McDonald 1 Chemical and Biological Weapons: World at War Matthew McDonald Mrs. Jones English I 4 March 2015 McDonald 2 Chemical and Biological Weapons: World at War THESIS STATEMENT: Chemical and biological weapons are necessary because they strike fear in the enemies‚ effective in their power‚ and can be used as population control. I. Introduction A. Background Information B. Thesis Statement II. Strike fear into your enemies A. Fear of retaliation
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writing poetry or letters to home. Letters where they were not really allowed to write of the full horrors they saw. The trenches were simply huge ditches‚ the low ground meaning that they were often water-logged‚ and very wet and muddy. The filthy trench conditions attracted all types of unpleasant creatures - strange horned beetles (source C). They were also infested with lice and rats and frogs. The dugouts where the men had
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Sassoon wrote “suicide in the trenches” as an anti war poem in the 20th century. Sassoon creates a dark atmosphere for the loss of innocence taken place during WWI in “Suicide in the Trenches” using a three-part structure to intensify the stages of trench lifestyle along with high impact images that bring moments to life similar to the fictional struggles experienced by Paul Baumer. Suicide in the Trenches is broken down into three definite segments to portray the soldier’s early pure soul and misconception
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that was killing enemies on No Mans Land. I got shot in the leg and caused me to get a wound and also I ended up in the hospital because I had trench foot‚ which is a foot disease that kills your skin cells. I will never forget how bad it smelled because of people dying and really sick. We always had to be on our guard because enemies attempted to bomb our trench. The soldiers that survived the bombing were wounded and many of them had lice‚ which made them very unhealthy because it lived on our skin
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eat the trash that lay on the floor and the soldiers who have died in combat. It’s a gruesome sight‚ watching a fallen solder’s surrounded by flies and the rats consume the decaying corpses. Trench foot is almost just as bad‚ a couple of my closest friends have died from it. They told us that we developed trench foot from standing
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so I am bald again so I have avoided the new nits problem. During when I am free‚ I like to do loads of stuff but I decided to make a war poem‚ I mean everyone else does. How does it sound? (Extract from Jesse Pole‚ ‘The Cole’) Who’s for the trench-- Are you‚ my laddie? Who’ll follow French-- Will you‚ my laddie? Who’s fretting to begin? Who’s going out to win? And who wants to save his skin-- Do you‚ my laddie? What I am not going to include‚ is that rat problem. It is just to insensitive
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at the German soldiers‚ this potentially could have been a leading factor to make‚ “The Battle of Somme” the bloodiest battles of the war‚ or of any war before or since. Source A3 is a photograph of a possibly staged soldier shin deep in a soggy trench‚ leaning against a wall of half torn sand bags in 1918. Whomever had took this photographic source is unknown. This source is
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taking of the highest point on the ridge‚ the fortified knoll known as "The Pimple"‚ the Folie Farm‚ the Zwischen-Stellung trench and the hamlet of Les Tilleuls. The southern two divisions had to achieve two additional objectives: the Blue Line encompassing the town of Thélus and the woods outside the town of Vimy‚ and the Brown Line‚ which involved capturing the Zwölfer-Graben trench and the German second line. The infantry would proceed close behind a creeping barrage placed down by light field guns
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coal mines‚ brick yards‚ across railroad tracks‚ through farms‚ across rivers‚ canals and streams. Each place had its own set of problems/ challenges. In 1915‚ 1916 and 1917 many trench positions were only held for
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leader of the group-‘cat’ he was now one of the last ones left‚ him and Albert. When Paul was in the trenches he had wrote a letter to Albert saying how they were the last ones left. 20 seconds later Paul had tried to finish his bird drawing in the trench and he was shot down. 2. Describe how it showed the reasons Paul had for joining the army. Thinking /5 Paul had joined the army because of his father and his teacher. His teacher had told Paul that you
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