A Family at War

gone, the Sprout family farm was able to remain productive. Even when Dorothy got a job a teacher in Emmetsburg, she still returned home occasionally to help out on the family farm. She saw working on the family farm as more of a nuisance than a patriotic undertaking like women in the WLA saw it as. Another Iowa farmwomen who was not a member of the WLA was Magdalena (Helen) Tylee. Helen Tylee was born in 1894 in Kindel, Germany. Helen learned English from the wealth German family she worked…

projects, or under privileged. “I like life here in Lebanon, but I have never felt so hopeless (Shadid 277) “. Life in Lebanon was brutal, especially for the people who have grown up there and have just watched it go to dust and turn into a complete war zone. Of course the people who live there love it and want to stay there but it is so bad and they are at such a risk that they either need to move or possibly die or lose everything. I could understand why the Lebanese people would not want to…

Liam O’Flaherty is that war reduces human beings to mere objects. to further explain it is that they have no names, no faces. That they are just targets and nothing more, to be shot at from a distance. Without knowing who are you shooting and knowing if they’re going yours or if their your friends or family. And there is no no winners,regardless of who you kills more people or takes more land. And the war knows no boundaries,age,gender,location, time of the day or family ties. And the story…

Juliet by William Shakespeare and in history after the end of World War II. For instance, in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, a young boy and girl, particularly the star-crossed lovers, are entrapped into a secret relationship due to their two family’s abhorrence of each other. These two families, the Montagues and…

The era of the Cold War was a time of military and political tension between the Soviet Union and the United States. These two parties fought together as allies against the Axis powers, but this was a very tense partnerships. The U.S. had always been fearful of the spread of Soviet communism and Stalin’s harsh rule of his own country. The Soviets also had a distaste toward the U.S. because of their late entrance into World War II, which resulted in the deaths of millions of Russian soldiers and…

Children should never be victims of a war caused by man. Children of war experience horrendous situations which have the ability to scar them for life. In the Sierra Leonean Civil War, many children experience lack of food and shelter, the death of family and friends, as well as the loss of their innocence. In The Bite of the Mango, the main character, Mariatu Kamara is captured by the rebel forces fighting against the government in civil war, who maliciously cut off her hands. Mariatu learns…

In November of 1918, soldiers returned home after fighting in the first world war resented, alone and scarred. Veterans were shunned, mentally and physically hurt and most were homeless. America completely turned on the soldiers and gave them no support, help, or respect. This resentment had life-long effects on the veterans along with the struggle of coping to society without the help and benefits they deserved. The only option veterans had was to come together as a brotherhood and support…

The second World War was one of the most significant events during the twentieth century, did you know that? The war “brought about major leaps in technology and laid the groundwork that permitted post-war social changes including the end of European colonialism, the civil rights movement in the United States, and the modern women’s rights movement, as well as the programs for exploring outer space,” (World War II 1). During the second world war, times were also tough, food was abundant, jobs…

goals prior to engaging in war is establishing the image of the enemy. To create an image so vivid that it can “distinguish the act of killing from the act of murder” ( gray )1. In recent wars, nations have found that the sky is the limit, in literal terms, as children in Yemen now fear blue skies for the possibility that the drones might come out and attack2. In times of war, children are no longer a forethought in society. Children often get the worst blows from war, suffering from…

looking at class, family value, religion, the role of women, and war in these texts. In ‘The King’s Speech’, it is evident that there are deeply embedded beliefs and attitudes regarding class, namely that of the royal family. We can see that when Elizabeth and Logue talk together. Elizabeth, of superior class to Logue, is quick to pull rank with Logue when she instructs him to call her ‘Your Royal Highness’. This…