No man's land

the western and central parts of Africa, eventually taking it over. Africa was under full assault as European nations competed with one another for control of the continent. All in all, the driving force behind European Imperialism was the need for land, spreading European cultures, and technological advancements. During this time, new technology created a large impact on agriculture and society all around the world. The Industrial Revolution led to many discoveries and inventions, Europeans…

Imagine living in a hole day after day having death lingering over your head. Trench warfare was exactly that. Trench warfare is a method used by many countries during WWI, It was used to combat the advanced weapons used during the war. Trench warfare was effective for being able to protect soldiers from heavy fire. Yet instead of soldiers dying to heavy fire they died from living in these trenches. Trenches were among the worst places to be in during WWI because of the many health illnesses,…

Many of the soldiers in WWI that were brought in the trenches were really young and eager to go war because the military had promised them so many things like money which many of them lacked. They military also told the soldiers that they would get a place to live and food to eat, but when the soldiers went to war and got in the trenches they soon discovered that the trenches were really pact with soldiers, they were really cold, and full of diseases due to the rodents that were often found…

seen many of my friends and acquaintances drop dead next to me or running across no man’s land. The German’s are ruthless, some men have been scorched to death because of the German invention, flamethrowers. I can’t sleep. Not because of shell shock, like most of the other men, but because the general is always ordering me and two other men to dig underground. I just found out we are digging under no man’s land to get to the German’s side to plant explosives. We aren’t the most original…

distrusted many people in the village, which is why he never confessed his affair with Abigail Williams, one of the girls in the town. In The Crucible, fear of witchcraft in Salem caused characters like Proctor to distrust everyone else, while greed for land and money gives everyone motive to accuse their neighbors. One person in the town that is scared is Rebecca Nurse. She is scared and fears that Salem has witches. Rebecca says “…I fear it I fear it” (Miller 1249). This shows that Rebecca is…

first rapid-fire automatic gun. Although, we used cloth belts to hold the bullets as they went through the gun, it would become overheated very quickly and would take awhile to cool down. There is a space of land between our trench and the other side, it is nicknamed No Man’s Land. This land had terrible grounding and was very hard to navigate through, but the British found a way around it, Ernest Wition, created a tank. The tank is able to drive over any terrain and you can put a machine gun on…

centuries were trade, nationalism and the white mans burden. Trade was an important cause of imperialism because; it allowed countries to generate capital in foreign lands. Nationalism was an important cause of new imperialism because; many European powers that imperialized thought themselves the greatest political power in the world. The white man’s burden was another key cause of new imperialism due to the fact that many European Empires used it as an excuse to imperialize weaker nations.…

The White Man’s Burden Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865 in Bombay, India. However, Rudyard was sent to England to be educated in 1871, when he was just six years old. While in England, Rudyard was abused by his host family, which led to the development of his defiant and satirical attitude. Kipling recounted his abusive childhood in his book Something of Myself, “Myself I was regularly beaten”(“Rudyard Kipling”). Unable, and unwilling, to further his education, due to financial…

motives involving why a country would want to practice imperialism, three of the major causes of imperialism are for a nation to gain more land, to sell more of a nation’s product, and to regulate a country whose seemed to have lost infrastructure (government and culturally). First, one of the largest causes for new imperialism was for a nation to gain more land and authority. To begin with, nations were interested in the idea of claiming and taking over other nations so that their nation…

Brooks says that, “The community is for Faulkner typically a small town or rural community. Like Wordsworth, he is not really at ease in the great city. Wordsworth’s agrarianism-his conception of the good life lived on the land and his distrust of industrialism.” (Brooks 1999 p43) The characters of Faulkner enjoy nature but nature doesn’t become a solace for them. They are simple country folks who live in accordance with nature code and in harmony with it. The Villains of…