World War I

themes of All Quiet on the Western Front was the brutality of the war. Throughout the book, there were numerous times depicting what war was actually like, not what it was made out to be by the commanders behind the front line. The war brought strangers together and friends even closer. The comradeship that happens during the book is in direct result of how much the brutality of the war has caused. With the increasing brutality of the war, we’ve seen the increase of camaraderie through the…

a dried bloody corpus, I desperately held back the sensation of being nauseous at this moment. I needed to be strong, if not for Skylar's sake. Then, came the soldier's bullet nicking his skin. God help us now. He glimpsed at the six of us, huddled in the two farthest corners. Our lives had forever changed. Nothing would be ever the same. Everything we thought we knew, had turned up-side-down. After surviving our ordeal, everyone's loyalty had been tested. Honestly, I didn't know who to…

Despite President Woodrow Wilson influencing and starting up the League of Nation the United States of America not being apart of the organization was a huge deficiency because the legitimacy and power the United States had. Why was the United States not apart from the League of Nations? President Woodrow Wilson would have had to convince the Senate to approve of the U.S. joining the League of Nations and at the time the United States practiced a policy of isolationism, the belief that they…

Do you know what a genocide is? According to Webster’s Dictionary a genocide is “the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group.” There is a total count of thirty documented genocides in history. Twenty-nine of them are recognized by the United States as a genocide and one is not, also known as the Armenian Genocide The Armenian genocide is familiar to some but not many, as of 2015 should the United States recognize this as genocide? Armenia,…

As the European nations sought to decrease the power of the Ottoman Empire, they introduced nationalism to the Arabs. The British seduced local Arab leaders to leave the Ottoman Empire and create their own state and Caliphate. The Arabs joined the fight wishing to gain their independence from the Ottomans. They wanted their own identity and a unified Arab region but what happened was the Arabs were separated into mandates governed by the French and British. The promises for Sheriff Hussein were…

In the 28th of June, 1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, next in line to the throne of Austria-Hungary was assassinated in Sarajevo. Bosnia-Herzegovina during a touring session, within the city by a Black Hand Assassin, Gavrilo Princip. Franz Ferdinand was an advocate of increased federalism and widely believed to favor tribalism, under which Austria-Hungary would be reorganized by combining the Slavic lands within the Austro-Hungarian empire into a third crown. Supportive of this idealism, the…

in speech in an effort to win votes for the Democratic party in the upcoming midterm election. Wilson distastefully blamed the Republicans in Congress for obstructing his administration’s war efforts, “at almost every turn, since we entered the war, they have sought to take the choice of policy and conduct the war out of my hands and put it under the control of instrumentalities of their…

The Cambodian Genocide was a genocide supported by the Khmer Rouge (Red Khmer, Khmer language; or red Cambodia, representing Communism) after they overtook the government, as they labeled this genocide as a “Re-Education Program” for anyone that did not agree with their politics, as their re-education was working in forced labor camps, or if they could not do that kind of work, being killed on the spot. The Cambodian genocide was a genocide only targeting the people of Cambodia. Genocide was…

situation. The rest of the group follow him, carrying the food we’d prepared in their arms while I continued cooking the pancakes. I heard a foreign cry ring out as I finished the towering stack of pancakes. I ran out to the sight of Kirchner lying on the ground, clutching his ankle. I asked him if he had been hit and he told me that he had tripped and twisted his ankle in his frenzy out of the kitchen. I dropped the pancakes and helped Kirchner stand to his feet and start moving towards the…

By the end of June 5th, the battalion was lightened and sent to the Vancouver Camp at Chateau de la Haie. The conditions there were considerable nicer than that of the trenches. While at the camp, his brigade had a special visitor’ Corps. Commander Sir. Julian Byng. All the officers paraded and thanked for their loyal service as he became recently promoted. But only being a private, Lacon Piercy was not among their numbers. Wretchedly, their time at the Chateau came to an end, as the 12th of…