Women's Land Army

Memories act as the gateway between the past and the present, whether a gateway to pain or a gateway to happiness. Yusef Komunyakaa’s confrontation of the Vietnam Memorial opens a gateway of misery and confusion for him. In his poem, “Facing It,” the poet relives his painful memories from the past, coming from early experiences in racism and later on in his life in the scarring events of the Vietnam War and Komunyakaa must learn to cope with these heavy memories without letting it destroy him.…

Pat Barker's Regeneration is one of the best anti-war novels written in the late 1990s. Focusing on the adverse side of the First World War, Pat Barker tells the story of male soldiers who suffered shell shock on the battlefield. Most of these men share a common feature: they all suffer from both psychological and physical trauma that needs to be dealt with. The WW1 is considered the first modern war, introducing new inventions such as the mustard gas or the tank, as well as this was the first…

Jazz Age Writing: The Lost Generation Following the destruction of the Great War, those that fought had a fallout with common morals, and values that modern society held dear. They stressed the importance of living large, working minimally, and drinking often. Moreover, the Lost Generation rejected he ideals of organized religion - feeling that they had been abandoned on the battlefields, and seeing the total destruction and atrocious actions that man can sling upon each other. Hemingway,…

World War I was a conflict that claimed the lives of millions of soldiers and altered the lives of countless others. Shortly after the War, two novels surfaced, Generals Die In Bed by Charles Yale Harrison and All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, that became influential in our understanding of how the soldiers lived. Each novel provides a firsthand account from a soldier’s point of view on one of the most brutal wars ever to have been fought. The novels portray war without…

Abstract: Throughout the history people have been attached to their native soil, to the traditions of their parents, and to the established territorial authorities.Great men fought for their nation and died as warriors with their true spirit and a national zeal. War,that has left people with tremendous lossleft scars on people’s mind which cannot be easily erased. There has not been any who has good memories associated with war. War in itself is an organised violence. We have a heart touching…

This essay is about whether Inman violent man or not. To answer this question, we have to look into many factors such as Inman’s experiences the Civil War and the decision he took to treat with different circumstances during his journey back home. Cold Mountain is a novel written by Charles Frazier. It took place during the American Civil War in 1861-1865. It was the war between northern states (the Union) and the southern states (the Confederates). The causes of this war were the differences…

The Neverending War War will never end for the soldiers who are among the living, the ones who have seen the end are dead. The novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien tells what he and his fellow soldiers had experienced in the vietnam war, during and after, what they had to do and how they feel. There thought’s were not only just on the war, but on their family and friends. In the soldiers heads, they are constantly thinking of the past, mostly the war, and what they had to do. In the…

“For the sake of its own security, each nation can and should demand that the others enter into a contract resembling the civil one and guaranteeing the right of each (Kant pg 115).” Immanuel Kant has the idea of perpetual peace that could only be obtained through our universal morality. He writes a lot about morality to try and inform his readers that internationally, morality within humans needs to be acted on in a way other humans would agree with. Kant wants humans to act in a universally…

In this case a man named Abel Fields falsely said that he worked in the military for eight years. He also claimed that he had earned a purple heart which you only earn if are wounded in battle. This man never served in the military so everything he said was false. He was making these claims in a public safety meeting, he told the public that they should listen to him because of his experience. He was then arrested for impersonating a military officer. He now is facing a year in prison and a…

In the book Crossing Stones by Helen Frost the author depicts very strong opinions of war, and how it is portrayed in American Society. The author sees war as a waste of time, lives, and money. She depicts this by having most the characters learn from Muriel’s negative views about the war. Muriel’s views show the harsh reality of war instead of pretending that it is a glamorous event where young men are constantly honored and praised for their sacrifice. The author feels that glamorizing the war…