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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Essay on how it might ]
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[ ]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [be so glorious to die ]
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[x]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [for your country. ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed: 09/94 # of Words:1007 School: ? State: ?
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>Chop Here>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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Is it glorious to die for your country?.... This question has been
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posed to many young people about to embark on war although the answer has
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usually been yes in response to their country due mainly to the fact that
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the government instills it in the people of the country to support one's
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country and one way is to send young abled bodied men into the army. If you
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were one individual that was not in favour of fighting for your country you
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would surely become an outcast by the countries people. To avoid ridicule
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and becoming outcasted by the people living around you, you would join the
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army just in the thought that you were obligated to for the sole sake of
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your country. Such thoughts were reinforced by the government promotion of
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propaganda. Glorifying death is not needed to be taught and should be up to
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the sole individual. School systems should teach an unbiased point of view
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of war to enable the child to make their own decision to fight for one's
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country.
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Is it Glorious to Die for your Country? Within the education system
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it was instructed to the teachers to teach the children at a young age
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during the brink of war to instill that their the life of the country and
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for them to defend their country against the enemy. Teachers showed being
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in a army was representing honour and the pride of the country. Guilt was
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laid on the students who showed rebellion by the teacher. Many times the
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teacher would try to show a soldier that looks happy and content trying to
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represent being a soldier makes you happy and content.
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Many young inexperienced soldiers were sent to training camps near the
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battle fields that they would soon be sent to fight, for their country and
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their life. The training camps were situated on similar enviroments that
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resembled the battle fields of where the fighting would take place.
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Reinforced displine to the young and ignorant men.
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Trench warfare is when many soldiers of opposing countries fight
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against each other across a vast desolate, dirt covered land, and the only
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sense of cover was to crouch in a usually water logged trench. The sense of
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death engulfed your very soul, the constant bombardment of shells echo in
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your mind long after it had ceased.
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On the Western front conditions were horrible to say the least, stench
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of death remained constantly in the air, bodies riddled with bullet wounds
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lay across the bottoms of the trenches, dismembered bodies scattered across
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the landscape and the sounds of agonizing and dying men echo across the
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battle grounds. Very limited rations offering very little in flavour was
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the only food available to the soldiers. Often raining, it caused muddy,
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damp conditions. The men staying in a trench filled with water and muddy
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conditions often caused such diseases as trench foot and trench mouth.
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Contagious diseases were spread quickly. Lack of cleaniness gave many
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soldiers lice and rats would run through the trenches feeding on the
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garbage and human wastes.
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Thousands of soldiers would line up under the cover of their trenches
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for a stretch of miles and wait for the leading officer to give the signal
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for the charge. When the signal was given the thousands of soldiers would
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all try to run across the no-man's land to attempt the breach of the
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enemies trench. This charge would be under constant machine gun fire and
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mortar shelling by the enemy.
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These kind of attacks usually failed maily due to the fact the odds
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were already stacked against the attacking party. The distances the
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charging men had to run to get to the enemies trench was far enough for the
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enemy to use it's constant shelling and it's machine gun fire to dwindle
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the attacking army significant enough for the attacking army to retreat.
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Counter attacks were quickly attempted after the attacks. The counter
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attacks were similiar to the actual attacks except the difference was that
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the counter attack involved the killing of the retreating of the enemy
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instead of attacking someone under the cover of the trench.
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During the war all soldiers were affected either physically or
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phsycologically. Shell shock was an ongoing sickness affecting many
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soldiers in the trenches. The constant bombardment of mortar shelling
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became so defeaning and monotonous the sounds of shelling remained with the
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soldier even when there was no shelling. Such cases became so severe for
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some the soldier would go in fits of rage and fear at the very same
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instantance. Virtually all soldiers felt homesick at one time or another.
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The soldiers being out on the battle fronts for a long time soon forgot the
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propaganda beliefs the country had instilled the soldiers, instead the
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soldiers just wanted to survive their tour of duty however long it would
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be. Death had been experienced and seen by the soldiers on the front for a
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long time that the themes had become relative to their daily life on the
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front. Coming back to their homes the soldiers had received and learned of
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a new perpective on war. It was that when face to face with death the
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political beliefs that were held were irrevalant when trying to survive in
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the war.
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Glorification of death is ridiculous unless you were being attacked and
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threat of death was present that would be another story but to die for a
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something many miles away is something that the individual must take in
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consideration in when making his or her decision. I personally would not
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risk death if friends and family were not at risk. Since our country has
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become less militarized since WWII the need for military personnel has not
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been as necessary. But as mentioned before if the country I lived was under
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a threat of takeover I believe I would take up arms to defend against the
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people who would try to attack. Other than that the physcological and
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physical damages soldiers endure would deter me from joining any army.
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