Wasatch Front

Dictators or Monsters? John Steinbeck once said “ Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power”. John Steinbeck elaborates that power itself does not corrupt, but the fear of losing power corrupts the people into dictators, that leads people doing anything to prevent them losing power. This quote parallels to Orwell’s visions that loss of power in the form of fear, lead Napoleon to become a ruthless dictator while possessing absolute power. Therefore, similar to power

The battle of the Somme was a battle fought by the French and British against the axis, Germans, in WW1 in a region of France which the river Somme runs through hence the name of the battle. This battle had great importance even though there was no geographical advantage to winning the battle it helped relieve pressure on the French in the Battle of Verdun. The first day of this battle was the most devastating of all with the British bombarding the Germans with their barrage of bombs in hope to

a RPG hit the ground in front of us, scattering all of our equipment and us away in different directions. I quickly recovered and stood up wheezing and coughing and quickly searched for a gun that I could use to defend myself with, but before I was able to find one a wave of RPG came hitting the ground all around blasting me into a tree knocking me out briefly. When I came to senses again I looked around to see what was happening only to find that the enemy were in front of us shooting madly and

Over the course of human events, men and women of all ages fought and worked relentlessly to better their lives and their families' lives as well. Despite the arduous efforts, each and every one of those people ended up or will end up exactly the same: buried six feet under the ground. Life and death are the largest eventualities to happen to humans as a whole, yet most sentient beings, particularly humans, are afraid of death, due mainly to the natural fear of the unknown. "Numbers" by Mary Cornish

unexperienced British army, against a professional German one. It was also, however significant in many ways. Two of the main areas where the battle of the Somme was significant were in its military value, and the reactions it caused, on the home front. The battle of the Somme, intended to end the war that year, had ambitious objectives, it was significant for failing to achieve almost all of these. One of these was Beaumont Hamel, a fortified village behind the German lines. The Battle plan called

William T Sherman, a union General during the American civil war,is quoted as saying “It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry allowed for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell”. A Timeless saying, that reflects the toll of war. He describes the trauma that the War inflicted on him. WW1 was certainly no exception in regards to it’s cost. Trench conditions were severely damaging to the psychological well being of alliance

long skinny ditches that were dug into the ground by the soldiers. Soldiers lived in these trenches all day and night. And would protect the soldiers. Trench warfare reached its highest development on the western front when armies of men faced each other in a line of trenches. The western front extended from the Belgian coast through to northern eastern France to Switzerland. Trenches were not an enjoyable place to be. During trench warfare endless infections,

The Romans are credited for many inventions and innovations. In the documentary “Engineering an Empire” we learned about several of these. The first was a bridge that General Caesar built. This bridge was larger than two football fields and was built in ten days. In the ten days thousands of Cesar’s soldiers were tasked with building the bridge, and they faced many obstacles. One of the obstacles was the river itself being too wide and too deep, with several rough currents. Another obstacle was

In World War One, on the Western Front, soldiers served and lived in trenches for days, weeks or even months on end. Alone with the daily essentials needing to be done in these small, enclosed spaces, men also had to work hard in the mud and filth, sometimes for hours without rest, all the while being prepared for attacks or trench raids at any moment. This was what life was like for hundreds of thousands of soldiers during the period of World War One. This lifestyle throughout the First World War

Wars end, and soldiers return to their previous lives. There are some that never fully return home physically, but also mentally. Eager to leave the battlefields, they’ve left a piece of themselves during the process. As Boaz continually dreams about his 26 dogs, with General Dallaire’s sleepless nights, and the My Lai veterans returning to Vietnam, they suffer physiologically throughout the decade and try to find resolution by revisiting their past and confronting their demons. In Guy Lawson’s,