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Second Head Count Found Private Pruner Team
928 wordsIt was a hot, humid Hawaiian night, and we could see the lights shining along the beach at the Turtle Bay Hilton. Though we could not hear the sound of the waves crashing, we saw the the white shadow of the waves as they broke. This beautiful sight just hurt the moral of my team and my job that much harder. When I joined the Army I never thought Hawaii would be a hard place to work. Apparently I was in for a journey that would seem like an eternity. We were on a 32 hour mission, with very little...
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Machine Gun Fire North Africa
1,700 words... division of X Armoured Corps from breaking through the bridgehead and into the enemy's communications before dawn. The failure to penetrate the minefields lost an exceptional opportunity because dawn on 24 October saw the German forces without direction as the barrage had dislocated their communications and the German commander, General Summer, was missing and was later found to have died of a heart attack. Furthermore, the German armour was dispersed across the desert and the German command...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est
1,397 wordsThrough vivid imagery and compelling metaphors Dulce et Decorum Est gives the reader the exact feeling the author wanted. The poem is an anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen and makes great use of these devices. This poem is very effective because of its excellent manipulation of the mechanical and emotional parts of poetry. Owen's use of exact diction and vivid figurative language emphasizes his point, showing that war is terrible and devastating. Furthermore, the utilization of extremely graphic imag...
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Wilfred Owens Poetry Vs Platoon
1,537 words1. Within each text the setting plays an important part. How do both Stone and Owen convey the setting and the conditions the men faced? (Dont forget you must refer to specific lines and poetic / film , techniques) Naturally it is a lot easier to convey the desired setting of a scene if the medium used involved visual concepts. However, Wilfred Owens poetry manages to give the reader an extremely vivid idea of what the conditions were like for the people whom he describes. Like Oliver Stone, in ...
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Tim Obrien The Things They Carry
877 wordsThe Heavy Burden After reading Tim Obrien's The Things They Carried, it helped me better explore and understand the emotions and experiences of the soldiers surrounded by the Vietnam War. The main character of the story is the leader of the platoon First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. OBrien created protagonist, Jimmy Cross, to represent all other men in his platoon. The author assigns the most importance to Cross with the aspects of his personal life because it allows the reader to see the intensity o...
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Barnes And Elias Chris Taylor Platoon
696 wordsPlatoon tells the story of Vietnam from the point of view of a young, naive soldier, Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen). The film showed its viewers about war, and what it really was. Hot the dramatized part you see on TV, but the hell that it really was. Oliver Stone, the director of the movie, was actually a soldier during Vietnam. So parts of the storyline and the general idea behind the film were based on some of his personal experiences there. Sergeant Elias is portrayed as a caring leader who li...
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Vietnam In American Movies
1,531 wordsVietnam in American Movies (1) All four movies: Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Rambo: First Blood and The Deer Hunter exploit the theme of Vietnam War as historical background for the action that take place on the screen. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that movies contain ideological controversies, just as Vietnam War itself. During the course of Vietnam War, many Americans had a hard time understanding why our troops were sent to Vietnam in the first place. It is not just Vietnamese Communists th...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est Anti War Poem
1,421 wordsDulce et Decorum Est Through vivid imagery and compelling metaphors " Dulce et Decorum Est" gives the reader the exact feeling the author wanted. The poem is an anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen and makes great use of these devices. This poem is very effective because of its excellent manipulation of the mechanical and emotional parts of poetry. Owens use of exact diction and vivid figurative language emphasizes his point, showing that war is terrible and devastating. Furthermore, the util...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est Anti War Poem
1,418 wordsDavid Ibbitson EN 102, section 45 Professor Piotrowicz April 12, 2000 Dulce et Decorum Est Through vivid imagery and compelling metaphors? Dulce et Decorum Est? gives the reader the exact feeling the author wanted. The poem is an anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen and makes great use of these devices. This poem is very effective because of its excellent manipulation of the mechanical and emotional parts of poetry. Owens use of exact diction and vivid figurative language emphasizes his point, showing ...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est Anti War Poem
1,413 wordsThrough vivid imagery and compelling metaphors? Dulce et Decorum Est? gives the reader the exact feeling the author wanted. The poem is an anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen and makes great use of these devices. This poem is very effective because of its excellent manipulation of the mechanical and emotional parts of poetry. Owens use of exact diction and vivid figurative language emphasizes his point, showing that war is terrible and devastating. Furthermore, the utilization of extremely graphic ima...
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Marine Corps Boot Camp
1,428 wordsMAKING THE CORPS As a Wall Street Journal Pentagon correspondent, Thomas E. Ricks is one of Americas elite military journalists. He has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and awarded a Society of Professional Journalists Award for his writings based on the Marines. Thomas E. Ricks lectures to military officers and was a member of Harvard University's Senior Advisory Council on the project on U. S. Civil-Military Relations. As a Pentagon correspondent, he can access information where no other ci...
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Miles Per Hour United States Military
2,213 wordsThomas Ricks, author of Making the Corps, gives a description about the United States Marine Corps basic military training. The book s main focal point is Platoon 3086 at Parris Island, S. C. , in 1995. Their story is about their eleven weeks boot camp training to become a full-fledged marine. Mr. Ricks writes about what separates the marines from American society, he writes how the Marine Corps differ from other branches of the Unites States military, as well as life after boot camp. How the Ma...
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Historically Accurate Oliver Stone
1,010 wordsPlatoon was filmed in 1986, and directed by Oliver Stone. The production studio that produced the film was Orion Pictures. The lead characters include Sergeant Barns, played by Tom Berenger, Sergeant Elias, played by Willem Dafoe, and Chris, played by Charlie Sheen. Chris is the ignorant college boy who comes to Vietnam on his will because he feels lost back home. The character is based off the director Oliver Stone, who dropped out of Yale to join the war effort. Although he is glad to get away...
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Owen Describes Blue Light
457 wordsWar is and always will be a horrible place to be in or at. We can learn this from the two war pieces of the film Platoon and the poetry of Wilfred Owen. The main theme in Platoon is of the loss of innocence caused by the war. Owens poetry is somewhat different. He displays and conveys the images of the harsh living conditions on the battlefields of France. The settings in both pieces display similarity and get straight to the point. Platoon was full of mud, slime and humidity, whilst Owens poetr...
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