...Letters from soldiers who are fighting in a war are cliche in many aspects, yet each letter is unique in its own way. Many soldiers, including those who fought in Vietnam, sent letters back home to describe their ups and downs in the war. Unfortunately, those who fought in Vietnam were not only dealing with the struggle of fighting, but they also faced the struggle to survive in a place where the enemy was everywhere. They faced mental hardships throughout the war. They were fighting a war in an ugly, yet beautiful, battlefield. All the letters that are sent home during the Vietnam Conflict were written by those who served in the military of the United States. They either fought in the frontlines, provided information to those who fought in the frontlines, assisted those who fought in the frontlines, or assisted those who coordinated the battle in the frontlines. Their first hand accounts of the war was credible in many ways. Their letters were not written from secondary sources but were written from primary sources. Their letters could only be written by those who saw the war with...
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...Jack the Ripper was one of the most famous and renowned killers in history. Even though he was not the first serial killer, he was the first killer to strike on a metropolis setting. Jack the Ripper was in his prime at a time when the media had a strong control over society and society had as a whole was becoming much more literate. Jack started his killing campaign at a time of political controversy between the liberals and social reformers along with the Irish Home rule partisans. The reports of Jack the Ripper were collected and reported by the police, but then the different newspapers with their political influences slightly distorted the stories to give them their own effect. It has been more the one hundred years since the last murder and there is no longer any more original evidence, and the "facts" about the stories have changed over time due to different writers or differing sources. The press changed Jack the Ripper from being a depressed killer of prostitutes to one of the most romantic figures seen throughout history. One fact that most sources agreed upon was that the Ripper was a killer who wanted nothing more than to strike fear into the entire city by horribly mutilating his victims and then leaving them in locations where they were sure to be seen. Jack was the type of killer that wants fame and loved the fact that his "name" was on everyone's lips and was able to strike fear into anyone and everyone's heart. In the late 1800's "Jack the Ripper"...
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...Home Loan FAQs A. An Introduction to Home loans 1. What is a Home loan? Home loan is the sum of money a bank or financial institution lends you to help you buy your dream home. By taking a home loan from a bank or a housing finance company you pledge your home as the lender’s security for repayment of your loan. The bank or financial institution will hold the title or deed to the property till the loan has been paid back with the interest due for it. Home loans are generally taken for long tenures as the loan amount is usually a huge sum. A home loan can be taken anywhere between 5 and 30 years. The amount of loan one is eligible for is dependent on the individual’s credit profile. 2. What is a down payment? What are the ways in which I can source my down payment? Generally as a thumb rule, banks or financial institutions lend 85% of the cost of the property. 15% of the money is expected to be paid as a down payment for the loan. Opting for a personal loan if you can afford that cost as well, pledging your investments, getting loan against your insurance policy etc. are some ways to liquidate your assets and pay your downpayment. 3. Are there any specific loans available for NRIs? Yes, there are specific loans that are tailored for the requirements of NRIs who wish to build or buy a home in India. 4.What is reverse mortgage? This loan facility allows a senior citizen (above 60 years of age) eligible to apply for a reverse mortgage loan and avail 60% of the value of the residential...
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...interested in how we as individuals and communities, construct our own identities, histories, and memories. Weaver stated how we do all of this through our monumentalization and the objects that we construct and archive. Overall, his work communicates the concept that, “Memory is fractured, non-linear, and disparate in nature; the experience of ‘recall’ is a dissociative one.” He wants the viewer to, “question the constructions we routinely undertake through our lives.” The artist talked about several of his projects: Documents (2004-2006), Black Bottom History...
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...Final Paper Prep: History of American Women in World War II Marilyn Thorsted HIS 204 American History Since 1865 (BUH1028C) Instructor: Dana Logan July 26, 2010 Topic The topic that I chose to write on is the History of American Women during World War II. What I would like to focus on is how these women lived and what impact they had on the American society at home or on the battlefront. Thesis: Women in World War II played an important role in defending our country at home and away. They were helpful when it came to filling the much needed jobs that were left behind by the men, and they provided much support on the battlefield as many of them recruited in the arm forces. Sources: Carter, R (2005). Blacks in America’s military: A legacy of war time heroism. New York Amsterdam News, 96 (24), 10-166 Retrieved July 26, 2007 from Academic Search Premier Database This source reports on contributions made by African Americans as they served in military and how valiantly throughout history. Many of these women sacrifice their way of live to protect the life and freedoms of the nation. Eisenmann, L. (2002). Educating the Female Citizen in a Post-war World: competing ideologies for American women, 1945–1965. Educational Review, 54(2), 133- 141. doi:10.1080/00131910220133220. Retrieved July 20, 2010, from Academic Search Premier Database This source gives information about Women in the post-World War II that found themselves caught between patriotisms...
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...19th century, David M Henkin’s, The Postal Age offers up a fascinating blend of intellectual and thematic history. In his book, Henkin highlights new practices and new expectations as ordinary Americans swiftly turned something novel into something normal-into habit, into culture. The physical layout of the book certainly prepares the reader for it contents. The cover shows what appears a very busy Post Office in which people are climbing atop one another to receive their mail. Henkin lays out his book in two sections. “Joining a Network,” points the basic practical details of the spread of the postal system, how and what people mailed. The second section, “Postal Intimacy,” takes a more cultural approach towards common letter-writing styles and clichés, the post as a lens for growing geographic mobility, and the rise of mass mailings. My initial response was admiration. I was genuinely impressed at the flow of Henkin’s book and his ability to create flux not only in every introduction but also throughout the book in its entirety. Henkin used an anecdote about a man named Anthony Burns to launch into the cultural transformation that had taken place over the past decades that made the story possible. I particularly appreciated his second chapter, “Mailable Matters,” which discussed what exactly it is that people mailed at that time and how it evolved. Precisely, the history of transient newspapers, or...
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...The Vietnam War was a very controversial war in American history. The War was infamously known as being a War supported by few if even any Americans. Many people lost their lives fighting in this war, and the people that survived are left with mental scars from the War. Most troops wrote letters home (America) detailing the events that were occurring in Vietnam. These letters allow us the readers to gain insight to a very honest detail of the events occurring in Vietnam. DB Post and Response 3. Jeff Rogers enlisted in the navy after a year at Harvard Medical because he realized he no longer wanted to be a doctor. “In America in 1968, any young man who left school was likely to be drafted in the army” (265), so it was either enlist or be drafted. Jeff Rogers’ father, William Rogers, was Secretary of State and had also served in World War II which might have influenced him to enlist instead of wait to be drafted. 4. Nixon’s Vietnamization policy was a policy brought forth “to advocate a withdrawal from Vietnam” (267). Vietnamization Policy was a combined effort of Secretary of Defense, Melvin Laird, and Secretary of State, William Rogers. The two men were focused on a peaceful retreat from Vietnam. The Vietnamization Policy “meant training and equipping the Army of the Republic of [South] Vietnam to wage its own war for an independent democracy against the Democratic Republic of [North] Vietnam. In reality, Vietnamization meant replacing American casualties with South Vietnamese...
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...Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary has gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.[1] Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry.[2] She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer.[3] Her artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years into her thirties. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she tried then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth.[B] From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it. Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism.[4][C] Her plots, though fundamentally comic,[5] highlight the...
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...A soldier, named John Campbell wrote the “artifact” letter on April 10th, 1915 (the character was created by me). We know that Campbell was involved in the battles on the front line during World War I, presumably somewhere in Western Europe, mostly likely in Ypres, when he wrote the letter to his family, specifically his wife and daughter back in his home country of Canada. Ypres was the place where the Germans attacked the Allied forces with chlorine gas. The letter was also written around the time when the “Second Battle of Ypres” had started, involving the British, Canadian and Commonwealth Armies and Allies battle against the Germans. The artifact is a historical insight of what life was like and how soldiers, such as the Canadians, during World War I communicated with their families back home. The letter represents updated information to Campbell’s family of the war effort, and on a personal level, the feelings he expressed for love of his family. It can be presumed that this letter is symbolic of how other soldiers may have written letters to their own families. The object/artifact makes me feel sad if not guilty because this is a letter from a Canadian soldier, risking his life in a war where he is cold and far away from the comforts of his home and closeness to his family. I can be thankful that I am fortunate...
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...The letter I chose to analyze was written by Private Richard H. Adams Jr. a prisoner of war born April 21, 1842 in Altwood Marengo County, Alabama. Private Richard H. Adams served as an officer during the Civil War with the 5th Alabama Infantry Regiment, he originally enlisted in the service in May of 1861. Richard H. Adams Jr. served in many different campaigns during his time in the services in addition to a role which included Richard H. Adams as being staff officer for Gen, Wheeler until he was captured in Nashville, Tennessee in September of 1863. Richard H. Adams Jr. was a prisoner of war (between the years 1863 through June 1865) and would later in history be considered one of the immortal 600. The immortal 600 were prisoners of war who were sent to Morris Island in Charleston Harbor which was an area that was in direct line of fire from the Confederate guns of fort Sumter. He eventually survived the war and went back home, where he married Lottie Putman and spent his days as an engineer and postmaster for Radford, Virginia. Richard H. Adams died in Radford, Virginia in October 1896. What remains of Richard H. Adams Jr. is 47 original letters dated from November 1863 to September 1866 all written by Richard H. Adams Jr. Including a manuscript dairy that he kept while serving the 5th Alabama Regiment in Virginia dated April 1862 - May 1862, transcriptions of two other diaries that were kept on which included a prison diary, a script of Wheelers raids which was written after...
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...History exists because of the records that individuals have kept over the years. Books, letters, decrees, even town notices can each give us insight into what life was like before we or our living families came into this world. There are oral traditions that can be passed down, as well as stories told from one generation to another. Letters specifically can show one person’s experiences, opinions, hardships, and relationships. This letter, from Sebastian Brandt a settler, serves as a perfect example of life before industry or the American dream. Sebastian writes to his friend Henry Hovener who is back in England at the time. The letter is written on January 12, 1622. According to the letter Sebastian appears to be a middle aged settler who made the voyage with his wife and brother. Due to the enormous outbreaks of disease at the time, they had both passed away about a year before the letter was written. Sebastian writes about silver, gold and copper. This suggests that he may be in the lower class considering he is venturing on those quests on his own. Throughout his writing he references the Lord God, asking for his blessings, and giving blessing to Mr. Hovener. This proves his religious...
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...“Letter from Birmingham Jail” In the 1950’s and well through the 1960’s, Martin Luther King Jr. was the main leader of the civil rights movements. There was violence in innocent protesting, cruel bombings, and soul poured speeches. The Civil Right movements, involving people of both skin colors, measured up to a very large sum of events, both implementing segregation and the fight against the segregation. King had experienced many events, both eye opening and cruel, both strong and solid with morals. Yet throughout the turmoil between the differences of both races King did not fail to speak his word. MLK did not fail to make know that what segregation stood for was wrong and treacherous. King did not underestimate his ability to be unwavering...
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...The Singapore History Gallery, presented by the National Museum of Singapore is a 2 800 square metre gallery which uses a story telling approach, to reveal different viewpoints through tales from the 14th century to the present. The Singapore History Gallery is divided into eight sections highlighting the changes from the past to the modern times while offering its visitors the chance to relieve in the times when the ancestors and elders residing in Singapore once lived in. Out of the many artefacts which I have seen in the gallery, the portrait of an Amah interested me the most. Amahs were indentured domestic female servants generally arriving from Pearl River Delta, China; These Amahs were highly sought after by affluent families, mainly the rich families and colonial expats settled in Singapore. While some of the Amahs came to Singapore to seek better job opportunities to avoid marrying which was seen as a loss of freedom back home, others left their families back in China when they lost their faith their husbands as they had dwindled away all their hard earned money by getting addicted to opium and even resorted to selling their own children. Thus, most Amahs took the oath of celibacy which led them to have pleated hair which was left uncut thereafter, becoming the “ma jies” in Singapore whom often acted as a surrogate parent to her employer’s children, staying and looking after the family for such a long time which was enough to see the kids grow up and form families on...
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...Nick Genaris Professor Ngoh Protest Literature 21th October 2015 Letter from Birmingham Jail-Rhetorical Analysis Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in order to address the biggest issue in Birmingham and the United States at the time (racism) and to also address the critics he received from the clergymen. The letter discusses the great injustices happening toward the Black community in Birmingham and although it is primarily aimed at the clergymen King writes the letter for all to read. In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. uses logos, alliteration/repetition, and ethos to back up his belief that nonviolent protesting and disobedience is the most effective means to protest anything that needs to be changed, in this case segregation. After reading King’s letter I, and almost anyone, would come to the conclusion that King is deeply motivated to help against any injustice in the US. Who else would go to such lengths if they didn’t? He knows how persuasive he can be by using his knowledge of the English language, and he uses this to speak out against people who doubt him (clergymen) and to incite a different way of thinking into the people in hopes of change. Dr. King’s letter is extremely effective because it provides an enormous amount of evidence to the reader that he and his company are being treated unjustly and also that King truly cares about making a change for the good of the city. It also re-directs attention...
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...It’s All About Perspective Two men, Richard Frethorne and Anthony Johnson, arrived to the early seventeenth-century English colonies in North America right around the same time. Although the two men were there for different reasons, both of them had similar conditions and setbacks to live with. In “Retracing the Past: Readings in the History of the American People” written by Gary B. Nash and Ronald Schultz, there is a letter from a white indentured servant named Richard Frethorne to his family titled, “Richard Frethorne’s Letter Home (1623)”. In the letter, Frethorne described the new world and his working conditions to his family back in England; and was disappointed in what he had discovered. Another reading, “Anthony Johnson: Patriarch on Pungoteague Creek”, written by T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes, is included in Retracing the Past: History of the American People. The story of Anthony Johnson is about the young black slave who ended up being equal to the white man in society. Richard Frethorne and Anthony Johnson both lived under similar conditions regarding the land and the provisions that were available. However, Anthony Johnson was a stronger man and had a better perspective than Richard Frethorne. Indentured servants were not quite slaves back in the seventeenth-century. Frethorne and his fellow indentured servants migrated to Virginia and settled in the Chesapeake colony. They agreed to work for a particular amount of time in exchange for land or freedom in the...
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