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    soldiers were going through. Soldiers in the Vietnam War endured many hardships and faced many problems, some of them seemingly insurmountable. Most of the war was fought as a guerrilla war. This is a type of war which conventional forces such as the US army in Vietnam, find notoriously difficult to fight. The narrator

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    “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien is a magnificent book illustrating the physical and mental impacts of the Vietnam War on soldiers. “The Things They Carried” gives an insight into the lives of the soldiers and the experiences brought upon them before, during and after the war. One theme that stands out is that the soldiers in the book carry not only physical items, but also thoughts and feelings such as the memories of their loved ones and burdens of those who have been lost. O’Brien begins

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    For Sassoon, the deterioration of a pastoral English dream into a garish mournful nightmare is an interior phenomenon attributable to the horrible experiences of martial life. In the poetry of Wilfred Owen, conversely, it is war that literally disfigures the once nourishing earth—corrupting it until the very mud of the field is as threatening as the guns of the enemy. As Sandra Gilbert explains, “the landscape of the war was barely a landscape in the ordinary sense of the word, but rather a gigantic

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    As a social worker how I engage with a client is based on the two sets of values; the NASW values, and my personal values. When working with any client, not just with military clients, circumstances may occur when two or more of these values become conflicted, where you are forced to conform to the professional standards of conduct creating an ethical dilemma. Since I am no longer in the military, I am not confined by the rules and regulations that govern military clinicians. However, a military

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    The Key to the Army Profession The U.S. military exists solely for the purpose to fight and win our nation's wars, a task which largely involves supporting the country's political, constitutional, and civil objectives on a global scale. Therefore, the relationship between the Army and the citizens it protects is paramount not just to the successful execution of military operations, but the strategic defensible goals of the nation. To foster such a relationship and develop the Army as an organization

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    Suicide Among Soldiers

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    What does the product provide and why is it needed? Studies show that military members are nearly twice as likely to attempt or commit suicide (Childress, S. 2015). The reasons for suicide among soldiers may surprise you, since many soldiers with mental illness have not seen combat situations (Childress, S. 2015). Studies have given few answers, as to why there are such high suicide and mental illness rates among soldiers. Soldiers are encouraged to depend on their fellow warriors and build strong

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    C. S: New York City Hero

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    CAPTAIN SUPER……... At the ballpark. The ball is up up up up and away. “Dude that kid got hit by a Qhome run.” said the random guy. Then C.S said to his friend I have to go to the bathroom. “ but he really he went up to the sky got the kid and took him to the hospital and saved. C.S is a boy who has the powers of anything. He likes ball. He has a wife and a baby boy Owen Ryan Banker. C.S is a boy but his identity is keep secret. He is nice he is a city hero of New York City. He likes food but

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    The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), later known as the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), was composed of females serving as civilians in alliance with the Army. Over the duration of World War II, around 600,000 women were requested to serve in the army, although “the demand was never met because many women preferred higher-paying jobs” on the homefront of in rival military auxiliaries. Nevertheless, about 150,000 women served in the WAC throughout the war (Schafer 636). Oveta Culp Hobby, the head of

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    Not everyone is familiar with the use of shield soldiers. But it is used, all over the world, and it needs to be stopped. Child soldiers deserve amnesty through rehabilitation. The only minority of children that don’t deserve amnesty are the kids that voluntarily join these militias and kill innocent people by their own will. Some people believe that all child soldiers are bad and shouldn't get amnesty, and they are entitled to their opinion. However, most of these are forced to fight, they would

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    straighten myself up again. My legs and my hands tremble. I have trouble in finding my water bottle, to take a pull. My lips tremble as I try to drink. But I smile – Kat is saved.” The tragedy here is that in Paul's trying to save his best friend, he nearly sacrifices his own life to get his companion and mentor safely to medical help. However, the war still finds a way to kill Kat. In the novel, we see a shift from simply taking pride in your country to having the soldier’s identities become shaped

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