John McCarthy History 1302 April 23‚ 2012 Professor Boeker Ghost Soldiers The novel‚ Ghost Soldiers is a great book written by Hampton Sides. It depicts the true horrors of war‚ friendship and hope. The story takes place in the Philippines during the Japanese takeover of the island from 1942 until the year 1945‚ after the outbreak of World War II‚ when the Japanese assaulted the Philippine islands and captured it. This resulted in many prisoners of war. The American armies ran out of supplies
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Source C shows a group of German soldiers positioned in a trench in northern France. The soldiers in the trench are holding a heavy machine gun and have an advanced gas mask over their faces. This tells me that they are prepared for a gas attack. This photo was taken three years into the war which tells me that gas attacks became more frequent and therefore they felt the need to improve the gas masks to be more prepared. The source is German‚ and on one hand it is good because it shows us the features
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier‚ located in Arlington National Cemetery‚ is a memorial honoring American service members who have unfortunately died without being identified. The Tomb and the wreath laying ceremony have connected to me personally and have a great significance on my life. Here are three examples of how the Tomb has personally connected to me. The first example was when I was about two years old. It was the first time my younger brother was visiting Arlington National Cemetery. We
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In The Civil War Diaries and Letters of a Confederate Soldier‚ Etter writes almost entirely in personal narrative and journal entries. The fact that Etter had no intended audience other than himself while he wrote these journals‚ means readers get a better view into the mind of a young soldier. In contrast‚ The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant‚ is almost entirely a collection of letters Grant wrote to his then fiancé Julia Dent
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Approximately 186000 Negroes became federal soldiers. They served under white officers and often suffered discrimination in such matters as pay and bounties. But they proved courageous fighters in several of the battles in which they participated. Confederate officials were shortsighted in failing to use slaves as soldiers. Many confederate leaders feared an uprising once the Negroes were given arms. Others opposed the use of slaves on grounds that the Negroes were ill-prepared for such high
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‘Non-fiction shows us how people cope with difficult situations.’ How does Portrait of a Young Forger illustrate this? ‘Non-fiction shows us how people cope with difficult situations.’ That is a saying very well demonstrated by Marian Pretzel’s autobiography‚ Portrait of a Young Forger. The book is entertaining and enlightening‚ it provides a sense of actuality and gives a real depth to the story‚ with an insight of Marian. The urgency for survival and intensity involves different people’s
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We were soldiers is a fact-based tale of men under fire‚ their common acts of uncommon valor‚ and their loyalty to and love for one another during one of the most savage military battles in U.S. history. On November 14‚ 1965‚ in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam‚ in a small clearing called Landing Zone X-Ray‚ Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore and 400 troopers from the U.S. 7th Air Cavalry are surrounded by 2000 enemy soldiers in what would become the first‚ and perhaps the worst‚ major battle of the Vietnam
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In the book soldier x by don wulffson‚ A 16 year old boy named Erik is in WWII as a German soldier. until he had to switch uniforms with a russian because he is in danger. There will be more detail in this essay if you read. This will also be talking about how brave Erik really is in this book. The is a part in the book where he has to trust a girl named Elena Novak. This was found on page 178 when Erik said‚”Elena Novak was a heavy set old ladies name. The rest was on that page and the one next
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the nation. Soldiers faced harsh conditions not only on the battlefield‚ but also in their camps. The daily life of a Union soldier consisted of hours of drills‚ minimal food rations‚ and harsh conditions while fighting to end slavery. The Union soldiers shared many similarities. To enlist as a soldier the boy had to be at least 18 years old. Most were in their late teens and early twenties though boys as young as 15 reportedly enlisted and lied about their age (“Life as a Soldier During the Civil
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’The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke is an Italian sonnet that plays with the idea of war being romantic. The whole poem is a metaphor for what he believed the war meant to him. In the first verse‚ he is saying that if he died in battle‚ even in some corner of a foreign field‚ he will forever belong to England. He then uses a series of metaphors to state that England is what raised him‚ gave him an identity and that his soul will be immortal because he died fighting for his country. In the second verse
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