Barbed wire

Men would also be sent out to patrol No Man’s Land, fix the barbed wire that was responsible for slowing an enemy advance into the trench, carry out sentry duty (night watch for two hours) or relieve a front line (done around every four days but can take several hours). Soldiers didn’t get much sleep, only at night…

At the beginning of the war many citizens were encouraged by the government to join the war and support their country. People enlisted and went off to support the war. During the war when troops wouldn’t be fighting there would be down time with your unit. Many soldiers played games and read books while some wrote poetry. There are many poems that express what the war was like in the soldier’s perspective. Just like in the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” it is a soldiers account of warfare in World…

World War One was a time where violence, terror, and heavy bloodshed were the only words fit enough to describe the destruction happening in those years. One German painter, Otto Dix, witnessed all of these things, first hand, during his volunteered service in the German Army from 1915 until being discharged in 1918 due to a neck injury (“Otto Dix”). From his experience in the war, watching many soldiers be physically destroyed, and others, including himself, be mentally broken down into tiny,…

The tank was the perfect tool for the ground break through deep barbed wire trenches. It increased fire power of the main gun. A great vehicle to accompany infantry armor. The tanks was good because half the time the enemy would need to retreat against these behemoths,and they never knew what to do against them. The cons…

Emmett Till’s death was one of the most fundamental and tragic events in American history. Many believe it even helped jumpstart the civil rights movement. In 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy, was brutally beaten to death after being accused of whistling and flirting with a white woman. Till’s beaten and consequently unrecognizable face flooded media networks. The whole world was able to see the consequences of racial brutality and racism in America. This video informs the public about…

Dehumanization is the process by which a person is stripped of the qualities that make them human, such as their identity and sentimental values. The process of dehumanization will commonly result in the loss of determination, hope, and happiness, concluding in a loss of the will to live. The autobiographical work of Elie Wiesel, Night, showcases Wiesel in the era of the Holocaust when Nazis commonly used the process of dehumanization in order to easily kill off Jews and other minority groups in…

of Shmuel, a Jewish child prisoner in a concentration camp in Auschwitz. While on the other hand the perspective of Bruno, as Nazi German Commandant’s son. The unique thing about this novel is its wonderful symbolization of their division: the barbed wire fence that literally and figuratively separated the two boys. Despite this partition that divided both of them, this division had also served as a way in order for them to intertwine. “Many critics have claimed that this novel is unrealistic…

They were trying to be safe so they don’t kill children that can’t handle the polluted air. The beaches were surrounded with barbed wire for years after. The U.S. did not want people going and coming out of the beaches without checking in and out. They did not want another attack to happen so they were being safe. Nobody on Oahu could take pictures of the land. They could not take…

¨It all happened so fast. The ghettos. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.¨ -Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel was a survivor from the holocaust who told his own story through books. According to the book History from the Holocaust, The Holocaust comes from the Greek words ¨holos¨ meaning whole and ¨kaustos¨ meaning burnt, some Jewish people were actually burned whole while they were still…

The Holocaust is considered to be one of the most tragic events in history. Death was a common sight during this time and it eventually became a usual, everyday sight. People were forced from their families and sentenced to their deaths in concentration camps, much like Stutthof. There were hundreds of concentration camps where Jewish people were forced to work to their deaths. Most, if not all, of the brutal camps during World War Two caused an overwhelming amount of death and pain to Jews and…