Gallipoli

“Jump,” they said, I Jumped off the paddle boat as the cold water rose to my knees. My heart beat fast inside my chest “Duck,” they said, small spinning bullets flew around me as I rolled onto the shore. “Fire,” they said, the noise of piercing gunshots rung in my ears. Soldiers fell like flies. Their blood stained the sand. Their blood, as red as the poppies in the fields ahead. I looked up only to see a huge sandy cliff, lined with Turkish soldiers and guns pointed right at us. I was only 19.…

116,074 people have been killed through the Palestinian-Israeli conflict (Jewishvirtuallibrary.com). Britain is responsible for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, because they didn’t thoroughly plan how to govern the area in dispute. This is shown through the various treaties they made during WW1 and the lack of control during their mandate. In 1915, the British under the McMahon agreement to King Hussein promised the Arabs the land they had lived in before the Turks came, in exchange for a…

warfare. In fact, many people in history have turned to the Iliad in times of war, no less today than they have in the ancient world. A soldier in World War I, Patrick Shaw-Stuart, who died in battle in 1917, composed a poem shortly before arriving in Gallipoli, entitled Achilles in the trenches. He croons, “Oh Hell of ships and cities / Hell of men like me / Fatal second Helen / Why must I follow thee?” By nicknaming the war “Fatal second Helen”, the poet insinuates that it is more-or-less a…

I was born December 24, 1996 in Gallipolis, Ohio. My parents are Bill and Christy Harris. I have five siblings; their names are Chris, Brittany, Kayla, Jaylin, and Cobe. We all do not have the same dad just Jaylin, Cobe and I do, but Cobe has a different mom then Jaylin and me. My brother Chris and my sister Brittany have the same dad, but my sister Kayla has a different dad also. The one thing we all had the same of was the house we all grew up in besides my brother Cobe he was not born yet.…

Throughout the countless centuries war has ravaged, destroyed, and devastated the many people and countries involved. The Crimean war began in October 1853 and ended in February 1856. The war was between the Russians, British, French, and Ottoman Turkish with the help of the Sardinia-Piedmont army. The war was fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula. The Crimean Peninsula is located in southern Ukraine, in Eastern Europe. The Crimean War was an important event of the history of Europe, its…

Main designer: Ian Athfield (Figure 3) Wellington Civic Square was designed in based on a brief of a new development of civic centre. It involved three Wellington architectural firms to work on a concept plan. Ian Athfield was the dominant force during the development stage. He later on became directly involved in the Civic Square design (Niven 32-33). Sir Ian Athfield was an architect born in Christchurch, 15th July 1940 and passed away on 16th January 2015 at the age of 75. When Athfield was a…

The Ottoman Empire was one of the biggest, wealthiest and longest Turkish Muslim domains ever. With Constantinople as its capital city, it turned into the focal point of exchange between the eastern and western world. Constantinople was amidst the dark and Mediterranean Sea so they found themselves able to control the exchange courses and particularly the Silk Road. By the sixteenth century, the grounds under Ottoman guideline extended from focal Europe to the deserts of the Arabia. The…

performed en masse all across the nation, thus leading to a sort of mass solidarity and patriotism being created. Anzac Day is symbolic because it serves as a representation for our national identity and achievement, many people view the battle at Gallipoli as the day Australia inserted itself into the national spotlight and truly became independent, before this date the sentiment of being ‘Australian’ was relatively weak and there was a very strong connection to the U.K (this remained strong…

Menaldo states “Pericles style of speaking, rhetorical ability, and preference for rational explanation, became well settled in him on account of his great natural genius. His preference for rationality over customs, omens and divinations made its way into his policy proposals….Pericles Olympian loftiness, composure, calmness, and even the composure that characterized his tone of voice, present the embodiment of a political leader who derived his authority through his self-command and persuasive…

Winston Churchill, a well known political leader, as well as a great military strategist, made many choices that impacted many things. He made many of the choices during World War II, produced many impacts and along with that, influence; as many readers may learn about him through different genres of literature. The hefty decision to declare war on the Nazi forces, this choice ended up having huge consequences for the nation of Britain. Upon all this, he also had to manage what he did with his…