Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a celebrated Ukrainian Soviet sniper in the World War II. She is the most famous of the snipers and is credited with 300+ confirmed kills. She is often known as the most successful female military sniper of all time. Pavlichenko was born on 12th July in 1916 in Bila Tserkva (former Ukrainian Soviet Nation). While at the age of 14 years in 1930, Pavlichenko moved with her family to Kyiv. She started working at the Kiev Arsenal Factory as a grinder.While working at the ammunition company, Pavlichenko also developed her amateur sharpshooting skills as a member of the OSOAVIAKhIM shooting club. In 1937, Pavlichenko graduated from the Kyiv University with a master’s degree in history. She majored on the life of popular Ukrainian …show more content…
Pavlichenko was given an “audition” by the Red Army, she shot down the two soldiers with ease, and was accepted into the Red Army’s 25th Chapayev Rifle Division. Right after being shipped out to Greece and Moldova she had killed 187 Germans in her first 75 days at war. She was among the 2,000 female snipers who joined the Red Army and was one of the 500 who survived the war. Her first two kills were made using a Tokarev SVT-40 semi-automatic (3.5X) rifle near Belyayevka. She went on to record around 187 confirmed kills near Odessa in a span of just two and a half months. In May of 1942, the Southern Army Council cited Lieutenant Pavlichenko for neutralizing around 257 German soldiers. In June of 1942, Pavlichenko was wounded by mortar fire and was later withdrawn from combat duty as she recovered from her wounds due to her growing status among the enemy soldiers kill list. At the end of World War II, Pavlichenko had a record 309 kills, which also included 36 enemy snipers. After being withdrawn from active duty in the Red Army, Pavlichenko was invited to Canada and the United States for
Imagine being stuck in a chair for five hours while someone transformed your face into some monster. John Matuszak had to tackle that challenge everyday of his acting job in The Goonies. John’s legacy still lives on for a few decades after his death in the role of Sloth. For him, it was nothing compared to his NFL career. John was an amazing defensive end, mostly for the Oakland Raiders. The phrase Renaissance man truly defines John Matuszak.
In the story, “The Sniper”, The sniper showed that he was an intelligent soldier. In the beginning, after Being shot by the enemy sniper the sniper took care of his wound and was able to compose himself and think of a plan. Thinking he had won the battle after the snipers successful decoy the enemy sniper dropped his guard and the second he did the sniper
In Liam O'Flaherty's "The Sniper," all of these. are brought to an acute reality in a single war-torn city. Strong cerebral convictions and opposing philosophies, due to which people want to destroy the seemingly “wrong” plague this world and are the ones who are the ones who are the main reason for the plight. To aid in his creation of such emotional conflict, turmoil and plight, the author has portrayed the sniper as a very controversial character in the story. This story is oriented around one character in the Civil War which he should not even be in as he is. mentioned to be a “student” in the story.
As we saw earlier, both authors of both stories were born in different places and did many things. “The Sniper” sets in Dublin, Ireland, during a time of a bitter civil war. It was a war between the Republicans, which wanted Ireland to become ...
Caetlin Asher Spanish 325 10 March 2017 Lack of Separation Between the Church and State The separation between state and Church has been a controversial issue for decades. In the movie “Mar Adentro”, this separation between Church and state, or lack thereof, is brought to attention through the court battle between the state and Ramón Sampedro. Ramón Sampedro was a sailor who became a quadriplegic during an accident diving into the ocean water causing a permanent spinal cord injury leaving him paralyzed. Over twenty years of being paralyzed from the neck down, Ramón decides to receive legal permission to end his life through assisted suicide, specifically Euthanasia.
Beatriz Kimpa Vita was born “near Mount Kibangu in the Kingdom of Kongo, now a part of modern Angola around 1684. She was born into a family of the Kongo nobility, probably of the class called Mwana Kongo, and was probably baptized soon after, as Kongo had been a Catholic kingdom for two centuries.”
I was paired with my spotter. His name was Rifleman Raymond Léon Pelissier and we shared a tent with another sniper and spotter pair. I learned that Rifleman Pelissier was from Laval, Quebec, he was born on March 2nd, 1920, and his wife was six months pregnant when he was conscripted.
In “The Sniper” the conflict is man vs man, which means main character is tasked with killing his enemy, but it proves to be quite a challenge. Even though there were many challenges the sniper followed through with his job and persevered even after he was shot in the arm. Wanting to kill his enemy, stay alive, and be one step closer to ending the war was his main goals. Being brave, he took off his hat, placed it on his gun, and raised it above the edge of the roof. Instantly the enemy shot at it and the sniper, pretending to be dead, waited until the enemy got up for him to shoot him. He did some quick thinking and, with determination, handled the conflict quite well.
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov was born on May 15, 1845*, in a village near Kharkoff in Russia. He was the son of an officer of the Imperial Guard, who was a landowner in the Ukraine steppes. His mother, née Nevakhowitch, was of Jewish origin.
In The Complete Maus, by Art Spiegelman, a son of the Holocaust survivor, Art Spiegelman, learns the story of his father, Vladek Spiegelman. Art Spiegelman learns the causes of why his father acts the way he does and the reason for the eccentric nature he has. Although Vladek Spiegelman physically survives the Holocaust, his actions show that he is psychologically affected by his experience in the camps.
“Moscow is viewed as a traditional Russian city”(Moscow (national capital, Russia.)) Moscow, Russia, is located on the edge of the Moskva River, in the . This city is full of legends, wars, and castles. The heart of this powerful capital is made of red brick… Red Square. Red Square is full of historical stories and treasures, from where every Tsar was coronated to where Ivan the Terrible executed hundreds of people. This colorful city survived attacks from by the Mongols and Napoleon’s Invasion, and still exists today. This city also survived peasant revolts and being burned to the ground. The government of Moscow was always changing starting with Prince Yuri Dolgoruki in 1147 and ending in the 18th century with Peter the Great, who ruled
Karol Maciej Szymanowski, a Polish composer, music publicist and pianist at the turn of the 20th century was renowned for championing Polish nationalism in music. During his childhood, a bad fall led him to be lame in his left knee, which permanently cut him off from active music life and was exempted from conscription to fight in World War I. He spent those years in semi-isolation; devoting himself to compose music. In 1905, he founded “Young Poland in Music”, a late 19th – early 20th-century modernist movement comprising of Polish composers that promotes contemporary Polish compositions by publishing them and studying music with strong influences of Neo-romanticism from composers such as Alexander Borodin and Modest Mussorgsky. Szymanowski’s
Kyle is known as the most lethal sniper in U.S. Military History. He has over 160 confirmed kills and served four tours in Iraq. He helped protect countless troops lives and protected his country proudly. When he was honorably discharged from service in 2009 he wrote his best selling novel American Sniper (Kyle). In the novel he recounts numerous times where he helped defends his troops from enemies and his experiences as a military sniper.
It is the winter of 1942, and a desperate, poorly equipped and demoralized Russian army faces the possibility of crushing defeat by the might of the German blitzkrieg. A young naïve soldier from the Urals, Vassily Zaitsev, arrives in Stalingrad where he is thrust into battle amid the needless slaughter of his fellow soldiers be the Germans and his own troops. To his shock, he is not given a rifle to use during the attack. Instead, the men are paired together and one is given a rifle while the other is given extra ammunition. Vassily survives the first fierce assault and finds himself side-by-side with the political officer, Danilov. They are trapped among the bodies of fallen Russian soldiers behind the lines, and Vassily’s talent as a sniper, homed to perfection from a childhood spent hunting wolves with his grandfather, is realized by Danilov when Vassily calmly and methodically kills five German soldiers. Returning to the relative safety of Russian controlled sector in the city, Danilov, a writer, glorifies Vassily’s exploits in a newspaper article.
Bullets, of course, are another big danger in war. The author shows with bullets how close you are to death in a war. In the event where the sniper lights his cigarette, he is twice almost killed with the “enemy” sniper’s bullets! The sniper’s own bullets are quite dangerous, too, as seen when he easily kills the tank commander and citizen woman informer. After shooting them, the “enemy” sniper sees him, and “His fore...