Analysis Of The Interlopers And The Machine That Won The War

I think the central idea of “From War To America” by Kristen Lewis is that hope is stronger than fear. I think this because in the text it says, “...Six million Syrians have lost their homes...”. This is a time that you need hope and not fear because you have lost the little you have and the place you grew up in. Another example where you need hope more than fear is, “ ...4 million people at risk of starvation…”, this text shows that if the people of Syria lost hope they would have died and let fear get the best of them. One last example of how hope is stronger than fear is, “Bullets whizzed around them. They ducked behind a wall to catch their breath.” This shows that if they would have let fear get the best of them, they would have been in

In the short essay “Why I Hunt” by Rick Bass, the writer gives the reader his personal perspective of what hunting is like for him. Rick Bass goes on to share the story of his family’s move from the hills of Fort Worth, Texas to the very remote Yaak Valley of Montana. The move to this area makes Bass want to hunt more since there is a better variety of prey, and due to everyone that has lived in what Bass calls “the Yaak”, has hunted their entire lives, he feels obligated to do it more than what he did when he lived in Texas (655). In “Why I Hunt, Bass argues that his love for hunting is an enjoyable hobby that develops his imagination and gets him in touch with nature, and that people should put down technology and try hunting. Bass uses imagery to show the beauty of hunting, and pathos to describe his emotions towards hunting.

Undoubtedly, humanity and modern civilization would have never reached their current form with the research. Research is the key element behind any type of evolution and progress. Contemporary, broadly established theories, varying from the understanding of the universe to the revelation of human evolution, are the result of valuable innovations in different fields of science and technology. Every day life has been simplified due to the constant advance of knowledge and discoveries. However, none of this would be possible without constant research. Therefore, and since research is vital to the development of human civilization, the need to augment and supplement current research methods has become apparent. Even though research outcomes

J. Baird Callicott and Priscilla Solis Ybarra are both professors at the University of North Texas and the situation they are explaining is that the wilderness was once seen as a wild place filled with beasts that couldn’t be tamed. They include the view points and work of great foresters like

War is a dangerous game, many people would likely agree to this, however, very few have ever seen a battlefront. The truth is that war, no matter how awful we can imagine it, is always exponentially worse. In Timothy Findley’s The Wars, Robert Ross, the protagonist,­ faces a situation that he finds difficult to come to terms with, and when faced with a similar situation later on in the novel, he must take drastic measures to reconcile the uncertainties of the past situation. Timothy Findley suggests, through the life of Robert Ross, that one’s need to reconcile the uncertainties of past experiences dominate our actions when such situations come up again in our lives. In the words of Hiram Johnson, a US Senator during the First World War,

Views on Indians range from savages and man eaters to peaceful men. It is true that the Native Americans did have their faults, but when the settlers came to visit these habitual tribes people were suprised but not taken aback. Indians had seen the white people before, but the ones they saw had never come to stay. The colonists ended up about 500 miles north of what they planned, and were not prepared for the harsh winter ahead of them. They didn’t have enough food, shelter, or clothing. People were already dying of disease, hypothermia, and starvation. Samoset (an indian tribeman) told the englishman that he would help them survive the winter, and that he knew a man named Squanto that could speak better english than himself. Samoset introduced the strangers to Massasoit (cheif of

Wars aren’t fought in a vacuum, and those who study the Civil War should know this. While the Confederacy lost the war on the battlefield, a failure to exam the social and political climate before the first shot fired on Fort Sumter and the furling of the CSS Shenandoah’s Confederate Navy Ensign— the war’s final surrender— does not capture the war’s impact on the nation. Certainly, one can’t discuss a war and never mention a battle. The field’s foundation is in traditional military history, but I feel more comfortable discussing social history topics. When I began the semester, I felt I was staunchly in the social history camp. I wanted nothing to do with regiments, charges, and invasion routes. When I wrote the first paper on this same

James Axtell’s “ The Invasion Within” and Jill Lepore’s “ The Name Of War” share the same realm as they both are excellent resources when it comes to the topic of Native American History. Though there subject matter is the same, there are stark differences between the two books that each give a unique perspective on the Native Americans and their involvement with the Europeans. Axtell uses “ The Invasion Within” to tell the sorrowful tale of the Indians. The trials and tribulations they went through are flushed out on each page as Axtell tells the story of the early beginning of colonial life, the naivety of the Indians as they met the Europeans, and the destructive path the Europeans eventually led the Indians on. Lepore tells a much different narrative in “ The Name Of War” where she examines the lives, actions, and thoughts of both the Indians and Europeans and eventually comes to a very educated conclusion. Life for both of them really sucked. The Indians were no better than the Europeans, and the Europeans were not mightier nor more pious than the Indians. In an essence, Lepore used her book not to show the contrasting differences between the Indians and Europeans (which is typically seen in most history books) but instead the similarities between the two that not many see. These authors approached the same topic but in such distinct ways which leads one to beg the question, how exactly are these books different?

While watching The Invisible War, many of the service members were treated as though their attire (short skirts, running shorts, etc.), behavior, and alcohol consumption encouraged the sexual assault attacks and sexual harassment they endured during their service in the military. Also known as “victim blaming”, this form of blaming often occurs because perpetrators do not want to be held culpable for their wrongdoing. It also may be used as a way to take the blame off the wrongdoer and displace it onto the victim. In addition, the perpetrators often believe that the victim so called “deserved” the violence and mistreating that they suffered because of their vulnerability (behavior, dress, etc.).

Movements, such as Progressivism, altered the course of American lives significantly. Early in the 1900s, the Progressive movement became characterized by a fusion of beliefs working toward the improvement of society. According to David J. Goldberg in Discontented America, these reformers urged the recognition of the common American individual, and focused on issues “…including the exploitation of female and child wage earners, unsanitary working conditions, the growth of urban slums, corrupt politics, and the abuse of giant corporations…”. He also denoted that progressives perceived government as their greatest tool in fixing this broken and evil society. They advocated the increase in state power because they objected that it was necessary

France was the primary stage upon which the combined efforts of the Western Front took place and it was also the place where the outcome of the bloodshed was decided in 1918, after the country had been ravaged by the conflict since the beginning of it back in 1914. It was in French lands that the modern machinations of war were let loose to roam and become one of the most violent, bloody, and uncontrollable human expressions in recorded

This book written by Paul Kennedy is called “Engineers of Victory” and it discusses how the Second World War was fought and won by the Allied Powers. He discusses five main point that are often talked about actually winning the war by themselves. These topics are how we were able to overcome the “wolf pack” of U-boats to get convoys to Britain, gaining command of the air over the Luftwaffe, the ability to halt the Nazi Blitzkrieg, overcoming the harsh problems with amphibious landings, or finally over coming distance for America when they fought against Japan. Kennedy in this book argues that none of these alone were enough to win the war by themselves but instead working together were able to win the war.

When the next Great War knocked on the doors of France, they were unprepared for the advancements made by the Germans in the new wave of warfare that would be introduced in Europe. Marc Bloch portrays both the issues of France lacking support in the government and society and that resulting in the French being less modernized when fighting the war before them. The Germans made advancements in major fights from the sky to the lab and the French were not ready to fight it. Bloch knew that him and his fellow Frenchman weren’t prepared and were not even supported by the citizens and public officials back home, with that Bloch uses those experiences as the reason he believed the French were overpowered by the new German regime.

“There are some dreams from which it is better not to wake.” Japanese Commanding Officer during WWII, Hiroo Onoda, died after 30 years of hiding out in the Philippine Jungle. Onoda had no idea when the war ended so he never came out of hiding, even when the members with him had died. Onoda was considered a hero once he came out of hiding. He spent time giving speeches, writing his book, No Surrender: My Thirty Year War.” Hiroo Onoda was an important person because he spent thirty years in the jungles of the Philippines without surrendering until 1945, was persuaded back to Japan where he became famous and then established a school where Japanese Children could learn survival tactics.

“The Interlopers” begins with a man named Ulrich von Gradwitz on the hunt. He’s not looking for animals, though. The story provides insight on the true motive, stating, “[He] patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy.” Gradwitz is hunting for a man who was, like him, raised to hate