Terracotta Army

character Henry (young soldier) faces the struggle to prove his courage to himself and the others in his regiment. He was is a young man that left his farm and mother, thinking that he should be doing more with his life. So he enlisted in the Union army. One thing Henry doesn’t expect from the war is the fear that comes with it and the courage it takes. Henry is constantly fighting his inner dragon, but will he defeat it? As the novel goes on, Henry goes through stages in the novel:…

A soldier is mainly kept to be able to protect his or her nation from its enemies and be able to ensure that peace prevails. For a given individual to be granted the name soldier, he or she has to undergo various training test and taught several skills taught at the various training camps. However, an unknown factor is what these soldiers have to be able to endure at the various stages in their training history and also after the wars the soldier is exposed to. Death, stress, and mental…

Friendship is important because it is a great significance in a person’s life. Throughout The Book Thief, Liesel creates many life long friendships. Some of which, she will continue cherishing, even after the friendship is physically impossible… Liesel’s experience in Himmel Street, would not have been the same, without many of the significant relationships she made. However, Liesel wasn’t the only person with strong friendship, many of the other characters had very strong connections too.…

Professionalism was the common thread when the Air Force’s senior enlisted leader talked about the Airmen of yesterday, today and tomorrow during the Air Force Association’s Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition Sept. 16 in Washington D.C. “I want to talk to you about the legacy of more than seven million enlisted men and women in our Air Force, and how proud I am of them,” said Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Cody. “There is no question that our Air Force looks…

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is about Henry Fleming. Henry was a young soldier who enlisted in the army so that he would be known as a courageous person. Soon after Henry’s first battle started, he quickly deserted, and ran away into the woods. Although his fellow soldiers would consider this a cowardly act, Henry had believed that what he had done is smart. Subsequently Henry threw a pine cone at a squirrel and it ran off, Henry had believed that the law of nature is to protect…

Hi classmates; I have chosen to write my essay on “The Things They Carried” and the use of setting.in a story. Working Thesis and Introduction The use of setting in a story is a vital component in developing background upon which the story will play out. In the short stories by Tim O’Brien, “The Things That They Carried” action takes place in the Vietnam War Era. Throughout this period, there was plenty of political and social conflict taking place in the United States and from this conflict;…

Function: Often times, people that experience war struggle to conform back into the routines of society. In Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, protagonist Billy Pilgrim has difficulty dealing with the traumatic effects of the bombing of Dresden during WWII. To cope with his experiences, Billy develops this idea of Tralfamadore, a planet far more advanced than Earth. The Tralfamadorians can see time as humans “might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains” (85). They see all time as a physical…

Women in combat. It has recently sparked a debate on whether women should be allowed in combat or not. In my opinion, women shouldn’t be allowed in combat because they are too emotional to handle the long periods of time of being on tour, they aren’t physically built like men, and there would be too many problems with having men and women living together. Women are way too emotional to withstand being in combat. They wouldn’t be able to handle the 100+ degree temperatures, the stress of being…

In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, all of the young soldiers feel hopelessness fighting a gruesome war on the front lines and being away from their families for so long. Living in a world without hope would be absolutely devastating. There are many instances where Paul feels hopelessness throughout Chapter 9. For example, “I curse and grind my teeth in the mud; it is a raving frenzy; in the end all I can do it groan and pray.” (215) In this instance, Paul is hopeless about what to do…

The physical journey into the jungle that took place in the film Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Ford Coppola, was shadowed by the psychological journey that Captain Benjamin Willard went through in his search for Colonel Kurtz. The expedition became a physical chase for Kurtz, but also a symbolic journey in which Captain Willard confronted his own darkness. The journey began in a cluttered hotel room in Saigon, where an intoxicated Captain Willard is desperate for an assignment. His mental…