Beiyang Army

It has been years since I abdicated my thrown in favor of a Kaufman system. You see I was a powerful leader in my country but I did wrong by my people. I clung to power through force and suppression which led to my ultimate downfall. Much like Iraq my country of Rambutan was a result of war and western influence. People of conflicting beliefs were thrown together under one state and given a constitution to abide by. Western powers believed that a democracy and constructed constitution would solve

Soldiers throughout the ages have had to carry the burden of what war brings upon them. Physical strain is a huge weight to carry, but mental turmoil that a soldier endures becomes the most strenuous and lasting of the numerous burdens placed upon them. When soldiers knowingly carry these burdens into a war zone, it is so a majority of people can live life free from violence and destruction. Strong underlying metaphor is prevalent in Tim O’Brien’s Novel The Things They Carried. Metaphor is used throughout

Coming into this project, I had a vague idea of the effects of war on military families. Of course, I knew there were struggles with in a family that has a soldier or a veteran, but I didn’t understand the full concept wholly. One of my questions coming into the project was what are the benefits for military families? I figured that there was just a fine line of what benefits a military family gets regarding financial stances, but I was completely wrong. I learned that there are different situations

Imagine being terrorized and forced into an army at the young age of 9. You had no place to go anyway, for the people in the army killed your parents to abduct you. You are forced to fight for them, even if you don’t want to. You cannot escape since they would possibly kill you if you were caught, and you can’t even share that information, they could kill you for knowing so much about punishment. One day, you are in the battlefield and you kill an American soldier since you were forced to kill. Suddenly

Introduction Anytime one is dealing with a transition in their life, there will always be the unknown. That’s exactly how I felt when retiring from the United States Army. After being with one career for 21 years of my life, that’s all I really knew. I faced many challenges when dealing with “Life after the Military”. The military has provided a program that helped me deal with my transition from soldier to civilian life. Getting out of the Military after a long period of time leads to so many uncertainties

In a recent poll posted on Debate.org titled "Should Women Be Allowed To Serve In Combat Roles In The Armed Forces?" 71% of voters said "yes" while the other 29% said "no." For this dispute "majority rules" is irrelevant, in fact minority rules and the 29% can tally up another vote and argue that no, women should not be allowed to serve in combat roles in the armed forces. Although there have been cases where women find themselves in a surprise firefight and are expected to pick up the weapon to

was another one of these famous poems. It described the horrors that soldiers went through during gas attacks and “protested against the mentality of that perpetuates war” (Parfitt). “Disabled” tells the story of a solider, about how he joined the army and it has affected him now that he is a veteran of war. The poem, unlike with the previous one, starts off with a paralyzed solider sitting in his wheel chair outside of a hospital. The solider listens to the sound of youthful laughter and is filled

of my team. When I was accepted into the Cadets Military School of Colombia General Jose Maria Cordova on June 30, 2001, I was barely 18 years old. My dreams were immense, since I was the first person in my region trying to become an officer of the Army, which supposed greater pressure over my shoulders. From 2001 to 2004, I went through a series of military trainings, in which I had to learn how to persuade people, how to properly manage human and government resources, and more relevantly to learn

The poetry written in World War I was mostly dark and told of the terrible conditions of the war. The poetry shows how the soldiers suffered and struggled through unimaginable conditions. The conditions of the weather and battle were often brutal and uninhabitable; yet the soldiers endured these conditions. Nature was often a slow and painful killer. War is a constant in an ever changing world. It is easy to see that fighting is an almost futile attempt to conquer and prevail. The poetry from the

Tim O’Brien, in his collection of short stories called “The things they carried”, develops the theme of soldiers ‘carrying’ many burdens throughout their lives. Through his persona, also named Tim O’Brien, O’Brien contradicts the stereotypical reason as to why the men joined the war. Jimmy Cross explores the unwanted burden placed on a Lieutenant of the platoon member’s responsibility. Further O’Brien explores the affect of the Vietnam War on the soldiers on their wellbeing through Norman Bowker