Barbed wire

prisoner of war camps were surrounded with barbed wire and had guard towers with armed German soldiers ready to shoot anyone who attempted to escape. Prisoners usually stayed/slept in a one story wooden barrack with bunk beds and a charcoal burning stove in the center of the room. In Japanese prisoner of war camps, they were for capture military personnel and civilians who had stayed in the East before the war started. Camps were surrounded with barbed wire of high wooden fences. Prisoners…

Fences of prejudices is what the world has become where the ignorance of the people have them separated due to differences in ethnicities. One of the fences that have left a great inconsolable memory around the world the fence used during the holocaust for the reason of. One being Jew and one being German, they were both separated and forbidden from interacting with the general population because of their ethnicity all this was enforced under the wing of the Nazi regime. This separation was…

In Picture #3, he is someone who has a criminal background and wants to escape prison either to being wrongly accused of a crime or he just really wants to escape jail because he really hates it there. His name is Johnny Legere, he is from Sanford me, he has black/dark brown hair, brown eyes, dark skin, he works in a garage, and has been in and out of jail at least 3 times before being sent to prison for the final time. The 1st and 2nd time he went to jail, it was for being accused of stealing…

the end. During World War II, over 120,000, Japanese were rounded up and shipped to internment camps. The camps started on February 19, 1942, after the signing of Executive Order 9066, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The camps consisted of barbed wire, sentry posts, and armed forces. The Japanese were put in these camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and because of their ethnic backgrounds. Also, prejudice, discrimination, and jealousy had major roles in the internment camps. There were…

Tyehimba Jess’s poems in Olio (2016) give readers insights on the the traumatic history of slavery and racism. Jess often uses the fusion of many voices in his work in his work to give a unique retelling of history. How does this work in “Millie and Christine Mckoy” to both individualize the voices of each twin while showcasing their shared experience to offer a way of healing? By analyzing the form and word choice of the poem, we can better understand the approach each individual took in…

“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”Elie Wiesel said this in his speech after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. We must know how to take sides to help us be the voice for all of these people that have been silenced due to dehumanization. The Holocaust was a genocide during World War II in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany systematically murdered some seven million European Jews.…

optics had produced weapons deadlier than anything before. The power of defensive weapons made winning the war on the western front all but impossible for either side. Airplanes, products of the new technology, were primarily made of canvas, wood, and wire. At first they were used only to observe enemy troops. As their effectiveness became apparent, both sides shot planes down with artillery from the ground and with rifles, pistols, and machine guns from other planes. Back on the ground, the…

Barbed wire tightly wrapped around poles extended outwards as far as the eye could see. A single gate made from seemingly impenetrable stone formed a barrier between us and the interior of the camp. Even knowing how unforgiving conditions could be inside the…

sanctify His name” (Wiesel 33). As he enters the concentration camp, Eliezer quickly recognizes that the camp presents many horrors that will challenge his faith in God. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Eliezer Wiesel sees thousands of Jews surrounded by barbed wire and he angrily questions God saying “What…

The Battle of San Juan Hill was the engagement between the United States and Spain that concluded the Spanish colonial control. The most acclaimed unit that was in Cuba at the time was the “Rough Riders”. Led by Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt and Colonel Leonard Wood. The Rough Riders were camped along the Santiago Road in Cuba during the first day of July of 1898 getting ready for battle. The Battle of San Juan Hill was a pivotal battle for both antagonist. Teddy’s “Rough Riders” was a…