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Women make up about 14 percent of our military today, that’s about 200,000 ladies risking their lives for our country. (History) They have many jobs, such as nurses, gunners, and engineers. People have finally recognized the important roles women have in the military by allowing them to play a part in ground combat. The idea of women fighting alongside men is heavily debated. Some actions women personnel have displayed are too significant to be overlooked. Women have been playing crucial roles…

Unit 4 Honors Extension The podcast shed a lot of light on the power of art and the lasting effects of false interpretation on the world. When Ronald McDowell was asked to build a statue in honor of the famous foot soldiers in Birmingham, he chose to change specific things on purpose to enhance the message of the photograph. He took artistic license and changed the appearance of Walter Gadsden to look more african instead of light skinned and to make him lean back instead of forward. He also…

crucial roles during Napoleons age, the shift of the army from a private dynastic property of the King to a public institution, publically funded, and publically commanded and controlled proved to be colossal. As a publically funded and commanded army, the overall strength, discipline, logistics, morale, and public acceptance increased and proved to be successful for Napoleon. During the French Revolution, a transition took places shifting armies from a dynastic, private entity to a public…

Should child soldiers be given amnesty? At what age should they be held responsible for their actions? Should we try to help them? Some soldiers are taken off the streets, others sold into the army, and some join for safety and food. In conclusion it becomes clear that child soldiers should be given amnesty because there are other ways to stop the use of child soldiers, they are not cared about, Instead of trying child soldiers for war crimes countries should attack the leaders who authorized…

military: In that sense, we should bring back the draft. It would be an honor to fight for The United States— Air Force, Marines, Army, or Navy. This Nation is One and I believe that he or she should fight alongside their Country. There are hospitals, Rural Legal Services, and more options that do not include having to hands on fight, however it still helps. National Service should become mandatory for a year because We must fight for freedom, it would unite the Nation, and conform Us as…

Before Forrest Fogarty attended the military counter-insurgency school, he attended Neonazi rock festivals as lead singer in a hate rock band. “Before the U.S. military made Matt Buschbacher a Navy SEAL, he made himself a soldier of the Fourth Reich” (Holthouse). Before James Burmeister, Malcolm Wright, and Randy Meadows were discharged from the military, they discharged bullets into the bodies of a black couple. For Michael James and Jackie Burden, December 7, 1995 was another Thursday. The…

Have you ever experienced a war or watched videos of wars in your life? The Battle of Shiloh would have been a very good and interesting war to watch or experience. In the “Drummer Boy of Shiloh” we learn and experience the night before the Civil War battle through the eyes of a young boy. If you experienced the Civil War some people wonder how their life was after the war and what the war was like. Many people hear about wars but they don’t realize how much that it touches people. I believe…

In the dramatic poem “Danny Deever” by Rudyard Kipling, the soldiers face two duties and hardships throughout the poem. One hardship is that Files-on-Parade was good friends with Danny Deever. A duty is that the higher ranked members have to lie to the newer soldiers and not tell them the horrors that they may face. Colour-Sergeant cannot tell Files-on-Parade why the men “breathe so ‘ard” or why the “man fall down” (Kipling 9, 11). The hardship of seeing Danny Deever, Files-on-Parade’s best…

omitted from history the suffering females experienced during the great war, even though they were close enough to the firing lines to see the true monstrosities of war. It was reported that there were about 9,000 women volunteering in the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), 13,124 female nurses in the Imperial Military Nursing Service (Reserve) (QAIMNS(r)), about 500 women that were part of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), and 82,857 in the women's Voluntary Aid Detachment's (VADs).…

in the Trenches English 1012 Exposure-Owen Due Date: 16 May 2018 Research Paper Poetry in World War I was a big help in bringing young men to join the army and fight for their country. Poets wrote about how exciting the war was and how good it felt to risk their life for one’s country. This was to keep the number of men going in to the army higher than the number of men that were being lost every day. Because of this many young men did not know the horrors war brought and went in blind.…