Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a celebrated Ukrainian Soviet sniper in the World War II. She is the most famous of the snipers and is credited with 300+ confirmed kills. She is often known as the most successful female military sniper of all time. Pavlichenko was born on 12th July in 1916 in Bila Tserkva (former Ukrainian Soviet Nation). While at the age of 14 years in 1930, Pavlichenko moved with her family to Kyiv. She started working at the Kiev Arsenal Factory as a grinder.While working at the ammunition company, Pavlichenko also developed her amateur sharpshooting skills as a member of the OSOAVIAKhIM shooting club. In 1937, Pavlichenko graduated from the Kyiv University with a master’s degree in history. She majored on the life of popular Ukrainian …show more content…
revolutionary Bohdan Khmelnytsky. In June of 1941, Pavlichenko at the age of 24 years, volunteered at the recruiting office soon after Germany began invading the Soviet Union.
Pavlichenko was given an “audition” by the Red Army, she shot down the two soldiers with ease, and was accepted into the Red Army’s 25th Chapayev Rifle Division. Right after being shipped out to Greece and Moldova she had killed 187 Germans in her first 75 days at war. She was among the 2,000 female snipers who joined the Red Army and was one of the 500 who survived the war. Her first two kills were made using a Tokarev SVT-40 semi-automatic (3.5X) rifle near Belyayevka. She went on to record around 187 confirmed kills near Odessa in a span of just two and a half months. In May of 1942, the Southern Army Council cited Lieutenant Pavlichenko for neutralizing around 257 German soldiers. In June of 1942, Pavlichenko was wounded by mortar fire and was later withdrawn from combat duty as she recovered from her wounds due to her growing status among the enemy soldiers kill list. At the end of World War II, Pavlichenko had a record 309 kills, which also included 36 enemy snipers. After being withdrawn from active duty in the Red Army, Pavlichenko was invited to Canada and the United States for
publicity. She was the first ever Soviet citizen to have been received by a US president when she visited Franklin Roosevelt in the White House. She went on an extensive tour of Canada and the US with visits to many popular places such as universities and attended public rallies for support of the war. In November of 1942, Pavlichenko visited the UK and accepted donations for the Red Army from various organizations and companies that contributed to the war effort. Later on in her career, Pavlichenko was promoted to the rank of major and went on to train Soviet snipers till the war ended. Major Pavlichenko is credited with killing over 309 German soldiers as a sniper for the Red Army during Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II. This is the highest by a female sniper in the recent history of war. As the war ended, Pavlichenko returned to Kyiv University and completed her education. She went on to begin a career as a historian. From 1945-1953, Pavlichenko served as research assistant at the Soviet Navy Chief Headquarters. She was also a member of the Soviet Committee for the Veterans of War. In October of 1974, Pavlichenko died at the age of 58 years in Moscow. She was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. Pavlichenko was awarded the Order of Lenin twice for her role in the World War II. She was also awarded various other prestigious military awards, such as: Hero of the Soviet Union, Medal for Battle Merit, Medal for the “Defence of Odessa”, Medal for the “Defence of Sevastopol”, Medal for the “Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 (World War II)”. Pavlichenko’s contribution to the war effort has also been recognized with two commemorative stamps released. The way she had made her name known to everyone and having a reputation that they are the best sniper of all time. She didn’t let anyone or anything hold her back from what she was dedicated to do. When she had tried to sign up for the war she declined because she was a women and since she’s a woman she is declined to fight for her country since it's a man's job, that just makes it sexist and that's not right for anyone to do. They basically judged a woman by her appearance and little did they know that she would be one the best female snipers in the world. She was constantly asked why she didn’t wear makeup or some even said that her long skirt that is her uniforms made her look fat, it's rude for people to not accept the way people are whether she's a woman who dedicated her life to fight in the war and save those people who criticizing her from any outbreaks, she's saving their lives all they can repay her with is negative comments and that not okay for people to do. After reading what what she had done, I was shocked and impressed by her. She had heard about the Hitler broke ties with Stalin she immediately went to join the war but she was denied but in the end she ended up showing the people who rejected her what she was made of and proved herself. She was studying History but she put it on hold till she got back from the war and after the war she continued to study history and was the deadliest sniper of all time.
In “The Sniper” the conflict is man vs man, which means main character is tasked with killing his enemy, but it proves to be quite a challenge. Even though there were many challenges the sniper followed through with his job and persevered even after he was shot in the arm. Wanting to kill his enemy, stay alive, and be one step closer to ending the war was his main goals. Being brave, he took off his hat, placed it on his gun, and raised it above the edge of the roof. Instantly the enemy shot at it and the sniper, pretending to be dead, waited until the enemy got up for him to shoot him. He did some quick thinking and, with determination, handled the conflict quite well.
Imagine being stuck in a chair for five hours while someone transformed your face into some monster. John Matuszak had to tackle that challenge everyday of his acting job in The Goonies. John’s legacy still lives on for a few decades after his death in the role of Sloth. For him, it was nothing compared to his NFL career. John was an amazing defensive end, mostly for the Oakland Raiders. The phrase Renaissance man truly defines John Matuszak.
In the story, “The Sniper”, The sniper showed that he was an intelligent soldier. In the beginning, after Being shot by the enemy sniper the sniper took care of his wound and was able to compose himself and think of a plan. Thinking he had won the battle after the snipers successful decoy the enemy sniper dropped his guard and the second he did the sniper
In Liam O'Flaherty's "The Sniper," all of these. are brought to an acute reality in a single war-torn city. Strong cerebral convictions and opposing philosophies, due to which people want to destroy the seemingly “wrong” plague this world and are the ones who are the ones who are the main reason for the plight. To aid in his creation of such emotional conflict, turmoil and plight, the author has portrayed the sniper as a very controversial character in the story. This story is oriented around one character in the Civil War which he should not even be in as he is. mentioned to be a “student” in the story.
In both stories, people died. In “The Sniper”, the old woman, and the man she informed, as well as the sniper’s brother were killed. While in “The Most Dangerous Game”, Ivan and General Zaroff died.
Caetlin Asher Spanish 325 10 March 2017 Lack of Separation Between the Church and State The separation between state and Church has been a controversial issue for decades. In the movie “Mar Adentro”, this separation between Church and state, or lack thereof, is brought to attention through the court battle between the state and Ramón Sampedro. Ramón Sampedro was a sailor who became a quadriplegic during an accident diving into the ocean water causing a permanent spinal cord injury leaving him paralyzed. Over twenty years of being paralyzed from the neck down, Ramón decides to receive legal permission to end his life through assisted suicide, specifically Euthanasia.
In The Complete Maus, by Art Spiegelman, a son of the Holocaust survivor, Art Spiegelman, learns the story of his father, Vladek Spiegelman. Art Spiegelman learns the causes of why his father acts the way he does and the reason for the eccentric nature he has. Although Vladek Spiegelman physically survives the Holocaust, his actions show that he is psychologically affected by his experience in the camps.
Beatriz Kimpa Vita was born “near Mount Kibangu in the Kingdom of Kongo, now a part of modern Angola around 1684. She was born into a family of the Kongo nobility, probably of the class called Mwana Kongo, and was probably baptized soon after, as Kongo had been a Catholic kingdom for two centuries.”
Bullets, of course, are another big danger in war. The author shows with bullets how close you are to death in a war. In the event where the sniper lights his cigarette, he is twice almost killed with the “enemy” sniper’s bullets! The sniper’s own bullets are quite dangerous, too, as seen when he easily kills the tank commander and citizen woman informer. After shooting them, the “enemy” sniper sees him, and “His fore...
I was paired with my spotter. His name was Rifleman Raymond Léon Pelissier and we shared a tent with another sniper and spotter pair. I learned that Rifleman Pelissier was from Laval, Quebec, he was born on March 2nd, 1920, and his wife was six months pregnant when he was conscripted.
It is the winter of 1942, and a desperate, poorly equipped and demoralized Russian army faces the possibility of crushing defeat by the might of the German blitzkrieg. A young naïve soldier from the Urals, Vassily Zaitsev, arrives in Stalingrad where he is thrust into battle amid the needless slaughter of his fellow soldiers be the Germans and his own troops. To his shock, he is not given a rifle to use during the attack. Instead, the men are paired together and one is given a rifle while the other is given extra ammunition. Vassily survives the first fierce assault and finds himself side-by-side with the political officer, Danilov. They are trapped among the bodies of fallen Russian soldiers behind the lines, and Vassily’s talent as a sniper, homed to perfection from a childhood spent hunting wolves with his grandfather, is realized by Danilov when Vassily calmly and methodically kills five German soldiers. Returning to the relative safety of Russian controlled sector in the city, Danilov, a writer, glorifies Vassily’s exploits in a newspaper article.
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov was born on May 15, 1845*, in a village near Kharkoff in Russia. He was the son of an officer of the Imperial Guard, who was a landowner in the Ukraine steppes. His mother, née Nevakhowitch, was of Jewish origin.
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Kyle is known as the most lethal sniper in U.S. Military History. He has over 160 confirmed kills and served four tours in Iraq. He helped protect countless troops lives and protected his country proudly. When he was honorably discharged from service in 2009 he wrote his best selling novel American Sniper (Kyle). In the novel he recounts numerous times where he helped defends his troops from enemies and his experiences as a military sniper.
Karol Maciej Szymanowski, a Polish composer, music publicist and pianist at the turn of the 20th century was renowned for championing Polish nationalism in music. During his childhood, a bad fall led him to be lame in his left knee, which permanently cut him off from active music life and was exempted from conscription to fight in World War I. He spent those years in semi-isolation; devoting himself to compose music. In 1905, he founded “Young Poland in Music”, a late 19th – early 20th-century modernist movement comprising of Polish composers that promotes contemporary Polish compositions by publishing them and studying music with strong influences of Neo-romanticism from composers such as Alexander Borodin and Modest Mussorgsky. Szymanowski’s