No man's land

which we often use as protection from German bullets. The sandbags line the trenches we use these somewhat like a barricade) I was on my way to clean the artillery. Once our troops ceased fire on the Germans 2 weeks later, they crossed no man's land ( the piece of land separating our trenches from the enemies) to see how severe the damage was on the German front line after two weeks of aggressive shooting. Contrary to our beliefs the German front lines were not damaged one bit. Actually, they were quite

gathers. They flourished off the land, worshiped the land, and made sure to take care of the land. Indians controlled the whole North American continent with very little issues. Then in 1492 a white man named Columbus discovered North America. Over a long period of time more and more white people came and in the 1700’s governments were formed (pushing natives out of their land). This is when political issues between the natives and the whites began because of land and there were constant misunderstandings

The Flight of the Nez Perces, Old Joseph had refused to sign the governor treaties multiple times. He had certain beliefs for example, “no man owned any part of the earth, and a man could not sell what he did not own,” when the governo wanted their land. Old Joseph stuck to his beliefs and fought for what he considered to be right. Similarly, in the film, Boss and Charlie, fight and defend the

The conflict between the Native American culture and the white man's image of manifest destiny has affected not only past generation but also recent and future ones. The white tribal policies, decimation of the buffalo population, and assimilation had all led to the position that their society is in right now. Through all this conflict many Native Americans have preserved and still retain some of their customs and traditions of their ancestors today. Traditional tribal policies have most often

the others and wanted to expand it. They believed their leader was capable of conquering all of their enemies. ¨The people conquered by these nationalist colonists were often called ‘inferior’ or ‘savages’ that way, leaders could justify taking their land and property.¨ This shows that nationalists believed that they could easily invade another country or colony and deprive the colonists of their

towards him as a symbol of their love. Lines are also used to etch the man’s facial expressions and the woman’s lack thereof. But other than the two lovers, the nature in the background has a symbolic meaning. The crimson bush, the tree, the land, the sky and the water all help represent the man’s inner turmoil. All of the elements of the painting collectively help to convey the permanence of

American Indian Stories, University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London edition, the author, Zitkala-Sa, tries to tell stories that depicted life growing up on a reservation. Her stories showed how Native Americans reacted to the white man’s ways of running the land and changing the life of Indians. “Zitkala-Sa was one of the early Indian writers to record tribal legends and tales from oral tradition” (back cover) is a great way to show that the author’s stories were based upon actual events in her

nineteen fifteen the armies came out of their trenches and came together. They had drinks, sang songs, and play soccer. The next day they went back into their trenches to become rivals again. When the time was right, one army would charge across no man’s land. Machine guns would sometimes prevent this by firing into the charging people. A machine gunner from the war wrote, “We didn’t have to aim. We just loaded and reloaded.”. They were not always effective. Chlorine gas by the Germans also was very

with an agricultural revolution resulting from the new development of tractors, caused a large number of farmers to lose their jobs. The Joads were one of these families, and like many Americans at the time, they sought sanctuary in California, the land of fertile soil and ripe peaches. However, the Joads only found more economic deterioration in the state that they so needed to be profitable. Steinbeck utilizes characters and their development, motifs, and the manipulation of connotation to justify

grew in power, making them a big part of the world’s power. They are also gaining natural resources and land. However, although Europe is gaining all the positive effects of this imperialism, the other countries--Asia, Africa, and Latin America--had an entirely different effect. Instead of gaining power like the Europeans, these countries and their people are being mistreated. They had all their land, culture, freedom, respect taken away from them. In addition to these negative effects, there was also