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I do not think it is right to sacrifice your life for a lost cause, because what is the point in it? What does the person, like Archie get from blindly throwing his life away?. It may be believed that throwing their lives away for a lost cause is a good thing for honour and the glory of it all but do they get any of that?. And all of their loved ones are at home hoping that they can come home and when they learn they did not only die but also not really do anything except for fighting for a doomed expedition?
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Firstly what was the point in sacrificing for a lost cause themselves? You hear all the time about people doing it on TV to save their child or their house or a friend or something like that, but what did Archie accomplish by going out to fight the Turks? All that happened is that he went out and ran a decent way and got shot, he will be remembered by his loved ones but all he did was spray blood onto the earth again just like the other 449 men that went with him. Frank’s friend Barney, Billy and Snowy, one of them gets killed almost instantaneously and one of them is almost confirmed death with him not getting food and water and the
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Even the ones that did survive were usually extremely traumatised and had many diseases believed they were still at war and made life almost unbearable, and the rewards they seeked they did not get because if they had gotten them they had lost their thinking to why they wanted it in the first place and they knew that fighting for a lost cause was really
All those soldiers went through so much, they were too far in the war to quit. In that way, a soldier would stay to carry on those who lost their lives in battle.
When Paul was in the war he and his Friend Kat ran into a recruit that had been shot and they were debating whether or not to put him out of his misery. "We'll be back again soon," says Kat, "We are only going to get a stretcher for you."We don't know if he understands. He whimpers like a child and plucks at us: "Don't go away--” Kat looks around and whispers: "Shouldn't we just take a revolver and put an end to it?" (Page 34). In the movie Gallipoli, the main character Archy was a runner and he had no idea what he had gotten himself into. But when it was his time to cross the front line he had hesitation and did what he had signed up for. In the poem In Flanders Field it makes you feel sad for all the lives that had been lost. “Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.” this gives you a feeling of sadness for all the people who died and their families that they will never see
Each soldier carries many things both physically and mentally during times of war and strife. For the war, The United States implements a draft in which young men are drafted and forced to go into the military for the war. Many of these soldiers are young, immature, and escape adulthood, yet there is one phase of life that cannot be avoided: death. Cross felt responsible for the younger kids’ death because he felt it was his job to protect the innocent.
These soldiers lacked passion for the war. They didn't feel heroic because they did not hate the French nor the British. Therefore they lacked zeal to fight the war and did not fit the title of hero, they clung on to their life at all times.
The war scarred the soldiers permanently, if not physically then mentally. After the war the soldiers usually never recovered from the war. Two of the most common side affects of the war were shell shock and stir crazy. When suffering from shell shock a soldier’s brain doesn’t function properly and the man is a “vegetable”. This means the man is alive but he can’t do anything because he is in a state of shock because of the war. Stir crazy is a mental illness caused by the firing of so many bullets that when no bullets are heard by the victim he goes insane. Everyone was scared to go to war when it started. Young recruits were first sent because the veterans knew they were going to come back dead. "When we run out again, although I am very excited, I suddenly think: “where’s Himmelstoss?” Quickly I jump back into the dug-out and find him with a small scratch lying in a corner pretending to be wounded.” (P 131) Even the big men like Himmelstoss are scared to go fight. They too go through the mental illnesses like stir crazy and shell shock. “He is in a panic; he is new to it too.
Ultimately, they were trying to survive. They were trying to make it back home when they knew they would never be the same man as before. They were scared, but walked around and carried the war on a courageous front. Often, these men carried each other with unconscious support. They were brothers in arms.
According to Thomas Jefferson, all men are created equal with certain unalienable rights. Unalienable rights are rights given to the people by their Creator rather than by government. These rights are inseparable from us and can’t be altered, denied, nullified or taken away by any government, except in extremely rare circumstances in which the government can take action against a particular right as long as it is in favor of the people’s safety. The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America mentions three examples of unalienable rights: “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. I believe these rights, since they are acquired by every human being from the day they are conceived, should always be respected, but being realistic, most of the time, the government intervenes and either diminishes or
Despite the horrors of trench warfare during World War I, reasons why soldiers continued to fight include being influenced by propaganda, enjoying the thrill of fighting, and having nothing else to live for. These motivations differed from the civilians at home because the latter group were not under the direct influence of a manipulative military or intense public pressure, nor did they experience the true nature of fighting on the battlefield. For the most part, these sentiments were shared by soldiers on both the Central Powers and the Allied sides, except for people who had little enthusiasm to fight since the beginning of the war, such as the Italians and minority groups.
In conclusion, the men of the continental army had a right to not stay in the army even though they had a responsibility to protect their country. They also had greater responsibilities of protecting their children and being with their wives. Also, if the soldiers did not have wives or children. The death toll was extremely high as well as the chance of being sick. It would not be cowardly if the soldiers were to leave in fear of dying of sickness or injury. This is why the soldiers of the army
...horrific war, the men do not believe they will have psychological and physical power to continue on with life outside of the war.
When the fighting finally ended "many wives returned home to find their husbands dead in a corner" (117) because of the lack of food or water or they were shot by someone trying to find food and shelter. Family members did not know of the death of their loved ones until the war was over. Unfortunately many humans had to suffer with the losses and some could not live with that and they ended their lives by their own hand. Many people homes were destroyed, and their possessions were lost forever. Most people were happy enough, just to have survived.
When we watch any military motion pictures or documentaries we perceive that youthful troopers are taught that they ought to be prepared to give up their life whenever for their country. What does self-sacrifice actually mean? It’s an ability to willingly give up something good for something better. Envision a soldier fighting in the war where he has to establish a hard decision which includes either to relinquish his life to spare thousand different lives or be narrow minded and let others bite the dust. What do we anticipate from the soldier? Nearly all of the people will concur that he will give his life, and it’s true that he will as it’s his task to defend his nation. It’s not a child’s play to sacrifice happiness and spirit; one requires a large deal of strength and courage to act thus. Mot of the savants believes that one can’t evaluate the strength of someone by merely expecting at their physique, only by the readiness of self-sacrificing themselves for the betterment of others. In the movie Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring directed by Peter Jackson, the main character Frodo Baggins, his companions Marry and Pippin and a wise wizard Gandalf self-sacrificed their comfort, serenity and life in order to successfully complete their quest and to stop Sauron from crushing the Middle Earth. Sometimes individuals face compelling circumstances in their lives where they need to make life altering choices. The film proposes that by the act of self-sacrifice one can achieve internal strength that may have never existed before.
In today 's world, there are a lot of hot topics in the world of politics and social standings. Some that have been issues for decades. A great example is gun control that can be traced back to the 1939 case of "US vs Miller" that dealt with the where the line was drawn for the 2nd amendment. Some, however, are debates that have sparked up more recently like cell phone privacy. Regardless, many of these cases that are talked about so much today can be traced back to court cases dating back to 1857. All of them hold something in common, the fact that they attempt to most perfectly define the writing of the constitution. All Supreme Court decisions try their best to balance the two sides of a cases: Individual rights and the common good of everyone.
Fighting for freedom turns out to be an ironic event. It is ironic because freedom is sacrificed to guard it. Many brave men and women give up their daily lives so they can be shipped off to a place where they must follow orders and engage in combat. They drop everything to defend their country and the rights of the people living there, while giving up some of their own in the process. When on the lines, they are not free to wander around as they please, to sleep whenever they want to, or to eat what, where and when, they want. Unfortunately, along with enduring these inconveniences, some of our heroes are forced to give up the greatest thing of all, their life.
A simple definition of sacrifice is to give up something for the sake of something else, whether it is for another human life, for an idea, or even for a belief. “She was 17 years old. He stood glaring at her, his weapon before her face. ‘Do you believe in God?’ She paused. It was a life-or-death question. ‘Yes, I believe in God.’ ‘Why?’ asked her executioner. But he never gave her the chance to respond. The teenage girl lay dead at his feet.” (DC Talk 17) This example of a sacrifice really happened at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO, on April 20, 1999. In the story Iphigenia and in today’s society, justification can be found in favor of the sacrifice of life for the lives of others, for the sake of one’s country, and for one’s religious beliefs.