Indian Army

becomes a little more brave but I would still consider Henry a coward because of his decision , thoughts, and his actions during is time in war. In this story Henry makes so many bad decisions, but one of the big ones he made was joining the army and not knowing much about it. When it started getting close to war Henry started becoming very scared. Henry starts to wish he was back at home. In the story on page 22 Henry says " He wished, without reserve, that he was at home again making…

More than two thousand men deserted Washington’s Army at Valley Forge, according to Document A. If I was a part of Washington’s Army, would I have been one of the hundreds to leave? After reading about the amount of sickness and death, the little amounts of food, and how poor the living conditions were, I made a decision. If I could, I would leave Valley Forge. Read the documents, and listen to me. Would you stay, or follow me and leave? A doctor at Valley Forge had a diary, and it told us what…

In our life, everyone carries different kinds of baggage which have different emotions, guilt, religion, pictures and also some special as well as sad memory. In the novel The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien describes American soldiers who bear to take a physical and mental pain during the Vietnam war. Some soldiers have to carry emotional baggage after someone’s loss and some soldiers carry pictures of their loved ones, family or friends who die during the war. They also take different types…

Pericles goes so far, as to convince the grieving families and members of the crowd that they should be proud of their sons, and he glad that they died at an opportune moment, “They know that this at least is gain- to meet an honorable end (as they now have) and to grieve honorably (as you do) for those whose lives were cut off at the fortunate moment” (Wills 255). Both ancient Greek culture and modern American culture share this idea of indoctrinating the people to believe in the nobility of…

themselves for their country. “With diminished ranks, thinned by those thirty guns, which the Russians had laid with the most deadliest accuracy”, were the British light Brigade up against the Russian (Russell 89). They were totally outnumbered in both army men and weapons. An estimation of about 278 of the British Brigade men were killed or wounded. Even though bravery is a good characteristic, war is still…

Willard “I’m an American” illustrates the emphasis Coppola had on showcasing the dominance and impact media had on the war which consequently formed the anti-war protest against U.S. Militant troops in Vietnam. To illustrate irony inherit by the U.S. army as well as the power of darkness , Coppola uses a shot – reverse – shot of Colby (an American soldier who succumbed to the temptation of darkness) and Willard to showcase a this sense of connection between them, that the same brainwashed…

lieve is that sometimes it is necessary. Those who tend to believe such commonly agree on the thought that one side of the battlefront deserves it. This thought is often reflected in films, media, and other social mediums. While films claim to be anti-war, they subliminally invoke emotions that promote war. Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse Five gives his take on war being represented through a secondary medium. Vonnegut believes that war, despite its purpose should not be revered as the effects…

With the vast amount of history in the entire world, history has to be broken into different categories and be analyzed by different historians. Who are these different historians? Some examples include political historians, economic historians, cultural historians, psychohistory historians, and many more. Personally, I see myself as an intellectual historian because I find interpreting ideas to be very interesting. Norman J. Wilson claimed that it is the idea that “historical changes happen…

The Mujahideen were a fierce guerrilla army that was created by tribes in Afghanistan to defend against the Soviet Invasion force and the Soviet backed DRA army. The entire force was composed of unpaid volunteers and less than 15% of the Mujahideen commanders had previous military experience, but the impact of those who were trained played a major role in providing military planning, issues, logistics, continuity, and gave the men minimal but vital training. The Mujahideen volunteers were…

Gottfried von Clausewitz wrote one of the most influential works of military philosophy called On War. Clausewitz’s family was in the middle class but in 1827 King Friedrich Wilhelm III confirmed the family’s nobility. Clausewitz was in the Prussian army and first starting fighting when he was thirteen. Prussia ended up withdrawing from the French Revolution which left Clausewitz bored. Because Clausewitz was bored, he picked up an interest for art, science, and education which had an impact on…