Sri Lankan Civil War

families experienced during The Civil War. The Civil War was a time when there was a lot of fighting, not only on the battlefield, but within families as well. Lots of families were split up because husbands and sons were drafted into the war. People’s opposing beliefs on the war divided families. During The Civil War, families were impacted because of the absence of family members, the division of families, and the death of family members. Families during The Civil War were impacted on both…

More Americans have died during the Civil War than any other war. 620,000 soldiers died in the line of duty. Two-thirds of these didn’t die from wounds. They died from diseases such as typhoid and dysentery. Civil War medicine was not yet advanced enough to connect a lack of hygiene with an influx of disease. Lack of hygiene in hospitals and camps also contributed to the spread of disease. Placing a latrine downstream away from the clean water supply was sometimes also overlooked. Disease spread…

During the civil war era, women were looked at very differently. They were mainly looked at as people to take care of the kids, and the house. Even they didn 't realize how independent they could become. After the war started, the had to take new roles, find jobs, and prove to men and others they could do more than take care of the house, and children. While men were away from home fighting in the war, women had to keep the man’s income alive to survive. So that meant that women had to take…

being banned in result of the sensitivity of our nation, including the novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. The novel takes place in the south during the Civil War era and follows a young woman’s romantic life and her survival through the war. She pursues the love of her life while in doing so must fight for her survival in the war plagued south. Despite the immense amounts of history in the novel, some believe the controversial content outweighs the history and therefore should be…

The books “Women at the Front” by Jane Schultz and “A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era: Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South” by Libra Hilde, each discuss the many experiences that women went through during their time in the Civil War. Women in the Civil War faced many different challenges, each of these books touch on similar challenges as well as different views on these challenges. Women had to endure more than just the actual caring of wounded soldiers,…

In Ernest Hemingway’s book, For Whom The Bell Tolls, He has multiple female characters that represent women and the roles that they played during the time period of the Spanish Civil War. Women actually participated in huge ways during the Spanish Civil War. Though the amount of women in the guerilla group was not very large, the few that were members were important parts of the group. One of the these characters is Maria, the love interest of the main character Robert Jordan. Another character…

a cavalry scout spots an old man at a bridge where people are crossing to escape a war zone. The scout converses the old man, but soon realizes that the man isn’t going to move and probably won’t make it. The bridge is made out of pontoons and is a temporary bridge set up by the army, in order to evacuate as many people as possible. The bridge crosses the Ebro river, and it takes place during the Spanish civil war, in other words between 1936-1939. My first impression of the environment, is a…

Carter Druse, from“A Horseman in the Sky,” and the sniper, from “The Sniper,” have infinite similarities and differences in the way they tackle their conflicts. Carter Druse is a Union soldier fighting in the American Civil War, while the sniper is a Republican fighting in the Irish Civil War. Both men face an immense challenge; having to kill a family member. Carter kills his father and the sniper kills his brother. “‘Did you fire?’ the sergeant whispered. ‘Yes.’ ‘At what?’ ‘A horse. It was…

War, a controversial dilemma, can often resolve itself through an orderly fashion, rather than an atrocious disaster. In “The Sniper,” written by Liam O’Flaherty, a Republican soldier who fights for his life against the so-called “Free Staters” in the Irish civil war, comes to suffer from drastic emotional trauma when someone he loves becomes fatally wounded. In Liam O’Flaherty’s story, “The Sniper” uses irony to demonstrate how war reduces human beings to mere objects. Unexpected occurrences…

I) Wars are unpredictable; they can range from massive to small- either way, a war is a conflict that can drastically affect the lives of people. Occasionally we are unaware about the wars that are destroying the lives of others yet we can't escape the reality of the bloodshed that is the result of war; we are eventually informed about what is occurring. Sometimes we do multiple attempts to lend a hand, but other times our minds are not completely wrapped around the issue at hand which makes it…