their dirty clothes and they were difficult to get out‚ because they were hidden in the threads of clothing. Lice were the primary cause of Trench Fever‚ a disease that would begin with
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wet and cold all the time. When it was time to rest they could finally take their shoes off the only problem with this was that they might have trench foot and there was a possibility that their toes could fall off because how cold and wet their feet were. Trench foot could take up to 3-6 month to cure. Trench foot caused men in the war to not
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Erich Maria Remarque’s account of life as a soldier in World War I‚ as described in All Quiet on the Western Front‚ paints a shockingly realistic portrait of the horrors of war and how it affects the men who experienced trench warfare firsthand. Remarque draws upon his own experience as a soldier and tells his story through Paul Bäumer‚ the novel’s main character‚ who is a young German man who is sent to serve his nation on the battlefield. Remarque uses Bäumer to convey the significant psychological
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Life in the trenches‚ during World War I‚ was a horrible experience for the soldiers of that time. Many soldiers were faced with death during these times. The sources of their deaths were either enemy attacks or their contraction of harmful diseases. Another major obstacle‚ in the trenches‚ was of the infestation of rats. Rats‚ either black or brown‚ were feared and were nuisances to the soldiers. Brown rats‚ especially‚ were detested due to their tendencies to feed on human remains‚ including the
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gave Remarque an unprecedented level of insight into the life of a soldier in the Great War. The first-hand account from the lowest levels of the German army‚ literally from the trenches‚ gives the reader a haunting glimpse of the horrors of trench warfare. The book “All Quiet on the Western Front” was written in only months in 1927‚ almost as if the story had been in the author’s mind for a decade just waiting to be put on paper. It is‚ at the most basic level‚ an anti-war novel. The story is
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there were more damage and kills than ever before. To start with‚ one invention that was made to assist in the war was barbed wire‚ In the 1860s the U.S. used barbed wire to pen cattle but more importantly used it to defend the front lines of trench warfare. However German wire was stronger‚ longer‚ and had bigger barbs on it. If you were to cut the wire it would just become more tangled‚ this helped the Allied offensive in July of 1916. At night‚ there were "Wiring Parties" in which enemies
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In this‚ and subsequent descriptions of the trenches‚ I may lay myself open to the charge of exaggeration. But it must be remembered that I am describing trench life in the early days of 1914‚ and I feel sure that those who had experience of them will acquit me of any such charge. To give a recipe for getting a rough idea‚ in case you want to‚ I recommend the following procedure. Select a flat ten-acre ploughed field‚ so sited that all the surface water of the surrounding country drains
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David Malouf’s novel Fly Away Peter and feature film All Quiet on the Western Front by Delbert Mann‚ explores the savage and harrowing warfare of World War One. Conveying the horrifying experience of the front line from both sides – the Allies and the Central Powers – these texts show the futility of a traumatic war‚ that left all combatants if not dead‚ eternally destroyed by its inhumanity. The overriding theme of both texts is the terrible brutality of war‚ with its catastrophic levels of carnage
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typhoid‚ trench foot and trench fever. Trench foot is a disease which makes your foot turn blue or red and makes your foot very numb. It often involves blisters and open sores which allows fungal infections to enter. If the foot is untreated it can result into gangrene. Trench foot is caused by exposure to damp and wet conditions. In this case it was the soldiers walking bare foot in the wet trenches. This was bad for the soldiers because it delayed the time in which they could fight. Trench fever
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McDonald 1 Chemical and Biological Weapons: World at War Matthew McDonald Mrs. Jones English I 4 March 2015 McDonald 2 Chemical and Biological Weapons: World at War THESIS STATEMENT: Chemical and biological weapons are necessary because they strike fear in the enemies‚ effective in their power‚ and can be used as population control. I. Introduction A. Background Information B. Thesis Statement II. Strike fear into your enemies A. Fear of retaliation
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