Castellammarese War

can most definitely say that researching all about the war in Vietnam was very informative. I felt that being able to assess the war from both American and Vietnamese perspectives was a very big factor in understanding the full magnitude of it. Unlike any war before, each side had completely different strategies, strengths, and weakness that leveled out the playing field. In the end, both America and Vietnam paid hefty consequences for a war whose outcome was not particularly favored by either…

War is something that can destroy humans’ mind, especially for the teenagers. War can be the worst enemy for young generation. No one can feel the pain, and experience the real difficulties that war can give, until they will not go through of it. The emotions that teenagers are feeling go thought their entire life. The war causes pain, depression and aggression among them. War can impact teenagers’ psychology, as it impacted on the characters of a book “Separate Peace.” One of the…

However, different people adapt differently to the war, while Tim reacted in much slower fashion in his adaption while keeping himself in check, the change happened much faster and much stronger to others; as a result, some went over the edge and were lost in a different way. In the story “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” we are introduced to Mary Ann, a young women that was smuggled in by her boyfriend Mark Fossie. She, much like Tim starts of a bit innocent, but unlike Tim she takes an active…

The realistic fiction story “The Sniper” by Liam O'Flaherty occurs in Dublin, Ireland during a civil war. It begins with a sniper on a roof during the night and there was hardly anyone on the streets. He is hidden on a rooftop eating a sandwich and scouring for threats. The author creates an eerie environment and also uses irony to create the theme that a person needs to think before acting. The Sniper, not thinking about his actions, results in consequences for himself. An example of this…

When a soldier dies in war a certain question is often asked. That question is who’s to blame for his/hers death? Some may say that there is no one to blame and it was a freak accident. Some people say that there must be someone to blame for each death. The leaders of units may often blame themselves for the death because it was one of their men that died. Others will blame themselves if they think for whatever reason that they could have prevented the death. In most cases there is no one to…

In a time of war anything can happen, especially during a civil war. In this short story there are two snipers, the Republican and the Free Stater, an old woman, and a third man. Both snipers are on roofs on opposite sides from each other in Dublin, Ireland. An armored car crosses O’Connell Bridge and stops just below the sniper’s position. An old woman with a shawl around her head comes out of a side street to talk with a man in the turret of the armored car. The sniper wants to shoot at the…

Perhaps he had been in his own company before the split in the army. He decided to risk going over to have a look at him”(166). At this time the Sniper, didn’t know who he shot, but he had a feeling that he probably knew him before the start of the Civil War, only to find out it was his brother. These characters are surely similar to each other, but they hold their differences in the way they approach there appalling conflicts. Carter hesitates when he was about to shoot the enemy on horseback…

O'Flaherty you will see how the author uses words to speed up, slow down the tempo, and use a rapid succession of conflicts in his story to see how he creates the theme of suspense. In his story, a student is waiting on a building in the middle of a war between the Free-staters and Republicans. It tells of how he faces danger many times throughout and what obstacles he goes through like being shot at by another sniper only to find out that the other sniper wasn’t who he thought. The author…

Often in the history of war, we forget those who fought it. We remember names of people and days they died, but it often slips our mind that they were people. They had families. They had mothers. They had lives outside of death. Too many people forget that. People also seem keen on forgetting that fight is not all soldiers do. Soldiers love. In 1975, one such soldier was discharged for doing so. In detail, Leonard P. Matlovich, a Vietnam war veteran was a unique case, as he was the first to…

authors Liam O’Flaherty and Thomas Hardy send the message that war influences people to perform actions that they would never repeat in other circumstances, ripping families apart and destroying lives. Both authors use the literary device of irony to convey their points. In The Sniper, a sniper shoots and kills an enemy before he “[turns] over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face”. O’Flaherty expresses the sentiment that war caused the sniper to kill his own brother, an irreversible…