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    Delbert Mann is the director of the 1979 version of “All quiet in the western front” movie and he is clearly a director that studied world war I very well as details ranging from extremely important to small minor details were included in the movie. The filming brilliantly captured the aspect of World War I and war in general. All the elements of the trenches were illustrated: the sand bags and trenches being in a curved shape like, huge rats crawling over and eating the unburied dead, the deep…

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    The viking attack on Paris in 885 was a splendid representation of medieval warfare. Where the two sides met beforehand in order to attempt a relatively peaceful solution, where the viking Siegfried asked, basically, for all the goods of the city and the bishop responded with the obvious ‘no’. The battles themselves were showing how the defenders of Paris held their city from the vikings for just long enough so that Odo could return with aid from the emperor to finally drive off the vikings.…

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    July 28, 1914 was the start of many things, the war started, alliances were formed, and technology bloomed. Tanks, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns were ground advancements technology created around 1914-1916. The machine guns could shoot 400-600 rounds a minute, the tanks could carry a large-calibre cannon, and the poison gas would cause vomiting, irritation to the eye, and severe coughing. These tools made a big impact on the war One of the three major technology created for the war were tanks. A…

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    dominated by trench warfare during 1916 and 1917, the middle part of the war. they were dug deep into the ground in a zigzag pattern to protect soldiers from advancing enemies. the various tools were used from the dug in positions were machine guns and artillery. Although, they weren’t completely safe in these conditions: • Constantly threatened by shellfire, snipers, and chemical attacks, soldiers died by the millions in these horrid conditions. two main diseases faced by them were: 1. Trench…

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    Although I have read books and watched movies about WWI, I still had a lot to learn about this war. I knew little things about this topic, such as the war stopped before Christmas and restarted after New Year’s day. But, I always wondered why there was a truce over Christmas and was eager to learn more. I also knew that the German army was the strongest army in Europe and wanted to learn more about what made them so strong. After reading the book Truce by Jim Murphy I learned a lot more about…

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    Trench warfare was one of the deadliest ways of fighting World War I. One of the ways that trench warfare was so dangerous was chlorine gas. Chlorine gas caused great damage to the repertory system. If soldiers inhaled the gas it caused death by asphyxiation because their lungs filled with fluid and cause severe breathing problems. It would also cause intense irritation of the skin, the eyes, and the throat. The gas was soon contained into shells that were dropped directly into enemy trenches…

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    The darkest depths of the world's five oceans are among the most mysterious regions on Earth. Indeed, humankind knows very little about these dark, yet rich, ecosystems, as more than a staggering ninety percent of the oceans remain unexplored. This unfamiliarity generates a range of human emotions, from fear, to revulsion, to fascination, which has informed human conceptualizations of the ocean depths for centuries. The prominent Epic of Beowulf, written as early as the eleventh century, offers…

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    any side that they had fought on. Tanks, mustard gas, and airplanes not only changed the way wars were fought, but they changed many more wars to come. Tanks were first introduced in World War I on September 15, 1916, the tanks were used to combat trench warfare the tracks known as caterpillar tracks gave the tanks a good grip in the mud and allowed them to travel over rough terrain that other vehicles could not. Their heavy armor made them slow but protected the crew from small arms fire…

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    Zach Taylor English 10B Jennifer Atwood Period 5 Battle of Verdun “Four days and four nights - ninety-six hours - the last two days in ice-cold mud - kept under relentless fire, without any protection whatsoever except for the narrow trench, which even seemed to be too wide. I arrived with 175 men, I returned with 34 of whom several had half turned insane” (French captain, 1916). The death and suffering of the First World War were unlike anything that had happened before its time.…

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    Huitzilin lived in tenochtitlan from 1345 to 1365 he is a aztec he lived with is mom and dad. Then the strangers came they showed up on the hill near the city. The strangers came down the hill on big brown creature that were 4 times faster than the fastest runner the had shiny clothes covering their entire body are weapons couldn’t hurt them it didn’t even look like they had any effect on them. The arrows just hit and shattered as they pelted the strangers they had shiney hard fabric covering…

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