The American Soldier

Did I make the right decision? Should I stay? I can’t stay here, it is too strenuous to live like this. The first two years were exhausting and did not proceed so well. Some of the men quit out of fear. Do I quit? Quitting is the right decision because I am not living the life I expected and wanted.

There are approximately 250,000 child soldiers in the world today. Sixty percent of these soldiers are young boys, and eighty percent of them are under the age of fifteen. In the memoir, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah describes his three-year experience as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. Throughout the five phases of the novel Ishmael 's personality changes drastically. It is more of an evolution than it is development. In the end, he ends up as an entirely different person than he began as. Throughout the book, Ishmael faces many challenges. In the beginning, he copes with the trauma of losing his family. Later, he struggles with his addiction to cocaine. In the end, he 's learning how to adjust to a normal life. These significant moments shape his character, and explain why he acts the way that he does.

Darkness surrounds the evening sky. The stars were peeking out from their dark home. It looked as if God took a straight pin, poked a sheet of paper with tiny holes. Crickets softly played their symphony as the world slept. James laid in his bunk, staring off into the darkness. He wondered what the day had in store for him. The night watchman quietly walked his route, like a thief in the night.

In Hector Tobar’s novel, The Tattooed Soldier, many of the characters experience unpleasant situations. These include homelessness, joblessness, and murder. These unpleasant situations lead to negativity in their lives, and this negativity can evoke feelings of sympathy. Of all the characters in Tobar’s novel, I believe Antonio deserves the greatest amount of sympathy because he lives a life of constant despair and is often treated unfairly, which is like a trap from which he cannot escape.

The American Civil war was a extremely hazardous war to men land and buildings alike.

The living quarters of the rearward soldiers were also somewhat different from what the soldiers expected. Robert McNamara, who was the head of the Department of Defense at the time, knew in 1964 that the Vietnam conflict might escalate. He devised a plan he called “dollars for lives” by which he wanted to funnel a lot of the taxpayers dollars into infrastructure and goods transport in Vietnam, and in return by building larger, safer and more elaborate bases and pouring cement into the jungle to build roads. He created a relatively safe and somewhat comfortable environment in South Vietnam for the troops to occupy. Because of this policy, right from the start of the escalation of the conflict in 1965, camps were built like fortresses and bases

An American Soldier in World War I, edited by David L. Snead is a collection of letters written by a World War I soldier, George Browne, to his girlfriend, Martha. Professor David L. Snead was given these letters by one of his students in the 1990s . In this book, Professor Snead wanted to focus on the life of a Soldier in World War I and George’s letter describing the events first hand is a great way to help readers understand the hardships. The thesis here in this book gives a solid but brief description of what this book is about, “Browne’s letters offer a view of the experiences of an American Soldier, and He describes the difficulties of training, transit to and within France, the dangers and excitement of combat, and the war’s impact on relationships.” He also gives the personnel strain the war had on their relationship.

The cultural movement of hip hop music was created by African-Americans during the late 1960s and was composed of chanted rhythmic lyrics accompanied with a repeated beat, also known as rap music. Rap accentuated the syncopated, perpetual rhythms of percussion and other instruments. Its popularity continued in the 2000s and it transformed from being the music of choice of the predominantly poor and urban into conventional everyday music, bringing people from all over the world together (Blanchard). In the true story A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007), a young, gentle twelve-year-old boy named Ishmael Beah reluctantly becomes a soldier during the Sierra Leone civil war. After Beah’s village gets attacked, he and his friends wander from place to place searching for food and shelter. They struggle to survive every day until Beah is enlisted as a soldier, brainwashed by the army to take revenge on the rebels who killed his family. He and the other soldiers get addicted to drugs, including cocaine, marijuana, and brown-brown, to provide them with the energy and courage to fight in war. The novel largely deals with Beah’s resilience -- he is one of the few children who has the resilience and motivation to overcome suffering from the war and preserve hope for a better future. Beah uses physical descriptions of his love of rap music, his family’s wisdom, and his affinity to nature in order to explain his ability to withstand and recover from the horrors of being

The short story “Ambush” is a story about a man’s encounter with an enemy during the Vietnam war. In this story, there is an American soldier involved in the Vietnam war, and he experienced something he did not want to even imagine. He explains his adventurous encounter through his vivid descriptions.

The men who fought in the “War to end all Wars” were some of the bravest men and women to serve the United States Armed Services. I have the honor of being related to one of those men. My great-great uncle served with the 73rd tank battalion, C Company that landed on Omaha beach June 6, 1944. I conducted an interview with my father who sat down with him to do a similar project. This is what I learned.

A fundamental part of life is the discovery of one’s reason of being and their unique place in the world. Such uncovering is not as simply said than done, as discovering one’s self is a journey of potential self-actualization. A predicament in which this can be seen is with the fugitive from the novella The Invention of Morel, written by Adolfo Bioy Casares, and also with Chris from the novella The Return of the Soldier, written by Rebecca West. Both protagonists, the fugitive and Chris, experience the conflict of understanding one’s reason for being in terms of the relationships they have with those around them, the potential positions that they hold in society, and the changes that they go through over the course of their respective lives.

The book an American warrior in the World War 1 is a book containing the trust and determination of an officer on the war front. The book subtle elements a letters' accumulation that George Browne kept in touch with his wife from the war fronts. That is a sign that the fighters were extremely confident of meeting the family when the war was over. It is additionally a sample of the determination that the officer had in keeping the affection and the family's recollections even in the hardest times of the war. This boldness of trust and confidence is very much accomplished in the book by some unequivocal illustrations in the letters.

Sammy L. Davis, Rubin and ‘‘Woody‘‘ Williams were all brave American soldiers who had a huge impact on the outcome of the WWII battles. Sammy was a wounded solider who killed hundreds of Japanese soldiers by loading a machine gun that required the job of 3-5 men. Despite Sammy‘s wounds, his bravery and harsh background gave him the will not to give up. Rubin was Hungarian/Jew who fought for America against the North Koreans. Rubin was a brave solider who was captured and put in North Koreans concentration camps. Rubin in the past was in concentration camps because of his nationality. His experience and survival skills helped him keep his mates alive and himself. ‘‘Woody‘‘ Williams was a game changer, Marine forces couldn‘t move ahead because

Seriously. Grif is just this lazy jerkass who does nothing but eat and sleep and figure out increasingly creative ways to avoid having to do actual work...until he's properly motivated. Until he actually gives a shit. For one reason or another. And then he holds. He's a damn good soldier when he has to be and he hates himself for it. He's a DAMN good family man when he has to be and he resents his family for it. Because he's never gotten anything from the army. He sure as fuck never got anything from his family (mom and sister) but. he loves as hard as he hates and will do what he needs to do when the time comes and all without getting a bit of thanks or recognition because no matter how much he ends up contributing he's so good at maintining

The American Civil War was the wars of all the great wars. The casualties of the war included men, women and children, whites and African-Americans. Men and boys of the southern states either volunteered or were conscripted into the army. Many of the soldiers thought that they would be fighting for the southern Nation and its rights. Soldiers from both sides and civilians in the vicinity of battles and the war suffered from hardships.