Essays on Soldiers

The battlefield, where the soldiers put their lives on the line between life and death in the trenches during the Battle of Chateau-Thierry in 1918. Sing Lau Kee, who was working in the message center at the time, has to run miles between the lines…

Soldiers will suffer more psychological damage than physical damage in their careers. It is no wonder why mental institutions have become so popular over the past few years. Even though this topic has been more talked about over these years, soldiers have always suffered mental…

I chose to read this text as I knew Katherine Mansfield was a very famous author and I had heard great things about this particular text of hers.“The Fly”, by Katherine Mansfield, is a short story which can be understood best as social criticism of…

Those who serve and protect this country are always placed in situations that could eventually lead to their own deaths. They do this to gain honor and respect from fellow Americans, and of course to guarantee their protection at all times. Now how should the…

In the article, “Reflections on Veteran Suicide, Veteran Resilience and Tribe,” Shauna H Springer unravels the reasoning behind the significant amount of suicidal veterans. The article was first published on Psychology Todays website on October 15th, 2016. Springer describes the level of trust created amongst…

World War I was possible because of the soldiers, and so it should be because of them we are here today. However, it was not only the soldiers that had caused us to succeed but also many other factors that have also contributed to us…

A Most Undisciplined Profligate Crew Protest and Defiance in the Continental Ranks 1776-1783” written by James Kirby Martin examines the behaviors and backgrounds of the Continental soldiers who fought in America’s civil war. Pinpointing the New Jersey army defiance of 1779, Martin shows the astonishing…

The elements of Christianity, which both Faulks and Owen challenge within their texts that centre upon the atrocities of World War One, serve to augment the involvement of religious faith in a place where human slaughter and annihilation of morals were commonplace. However, the ways…

A cross the world, effective combat performance be any armed forces requires not only weapons, equipment and tactics but also the cohesiveness of troops. Fighting units such as the Crusades, Imperial Japanese Army and Revolutionary Iran Forces provide examples where soldiers fought because of a…

Friendship is one of the key themes in the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, which takes place behind the German frontlines during World War I. Erich Maria Remarque uses symbolic events in order to portray the importance of relationships between soldiers and the…