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    Introduction and Literature Review In this lab report, I will compare the experience of soldiers during World War I and the Afghanistan war and the similarities and differences of their experiences on the front line. On the one hand, World War 1 is an international war which occurred between 1914 and 1918 where the Central Powers ,Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey, fight the Allies, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and United States in 1917. This war ends with the victory of the Allies…

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    strategy and technologies. The innovative battle strategy that resulted in the development of new technologies was trench warfare. Trench warfare was a relatively immobile tactic that consisted of armies digging trenches opposite each other with a large expanse of land in between called no man’s land. Essentially it was the immobile and long distance characteristics of trench warfare that led to the…

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    In the chapter “Telling a True War Story” TIm O’Brien recounts the different war stories people told him and how they are often misinterpreted. This passage is narrated by Mitchell Sanders. The passage concentrates on what six soldiers hear as they lay hidden in the Vietnam jungle completely silent. Anyway, the guys try to be cool.They just lie there and groove, but after a while they start hearing - you won’t believe this - they hear chamber music. They hear violins and cellos. They hear this…

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    Sometimes a mask is easier to put on when the alternative is to be a coward. Tim O'Brien, in his short story "The Things They Carried," pieces together what several soldiers experienced during the Vietnam war. Through the narrator, Tim O'Brien, the reader encounters his hatred of the war. In a passage within "The Things They Carried," O'Brien pursues the theme of masculinity by using simile, anaphora, and personification as figurative language, religious and moral symbolism, colloquial diction,…

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    Out line Introduction: I recommend that Japan uses renewable energies rather than nuclear energy. Paragraph 1: Japan’s geographical feature (ring of fire) Paragraph 2: The nuclear power plant accident occurred in Japan recently. Paragraph 3: Japan’s economy, ecosystem damaged by the radiation. Paragraph 4: what happens when exposed to radiation? Paragraph 5: Advantage of using nuclear energy Paragraph 6: Disadvantages of using nuclear energy Paragraph 7: How many renewable energies are there,…

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    Many people argue whether the US’s decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima was a justified action or not. In my opinion, the bomb was justifiable in its actions since it accomplished a goal that could not have been done without it. The dropping of the Atomic Bomb shortened the war and with it saved many lives on both the Allied side and the Japanese side, it also justified the expense it cost to make the bomb and prior to the bombing, the Japanese were given numerous chances to accept…

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    Imagine being the leader of an eleven-man team made of a hodge-podge group of both Engineers and Infantrymen trying to cross an open river with what seemed like an unending number of French defenses. Imagine having a whole division sized mission stalled by French Artillery from the far bank. This was the situation that Staff Sergeant Walter Rubarth and his team encountered in mid-May, 1940. His leadership helped to open a path for both the 10th Panzer Division and the 1st Panzer Division to…

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    The First World War influenced a drastic, revolutionary changes in the poetry of the twentieth century. This transformation is evident from the works of popular war poets, like Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, among others, that the self-satisfied poetry of the recent past needed to be broken and they could not simply write poetry celebrating nature. War poetry captures the physical and emotional, brutal reality of the war, the pain, madness, and degradation of human kind. The…

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    Nowadays, nuclear weapons the most dangerous weapons in the world that are firmly established in global politics. On the one hand nuclear weapons are a means of protection and security of the country, on the other hand has a greater effect to prevent conflict between countries. Nuclear weapons played a major role in the history of mankind. The history of nuclear weapons began in 1896 year, the discovery of radioactivity by the French physicist Antoine-Henri Becquerel . Nuclear weapons have…

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    War; it is terrifying, destructive and deadly. Once the dust settles, what most of society doesn’t see, is the war remaining within. From civilians to soldiers, there is an internal battle that has been going on forever. The Vietnam Memorial in Washington is a tribute to thousands of fallen soldiers from the Vietnam War. People from all around the world visit the wall. For a portion of visitors, it is simply a memorial and for others, it is a haunting reminder of the past. Yusef Komunyakaa’s…

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