General Douglas Haig General Haig was born in Edinburgh‚ Scotland on June 19‚ 1861. He was the 11th child; his dad was a whiskey distiller. He graduated from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. When he first joined the war efforts‚ he started off as an officer. Then he worked his way up and successfully became the commander of the British 1st Army by 1918. He retired in 1921‚ and then he died of a heart attack in London on Jan. 28‚ 1928. Despite his amazing reputation‚ he was human. During
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Cause/Effect Journal: Kabuo Miyamoto “No soldier ever really survives a war” These are the words of Audie Murphy‚ he was a notable American combat soldier in the U.S army during World War II. War is unmerciful on the body and additionally to the mind and spirit. You set off to war to fight for your country and be a hero‚ however‚ when you come back‚ your perspective on life has been completely changed. Either you die in action or you live to tell your story. The truth of the matter is; if you have
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In 1914‚ during the Second World War‚ soldiers were dying like flies with massive numbers of dead at over 10 million. Automatic rifles and artillery fire were no respecters of person‚ nor was chemical warfare‚ no matter what side you were fighting on. If a bullet didn’t kill a soldier‚ it was almost a death sentence if he was wounded in battle‚ no matter how minor the wound. This death sentence was caused by wound infections‚ and the doctors in the field hospitals were working fervently to save lives
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The term F.U.B.A.R originated in World War Two and was used as a military acronym by United States soldiers. During World War Two‚ F.U.B.A.R was used to describe the chaos and bedlam involved with trench warfare. It is unknown what word the term originated from‚ but it is suspected that it comes from the German word Furchtbar‚ which means terrible. F.U.B.A.R can be translated into two ways‚ Fucked Up Beyond All Repair‚ and Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. Despite having slightly different connotations
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Was the battle of the Somme a success or failure? It’s a question that has plagued the minds of many historians over the years. On one hand‚ without the battle the war could have had a very different outcome; but on the other hand‚ was it really worth all the slaughter and bloodshed? In 1916‚ General Sir Douglas Haig was enforced with chance to conduct a major offensive against the Germans‚ ‘The Big Push’ some called it. His plan was to gather thousands of troops to attack the enemy at the Somme
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The Playboy of the Western World gains its title from the scene in which Christy can’t be beaten in play at any of the village sports‚ hence he becomes the "playboy." The phrase "of the Western World" leads the way into Synge’s theme of Irish mythmaking‚ then still especially noticeable in unsophisticated peasant groups. With the inclusion of this phrase‚ the myth of the playboy encompasses the whole world. Mythmaking deviates from reality‚ as is made clear by the stretch of the title: Irish village
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try simply to tell of a generation of men who‚ even though they may have escaped shells‚ were destroyed by the war.” ~~epigraph The epigraph opens the book’s exploration of the effect of the war on those who fought in it. All Quiet on the Western Front takes a big critical opinion against the war and against nationalist and unknowing people like Kantorek and Himmelstoss. Maybe the meaning of this epigraph is the book lets events that happened during the war speak for themselves since they have
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03/08/2012 Religion Paper #2 What is Western Civilization and how does one describe it? Where does the west begin and were does it end‚ what exactly is the meaning of civilization? These are the questions that we have to ask ourselves. Because people are often both partial and biased‚ our definition of Western civilization is going to be comparative to how we see ourselves in this day and age. So let’s take a look into a brief description of what is meant by Western culture‚ and two specific examples
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westernized culture and its effect on us. I feel we are imitating the western life too much; not that western culture is all that bad‚ just that we are chasing our tradition away. We are instilling social and political ideas that are not indigenous to India. Those days whatever we borrowed from British were good; we realized that Government is an acceptable institution. Britishers also made us realize that Government would give us freedom of opinion‚ expression and the right to drive public demands
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can take nothing from me‚ they can take nothing anymore. I am so alone and so without hope that I can confront them without fear" (Chapter 12). These final‚ melancholy thoughts occur just before his young and untimely death. In All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Erich Maria Remarque creates Paul Bäumer to represent a whole generation of men who are known to history as the "lost generation." Eight million men died in battle‚ twenty-one million were injured‚ and over six and a half million noncombatants
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