Wartime Essays

  • life during wartime

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    There’s nothing I can say about the parade of still pictures, the faces on the television – except, perhaps, that they all seemed to share a fierce pride in their eyes, photographed for the first time in their Marine Dress Blues. Surely their families are proud of them. I certainly am, and I never got to know any of them. And now, I never will. Names scroll in little yellow letters across the bottom of our glowing screens: Sergeants, and Captains, and Privates. These men have died for us. More will

  • Ernest Hemingway’s Writings and Wartime Experiences

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    Hemingway’s Writings and Wartime Experiences Oak Park, Illinois greatly influenced the writing world on July 12,1899.  For on that day Grace Hemingway, the wife of Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, gave forth to the writing world a baby boy by the name of Ernest Miller Hemingway (Young 82). He would, later in his life, compose the most powerful literary impact upon the new generation of American writers with his plain, factual, but evocative style (Morris 863).  No one in America would ever influence

  • General George Meade

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    who was the general? Some people even know that the north won that battle. Most people do not know that General George Meade defeated General Lee at that battle. General George Meade accomplished much during wartime. Accomplishments General George Meade had many accomplishments during wartime. First of all, he defeated General Lee at the Second Battle of Bull Run. Why would not General Meade crush General Lee at this battle and end the war there? Facts say that heavy fog and rain forced Meade to

  • Government, Media, Censorship and Terrorism – Perhaps We Can’t Handle the Truth

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    possible benefits of such acts makes the issue more complex. What if censorship saves lives? What if manipulating the media brings a resolution to a conflict? Wartime especially brings these questions to the forefront. When peoples lives are at stake, often standard rules of morality must either be reconsidered or suspended. Wartime is also the only situation in which the government could get the support of such practices from a constituency with a free press. Practiced responsibly, censorship

  • Media and the Military

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    Media and the Military During the Vietnam War the media was left unchecked and brought the wartime images of death and carnage into America's living room.  These images served as morale killers and eventually turned much of the public against its own government.  During the Gulf War on the other hand, the military filtered what reached the public's eye and morale was kept to all time highs.  In wartime the government should be able to manipulate public opinion by controlling the media. War

  • Responding To Loss And Death

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    every Thursdays and probably continues up to now. In our religion Thursday afternoon is a holy time and people believe that this time is the best to pray for spirits’ absolution. Another experience of my father’s losses that I like to mention is from wartime. War between our country and Iraq. During that time town almost was empty because it had been attacked by air force, and continued. One time as a result of the bombing my father’s house was destroyed, when we became aware every body rushed to the

  • Conflicts in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls

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    and Maria. Jordan is depicted as the coldly rational soldier whose wartime work always comes first, but Maria is portrayed as a personification of the natural abundance of the living world. Jordan operates comfortably and capably in a world of death and killing, while Maria is a healer, a provider of succor and rejuvenation. Despite these differences, Jordan and Maria are drawn irresistibly to each other. Their wartime love affair shows how sex, love, and life are the counterparts (rather

  • Narnia - A Review

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    This book was the first of the Narnia series to be published. Released in 1950, it has World War Two as its historical backdrop. The story is centred around four British wartime children, who are evacuated to the country due to the conflict. They go to stay in a large house in the country with an eccentric professor. The youngest child, Lucy, stumbles across the land of Narnia accidentally whilst playing hide and seek. She there encounters a fawn, who tells her about an evil White Witch that

  • Lord of the Flies

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    Lord Of The Flies Book Analysis Title: Lord of the Flies Author: William Golding Date of original publication: 1954 Setting: The setting of Lord of the Flies is somewhat vague. The island is unnamed, and besides stating that it is during wartime, there is no specific date given. The island is uninhabited, and characterized by a beach, jungles, orchards, and a rocky mountain. The jungle that surrounds the characters represents death. It is dark and entangled in vines, which remind the small

  • Women In Wartime Factories

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    and other places like farms. Women who worked during that time became one of the positive highlights of the war. However, the contribution of women during the times of battle went far beyond paid employment. Along with their role as workers in the wartime factories, they were also mothers, housewives and volunteers. Women had an all-around effort, from helping the injured soldiers and civilians to basic chores like cooking and cleaning for them (Johnes, 2015). Knowing this fact about the greatness

  • Wartime Monologue

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    TWINFLAME -There becomes a moment in your life when time tends to fade as a past memory until you completely realize that up till now you just live in the past which means you haven’t live at all-. This thought has opened my eyes to the inevitable reality. I look at the cracked high ceiling and really don’t know who I was for about thirty strange seconds. I can’t even imagine how the past shapes my life for the last eighteen years. I feel that I just skipped the worst part of my life. And now I

  • Wartime Conferences During The Cold War

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    The United States were involved with the wartime conferences between the Axis powers and the Allied nations between 1941 and 1945. These conferences lead the world into the Cold War. The three main people, titled the Big Three, involved were Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. The three main conferences were The Terhran, The Yalta, and The Potsdam (“Milestones: 1937–1945 - Office of the Historian."). President Roosevelt called a meeting of the Allied powers. Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of

  • Coming of Age in a Wartime Environment

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    Growing up in a wartime environment affects the identities, confidence and adolescence process for many people. In the books, The Diary of A Young Girl, Farewell to Manzanar, and Night, World War II accelerates Anne’s, Jeanne’s and Elie’s precious maturity and coming of age process. World War II, the Nazis and their identity of being Jewish forces Anne and Elie to grow up and mature much sooner than expected. For Jeanne Wakatsuki, World War II have a negative impact on Jeanne’s confidence and she

  • Paraskeva Clark's Wartime Art

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    inferior and incapable compared to men in the Canadian workforce. The women’s traditional role as homemaker reflected the social norms, and values of the time. Change came during World War II when Women temporarily filled non-traditional roles in the wartime labour force and society (MacIvor 14). The entrance of women into society and out from their roles as homemakers was monumental as it was the first time women were seen as capable individuals, held paid positions, and proved they could do “man’s work”

  • The Visual Representation of an Enemy During Wartime

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    The Visual Representation of an Enemy During Wartime The visual representation of an enemy during wartime is generally intended for the use of propaganda. Western portrayals of the Japanese during the Second World War are no exception. According to Gilmore, propaganda "...is designed to persuade the target audience to respond to a particular issue or idea either favorably or unfavorably."l In the case of a war the desired response is to produce an effective and productive desire to win. This

  • Analysis Of C. S. Lewis 'Learning In Wartime'

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    when war was reemerging into the world, was an answer to a question most young people were asking. Whether or not they should stay in school or if they should enter into a war like some of their lesser educated compatriots. The Essay “Learning in Wartime”, written by C.S. Lewis, is an excellent sermon upon the morals of war and the studies of school, explaining the religious aspect of both. Though C.S. Lewis does make it clear towards the end of the sermon which side he is on, an earlier stance would

  • Chris Matthew Scobarra Wartime Collectivism Summary

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    1) 2) Making War Locomotives by Joseph Pennell demonstrates how industrialization and the American war culture influenced the role and success of America in World War I. 3) Annotated bibliography in the separate page below. 4) It was difficult to come up with a connection of each individual source to the thesis because while each source did talk about the American war culture and industrialization, it mainly talked about how the American war culture came to be or how industrialization came to

  • Use of Torture Images and the Media’s Responsibilities During Wartime

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    Use of Torture Images and the Media’s Responsibilities During Wartime The Daily Mirror has traditionally been controversial. In 1934, it backed up Oswald Mosley’s plans for a National Socialist Britain. 30 years later, it demanded the resignation of Harold Wilson. In 2003, when the UK joined the US at war with Iraq, the Mirror was the only tabloid newspaper to campaign against the war. During the Iraqi war, the Daily Mirror bought and published images of torture from the Queens Lancashire

  • Michael J. Mcphillips Article: The Reality Of Wartime Economy

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    Basically the article suggests life was rough. But that all changed when we decided to participate in the war. In Steven Horwitz and Michael J. McPhillips’ article, “ The reality of Wartime Economy”, they note that many people want to believe that war was the reason we got out of the Great Depression because it has many favorable outcomes. They also point out that the economy was also revived by the aid of the government, but only because

  • From Ancient Greece To Iraq, The Power Of Words In Wartime By Robin Tolmach Lakoff

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    In the essay “From Ancient Greece to Iraq, the Power of Words in Wartime” by Robin Tolmach Lakoff, Lakoff discusses the fact that words are a tool as well when it comes to wars. She talks about the differences between our natural want and ability to kill things, and the mental training soldiers receive to make it easier for them. Lakoff talks about the practice of dehumanizing the “enemy” through nicknames that make us feel superior then our foes, and the repercussions of using this type of language