the front line but also happened to be the most dangerous place. Behind the trenches were many more trenches leading to civilisation and neighbouring towns‚ these trenches were training establishments‚ stores‚ workshops and headquarters. The trenches were the area of the soldiers‚ with space for the machine-guns‚ the engineers and the space where the soldiers spent
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in seems of clothing‚ in the soldiers hair‚ or by animals that lived in the trenches along side the soldiers. The trenches were a very unsanitary place. So unsanitary everything is cleaned once a day and things are still able to be distributed throughout the trenches and infect many of the trench’s residents. Trench foot is a condition that is just as it sounds‚ a condition that affects your feet from being in the trenches. This comes from soldiers feet being in the water that was in the
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In the two texts "A letter home" and "Waiting for Dan" it has come to my attention that there are plenty of similarities but also many differences between the two stories in the text. In the two texts "A letter home" and "Waiting for Dan" there are a few similarities that string along between the two texts as well as there are differences. In the text "A letter home" the story is basically all about people’s feelings and how they feel about the military raiding Cambodia‚ "any students were outraged
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nuclear weapons. 3. The Trenches and why they were Employed Trenches are ditches in which soldiers can fight. The trenches in WW1 were built about two – three metres deep and measured two metres wide. They could be any length and were all interconnected. Trenches were used because they provided substantial cover from the enemies’ artillery and small arms fire. (BBC‚ 2015) 4. Armies involved and The Western Front Both the allies and the central powers fought in the trenches with both sides suffering
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WWI that made it so unique was its use of a new tactic of digging a series of connecting trenches that carved up the landscape of the Western and Eastern fronts. This use of trenches by both the Allies and the Germans was one of the primary reasons that WWI lasted as long as it did. Life in the trenches was a horrifying experience for any man who served in the Great War. The terrible conditions in the trenches would only be fully known by the public after the war was over in late 1918. The armies
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Date: 22 / 1 / 2014 War In The Trenches Written by Simon Adams‚ was published by Franklin Watts in 2004 Reflection: This book talk about what soldiers did in the World War One. They work in a trench which was under cover by darkness; the enemy could not see what was going on. That was the time to bring supplies forwards‚ send out patrols to reconnoiter enemy lines and undertake running repairs to the trenches‚ frontline parapets and the barbed-wire defensive fences.
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The style of writing I m presenting is a persuasive intent‚ in the form of a letter expressing a point of view. I m writing this piece from the view point of Michael Gallagher‚ to demonstrate that justice and truth is vital in resolving conflicts. The reason I chose this particular character is because Michael is the main personality in the context. I choose Michael’s best friend to write this letter to because he would not be uncomfortable expressing his feeling of loosing his son Aiden. My target
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pride in fighting or dying for my country. All day long all I see is people dying and I think I am next? Will I be alive tomorrow? I see people jump up out of the trenches alive and then two seconds later fall back down dead. Two weeks ago while sitting in the trenches someone started yelling GAS! GAS! In that instant I feared for my life. I grabbed a gas mask‚ hoping that I would get it on in time‚ so that I would live to see another day. There aren’t enough gas masks for everyone so I had to watch
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