Aerial warfare

Even a century long time after his death, Wilfred Owen is still famous for his war poetry written during World War 1. In his poem, Owen uses various language techniques to vividly illustrate the horrendous reality of the war. Hence, he communicates his own anti-war feelings implied beneath his techniques. However, although he is now known as an anti-war poet, for once, he had been a naive boy, who had volunteered to fight in war. At first, he was thrilled to fight for one’s country. But soon,…

The Trinity by Johnathan Fetter-Vorm depicts the history of the making and drop of the first atomic bomb created during the World War Two era. Fetter-Vorm effectively creates a highly crafted argument that is designed to elicit a response from the readers while illustrating an unbiased and educational story. He challenges the people of the future to remember the previous mistakes of the past so that they will not follow in the footsteps of the ones before them. Fetter-Vorm’s use of specific…

A veteran comes back from the war in Vietnam. Some people thank him for his services and some people dishonor him for what he did in the war.Many people treat veterans with disrespect because of what they did during their time in combat or even what they did when they came back. Returning veterans or people get treated with either honor, mental help, or with disrespect but mostly disrespect and mental help. Odysseus thinks he will be accepted walking in the castle he once lived in but, he has a…

A psychological warfare between Pyle and Fowler to win Phuong’s heart is similar to the great tension between Europe and America to control over Vietnam. In Fowler’s relationship with Phuong, Phuong is treated like a prostitute. “I don’t care that for her interests. You…

Reflection on Speech Content Preparation The strategy that I used was topical; I chose that strategy because the other approaches were unsuitable for my topic. My initial topic was about how to survive in the jungle, but it didn't satisfy my need to empress my audience. So, I didn't choose the topic early, or to be exact I switched it at the last minute; therefore I couldn't organize myself. Also, I went to my friend house, so I can use some help because my English is not at the level that…

Introduction Wilfred Owen joined the army in 1915, where he fought on the Western front, experiencing shellshock. Owen developed his war poetry by getting inspiration from Siegfried Sassoon who was a poet himself. (bbc.co.uk) Rupert Brooke was also a soldier who fought In World war 1, but did not experience it fully, due to his death in 1915, when the war was not over at all. Through the poems of Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke, form, structural devices, figurative language, and sound devices…

War is one of those things that as much as one tries, one will never fully understand till one has lived the experience. However, Stephen Crane in his novel, The Red Badge of Courage, and Edward C. Judson in his poem, The Attack and Repulse, thoroughly explain the experience of being on the battlefield from two different perspectives. Crane, specifically in Chapter 5, writes about war seen through the eyes of the protagonist, Henry, and Judson writes about his own experience. Though both…

On the 12th of June, 1987, President Ronald Reagan delivered a powerful and emotional speech in west Berlin, Germany. This speech was addressing the Berlin Wall, and all of the political issues that came with it. 26 years prior to Reagan’s speech, the Berlin wall was built to separate the communist East from the “Allied” west, this wall was extremely controversial and kept any people from leaving west Berlin without great difficulty. Reagan’s speech had immense impact on Berlin, 2 years after…

“Harry S Truman’s Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb.” National Park Service, https://www.nps.gov/articles/trumanatomicbomb.htm. “Harry S Truman’s Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb” reports the reasoning behind President Truman’s choice to use the atomic bomb in World War II. Truman had four choices: conventional bombings, ground invasion, demonstration of the bomb on an unpopulated area, and bombing a populated area. The conventional bombing had already been tried, and it was not effective, so that…

suspected internationally for communist militancy. Compelling him to move from country to country for his status as international refugee. However, most countries he went to were fascist countries such as China and Russia where he received trainings and warfare strategies. In Soviet Union, Ho Chi Minh joined the Comintern, the International Communist Movement. Even though communism, liberalism, democracy and other political paradigms were modern Western ideals, he found communist doctrines very…