Allies of World War I

many major countries until now. The world has spoken in silent tones about the Armenian genocide; however, the cinema world has largely kept that silence. Indeed, there are only a few films that could capture this indescribable tragedy, which in truth cannot be fully represented in a single documentary. Unlike the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide is rarely reflected in the mainstream cinematography, but widely represented in documentaries, recently. In this paper, I will compare the purpose,…

away the silence that creates his peace and keeps him civilized. After Paul has knowingly injured someone for the first time, he stays with the man and fearfully observes his actions, explaining, “Soon the silence is more unbearable than the groans. I wish the gurgling were there again, gasping, hoarse, now whistling softly and again hoarse and loud”(105). Paul has grown fearful of the tranquility he once saw in silence and begins to long for noise, even if it does mean violence. The contrast…

War is not glorifying nor dignifying but is listening to the cries of your comrades and a waste of human life. In the novel by Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, told through Paul Baumer point of view as a 1st person narrator. Baumer is a German soldier who joins the army along with schoolmates after the start of World War 1. After the training designed to break down individuality and create unquestioning obedience, they realize how they have been brainwashed, losing their…

a nineteen year old boy who is in the German army fighting in the French front lines during World War Ⅰ. Paul and many of his friends volunteer to join the army after being convinced by their teacher, Kantorek, while enlisted they endure ten weeks of brutal training and came to a realization of the patriotism and nationalism ideals upon their actions. Paul and his friends no longer believe joining the war was glorious as they had once thought, now they lived in terror fearing for their life each…

English III 2 February 2018 Pearl Harbor World War II started because of Germany invading Poland. After Germany invaded Poland, Britain and France declared war against Germany. WWII was fought between two different sides, the Axis Powers, which included Germany, Italy, and Japan. The other side was the Allied Powers, which included Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States of America. America was planning on staying neutral throughout the war. Japans attack on Pearl Harbor was a…

social and economic. In her understanding the fall of Tsarism was essentially inevitable. She writes, “The regime was so vulnerable to any kind of jolt or setback that it is hard to imagine that it could have survived long, even without the [First World] War.” The faults of the system, in her interpretation, were built into society. Fitzpatrick argues that even the Tsar saw the changes coming. The tsarist system, she writes, weakened the reforms that Tsar Nicholas II put in place. Even…

weapons aren 't as prolific as during the WW1, they still pose a real threat. The most recent case and point is in Syria when they used chemical weapons on their own civilians after they were told by the OPCW to destroy them (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34212324). But there are organizations made to stop the threat of chemical weapons such as the OPCW or the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (https://www.opcw.org/). We need to stop the threat of chemical weapons.…

The twentieth century is plagued by the terrors of war, but none was as terrible as World War II. The most recognizably terrible dictator of the time, and instigator of the war, was Adolf Hitler. The war, however, would probably not have occurred had he never taken power. The conditions for his rise to power was a perfect storm of poor leadership, nationalism, and the aftermath of the first world war. Germany was so weak in the aftermath, that the power vacuum that was created, as well as the…

1. Buganda Agreement of 1900 was a collaborative agreement between the British administration and the Buganda chief. The agreement consisted of the Buganda people paying taxes to the administrative heads residing in their lands, while the social status quo of the Buganda people stayed intact. Hierarchy of rule did not change. This all happened juxtapose to Harry Johnson establishing a system of land tenure 2. Githaka was the gathering of land owned Mbari. Mbari was a clan of elites and their…

of visual rhetoric were the propaganda war posters made during WWI. Propaganda is simply a form of persuasion used to change people’s minds. Not only can propaganda be found almost everywhere, it can be good and it can be bad. At a time when television…