For Cause and Comrades For Cause and Comrades by James M. McPherson consists of mostly of soldiers’ diaries and letters home as to why the men were fighting the Civil War. The initial motivation the union and confederacy sustain throughout the story proves that personal honor is valued more than their lives. The opening chapter of the book is mostly a plot overview of the events that had yet to come. Fratricide‚ Meaning one that murders or kills an individual (as a countryman) having
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Maria Bochkareva Becca Roberts 4th 2-25-14 Russia had rules forbidding women joining the army‚ but some did. For the first few years of the war‚ the few women who actually fought in the front lines required required the complicity of military officals-- except one. Maria Leontievna Bochareva was the third daughter of a pesant family. She as born in Novgorod Oblast in 1889. Badly beaten by her alcoholic father‚ she left home at fifteen to marry Afansi Bochkareva. The couple moved to Tomsk
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Shakespeare was one of the firsts to propose such a moving question that in a literal sense‚ is seen as to live or to die‚ to be or not to be. Erich Fromm writes To Have or To Be around this question but in more of a spiritual way. Fromm claims that there are two ways that people can choose to live‚ Being and Having. Fromm’s philosophy is that Having is not truly living‚ which is where “the question” is brought upon the readers. Throughout To Have or to Be‚ Fromm explains the distinctions between
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History of Corrections Michael Perdun Professor Mendez CJ232 July 24‚ 2010 The historical development of corrections since the colonial period is very interesting to look into. After the colonial period there were other significant events that led up to how the history of corrections is so important such as the arrival of the penitentiary‚ the reformatory movement‚ the rise of the progressives‚ the rise of the medical model‚ community
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According Fromm‚ there is a connection between social character and the economic basis of that society. To explain this connection‚ Fromm uses psychoanalysis techniques to bridge the gap. Using Freud’s dynamic concept of character‚ Fromm identifies that society acts in a majority type way‚ meaning that a society usually acts in one type of character type way that drives their motivations. Fromm identifies that social character is that which is shared by most members in a society. In reflecting
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Topic: The effects of tradition and how it displayed in short stories “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ and “Marriage is a Private Affair” by Chinua Achebe. Tradition is something you pass down through generation to generation. Something that usually is a long established custom or belief that has been passed on a certain way. When the word tradition enters your mind‚ no one comes to think that tradition may have negative effects. Times have changed‚ should the way we live our lives change along
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horrid images that the World War I soldiers endeavoured. Serving in war is not for the faint of heart or those considered not able to stomach the sight of gore and dead bodies every step. In the story‚ All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque‚ this story depicts these exact horrors during Remarque’s time spent on the German battlefront. Deaths are of the norm. Soldiers become immune to the smell of rotting bodies and bits and pieces of flesh everywhere. Although comradery is a positive
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The “relational paradigm” that Zachary Lockman also addresses in his introduction to his book “Comrades and Enemies‚” is the historical framework that he chooses to use. This relational paradigm attempts to mend the inaccuracies that are found within the dual society paradigm. For this reason‚ the relational paradigm takes into consideration economic‚ political‚ social‚ and cultural interactions between the Arab and Jewish communities. It acknowledges the existence of both societies and attempts
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German people Comrades! Seven years is a short time‚ the fraction of a single human normal life - barely one second in the life of a people. And yet behind us seven years seem to be longer than many of the past decades. In them‚ resonates together a great historical experience: the resurrection of a world threatened by the destruction of the nation. An infinite eventful time‚ we were allowed us not only experience‚ but make part‚ sometimes seems to be hardly be surveyed. Today we talk often of
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It was 1777. My comrades and I trudged through murky snow and grass on the way to winter camp in Valley Forge‚ PA. Lots of my fellow men were sick. There was no food and no supplies. General Washington was asking us to reenlist for another 9 months. I was confused. Should I reenlist or not? I reenlisted for another 9 months because my comrades were getting sick‚ of my loyalty to my government‚ and my belief in the cause. I reenlisted because my fellow comrades were getting sick. Even though there
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