Desertion

The Phantom Drummer The folktale opens in the midst of the Revolutionary War in Valley Forge. Colonel Howell of the British Army meets the daughter, Ruth, of the wealthy farmer Jarrett, who owned land near Valley Forge. Jarrett and his family had a strong resentment for the Red Coats, Ruth’s brother in particular due to his commitment to George Washington’s army. Colonel Howell had always been known for being a womanizer, but this faded away as he fell further in love with Ruth. The two found a…

towards her father. She went to the extent of creating a fictitious image of her father as being someone who was evil and controlling because she was scared to talk to him. Plath uses Jews in prison camps to describe her feelings of desertion. She relates her father’s desertion as leaving her for dead like prisoners in concentration camps. The fact that Plath has a lot of hatred and still seems to be distressed, demonstrates that she is still affected by her father’s and she will continue to…

entering into Georgia. 4. There are several reasons why soldiers from both the North and South deserted. Lost battles, retreats, and other military losses influenced soldiers’ desertion. Sickness, hunger, and harsh elements would cause many of the men to desert and head back home. Conscription also heavily impacted desertion numbers in the Union. Substitutes were known to desert, and also men who were drafted. Many towns and communities began paying bounties to men who would enlist instead of…

elite class saw the laborers as nothing more than waste people, the “off scourings of the earth”. The laboring class took to developing their own identity. During this time period the resentment toward the elite began to develop. During the war desertion was a part of the laboring class’s resistance to the upper-class rule. The working class depended immensely on their position in long-term relationships, extended families, and closely knit communities for survival. Factory workers tried to…

having an accepting attitude toward death. Robert Browning “The Lost Leader” (about Wordsworth) The poem reflects on Mr. Browning’s dislike toward Mr. Wordsworth’s desertion of the liberal cause. The first stanzas specifying the nature of his disloyalty and the second stanzas specifies a firm resolution to endure despite his desertion. Throughout the poem extreme hyperbolic images were presented like “one more insult to God”/”let him never come back to us!” is the pattern to live and to…

“The first area found Hughes dwelling on isolation, despair, suicide, and the like--conventional themes for a young, romantic poet, to be sure, but notions strongly felt by Hughes personally as he struggled to overcome the effect of his father’s desertion and his mother’s flighty compromise of her relationship to her son” (Rampersad 6). Hughes’s family troubles often affected the underlying themes of his poems. “The calm,/Cool face of the river/Asked me for a kiss” (Hughes). This poem, as…

promised. It was decided that although in the Stilk v. Myrick case the sailors were not entitled to the extra pay. The crew did stay on in the Hartley v. Ponsonby case were entitled to the extra payment. This is because of the desertion of so many crewmen compared to the desertion of two crewmen in Stilk v. Myrick. The offer by Ponsonby and acceptance by the crew can be seen as a new contract and therefore an entirely new contract providing…

The Capitalist Project War is an art form and a science, and an innovative one at that. For it to persist at its utmost peak, Adam Smith declared that “...it is necessary that it should become the sole or principal occupation of a particular class of citizens.” (Way 1) Historiographically speaking, what has been written and studied about war is, for the most part, information in regards to combat, and the wars themselves. How soldiers thrived throughout The Seven Years’ War appears to have…

war or high stress situations. On the other hand you have a convict, Eddie Solvik. a convict who did what thousands of solders already did, desert the United States Army. Solvik just happened to do it at a time when the military was fed up with desertion and they wanted to make an example out of…

fire power, broadens the fronts of attack without reducing their vigour, increases the capacity for resistance” (210). Foucault also states that before these changes, military discipline was merely a device used as a means of “preventing looting, desertion or failure to obey orders among the troops” (210). What Foucault does not describe is the particular methods of discipline that were employed to allow for this increase in effectiveness. Historically, during the 17th…