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of protective force for the Knights, the second group of fighters. The Foot soldiers were usually poor people whom were forced to fight in the certain battle by their masters or lords. However, Knights had to be wealthy to gain the position in the army. A Knight had to know how to…

Since the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, many service men and women come home and “return with a war that keeps haunting their dreams, their memories, and their behavior." Marguerite Guzman Bouvard convinces the reader that service men and women are tormented by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and return home with invisible wounds caused by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which affect their ability to reintegrate with their previous lives. She states society fears some…

Soldier’s Dilemma Elsa Saarinen 15D “A prisoner of war is accused for stealing food. A soldier is ordered to shoot the accused by his superior officer. The soldier is not willing, because it is against the Geneva treaty. The officer threatens to kill all ten prisoners if the soldier refuses.” According to virtue ethics, most people have good traits. Aristotle identifies these virtues as 18 different virtues that are divided into 2 groups: moral and intellectual virtues. These include,…

goes to the war and fights in the battle. These stories have a lot of contrasts, but have a whole heap of comparisons. There are several contrasts in this story, here they are. Henry (Red Badge of Courage) is excited whenever he signed up for the army, he is then turned into a coward whenever the war actually starts. Charlie (Soldier’s Heart) is extremely excited about going into war, he signed up to do his…

In the Red Badge of Courage, the main character Henry joins to army during the Civil War to fight for the Union and America. As the novel progress through Henry’s time in the army he learns how war truly is. In the beginning he refers to a wound as a red badge of courage and something to be sought after, but his mind soon changes as he sees his friends die. He realizes the harshness of war and of life and how lives are simply lost. When Henry joins the war effort he really is just a kid, both in…

There are many more dangers faced than just battles and wars than being under enemy fire. One of the most reasonable or common that happens behind wars is fear and i did a little research and found out that being fearful in battle or any war is most common due to the stress of thinking that there's a chance that you will die or even lose one of your good friends in the battles. That’s not the only reason people become fearful though. When Charley went into the war he was at a young age and the…

Often time, wars are believed and seen as a mean to defend the home nation from physical catastrophe of foreign land and soldiers are praised and honored for their sacrifice. Not often enough do the common people take the time to scrape the surface with sayings like “thank you for your time” to look at the understanding that even though a war “makes men” and unites them, Hynes says that it isolates and cuts them off from other people. We are also controlled into believing that we understand…

SSG McDuffie’s displayed dedication to the training success of all soldiers in the unit by conducting the most trainings of any NCO in the Company. He encouraged a positive training environment by promoting teamwork and training more than 110 Soldiers in ACE Suicide Intervention. He expertly executed duties of Unit Master Driver and Ammo Handler to ensure Unit's success at the M-16 Qualification Range even after being transferred to another Unit. SSG McDuffie has assumed responsibility of…

The military draft, or conscription, has been used four times in American history during times of national and international conflict. Some people feel that the American government should reinstate the military draft. We should not reinstate the military draft because there is currently no need for a draft, the draft requirements are unfair and inconsistent, and those who are unwillingly drafted would demoralize the overall military with their lack of commitment and cause a break down of…

Interested in the bloody, action-packed Civil War? Then read the books Soldier’s Heart by Gary Paulsen and Red Badge of Courage by Steven Crane. The similarities between these two books are extremely uncanny. There are slight differences in the two books, though there are very few. These include the ages of the two soldiers, their origins, and minor differences in wounds. There is a heaping pile of similarities between the two novels that includes the war they fought in, all the way to both main…