Trenches Descriptive Writing

Raising children is one of the most important responsibilities in any society. Today, working parents have many options, but what about those children who have neither a mother nor father? What about those children who come from broken and abusive homes? In such cases there are often few choices. Parentless children may be placed in orphanages or in foster homes. Ideally, foster care offers children more personalized attention than would normally be available at a public or private situation. However, orphanage care is notoriously uneven. While some children are indeed in loving homes, others find themselves neglected or

The guardians understood that the children were born just to die at a young age. They understood that many people looked at them as monsters and not as human beings. With that in mind, the guardians did not get emotionally attached to the children. In The Effects of Early Social-Emotional and Relationship Experience on the Development of Young Orphanage Children, the main focus is on how children in orphanages react to certain types of caregivers. The caregivers who worked with the children at the orphanage seem to have the same concerns as the guardians working at Hailsham. On page 108 it says, “ Staff initially wondered if it was a good idea for children to have close relationships with caregivers when many would go to harsher and less affectionate and responsive environments in the future”.

One of my all time favorite musicals as I was growing up was always Annie, about a sweet little orphan who through determination and a little positivity found a better life. But sadly as hard knock as Annie’s life was, it is nothing compared to the actually reality. The early foster system was established in the 1500s in order to care for children who were removed from their parents. Foster care was intended to be a short-term solution until the child is either adopted or reunited with their family. However, because of how few people there are willing to take in these kids, the average child will spend over two years waiting to be adopted. But the flaws in this system run much deeper.

In this report for Serious Topics Radio Station i will discuss the reasons why a child gets taken away from their parents/ guardian and need to be looked after. I will also talk about the short and long-term solutions. Children are generally best cared for within their own families. However, there are times when children aren't able to live with their families. If a child isn’t able to live with their parents, they may be taken to care.

As the soldiers lay in the rat filled trenches, with bullet's whistling overhead. While the soldiers sleep the enemy never stops throwing bombs near the trench, as they try to catch the sleeping soldiers. Every night when they sleep they need to bear with rats biting their wounds caused by the cold. All the while surrounded by the whistling bullets of the enemies. As a bomb goes off feet away from the soldiers, they hear a quit whistle blow signalling for them to get back to the cold hard war that seems to never end.

Just like their constant companions the lice and the rats, the soldiers in the trench adapt to the hell that they find themselves trapped in – doing whatever it takes to survive. They even fight each other over food ‘at each others throats like hungry, snarling animals’. As the novel & the war progresses so does the inhumane side of the soldiers who become increasing more detached from killing, unconcerned with the death of friends. The soldiers are conditioned, hardened up and desensitised with self preservation becoming a key motivator. This is shown as the soldiers plunder the city of Arras allies ' town and vandalize houses with no consideration of the local

In October of 2014, there was plenty of buzz floating around the state of Missouri. This buzz was all due to baseball. At the time, the two Missouri Major League Baseball teams were still alive: the Stt. Louis Cardinals and the Kansas City Royals. Both teams in their respective League Championship Series. The buzz soon came to an end however as the Cardinals failed to move on however as the San Francisco Giants defeated them 4 games to 1. It was the anticipation, however, of a possible “I-70” World Series matchup that was undeniable. The thought of the biggest baseball event and sporting event in the world coming down to 2 teams from the state of Missouri. However, this unimaginable sporting event has already happened.

Trenches were dug out in the ground for protection, against machine guns and bombs, however the trenches were not made for comfort or for soldiers to live in for a long time. Most trenches were muddy and wet and soldiers had terrible living conditions which would cause disease, and eventually death. In document two, by Robert Donald, he exclaims that “I do not see why the war in this area should not go on for a hundred years.” Usually, life in the trenches meant consent fighting and battles, no side ever won because each side would encounter a bomb or some kind of causality and make their trenches deeper, and deeper. This was one cause of a stalemate, and why it was predicted that war in the trenches would continue for years and many more soldiers would die. In an outside source, a diary written by a man named Endy, talks about his life in the trenches and how their were many deaths. Although, this was not the only reason the trenches were deadly. The use of poisonous gas was also used in trenches caused many

Orphan Children living in the 1800s were living on overcrowded streets of cities. Over 30,000 abandoned kids were placed into new families throughout Canada and the United States using what were called ‘orphan trains’ . This movement was one of the first documented for foster care in America. The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that operated between 1854 and 1929. These kids faced many obstacles, a rough childhood, and their family life could be torn apart or challenging for them.

An issue like this affects the whole world, whether people realize it or not. If orphans have no one to look after them, sometimes they can become scared or upset- or even violent and reckless.

The majority of fighting on the Western front during World War one was fought in trenches. These were long, deep ditch like structures where soldiers would live, fight and most likely die. The two armies would be stationed on parallel trenches where they would face each other in a long battle of attrition, there would be many different lines of trenches where armies would retreat to or advance to a captured trench. In between The two armies trenches would be no mans-land where the fighting happened.

I froze. I could not move. I could not think.” What, what was going on”?

“We care for the orphans, not because we’re rescuers, but because we are rescued.” (David Platt) In the novel “Once” by Morris Gleitzman, A kid named Felix is stuck in an orphanage. He decides it’s time to head out and find his parents out in the miserable world.

What I found there wasn't there when we first discovered it, I swear. What I found was an old VHS tape. It was settled on top of the old TV we had there. The title of the VHS read "Those Things I fear". At first I thought it was some horror movie one of my friends left there. But, I asked my friends if they knew of the movie, and none of them had an idea. So I decided to watch it. At first it started off with some static, when it cleared out, there was this room. it was the exact bunker my friends and I would go too. The camera view was from the corner of the room, like a security camera. It was dark but I could see the outlines of some furniture. I saw the hatch open letting the sunlight seep in, and saw a boy slowly climb down the ladder. It was me. the rest of the video was just me and my friends talking, and after a while, leaving. I took the VHS out of the player, studied it and looked in the upper right corner of the room. There I found a security camera, I didn't remember seeing it before, so I observed it for a while. When I got home I sat and thought for a minute. I tried to fit all the pieces together, but It didn't make sense. Why would someone have a recording of me and let me see

"There are over 120,000 orphans in America, while another 400,000 children live without permanent families (HHS; AFCARS). It is common for children in foster care to age out, leaving them with little financial or emotional support." Not all of the orphans in the United States are orphans because of unready parents. But a large portion of them are. Due to parents who either weren't ready, or didn't want children when they had them, a number of 520,000+ kids are without families or permanent homes. Although there are a number of organizations that deal with the children,