In the poem‚ “Break of Day in the Trenches”‚ the author‚ Isaac Rosenberg shows the theme that endless conflict leads emotionally numb soldiers to snap‚ through the literary devices‚ tone and personification. Tone is used by Rosenberg to furthermore reveal the theme in this poem. The two that he uses are musing and contemplative tones. The author uses the air of musing in this poem throughout the beginning few lines of the poem. When a soldier is immersed into war they are exposed to the death
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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 similar things with
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is horrible here in the trenches. We have to live in these long‚ narrow ditches dug into the ground all day and night. We do not get much sleep‚ but I have taken this time in the day to write you this letter. The trenches are very muddy and quite smelly. Also we must look out for our bread because the trenches are infested with rats‚ some as big as cats! Their ugly little faces and long nude tails disgust me. Night time is often the busiest part of the day in the trenches. It is easier to avoid detection
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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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circumstances have caused soldiers mental stress. Research shows the brutality that the soldiers of the Vietnam War went through‚ the novel Fallen Angels and the video series “Dear America: Letters Home” are very similar in this depiction‚ but also have slight differences. Fallen Angels and "Dear America: Letters Home" both focus on the Vietnam war and giving us a look into the lives of a soldiers. Fallen Angels is a novel that gives readers insight into a soldiers mind. Throughout the whole book
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got badly burned and even blind. My left eye was left stinging but it got better. And the trenches; oh‚ the trenches. We stay in the trenches for up to a week. I’ll describe what the trenches are like; it smells like dirt‚ urine‚ and sweaty men‚ it’s loud because of all the shells that are flying everywhere and it’s extremely dirty. Along with those‚ there are also many dangers from staying in the trenches. For example‚ shell shock. Shell shock is what happens when a soldier breaks down under the
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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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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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