0-18yrs Homewar Case Study

War is something that changes someone and their live so much to even year after they are still affected by what they experienced and saw. A common theme in “Soldier's Home” and The Things They Carried is going to war, which is an experience that affects people emotionally, mentally and changed their ability to connect with people.

During the 1930s. the United States faced one of the greatest economic depressions in history, known as the Great Depression. Since many people essentially manipulated the stock market to their advantage, they eventually got richer. However, on October 29,1929, the stock market crashed since so many people wanted to sell their stocks but so few people wanted to buy these products, which caused prices to collapse. This led up to issues such as banking crisis, where banks who invested so heavily on the stock market lost so much money. In fact, people who deposited money lose everything they had. In addition, factories that has overproduced goods had also lost tons of money since businesses were producing far more goods than people were consuming. All these events that led to the Great Depression. Although Franklin D. Roosevelt came into office in 1933 and released his plans known as the New Deal which were essentially government programs that provided aid to Americans, it did not change the fact that the economy was still largely suffering. Meanwhile, tensions in Europe also increased as European countries were devastated from the hard times occurring in their nation. Following totalitarianism as a political system, many European countries were led by dictators. One of the most important dictator, was German leader Adolph Hitler. Germany, who had lost a lot power and land, after the loss in World War I and the

During World War II, children, women and families worked tirelessly and contributed to aiding the soldiers during their perilous fights. In 1939 through 1945, American families came together and as a community to work the hardest they ever have. Families helped one another to hold up their country with the absence of their men. “Wear it out, use it up, make it do, or do without.” (qtd. In FDR and The American Crisis), were words stressed to the women and children for support. The sacrifices the families made on the homefront, became just as paramount as the battlefronts. If the choices that were made didn’t prevail, the success of the war wouldn’t have ensued.

World War I, also known as the Great War start on 1914, it was the first time largely using modern model firearm in the war. WWI have result a totally different war style under the new firearms, because the machine gun could take hundreds of people in really couple minutes, and the artillery have let each side could boom enemy in long range. The old way standing against each other’s block and shot each other doesn’t work in WWI anymore, so people invented Trenches, it basically is dig in to the ground so it can avoid the machine gun on the ground. Trenches warfare takes months and months to fight, and the trenches have become where those soldier live during the war. The life in trenches is terrible, one of the things trenches have known well know is trench foot, basically let the solider lost legs. Other issue on trench is cleaning, like lice, which end up most cloth solider wear have tons lice on it. There also have some uninvited guest such as trench rat, a huge rat that can ear injury solider alive.

The home front is the name given to the activities of the civilians when their nation is at war. Life on the front during WW2 was A significant part of the war effort for all Americans.

In a fiction story, characters sometimes experience major life conflicts that cause them to disconnect from society. Emily Grierson from “A Rose for Emily” By William Faulkner and Harold Krebs from “A Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway both experience a mix of life issues that cause them internal conflicts resulting in their disconnection from normal society. These two characters share similar conflicts in their love life, family influences, and past conflicts. Krebs and Emily both share static qualities in their respective stories because neither of them change personality characteristics. Krebs experiences a different type of conflict with his return from war while Emily also has expectations to meet, stemming from her heritage in the town

While America was at war in Vietnam in the late twentieth century, there was a backlash of rebellion from the American people against the war. One particular group of people who protested were the students and these protests often escalated which leads to the investigation of the question, through opposing viewpoints,: To what extent did the National Guard overreact to anti-war protests at Kent State on May 4, 1970? The following sources were analyzed due to their crucial value of providing alternate viewpoints to the investigation. This event contains modern relevance due to the fact it questions to protection of United State citizens and freedom of expression. However, despite the violence portrayed by protesters, the National Guard escalated to counter violence too swiftly against the minute threat of the unarmed students.

War has tremendous effects on the human mind and impacts all parties involved. Remnants of war can dramatically affect relationships with loved ones and create greater problems ranging from financial problems to psychological damage that has more profound effects on the family infrastructure and its operation. The notion of war produces pressures and strains on the family that is not experienced everyday in the routine family life. Family member who experience PTSD from their service in the military also places unforeseen weights and consequences for the family to carry. There are specific effects distinct to a parent, a spouse, and children when a loved one is serving their country. The relationships between a service men and these family members are transformed with the absence and their reintegration.

The War Industries Board was formed in the 1917 by President Wilson, after the United States entered the war. It’s main purpose was to organize the production of war materials and the purchase of war supplies. In other words the agency directed what and how much of something to make, whether it was uniforms, amination, ships and tanks. At first President Wilson was hesitant to give the board any power over the economy until he realized that the war industries needed to be become more efficient. To achieve this, Wilson elected Bernard Baruch, a financhaler to be the chairman of the board.Financier Bernard Baruch was elected to lead the board.. This allowed the WIB to control all of the other agencies of the Counsel of National Defense. It deployed

Walzer (1977) defines times of supreme emergency when those conditions he specifies for the conduct of a just war can be set aside.

Life before the war for British women came in all different types of varieties and experiences. The global economy was still in the midst of the Great Depression and with availability of work scarce, many British women unable to find work had concentrated their efforts on the home life of their parents or husbands. For example, such was the case of Betty Nettle as she lived with her family in an area primarily focused on mining. They were a middle class British family, though with finding work required connections since “if someone had a shop, their children worked in it – or their nieces and nephew, which meant that round here, as far as work went it was who you knew, not what you knew.”

One more day! Tomorrow is the day father is coming home from the Great War and I couldn’t be any more excited than I already am! He’s been gone for so long and I’m really looking forward to this. Everything’s going to be better. Mother won’t be sad anymore and everything will be normal again. She won’t be so tired from all of the work that father did when he was home. In my opinion, he shouldn’t have even left. He didn’t even have to go. He knew things were going to be hard for us. I just hope that he will apologize for leaving when he gets back.

     Edward R. Murrow, former reporter for CBS once said, “We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we…remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment unpopular.” Times are changing when it comes to the media covering wars. There was once a time in our country when journalists were not afraid to report the realities and atrocities, to a reasonable extent, that occurred during wartime. During the Vietnam conflict America saw what actually was happening in the jungle on the other side of the world and it enabled citizens to form their

The effects of the war on the people 's property and their children made people to oppose the revolution. Wealthy parents and the right wing politicians saw it as a movement that was out to destroy property and kill their children. Che Guevara describes the morning attack on Moncada garrison as a disaster because many of the rebels were killed on that day and a good number, including their leaders, were detained (Guevara, p.128). In Old Rosa: A Novel in Two Stories, Rosa is dejected that her son, Armando, has joined the war and might not come back. Though she clings on the thin line of hope that he will eventually show up, she understands that it might not be the case. Perhaps he could be shot dead or detained for several years (Arenas,

Music is powerful. It is a way where people can speak their mind, their heart and their soul without permission. In hard times like war, starvation, hunger and more; music can fix people if they allow themselves to be inspired by music. Music can be used to tell a message or story to give many people a positive influence. Emmanuel Jal, a Southern Sudanese boy, was born during a civil war. He became a child soldier at a very young age and faced so much that no child, let alone person should experience. Once he got older, shifting towards music was the answer for him to share his story. War Child is a biographical movie made in 2008 about Emmanuel Jal himself returning to Sudan where he served as a child soldier. Jal uses his music to tell the story about him, his people and his country, and all the hardships he overcame.