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    Shenandoah. Joe Bonham was a soldier in World War l being drafted into the war and forced to fight a war he had no part in. Joe was terribly injured in the war and was left without a face, arms, or legs and deaf. Charlie Anderson is a southern farmer who has 7 kids and a dead wife. He too is harassed by a war troubling his land but unlike Joe he manages to avoid it and doesn’t have to fight necessarily in the war. Both Joe and Charlie suffer the consequences of war in similar and in different ways but both

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    What do the civil war and modern day America have in common? A lot more than you’d think, actually. Abraham Lincoln’s timeless speech of unity and equality remains just as relevant today as it was 150 years ago. Now you may ask, “What does that have to do with me?”. You’re about to find out. When we think of the Gettysburg address we often associate with the concept of equality. This can clearly be seen in the quote: “President Lincoln reminded the American people what they were fighting for

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    during the civil war, specifically the battle of Chancellorsville. The Physical aspect of the book and his own personal traits shapes Henry throught the book. Due to this by the end of the book Henry is completely different than how he was in the beginning. A couple of these reasons would be Emotions,Physical landscape,and even the men's moral. All of these small but yet big reasons really do change henry drastically. The battle of chancellorsville was a big battle during the civil war, over 30,000

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    Whitman tackles the troubling depersonalisation of the Civil War by emphasising the anonymity of the dead and striving to consciously individualise them in his poetry. He notes in Specimen Days that in one war cemetery only eighty five of the graves were identified; the staggering unknown of the war effort is a theme that haunts Drum Taps and his retaliations can be seen most clearly in 'Vigil Strange' and its revisions. In draft form, the dead soldier was referred to in the third person but by the

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    American Sniper, which is also the title of the book. The main character Chris Kyle is also the author of the book, but didn't publish it himself because of his death .The sum of the book is about a navy seal sniper that goes to war because of 911 and during his time in the war he becomes the best sniper in us military.It also talks about how he gets over his stress and being jumpy.And also covers his death a little, but doesn't tell you who did it or anything. The theme of the novel is when there's

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    during the Civil War did not have good education on how to train for their soldiers. Doctors also did not understand how the diseases spread to everyone. Washing their hands or cleaning their medical tools wasn't a thing for them. Civil War soldiers were actually not happy if they got wounded. The last place any soldier wanted to end up was in a Civil War field hospital. Civil War medicine had an overall, negative impact on soldiers during the American Civil War. During the Civil War, there were

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    The Civil War Began The Civil War led to one of the bloodiest conflicts in America. A lot of people thought the civil war started because of states rights vs. the union.. Today, people think slavery is the main reason why the Civil War began. These are just a few of the many reasons why the war started. The Civil War started in 1861 and lasted until 1865. The Civil War is said to be the bloodiest war that was fought in American History. The Civil War lasted four years, it was an enormous war. The

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    differences between the spanish and chinese civil war. There are multiple differences between the Spanish and Chinese civil war. They both all involve how both wars ended and started differently. Both wars were lead by different people and they were both under different advantages and disadvantages. The Spanish War was a war that started between the United States and The Spanish (Spain). The war began in 1936 and it ended in 1939. The spanish civil war started simply because of ”a declaration of

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    The advancements in technology in the course of the Civil War made it one of the deadliest wars there has ever been. Specifically, these advancements were transportation with ships, weapons, and communication. Being that the war was so deadly, it has shaped the surface of what we have today. It created the primary sources of products we have and use in the future. These advancements allow us to build on top of what they invented then to get a greater and more resourceful creation. The transportation

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    There was a variety of reasons why civil war broke out in 1642, Long term causes included Charles’ belief in the divine right of kings, Charles’ decision to not call parliament for 12 years, Introduction of unpopular taxes and the fact that Charles was married to a catholic. There were also short term causes for the civil war, these included Parliament making controversial decisions in 1642, Charles trying to arrest 5 MP’s and Charles’ need for money after losing to the Scots. I strongly agree that

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