Barbed wire

The boy in the striped pajamas is a film based off of historical British events that happened during the horror of World War II. This film is focused on the holocaust and the Nazi extermination camp through the eyes of two 9 year old boys. One of the 9 year old boys (Bruno) is the son of a Nazi Commandant, and the other 9 year old boy (Shmuel) is the son of a Jewish inmate that lives on the camp in Bruno’s back yard. At the beginning of the film it shows the setting in Rome in Nazi…

“Doves on Wires,” by Joseph Kirman, a father is easily distracted from the dreadful circumstances of the Jews in World War II by the idea of hope. In “Street for Arrivals, Street for Departures,” by Charlotte Delbo, travelers during World War II focus only on how good their lives can be at their destinations, forgetting about the dangers of the death camps. Both authors use mood and action to suggest that hope -- particularly false hope -- distracts from fear. In the short story “Doves on…

The Wall in the Handmaid's Tale is built right next to the church where they are both as old as a hundred years or more. The wall has sentries that will rip through anyone that tries to climb over and barbed wire on top if anyone even gets close. However, there are bodies hanging on the wall by their necks and their hands tied behind them. Atwood writes, “Sometimes, they’ll be there for days, until there’s a new batch, so as many people as possible will have the chance to see them” (Atwood 32)…

I thought it was going to be the end of me when I went on a trench raid with 6 other fellow soldiers I know, it was a heavy and risky task to do knowing any minute flare lights would bring us into enemy sights in no-man's land and our grenades and wire cutters would be useless against the artillery…

walking away as I ran into a fence. Just a plain old whit fence, besides the barbed wire on the top. The paint was chipped and faded. It looked leith was panted a while ago. Someone had dug a hole under it. The fence planks were dull at the bottom. The key was already in it. A normal brass key you would see…

in South Eastern Poland, near the small village of Belzec, on the Lublin-Lvov railway line for easy transportation of Jews”. Belzec was a fairly small camp only about 1,220 yards all together. The two sections of Belzec were each surrounded by a barbed wire fence to keep the prisoners…

soldiers/supplies/mail/orders were delivered through these communication trenches (Britannica inc). The front line was called the outpost line. It was defended by scattered machine gunners and barbed wire. Behind the front line was the main line. The main line was a series of trenches parallel to each other that had barbed wire in front of each. It held the majority of the troops. At the back of the trenches, there was artillery. The front wall of a trench was called the parapet and the back…

What was the conflict? How did it start? The conflict is between East Berlin, which was part of East Germany and West Berlin, which was actually located belonged to West Germany. On a bigger scale this was a conflict between Communism VS. Democracy. Which parties got involved and why? The western nations and the Soviet union only allied together in the second world war to defeat Germany. At the end of the war tensions resumed between the allies. However It was also decided at the end of the…

The Cambodian Genocide was a genocide supported by the Khmer Rouge (Red Khmer, Khmer language; or red Cambodia, representing Communism) after they overtook the government, as they labeled this genocide as a “Re-Education Program” for anyone that did not agree with their politics, as their re-education was working in forced labor camps, or if they could not do that kind of work, being killed on the spot. The Cambodian genocide was a genocide only targeting the people of Cambodia. Genocide was…

The Importance of Common Ground In everyday life it's important to find common ground, to relate to one another, in order to get things done. It's an essential part of life. This theme of “Finding Common Ground” is represented in the texts, The Lord of the Flies by William Golding and Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer in a variety of ways. In The Lord of the Flies Golding introduces to the story privileged boys that have crashed onto an island and must find common ground in to survive.…