Dumbledore's Army

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity (War/Defense).” Wars bring devastation to humanity while bringing out hidden qualities of character. War is necessary due to its ability to keep a check on societal values. The drastic effects of war on an individual are shown through the movies Saving Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg and Hacksaw Ridge by Mel Gibson. Spielberg and Gibson focus on the reality of war rather than a Hollywood…

“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.” This is a quote from William Tecumseh Sherman,civil war soldier, that flew through the ranks and became general. A general of war, stating that war is cruel nothing else. William experiencing war must have experienced PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder . If war was cruel in the civil war, the past wars have been doing some work on our loyal soldiers. Take the example of the Vietnam war…

After the Vietnam War many former-soldiers came back from combat with stories that would bewilder the psyche of any common citizen. These stories highlight the extreme difference between the lives of a soldier both at home, and in the horrific situations of a field of combat. In Tim O’ Brien’s novel, The Things They Carried accurately conveys the removal that former soldiers felt by being ripped away from home by explaining with exquisite word choice and diction, the fear and horror that young…

of protective force for the Knights, the second group of fighters. The Foot soldiers were usually poor people whom were forced to fight in the certain battle by their masters or lords. However, Knights had to be wealthy to gain the position in the army. A Knight had to know how to…

Since the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, many service men and women come home and “return with a war that keeps haunting their dreams, their memories, and their behavior." Marguerite Guzman Bouvard convinces the reader that service men and women are tormented by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and return home with invisible wounds caused by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which affect their ability to reintegrate with their previous lives. She states society fears some…

Soldier’s Dilemma Elsa Saarinen 15D “A prisoner of war is accused for stealing food. A soldier is ordered to shoot the accused by his superior officer. The soldier is not willing, because it is against the Geneva treaty. The officer threatens to kill all ten prisoners if the soldier refuses.” According to virtue ethics, most people have good traits. Aristotle identifies these virtues as 18 different virtues that are divided into 2 groups: moral and intellectual virtues. These include,…

goes to the war and fights in the battle. These stories have a lot of contrasts, but have a whole heap of comparisons. There are several contrasts in this story, here they are. Henry (Red Badge of Courage) is excited whenever he signed up for the army, he is then turned into a coward whenever the war actually starts. Charlie (Soldier’s Heart) is extremely excited about going into war, he signed up to do his…

In the Red Badge of Courage, the main character Henry joins to army during the Civil War to fight for the Union and America. As the novel progress through Henry’s time in the army he learns how war truly is. In the beginning he refers to a wound as a red badge of courage and something to be sought after, but his mind soon changes as he sees his friends die. He realizes the harshness of war and of life and how lives are simply lost. When Henry joins the war effort he really is just a kid, both in…

There are many more dangers faced than just battles and wars than being under enemy fire. One of the most reasonable or common that happens behind wars is fear and i did a little research and found out that being fearful in battle or any war is most common due to the stress of thinking that there's a chance that you will die or even lose one of your good friends in the battles. That’s not the only reason people become fearful though. When Charley went into the war he was at a young age and the…

Often time, wars are believed and seen as a mean to defend the home nation from physical catastrophe of foreign land and soldiers are praised and honored for their sacrifice. Not often enough do the common people take the time to scrape the surface with sayings like “thank you for your time” to look at the understanding that even though a war “makes men” and unites them, Hynes says that it isolates and cuts them off from other people. We are also controlled into believing that we understand…