"Letters from a War Zone" deals with the controversy
between men and women banning pornography. In this
essay there are many strong personal views on pornography
and the brutality of women in porn. Men and women have
been at war for many years because of this. I agree with
banning pornography because pornography lures men into
disrespecting women. This essay makes me angry because it
shows another part of life that is really not acknowledged. It
seems realistic to me because many women in life are
confronted with sex at an early age and become vulnerable.
The unique thing that reaches me is how women do not have
a choice, especially when it comes down to sex.
Vulnerability is one of a woman's weaknesses. Pornography
is degrading to women when it is forced upon them. If sex
were done for pleasure or because the women wanted to, it
would not be as bad. That is how many women are raped,
killed or lose their confidence. Women in pornography were
typically prostitutes at one-point. Due to statistics, more than
half the women in a sex-related professions have been
sexually abused, molested or raped at one time during their
lies. The quote stated in this essay that really hits home is
"Made in South America where life is cheap." I, as a
Hispanic, am terribly offended by this statement. This
statement basically says that South America has many
lowlives', and that anything can happen to them because life
there is worth very little. For example the women of South
America are used in Snuff films and in explicit photographs.
Snuff is a film that consists of a woman being sexually
harassed, raped, and killed. In many of these films/photos
the women are brutalized to the point where their breasts are
dismantled and their bodies are urinated on after they are
raped and killed. There are photographs in which women's
breasts are slammed in rat traps, their vaginas are stuffed
with knives, guns, and even glass, and then they are
gang-banged, beaten, and tortured. Snuff films are usually
made in South America because, as said in the statement
above, life is not worth much there. "If you are going to hurt
a women in the United States be sure to photograph it" is a
controversial statement used in this essay. Its means that if
you have slain, hurt, or abused a woman it is all right, as long
you have taken a picture. The photograph expresses a point
of view, sacrosanct in a free society. When these
picture/films are being taken the woman is forced to smile.
This will make the picture/films protected by the constitution,
Lewis Milestone’s “All’s Quiet on the Western Front”, based on Erich Remarque’s novel, is an incredibly disturbing and effective anti-war film. The grainy black and white film is still not outdated and carries a breathtaking initial impact. The prologue that introduces the film gives its anti-war intentions immediately and beautifully.
All Quiet on the Western Front is a book written by Erich Maria Remarque. It was a book written to reflect the human cost of war. It shows us how war has a hidden face that most people do not see until it is too late. In the novel, he describes a group of young men who at first think war is glorious. But as the war drags on, the group discovers how war is not all it is set out to be. As the war went on, they saw their friends either die or be permanently wounded. Then the end comes when there was only one person left.
Paul Bäumer's leave from the war is an opportunity for him to see life removed from the harshness of war. As he makes the journey home, the closer he gets the more uncomfortable he feels. He describes the final part of his journey, "then at last the landscape becomes disturbing, mysterious, and familiar." (154) Rather than being filled with comfort at the familiarity of his homeland, he is uneasy. War has changed him to the extent in which he can no longer call the place where he grew up home. Bäumer visits with his mother and recognizes that ideally this is exactly what he wanted. "Everything I could have wished for has happened. I have come out of it safely and sit here beside her." (159) But ultimately he will decide that he should have never gone on leave because it is just too hard to be around his family and see how different he has become. Bäumer finds that it is easier to remain out on the war front than return to his family.
Soldiers' Account of Trench Life Life in the trenches was horrific; the frontline soldiers dreaded having to return to them. During their tour of duty there, they lived in considerable tension. The trenches were far from safe; possibly one third of all casualties on the Weston front were killed or wounded in the trenches, mostly from artillery fire. In this essay I will be discussing and comparing the accuracy and differences between the soldiers' accounts of the trenches and official accounts composed by the government.
The electoral system in Canada has been utilized for over a century, and although it has various strengths which have helped preserve the current system, it also has glaringly obvious weaknesses. In recent years, citizens and experts alike have questioned whether Canada’s current electoral system, known as First Past the Post (FPTP) or plurality, is the most effective system. Although FPTP is a relatively simple and easy to understand electoral system, it has been criticized for not representing the popular vote and favouring regions which are supportive of a particular party. FPTP does have many strengths such as simplicity and easy formation of majority governments, however, its biggest drawback is that it does not proportionally represent
Ernest Hemingway used an abundant amount of imagery in his War World I novel, A Farewell to Arms. In the five books that the novel is composed of, the mind is a witness to the senses of sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste. All of the these senses in a way connects to the themes that run through the novel. We get to view Hemingway’s writing style in a greater depth and almost feel, or mentally view World War I and the affects it generates through Lieutenant Henry’s eyes.
Florence Nightingale was the Nurse of Nurses. In nursing school she is the first person you will hear speak of. She is known as “The lady with the lamp”. Her theory focused on the adjustment of the environment provided to protect the patient. She thought that a sleeping patient should never be awaken. Noise should always be avoided because it can startle the sleeping patient. This was a serious problem to her. She delegated tasks to other nurses, always keeping the patients safe and away from harm.
Evacuation in the Second World War Evacuation is defined in Collins dictionary as being 'a movement from a dangerous area, especially in time of war'. Surely this is a good solution to the enemies' bombing. It was a fast and effective process, 1st September 1939 saw 1.5million people moving to safer areas. As successful as this sounds many began to filter home within weeks. Homesickness drove some, hard labour enforced by the foster parents drove others, but mothers fetched the majority home by Christmas as no bombing had occurred.
Effects of War Exposed in All Quite on the Western Front, Bury the Dead, and Paths of Glory
First, Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was born into a wealthy family in Florence, Italy. Her father valued education so he taught her. Her family didn’t want her to be a nurse because back then nurses were looked down upon and were lower class. She left for Germany and got formal training on being a nurse. She became a superintendent of a hospital and then went to help in the Crimean War. She noticed the conditions of the hospitals during the war and she started to improve hygiene, nutrition, and level of care. She opened a nurse training school and reformed the army hospitals. She wrote a book about being a nurse. She believed nurses should require training and be educated. Florence Nightingale’s legacy of caring focuses on nursing and the
When Nightingale was 16 years of age, she cared for the sick villagers near her family’s home. At this point in her life she knew nursing was what she wanted to pursue. In 1854 she was asked to put together a team of nurses who could care for sick and injured soldiers. She gathered thirty-eight other nurses together to staff a hospital overseas for the British army during the Crimean War. Nightingale trained herself for this great profession we call nursing, as she approached the hospital she knew what steps she needed to take to get her patients well. The first step was cleaning up the environment, the hospital was not what she expected at all! Towels contained dry blood and sewage discharge. She was not very big on the concept of bacterial infection; she did not accept the crowding and unsanitary environment. Although Florence was a very successful woman and due to her desire to help others nursing has
Trench warfare was introduced in order to bring a barrier between forces. They were dug by soldiers and were very lengthy, but very cramped. Soldiers crouched down for extended periods of time to keep their heads blocked from being a target for the other side. They sat their watching their friends die from disease and from being shot, bombed, or poison gassed while they waited to fire their weapons at the enemy.
World War II was a radical war in many ways, but one of the most significant novelties was that of increased use of the radio. Communicating by means of wireless radio became imperative to military forces and their ability to in contact. The need to stay in contact and be able to receive directions was vital to the military. However, there was a significant problem with the use of these radio messages. This problem was that the messages could easily be intercepted and thus important information would often fall into the wrong hands. This important information could include such intelligence as secret plans and instructions. To combat the interception of information by enemies, information was often communicated through using secret codes. Each of the major world powers had their own code machines that would turn any normal text into code. They each had machines that could decrypt their adversaries’ codes also. The ability to decrypt enemy codes became an extremely important and momentous development in World War II.
Strong, brave, and powerful are usually the words that come to mind when you think of a traditional war hero. In Tim O’Brien’s novel he uses war heroes that aren’t what people usually imagine when they think of a war hero. They are straight out of high school, and most of the soldiers in his novel are cowards. They are scared of going into the war and even when they have a chance to save one of their friends they just let them die. Not using traditional war heroes allowed Tim O’Brien to show that not all heroes are heroic and courageous, and that they were just normal people going into a war they didn’t understand.
Florence Nightingale, named after the city of Florence, was born in Florence, Italy, on May 12, 1820. She would pursue a career in nursing and later find herself studying data of the soldiers she so cringingly looking after. Born into the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale took the lead role amongst her and her colleges to improve the inhabitable hospitals all across Great Britten; reduce the death count by more than two-thirds. Her love for helping people didn’t go unnoticed and would continue to increase throughout her life. In 1860 she opened up the St. Tomas’ Hospital and the Nightingale Training School for Nurses before passing August 13, 1910 in London. Her willingness to care for her patients was never overlooked and wound establishing