Artillery

The invention of the tank during world war one completely changed how countries knew how to fight. Tanks are able to move through rough terrain and destroy anything in its path. Tanks are mobile, strong, and extremely sturdy. The idea of the tanks came from a development of a farm tractor in the fourteen hundreds. Many armies wanted a mobile vehicle that could clear large gaps and could go through difficult terrain. They also didn't want to use traditional wheels.Tanks were and are still are…

Clarence Joseph Bessette composed a letter to Miss Marjorie Christien of his current participation in the time of World War One. Bessette’s past became shared by the people dearest to him, his remembrance arises from the letter, which carries the individuals experiences. Letters were pivotal to soldiers and families as it raised the morale on both the front and home-front. Soldiers wrote letters with powerful stories of previous and current occurrences, primarily of the bloodshed between the…

The First World War, began in July of 1914. It did not end until July of 1923 when the final peace treaty between Turkey and the Allied powers was signed. Throughout the course of the war, everyone was impacted. For soldiers life in the trenches was unbearable. Factory workers were constantly forced to work under harsh conditions and in dangerous situations. Refugees who tried escaping the terrors of war in their homelands were faced with even more challenges when trying to find safety in new…

Smoke fills the air around me. A loud bang echoed through the smoke. Instinctively I ducked behind one of the boulders that littered the ground. A bullet whizzed over my head. That was close. I thought, breathing heavily and choking on smoke. The day was almost over and I was relieved. The day had been filled with fear and stress. We were the Union’s last line of defence. We were the one thing preventing the Confederates for overwhelming us all. If we failed the Confederates would win and all…

How would we ever know how war truly is if it wasn 't for literature? Reading literature can help you better understand the hardships and tragedies, they Finish the positive attitude,and challenges your view about war. They touch our hearts, in a way that textbooks are unable to. A good story makes us put ourselves in those characters shoes. Stories spark empathy, they make you interpret them, and think of the many tragic possibilities and consequences that war can bring upon us. Literature…

Descriptive One of the most amazing pieces of artwork located at the New Orleans Museum of Art is the sketch for “The Pest House of Jaffa”. This piece of art work was done by the French history and neoclassical painter Antoine-Jean Gros in 1804. This painting is an oil painting on canvas and has the approximate dimensions of 12 x 24 inches. The painting was commissioned by Vivant Denon for Napoleon. The painting is a sketch that is depicting Napoleon Bonaparte in the city of Jaffa visiting…

Imagine this, your 25-year-old son is in war, fighting for the sake of your country and your people. You are finally about to reunite with him after a long wait for his return. Imagine this, you receive a knock at your door 1 week before you were promised that your son, who is fighting for war, will be returning back home safely. Someone you’ve never met before tells you the most devastating news and before you know it, your son will not be returning home ever again. Imagine how this would feel,…

The poems “Dulce et decorum Est” and “The letter” are written by Wilfred Owen during WW1. Owen started writing these poems when he suffered an injury during the war and had to go back to England to recover. These poems have a similar message about war as Owen seems to give a firsthand experience about war in these poems which draws the reader closer to Owen. In the poem Dulce et Decorum Est, Owen presents war as violent, inconsiderate and simply pointless. He uses a variety of different…

World War 1 was time in our history that changed our lives forever with all the things happen at this time. In the war there were many military tactics to try to beat the other country, they used guns, machines, and even bombs. A military tactics are the science and art of organizing a military force, and the techniques for combining and using weapons and military units to engage and defeat an enemy in battle. The guns used in the war were very different in what the military uses today. Some of…

A boomerang was originally used for a tool to kill animals when there were no guns. The boomerang it supposed to come back to you after you throw it so you can use it over and over. The wooden ones are the original ones but they come in plastic too sometimes. Some are cheap but they still can work. Also a boomerang can be used to hunt and kill animals. Most boomerangs were utilized by gatherings of individuals in Australia. These weapons, now and then called "toss sticks" or "kylies", were…