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Envision yourself being a soldier in the Civil War. You get shot in the leg and it is absolutely impossible for you to be able to survive without help. In the midst of a battle that rages on, often senseless, a woman works relentless to help the wounded and dying. The woman bends to treat another wounded soldier when a stray bullet passes through her sleeve and slaughters the soldier. The nurse was Clara Barton; a woman who works on, undaunted. For taking these actions, she is a heroic and stout…

10. I didn't think I could be strong In The Walking Dead women fight and kill to survive and save the people they love. Their roles are no longer just to fight alongside men; they became powerful characters, not dependent on men. Carol is the most influential character in the show – a woman whose past experiences and losses have turned her into someone who is determined to survive no matter what it takes. This chapter will briefly follow Carol’s character development. Having lost her husband and…

Active Women Combat Roles? Integrating women into the military has been a long and drawn out process for many years, until now. “All military occupations and positions will be open to women, without exceptions beginning in January 2016,” says Defense Secretary Ash Carter (Pellerin par. 1). Unlike Army and Navy, Marines are still against women in combat; the Marine Corps released a study that painted a bleak picture womens effectiveness in combat suggesting women are weaker, more prone to injury…

Grant’s Military Strategies, and the North and South Armies Many studies have been conducted by scholars to determine why the North won the Civil War. Many scholars believe that it has to do with the North’s efficient military strategies; however, there are more factors that contribute to the North’s victory. Hattaway and Jones (2001), scholars from the University of Illinois Press, suggest that the North had a stronger and more educated military.…

toxic culture, where Soldiers ethics and morals could and would be questioned. “The ability to harness and integrate technological advances with complimentary developments in doctrine, organization, and tactics is dependent on the propensity of military culture to accept and experiment with the new ideas” (Siegl,…

Cross. Ironically, the Northern and Southern unions surgeons demoralized the female nurses to work in official military hospitals. Schultz noted “Throughout the nineteenth century, women were excluded from medical networks on the basis of biological determinism that cast them as unfit to endure the intellectual and physical rigors of doctoring.” Female nurses were doomed to encounter the military surgeons temper and by civilian bureaucrats who placed these policies. Being a nurse during war time…

going to the same elementary school, middle school, high school and now college. Over the years I’ve grown closer and closer to her family which made the interview much more interesting. Both her grandfather, Vincent, and cousin, Mark, were in the military which affected their mental health. While fighting for their country they were traumatised leaving them with the mental illness of Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Important at every stage of life, mental health includes our emotional,…

participating in the military, which, of course, originally only allowed men. Throughout the years of their participation, women have demonstrated that they are just as competent as their male counterparts. Last year was a particularly significant year for female soldiers as they were finally allowed to move into battalions that were formerly all male. Jena McGregor, a writer for the Washington Post, wrote her thoughts on this historical achievement for women in her piece “Military Women in…

Dick Couch writes a thought-provoking book, A Tactical Ethic: Moral Conduct in the Insurgent Battlespace, which details a growing problem in the United States military, i.e. maintaining ethical and moral behavior on and off-duty. His supporting arguments are society emphasizes behavior not conducive to promoting positive ethical behavior, malignant personalities in the ranks spreading negative behavior, and the ambiguity of the asymmetric warfare fought today. He provides anecdotal evidence…

New Military Technology Created During the Civil War In over eighty years between the American Revolution and the start of the Civil War, weapon technology had advanced greatly. Technological advancements like Eli Whitney’s interchangeable parts in 1797 helped in efficiently and quickly producing 10,000 muskets for the U.S. army using standardized parts and making them interchangeable. Before his invention muskets had been made by a single person without any standardized measurements making…