In chapter one, Lincoln and Liberty, of Chandra Manning’s What This Cruel War Was Over, (2007), Manning explains that although there were many reasons for why a solider white or black, Union or Confederate, slavery was the ultimate cause of the Civil War. At first Manning lists all the reasons soldiers from certain backgrounds enlisted but then she shows how those reasons were connected to slavery or how slavery very quickly became the reason someone was fighting. She does this in order to show the reader that slavery affected everyone is some way or another and that is why it became the main cause of the war. I believe Manning is successful in showing the relation between slavery and the soldiers fighting for its continuation or its end. Manning
Everyone is changing into martians and Mr. Bittering finally accepts the fact that nobody is going to leave Mars. “Yes he said, feeling his flesh melt in the hot liquid air. Yes , in the autumn. I’ll begin work again then.” Mr. Bittering didn’t like the thought of not being able to go back to earth, but he finally accepted it.
Yuri Kochiyama is a Japanese-American civil rights activist, and author of “Then Came the War” in which she describes her experience in the detention camps while the war goes on. December 7th, is when Kochiyama life began to change from having the bombing in Pearl Harbor to having her father taken away by the FBI. All fishing men who were close to the coast were arrested and sent into detention camps that were located in Montana, New Mexico and South Dakota. Kochiyama’s father had just gotten out of surgery before he was arrested and from all the movement he’d been doing, he begun to get sick. Close to seeing death actually, until the authorities finally let him be hospitalized.
A Better War¬-Part Two In the second half of the book written by Lewis Sorley, “A Better War, The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam” the American soldiers and the American public were in an uproar. The look into the last days of Vietnam for the United States is eye opening. In this review we will look at the affects of war on the American soldiers and a certain offensive.
The general argument made by David Herbert Donald in Why the War Came: The Sectional Struggle over Slavery in the Territories is that the issue of slavery in the national territories started the Civil War. More specifically, Donald argues that the Kansas-Nebraska Act, crafted by Stephen A. Douglas, revived the issue of slavery in the territories and divided the nation into hostile sections which turned the great forces that once cement American unity into a tool that further divided the nation. Donald points out that North detested slavery to the conception of slavery as being un-American and was the main reason why the South was lagging behind. In order to abolish slavery, the North, who held the majority in the national government, acted on the regulation of national territories. The national territories were one of the few areas that the North could act against slavery since they did not have power over slavery within the states it existed.
The novel, A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam, written by Lewis Sorley, is an important and influential book that sheds light on the often neglected final years in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 and revises our knowledge of the war and its conclusion. Lewis Sorley is an American intelligence analyst and military historian. Sorley spent much time interviewing those who have served in Vietnam so that he could gain information on their experiences and how the war truly was for them. This novel includes live stories from those willing enough to share their experiences. Sorely explains throughout the novel that Vietnam may not be as we thought it to be, but actually much more.
Respondek 1 Andrew Respondek Mr. Osselaer Economics 28 February 2024 The Forever War Book Report Dexter Filkins is an American reporter born in 1961. Filkins was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Filkins wrote the book to show the world his time in Iraq during the invasion and the years after. The book is written chronologically from the first-person point of view of Filkins's personal experiences.
The theme for this chapter is that war changes people for the worst because when Mary Anne, (Fossie 's girlfriend) comes to the medic camp, she is an good down-home American girl of her time but, as time advances, she becomes more intent to join the fight and become a soldier. She starts to sneak off during the night and never coming back to be with Mark Fossie. Eventually, she leaves him to live in the woods. Soon after she is seen, and she has transformed from how she was at the beginning, as a normal American to what she is today. This shows us how war can change people not for the better but for the
World War I started in 1914 and ended in 1918. It is known as the trench warfare war and one of the worst wars in history. Many soldiers from the French and German sides died. The war was fought in France and is known as one of the worst wars. The book All Quiet on the Western Front is about Paul and his journey throughout the war.
Imagine getting up everyday before high school and preparing for war. For Melba Pattillo Beals this fear was a scary reality. In the beginning of “Warriors Don 't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock 's Central High” by Melba Pattillo Beals, she begins talking about what it’s like to come back to the haunted racist halls of Little Rock Central High School. This was a time when civil rights was a major issue and the color separation between white and black was about to be broken. Melba and nine other students entered Central High School becoming the first African American students to go to an all white school.
Responsibility often comes with the connotations of burden and sacrifice and most of the time, this is true. In The Wars, by Timothy Findley, the concept of responsibility is demonstrated in the character of Mrs. Ross whose duties as a wife and a mother may be viewed as cold, cruel, and purposefully isolating; the complete opposite of the archetype of a compassionate mother figure. However, like each unique individual in society, the way one responds and takes responsibility varies infinitely; Mrs. Ross attempts to dissociate from society when she feels she has not fulfilled her duties and responsibilities. However, her empathetic nature prevents her from completely isolating herself from all sentiment. Rather, she subconsciously internalizes the welfare and hardships faced by others while sacrificing her own well-being.
Everyone in the world can relate to being impatience for something that they really don't want to happen.in the story, War Of The Wall by Toni Bambara there are three character narrator and lou also the painter lady. The kids stumble upon someone painting their favorite wall that they love to play on and they will do anything to stop her. Should they stop and and see how she is going to make it or just try to run her out of there Town?Toni Bambara shows how that you can judge someone from the outside and try and stand in there shoes for once and see how they feel about them. “Scribbling all over the wall like a crazy person and that's all she is good for. ”(pg.111)This shows how him and his friend disagree with her drawing just because they don't like her and that she is drawing all over their favorite wall.
In the book “The War of the Worlds” by H. G. Wells, Wells saw a cylinder-shaped heading toward Earth, and Ogilvy invited Wells to his laboratory to see what it was. They discovered something that was coming from Mars. People went to see what it was after Ogilvy said where it had landed, but a daunting creature jumped from inside and attacked the people surrounding it. Wells began running away from the creatures. He headed home to his startled wife and tried to calm her down from what was happening.
As the novel goes on he begins getting in touch with their emotional and physical feelings. For example, Rat Kiley, he was a well known character in the book. He began having mental breakdowns throughout the book. He had seen his best friend get blown up, and then goes into shutdown mode. Rat keeps to himself not talking as much as he did, and walking away from the other guys.
Literary Analysis of War of the Worlds “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow”-Robert Tew. War of the Worlds, based on the novel by H.G. Wells, is about a dockworker, Ray Ferrier who has a weak relationship with his two kids, Robbie and Rachel. After Ray’s ex-wife drops Robbie and Rachel off at Ray’s house, they thought it was going to be a normal tension-filled weekend, but after their electricity goes out and lighting strikes in the same spot, they think otherwise. After a while, a big alien-like creature called a Martian comes out of the ground and kills everyone in its sight. This creates fear amongst the residents in the city and they evacuate as fast as possible.
