...C. Clara found them and used her own supplies to tend to them. When some generals wouldn't let her go onto the actual battlefield. Clara went to Major Rucker’s office and convinced him to let her go and help the wounded soldiers on the battlefield. Next, she rode a wagonload of supplies into Virginia, two days after the battle of Cedar Mountain. She arrived at the army hospital just as the doctors were running out of bandages. Barton traveled to the front,where she found soldiers lying on blood and filth. Many suffered from sunstroke and lack of water. She fed them food and water, bathed them, and bandaged their wounds as well as she could. One time, when she was holding a soldier's head and fed him food and water, she almost died. A stray bullet had passed through her sleeve,and right into the soldier’s chest, killing him instantly. To the wounded and sick soldiers on the battlefield, Clara was an angel. Throughout the Civil War she endured many crises much like this...
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...A memoir a memory written in the form of a story, fictional story is not always true, but aren’t all stories not true. Everyone who reads loves a good story the juicy but maybe fake details that add emotion and tone to a once dull story, captivate all readers. Fictional stories are just that, stories. A princess banished to a tower lets her long hair down for Prince Charming to climb up and they fall in love and get married. Fairytale stories don’t happen in real life. Disney movies are based off of gruesome tales that they made happy and filled with love stories with lots of augmented details. Memoirs are usually written about a soldier’s war experience or a life changing moment. Memories of these events become embellished over time, details...
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...that effects the emotions and physical endurance of all parties involved. With that in mind, a short story that perfectly captured this concept is “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. This is so because it deals with the destructive properties of war, and more importantly, how war effects the physical and emotional endurance of the people involved. Further, it can be said that there are several aspects of war, within this tale, that proves that war negatively effects the emotions and physical endurance of everyone within its realm of influence. Therefore, war itself must be held accountable within “The Things They Carried” and be exposed for its monstrous acts, for it is a...
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...of Ajax a disgraced greek warrior who after killing the Greeks livestock and descending into madness, decides to take his life and the aftermath of this concerning Ajax’s burial. Theater of War is a project helmed by Bryan Doerries which brings Ajax to war veterans and their families in the hopes it will become a cathartic, safe place for soldier to feel comfortable working through their post war problems. Since the idea of “shell shock” arouse after the first world war there has been a great deal of awareness brought to the topic. Now present day thanks to the many different methods and programs (theatre of war) soldiers have became increasingly more mature in handling the effects and change caused by war. Ajax serves as a good cautionary tale, a clear outline of what not to do and how not to react. A big motivation in Ajax’s suicide is his loss of honor, it is so devastating to him that he feels his only way to escape is to take his own life. “A great man must must live in honor or die an honorable death.”(Ajax, 28) Many soldiers struggle after war because they feel they’ve lost a part of themselves or their identify entirely. Because of their actions or what they have seen they feel some shame or guilt. Though Ajax’s circumstances might have been different, he failed to learn that it is possible to move on from who you used to be or how you once saw yourself. Honor was Ajax’s identity, without it he was lost but he deluded himself into thinking that with out his honor there...
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...33). Using a central historic theme of the Civil War, the two opposing contraries are romanticism and realism, or “antiromantic[ism]” (Martin 31). De Forest reveals both the Civil War’s antiromantic horrors and romantic strengthening by hardships the soldiers face in Miss Ravenel’s Conversion From Secession to Loyalty. De Forest casts aside traditional romantic tendencies of Civil War literature to focus on the glory of the battle and how brave the soldiers were, unlike another fellow veteran turned writer Samuel Byers (Pettegrew 57). There are more details of the horrific and gruesome aftermath of the war, more scenes of the infirmary and wounded, rather than the battlefield. His sense of duty to tell the truth instead of idealized tales of bravery is almost as strong as his characters’ “profound sense of duty” (323). The reader sees not the men limping heroically, gun and bayonet in hand, bearing wounds as badges of courage, but rather “pools of blood” and piles of severed body parts shorn by blood-drenched surgeons (260). He mentions a “smell of death poisoning the air” and the constant groaning, pain and misery of the wounded (218). This sounds more like a scene from purgatory than real life. We share the young soldiers “disillusionment” knowing courage and righteousness do not protect people from wounds or death (Adams 223). I believe De Forest intentionally breaks the “romanticized vision” of war so that other people would not be drawn to battle so naïve, misled...
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...Concision and Repetition in Babel’s Collected Stories With laconic power, Isaac Babel tells short stories that are at once cold and full of exultation. This effect arises as much from his prose style as from the wrenching content of his narratives. In this paper, I will explore several techniques that compress his prose to the lapidary and one that is more expansive and cuts against his impulse to concision. One of Babel’s most striking tools for reducing his text to essentials is the simile (and more rarely the metaphor), a tactic that allows him to juxtapose images that complicate the text in a short space. He also has a knack for rendering psychological states in terms so compressed that they seem irreducible; for instance, at the end of a story when a character’s heart is constricted by a foreboding of truth, there really is nothing more to say. To an extreme, Babel makes his prose do more than one thing at a time: his descriptions of scenery frequently delve to the heart of the point-of-view character. Cutting against this tendency and made powerful by it, the stories indulge in the repetition of words, a tactic that can propel the prose toward exultation. §1 Simile and Metaphor Babel makes good use of simile and metaphor, both of which lend power, complexity, concision, and often violence to his writing. At times the similes are simply vivid juxtapositions that enliven the prose but do little else. “His stomach, like a large tomcat, lay on the silver pommel” paints...
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...Motivational Problems at Work Alan Hodge BUS610: (MFB1229B) Organizational Behavior Instructor: Donnie Smith 30 July 2012 Motivational Problems at Work What is motivation? Motivation is the need, act instance or force that provides for a reason to do something or to act a certain way, basically it is the reason or desire to do things (PyschToday, 2012).Therefore, all behavior is some type of motivation, even the act of doing nothing is a motivation, and this motivation can be positive or negative. Also these motivations can be broken down into two groups, internal and external motivation. Usually both types are involved with both positive and negative type actions, but this short paper will look at the some external motivational problems and how they affect work and work performance. Needs When looking at motivational factors one of the first things that must be understood is how the needs of one can drive or act against their work motivation. These needs can be broken into three categories and they are: * Required or primary needs – these needs are required for all human beings. Although their intensity may differ slightly, they are still there in the form of food, sleep, air to breathe etc. * Secondary or important needs – these are the needs of security and love, the feeling of safety and want. * General or desired needs – these are the needs of fun, laughter, fulfillment, the need of enjoyment and wants. These needs are just basic categorizing and...
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...they were being persecuted along with all Jewish citizens. At that time it was difficult to get papers permitting Jewish people to leave the country. Rifka writes, “I’ve never been to another country before, not even in another village.” Rifka knows nothing about the world outside her village. Unfortunately, a complicating factor was that Rifka’s brother was being hunted by soldiers because he escaped from the army. As a result, in order for Rifka and her family to depart on their trip to America, she has to distract the men searching the train for Nathan and stood in front of them. They began to question her. How ever, there were only a few minutes before the train was due to depart. Rifka’s role playing ended when a man requested the soldier’s help because his factory had been robbed. In fact, the man was Rifka’s uncle, who was trying to help her family escape. It was right to make the distract the distraction, because without her, their changes of escaping would be very slim. Rifka’s parents asked her to help because she was the only family member that could pass as a Russian peasant. Moving on, when Rifka and her family arrived their relay station, Poland, Rifka caught ring worm unfortunately, and was not allowed to board the ship to America. In order to cure her disease, the doctors make her to Belgium, where the best country for her to stay and treat her ring worm, and where she first met Ilya, a little boy who also got ring worm, and was willing to get back to America...
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...He began writing it around 1552. His purpose was to gain recognition for what he did. However, it was not published until fifty years after his death. In his works he described details of a soldier’s everyday life as opposed to the, already accounted for, life of the leader. This is historically important because this point of view was not often given and it was important to have different perspectives. Most soldiers could not read and write so this shows that his family had high status. His book was written modestly and in colloquial, familiar or conversational, language. The book is also quite detailed, giving nicknames habits and clothing of his fellow soldiers. The book was popular with European readers because it was less stiff than other pieces written in the same time period. He was ranked as one most well know Spanish conquistadors because of his...
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...Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of “Night”, was deported along with his family to an extermination camp in 1944 where they endured hardships ranging from slavery to starvation. On April 12, 1999, in Washington, D.C., Wiesel presents his speech, “The Perils of Indifference” to President Clinton, his First Lady, White House Officials, and the American people. Referring to the tragic events of the twentieth century, Wiesel lectures on the threat that “indifference” poses, and discusses his hopes for a better future. Leading the speech, the author begins with an anecdote of his childhood, the liberation of Buchenwald. He mentioned the memories of the american soldier’s compassion and rage towards the victim’s situation during the...
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...Some definitions of literary devices, techniques and style from searching via http://www.ferretsoft.com/ LITERARY DEVICES http://mrbraiman.home.att.net/lit.htm Literary devices refers to any specific aspect of literature, or a particular work, which we can recognize, identify, interpret and/or analyze. Both literary elements and literary techniques can rightly be called literary devices. Literary elements refers to aspects or characteristics of a whole text. They are not “used,” per se, by authors; we derive what they are from reading the text. Most literary elements can be derived from any and all texts; for example, every story has a theme, every story has a setting, every story has a conflict, every story is written from a particular point-of-view, etc. In order to be discussed legitimately, literary elements must be specifically identified for that text. Literary techniques refers to any specific, deliberate constructions of language which an author uses to convey meaning. An author’s use of a literary technique usually occurs with a single word or phrase, or a particular group of words or phrases, at one single point in a text. Unlike literary elements, literary techniques are not necessarily present in every text. Literary terms refers to the words themselves with which we identify and describe literary elements and techniques. They are not found in literature and they are not “used” by authors. Allegory:...
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...War Poetry Midterm People say the men and women who sacrificed their lives during the Second World War were the greatest generation in our history. However, my philosophy is that any man or women who devotes their life to the military and defends the freedom of others is the greatest person of their generation. Through the writing of war poetry the people who didn’t risk everything to defend our great country get to experience what war is like in a recount version from the people who were there. There are two types of people that will be reading this literature however, the people who would defend their country if called on, and the people who would sit on the sidelines behind a closed door to what is really happening. The U.S Military is the greatest fighting force the world has ever seen, like the British Army was during the seventeen hundreds. The U.S. Military holds as the supreme dominance since World War One. They fought back Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Hirohito, and the entire axis powers in World War Two. Many man fought communism in the forgotten war of Korea in the early nineteen fifties. The men who fought in Vietnam were a breed of their own they dealt with the Viet Cong, an insurgence group that was terrorizing the people of democratic South Vietnam. Vietnam and the poems from Carrying The Darkness would have shed some light on the people back home in the United States who didn’t understand what was going on. By the end of the Vietnam War nearly none...
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...| | |Fin de Siècle Writing and Culture. | Discuss any two fictional texts studied in the light of fin de siècle theories of degeneration. The era of the Victorian fin de siècle ‘…from the 1880s to the end of the century…generated an enormous amount of scientific and cultural debate concerning the future civilisation and the human race itself.’[1] It was an era of technical progress, Imperial gain, and a nation at the pinnacle of progress. ‘…bolstered by Darwin’s theory of evolution, Victorians regarded themselves and their society as the acme of human development.’[2] However, it was an era that balanced on the age of a new century that seemed to accentuate and highlight numerous anxieties. Ledger and Luckhurst (2000) further state that this was an ambivalent period; with major progress in science and technology but also a time of real decline, in which Britain’s global economic power was rivalled by Germany and America. This ambivalence at the turn of the century created fears and anxieties concerning the decline of the British race. A crucial influence on British anxieties of decline was underpinned by scientific and medical knowledge known as Theories of Degeneration. Ledger and Luckhurst (2000) state, at this time, that ‘…degeneration was one defining structure which can be traced across many disciplines…’[3] These theories of degeneration impacted over many discourses within Victorian culture...
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...First, Frigg knows “all fates of men,” yet she does not reveal any of her prophecies (30). Another example is the Valkyries, as they have the power to choose a soldier’s fate of death or victory in battle (45). Finally, the Norn decides the fates of men (26). Women have the power of determining fate, so Loki’s shape shifting into a feminine character allows him to alter fate. For example, he turns into a woman when he wishes to learn more about Baldr’s invulnerability and he turns into a giantess when he decides to change Baldr’s fate (65, 69). Loki utilizes his anima whenever he needs to extract information or wishes to conceal his identity. First, he transforms himself into a woman to find out from Frigg why Baldr could not be hurt, a giantess to prevent Baldr from returning, and a mare to mate with Svadilfari (65, 69, 52). He uses his femininity personas to play the role of a woman in society, so he...
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...role of a “pretty gentlewoman” (p. 8) the role requires women to satisfy their husbands sexually and emotionally. Women played a role of a defender, they watched over their houses and children while their husbands went to war. They organized and trained every other woman on how to be a home guard and to make use of a weapon to protect their homes, children and some times their husbands. They protect them from enemy soldiers that occasionally break into their homes. Also, some women get raped because of their family believes or political views. Several homes and properties were destroyed leaving so many women and their children homeless. Some chapters in the book also express how sad and frustrated women are during the war. One of the soldier’s wives wrote with desperation requesting for her husband to return home. “I am without bread” “The committee will not supply me, the children will starve, or if they do not, they must freeze, we have no wood, neither can we get any-pray come home” (33). Also, some played a role of camp followers and nurses, they were lower-class women that often cook and do the laundries of the armies. The nurses often cared for the injured soldiers. Although some of them came in to be around their husbands, and others came to find means to survive. They take their children with them most times because there was no one to care for them. The nurses and camp followers sometimes marry the soldiers or serve as a prostitute to satisfy their sexual needs. According...
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