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    World War One came out of the war without hope and with severe mental damage. In their fight for their humanity, they suffered a devastating defeat. As the war went on, they experienced death on a gargantuan scale and lived through the atrocious trenches, leaving a mark upon every soldier who fought, weather on their bodies, or upon their minds in the form of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). This is shown by the expectations of soldiers being inhuman by society and the soldiers’ states of mind

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    going through their heads. In the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria , and “Suicide in the trenches” by Siegfried Sassoon, although their character are in different parts of World War 1 they have numerous of the comparable thought during this time. Paul and Siegfried have similar conditions when they are fighting on The Front, as Siegfried states in the poem “...In winter trenches, cowed and glum, With crumps and lice and lack of rum…’’(Sassoon). Paul describes a similar setting in All

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    In 1875, the ocean trenches was discovered by the HMS Challenger. They used sounding equipment during the global circumnavigation. Ocean trenches are these deep depressions that are the deepest parts of the ocean. These may be the deepest parts of the ocean but they only represent 1 percent or maybe even less of the entire area. The steep walls and the massive submarine slopes make up something called the hadal zone, which is a filled with a diverse number of species. Some of these species today

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    It’s been three days since my regiment was sent to fight in the trenches on the Western Front of this “Two Front War” or more befittingly, “The War to End All Wars”. When we arrived, we were greeted with open arms by British Soldiers that called us “Doughboys”. A few soldiers happily showed us around the trenches and warned us about the high water level and mud, explaining how it can lead to vile “trench feet”. The soldiers also warned us of the danger that is German poison gas attacks and how we

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    LIFE IN THE WW1 TRENCHES Contents Page Page 1: Contents Page Page 2: What were trenches? At which battle sites were trenches dug at? What were trenches like? What types of trenching were there? Page 3: WW1 trench warfare. What were the conditions in trenches like? What medical aid was there? Page 4: WW1 artillery What was shell-shock? What was the attitude towards soldiers with shell shock? How do modern governments and the military deal with these issues? Page 5: Bibliography

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    Description of Life in the Trenches You might be thinking that life in trenches was non-stop death, violence, and pain. But have you ever thought about why? Or what do soldiers do in their trenches when they're not fighting or dying? Do you always trust sources when you read them? Do you always believe what they say on television documentaries? How can you without a source of evidence? I am going to be telling you what life was really like in the trenches. Firstly, soldiers

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    long as we keep out head down we’re safe. 5. Surprisingly little to no physical fighting has taken place. I expected to see tanks. This is not what I imagined when I enrolled for the French military. 6. We know little about the enemy. They are in trenches

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    It has been months since I’ve seen you or dear Abigale. The life in these trenches aren’t exactly what I expected it to be. It’s far worse than I would have imagined. Day by day, our men die, holding the same position without advance, poor Joseph, he was shot in the leg after advancing from the front trench. The doctors say he won’t be coming back with two legs, they’ve tried all they could. He’s been in the medical tent for days, all of us sit in the messhall, quite. Nathan disobeyed the order to

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    *note this is not the whole attribute table. I only included the relevant information. Another thing I did was see how many soldiers were in high risk Trenches. This was done by opening the attribute table, and in the top left corner select ‘select by attributes’. In the query box insert the phrase "risk" = 'High', this will highlight all the trenches with high risk. On the bottom of the attribute table click the show selected feature icon to just see the highlight features. In our case we got 4 results

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    in the Trenches on WWI World War I, also known as the Great War start on 1914, it was the first time largely using modern model firearm in the war. WWI have result a totally different war style under the new firearms, because the machine gun could take hundreds of people in really couple minutes, and the artillery have let each side could boom enemy in long range. The old way standing against each other’s block and shot each other doesn’t work in WWI anymore, so people invented Trenches, it basically

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