...William Broyles, Jr.: Why Men Love War (1984) ● In what way do the veterans feel a certain ambivalence towards the war, according to Broyles? In one way, the soldiers is raised in the believe that war is a horrible thing you and you can’t like such things. In another way, the men loved being in war. It’s gives them an intoxication, that they can’t have any other way. ● How does he portray the life of a Vietnam veteran? Invariably filled with boozy awkwardness, forced camaraderie ending in sadness and tears. ● Explain and comment on the following statement: "There were no metaphors that connected the war to everyday life." (p. 130). Vietnam veteran why talk about everyday life it makes absolutely no sense when you’ve been in war and you’ve experienced so many things and you can’t connect war and everyday life, the difference is too big. ● Explain and comment on the following sentence: "War is the enduring condition of man …" (p. 131). It is a male instinct to experience war at some point in his life. The text says; “There is a reason for every war and a war for every reason.” There is always an excuse for war. ● How does Broyles characterise himself? Why does he miss the war at some points? Djdj ● Sum up the reasons Broyles gives for why men love war. In this connection, comment on the statements below. Find more statements that explain why men love war and comment on them: ◦ War is an escape from the everyday (p. 133) ◦ War is a game (p. 133) ◦...
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...learn about the men that fought in the Civil War than from journals and letters from the soldiers themselves. For Cause & Comrades: Why Men Fought In The Civil War by James M. McPherson pulled from copious amounts of personal letters and journals to show the history of the thoughts and reasoning behind the war. You are able to get exceptional background why the Northerners and Southerners enlisted in the war, and see how both sides had very diverse reasons why they enlisted, from the sense of manliness to patriotism. During the time of enlistment, there was considerable pressure to enlist. If a man did not enlist, they were thought of lacking manliness and a disgrace to their family. McPherson stated, “The belief of duty,...
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...During Jessie Pope’s “Who’s for the Game?” the speaker reveals the use of propaganda during World War I to encourage young men to join the war. The propaganda used by governments during the war was manipulative for the governments to enlist more men. The speaker uses sports dialect to enhance the propaganda by comparing war to a sports game to appeal to the lower classes. The speaker also focuses on how this propaganda appealed to their masculinity and to how women would look at them. Thus, by appealing to young men’s desire for women, they could be exploited for the war. Pope's composition of the use of propaganda during World War I exposes the strategic manipulation of young men and their passion for sports, women and grit to encourage them...
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...feelings towards the war? Wilfred Owen was born in Oswestry on 18th March 1893. After school, he became a teaching assistant and in 1913 went to France for two years to work as a language tutor. In 1915 he returned to England to enlist in the army and was commissioned into the Manchester Regiment. After spending the remainder of the year training in England, he left for the western front early in January 1917. He was diagnosed with shellshock after experiencing heavy fighting and was evacuated to England to recover at Craiglockhart War Hospital near Edinburgh in June. Anthem for Doomed Youth and Dulce et Decorum est were written in 1917, during Owen’s time at Craiglockhart. Here, he was able to write some of his best work. He also met the poet Siegfried Sassoon here, who was already a well-established poet. Sassoon agreed to look over Owen's poems, gave him encouragement and introduced him to literary figures such as Robert Graves. Owen conveys his feelings towards the war through the many poems he wrote, especially while being treated at Craiglockhart. His poems give the reader a sense of what it was like to be a militant during conflict. His poetry is characterised by powerful descriptions of the conditions faced by soldiers in the trenches. His poems are sometimes violent and realistic, challenging earlier poetry which communicated a pro-war message. His first-hand experience of war is one reason why there was such a shift in the attitude towards war. He returned to France...
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...novel with the intent of an anti-war message. Throughout the novel, he portrays the horrors of war through what the soldiers experienced during World War I. Remarque demonstrates his anti-war message by showing the effects the war had on the young men, providing horrific details of war, and The author shows how young men are sent into war at such early ages, haven’t yet to experience much of life other than war. “I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another”...
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...World War 1 is the first World War and the war to end all the other wars there was from 1914 to 1919. The war was the Allies and the Central Powers. Over more than nine million died on the battlefield and they were about that many people on the home fronts. African American in the war. The war on both union and confederate side. There were over 179,000 African American men that served in the union army war. The president Abraham Lincoln was accepting black men into the military would cause the border states like Maryland, Kentucky. Black men were permitted in the late 1862. Black soldiers were paid ten dollars a month and three dollars for their clothes. White soldiers get paid $13 a month and they did not have to pay for their clothes...
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...During World War One there was a huge spread of women’s rights and female suffrage all over the world as well as in Canada. Women’s rights in Canada were very different before, during, and after the first World War. Through restricted lifestyles and opportunities during WW1 and the 1920’s, women emerged from second class citizenship. Before the war, women were not even considered persons, until October of 1929 when the judgment was made following a petition from the Famous Five. However, womens’ roles started to change once World War One had began, finally bringing a breakthrough for women. They were soon needed to help with the war by filling the gaps for the men who went to fight in war. This soon started to change everything for women. Without the opportunities given to women during the war, they would not have the rights and freedoms which they have today. Firstly, prior to the first world war, women led sheltered and restricted lives....
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...In the poem “Dulce et Decorum est,” the author Wilfred Owen describes how war is hell. Men are pushed savagely across wildernesses to battle against their greatest fears. During the progressive era of World War I the use of barbaric tools of destruction were used in the midst of the war. Chemical Warfare was introduced and new mechanical demands were developed to destroy men’s hopes of freedom. Men feared each other because of the deeds they would perform to survive. Wilfred Owen transmits in words the emotions that men felt as death rained down upon them. Through Wilfred Owen’s poem, “Dulce et Decorum est,” he argues that men’s ethics had to be destroyed because of the will to conquer and survive, he portrays the logic behind a soldiers’ minds...
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...In the war novel All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Paul Baumer is a very significant character. Paul is a character that conveys Remarque’s experiences and point of view to the readers. Paul and his friends are faced with the intensity of the war, which causes them to disconnect their feelings and lose their emotions. Soon, Pauls lifestyle is shaped to be around war. The war diminished Paul and turned his life into constant suffering. Paul’s character undergoes a changes throughout the novel, when he is induced with the horror and anxiety of the war. Paul Baumer is a character representative of all soldiers because he faces the same difficulties a typical soldier would face. In the war, Paul had seen his close friends...
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...my notes. The uses of propaganda posters in World War 1 “Daddy what did YOU do in the Great War?” On the poster you see a man and his two children. A girl is sitting on his lap with an open book, and a boy is sitting on the floor playing with soldiers. The daughter looks at him asking “Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?”. They designed the poster to induce a sense of patriotic guilt. They were trying to capture the British men unwilling to volunteer for the war and make them feel guilty if they didn’t join. The picture depicts a situation in the future, after the war, where the daughter asks her dad expectantly how he contributed to the war. The war on the poster is already over, the dad can't re-do it. This sends a message to the young boys, unwilling to go to war. Making them think what they would tell their children if they asked what he had done for the war. It also shows that he will come home to his family. The family in the poster are smartly dressed and look wealthy. The colours in the poster symbolise the war and army, the curtains have red roses on them and the chair has the sign of the royal coat of arms on it. This would also make the man think because these are marks of patriotism but this man has not done the patriotic thing. Everything in the poster is positive; nothing would put men off from joining the war even the boy’s toy soldiers are all standing up. “At the front” This poster would stand out to men because it is showing cavalry in battle, with horses...
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...Women’s Power Thao Vo Monday 4:30-5:45 War, the word that has been and will always be the word that no one wants to hear or think about. Aristophanes, a writer of ancient Athens, wrote a comedy to discuss the serious topic of war and how it affected the Greeks. He is also the author of Lysistrata, a play where Aristophanes expressed his feeling and thought about the war during this period of time. “Aristophanes wrote to express his vision on life, his delight in life itself seen behind the warping screen of contemporary event.” In this play, we will get to see the importance and serious meaning of war toward the union, espectually the soldiers’ family. The play Lysistrata is about the war between Athens and Sparta. This play is about the story of “ an Athenian matron who convinces the women of Athens and Sparta to withhold sex from their husband until they sign a peace treaty.”The main character is Lysistrata, and she is one of the Athens’ women that willingly to stand up toward the men just to bring peace back. She does not want war between the cities in Greeks. Lysistrata wanted to save Greeks and she believed that if all the women agreed then they can achieve the tremendous goal. “So fine it comes to this--Greece saved by Woman!” She held a meeting with all the other women and told them about her plan to bring peace. There is only one way to save the union is to make all the women withhold sexual privileges with their husband. “sexually explicitly to a degree that can...
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...Over time, the roles of both men and women have changed slightly, but in a lot of cases they still remain the same. In the Odyssey one can see there are unquestionably different expectations for men versus women during this time period. To this day, there is little information on Homer himself. Even though there is not much information about the author himself, it is known that “The epic poem Odyssey focuses on the Greek character Odysseus and his ten year journey from Troy to Ithaca after the fall of Troy (Trojan war).”("Odyssey by Ancient Greek Poet Homer.") This story takes place directly after the Trojan War. The society is still recovering from the war and tragedy. Although gender expectations are true in the early years that the Odyssey...
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...Nicole Myhre Callenbach.2 Question #2 A Reader Response I think Callenbach’s ideas of integrating sex and aggression is interesting. The whole idea of the war games is kind of interesting I think. It makes sense and it doesn’t. The Ecotopians hold these games to so that men can get rid of their aggressions. The Ecotopians believe that men are having these biological desires to be aggressive. The war games are so that men can let these aggressions out. Some men die in the War Games. It kind of reminds me of the Hunger Games except it is just men. The Ecotopians also believe that if these aggressions that men have deep down aren’t able to be let out they will result in things such as war. For that reason, the Ecotopians believe they should take the risk of the War Games, so that they won’t have to deal with an outbreak of war. What doesn’t make sense is that some men die in the War Games, so isn’t that kind of the same idea as war anyways? The book basically portrays women as sluts and political and they portray men as fighting murderers. The idea is supposed to be equality and at the same time this book portrays it as inequality in so many ways. I don’t really think that the War Games make Ecotopia more civilized. I don’t really think war and killing people really has anything to do with being civilized. I think it relates to how the real world is, but I don’t think that in a so-called “perfect world” people would be killing each other. If you were to look...
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...There were over 237 battles in the Civil War, with close to one thousand generals on each side. Although there were many generals in the Civil War, two battle for the title of greatest general, Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. These two stand out because of their success, with fighting style, military experiences before the war, and victories in battle. Lee's success at the beginning of the war helped boost the southern morale, while Grant's success down the stretch helped the north pull off the victory. These two men were completely opposites in their experience before the war. Robert E. Lee graduated at the top of the class, whereas Grant graduated twenty-first out of thirty-nine in his class. After graduating, both men went into service during the Mexican-American War. Grant got to the rank of captain, under the command of Zachary Taylor. On the other hand, Lee was only an advisor to General Winfield Scott on battle strategies. Lee's reputation for battle strategies carried over into the Civil War. Both men started out the Civil War under commanding officers; however Lee would be the first to become the General-In-Chief in 1861. Grant would not take up this post until 1864, the last year of the war. This shows the strategic masterpieces of both generals. Both men were...
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...The poem Mental Cases written by Wilfred Owen is a poem about soldiers returning from the war who struggle to leave behind emotional trauma caused by their experience of war. Owen conveys his criticism through the poem through the use of emotive language to shock the reader. Owen’s use of metaphor, similes and personification describe the men from the war as beasts with “Drooping tongues from jays that slob their relish, baring teeth that leer like skulls”, and the way the bodies have become disfigured because of the war. The first stanza is set out as a questioning stanza; this stanza makes the reader think and picture the way Owen has described the men. In stanza one, Owen refers to the men as living in hell, “Surely we have perished, sleeping...
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