Menin Gate

How many prisoners escaped the Alcatraz Prison on Alcatraz Island during its nearly 30 years of service? If you ask the government, they will tell you that nobody ever escaped from Alcatraz. But if you believe the movie “Escape From Alcatraz” starring Clint Eastwood, then you will know that the statement is otherwise proven wrong. Alcatraz held some of America's most cruel felons including murderer Robert Stroud, gangster Al Capone, and the “Birdman of Alcatraz”. Of all of the felons that had…

Alcatraz Mia Valle Alcatraz was once called one of the “Supermax Prison,” this was because it was a big place but not a lot of inmates there that lived or served a lifetime, because it was for the people who were really dangerous. When all the deaths were happening there at Alcatraz people were starting to wonder about the safety there at Alcatraz. They also had to shut down Alcatraz, which wasn't open for a very long time and hasn't opened since but they do tours. But people say, “To this…

Is it with great sorrow that we confirm the death of your son, Lieutenant. Peter Archibald. He was killed in action on April 24, 1915 during the second battle at Ypres. Lieut. Archibald was one of many Canadians whose lives were taken by the German’s chlorine gas attack. Well dutifully maintaining his position in the trench your son was struck by a cloud of green hazy gas. None of the troops were carrying gas masks when the chlorine gas unexpectedly hit. Your son obeyed the medical instructors…

at the Second Battle of Ypres, which affected the use of chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. World War I began in Ypres on October 7, 1914, when German forces troops entered from the southeast through the Menin Gate and from the south through the Lille Gate. By 9 pm that night, about 10,000 troops filled the town. A few days later on October 13, 1914 the French and English armies entered the Ypres area, taking up defensive positions to limit the advance of the German army.…

The First of its Kind Clouds of something that appeared to be smoke reached the line of soldiers waiting to fight. Immediately, the soldiers began to cough, gag and choke. Their eyes started stinging and watering, and they fell backwards into the trenches. The soldiers tried to duck and avoid the smoke in their dugouts, but it soon followed. Those who did not fall ran trying to abandon the clouds of smoke, but this was no regular smoke (Kennedy 53). It was chlorine gas that German forces used to…

Following the Battle of the Somme, Faulks describes the ‘crippled sleepers’ rising from the ground, saying that it resembled a ‘resurrection in a cemetery’ ; a simile which represents the fact that the men are now the living dead; their old lives have been stolen from them. Faulks anthropomorphises the soil, saying that the men ‘teemed up from the reluctant earth’ alluding that even nature has turned against the men. The characters Stephen and Weir discuss the atrocities which have occurred…

Visual WWI Memory Project by: Lance Canlas Conditions/ Life in the Trenches Conditions in the trenches were considered horrific and filthy, with many men living in a very small area. Living half underground and being unable to cleanse yourself for days or weeks on end created severe health risks for the soldiers. Rats were a common pest that would spread disease and inevitably infect hundreds of soldiers for months. Lice would also spread disease and would often live in the hair follicles of…