...because it always gives you the feeling of death. This feeling is the fear of the unknown. In Charles Harrison’s Generals Die in Bed, lots of soldiers must face this fear because they can be killed at anytime in the war. In contrast, they have to hide their fear as much as possible because their strength shows the power of their country. When they cannot hide anymore, their fear comes out in three different ways: begging others, crying to release the pressure, and running away from the war. They do these things to survive the cruelty of war. This cruelty pressures the soldiers until they finally break and show their true emotion. When soldiers face death, they can do anything to survive, even beg their enemies. To begin with, during the raid on German trenches, the protagonist lunges Karl, a German soldier, by his bayonet. Karl shrieks lots of times and he wants to stop the pain, so he helps the protagonist to withdraw the rifle with piteous eyes (Harrison, pg62). Karl knows that he will die but he does not want to suffer from the pain. He is afraid of dying painfully, as a result he chooses to express his fear and beg the enemy to pull off the bayonet. His reaction shows that he is tired of pretending to be strong; he just wants to release his pain and fear before death. Also, the protagonist and other soldiers are almost insane because of the fake speech by a general. When they arrive at German trenches, they shoot all the German soldiers who have already surrendered. “The...
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...GENERALS DIE IN BED – Charles Yale Harrison JR’s TEACHER NOTES Explain and speculate what the title of the novel is inferring about the Generals. A. * The title is a pun or is having a go at the generals. * Generals die in bed while the soldiers die on the front lines. * Generals don’t fight. Instead they command soldiers from a safe distance behind the frontlines * The title suggests that there is a total lack of respect for generals or for people in positions of power/ authority. If this happens in war then there is a breakdown in the chain of command, therefore making it difficult to win the war itself. Glossary Compile a comprehensive list of words/ terms/ phrases/ places from the text and from the period in which the novel is set in. These words and terms should then feature in your coursework and text responses. * Trench warfare * Western Front * Alliance * Mother Country * Over the top * No mans land * Parapet * Sniper * Artillery * Shell Shock * Shrapnel * Minewerfer – mine throwing trench mortars * Parados – the wall of the trench * Blighty – England * Bosch/ Heine – derogatory term for a German * Estaminet – French café * Propaganda – exaggerating the truth * Lice/ louse – small parasitic insect * Funk-hole – a cavity carved out of the inside of the trench * Raid * Interrogation Quotes Choose at least 3 quotes per chapter and attach who said...
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...Let’s take a glance at General Hospital with regard to its structure at the time that the respective case at bar presents itself. The details of the case advises that General Hospital was formed in 1968 and was a non profit hospital in the northeast region. It’s not a very large hospital but does find itself in a nominal growth pattern from “175 beds to 275 beds.” General Hospital was limited in the services it could perform and we can assume that cost to maintain a diverse and well-skilled medical team and state of the art equipment was not being looked for consideration for nearly twelve to fifteen years. This conclusion is drawn from the initial details of the case (p. 545), as follows: “. . . General Hospital entered an agreement with a nearby medical center to provide patient services that it wasn’t able to provide itself. . .” Over a twelve year period General Hospital has approximately 90% of its beds occupied, but what its management was not prepared for was that that very same “nearby medical center to which its physicians and staff were referring new people over a twelve year or more period, positioned itself to eliminate the need for the referrals from General Hospital and increased its resources and state of the art equipment for direct application for services from the general public. Subsequently, “General Hospital’s occupancy dropped from 90% occupied to 65 percent, forcing it to “drop services that it was unable to compete. General Hospital’s nightmare of...
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...Introduction: Death can be perplexing to anyone. It drains people emotionally and leaves a void in our hearts which can never be filled. Natural deaths are still easier to accept by labelling it as the ultimate truth of life. However, the ethical issue we have taken up is about death which is induced before time. The background setting for our live case is the very debatable issue of “Euthanasia”. Literally, euthanasia means “Good Death” (Greek: eu = good, thanatos = death). More formally, euthanasia means the intentional act or practice of painlessly putting to death persons suffering from an incurable and distressing disease as an act of mercy, which is not necessarily at the request of the patient. Forms of Euthanasia: • Voluntary euthanasia: When the patient has requested the death. • Non-voluntary: When the patient has not made any request and gave no consent. • Assisted suicide: Someone provides an individual with the information, guidance, and means to take his or her own life with the intention that they will be used for this purpose. When it is a doctor who helps another person to kill themselves it is called "physician assisted suicide." • Euthanasia by Action: Intentionally causing a person's death by performing an action such as by giving a lethal injection. • Euthanasia by Omission: Intentionally causing death by not providing necessary and ordinary (usual and customary) care or food and water. Euthanasia evokes a mixed reaction among...
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...soldiers to lose sleep. In the text “All Quiet On The Western Front”, the German soldiers have to cope with billions of trench rats. The author says “Almost every man has had his bread gnawed. Kropp wrapped his in his waterproof sheet and put it under his head, but he cannot sleep because they run over his face to get at it.” (70). In the trenches, there were billions of huge trench rats searching for food and dead bodies to feed on. Trench rats would crawl on soldiers faces in attempt to find food in the soldiers pockets. Soldiers often felt horror of their presence and would lose sleep while trying to ignore and kill trench rats. In result they would suffer due to the exhaustion after hours of hard work. Similarly, in the text “Generals Die In Bed”, Canadian soldiers are bothered by lice. The author says “We are going insane with scratching. My chest is a raw wound. When I am awake I scratch as little as possible, but when I sleep I scratch until I bleed and the pain wakes me up.” (30). During the war, Germans had bought lice with them and spread the lice to the Canadians. Soldiers would lie awake at night scratching their skin due to the lice which also resulted in bleeding. During the war, many of the men started to fall ill and called it trench fever. It was until after the war that doctors discovered that louse had carried bacteria with them. There were many symptoms of trench fever (skin rash, aches, pain) which was a barrier for soldiers to have a good sleep. Furthermore...
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...chap,” I’d say—“I used to know his father well; Yes we’ve lost heavily in this last scrap” And when the war is done and youth stone dead; I’d toddle safely home and die—in bed. In Siegfried Sassoon’s “Base Details,” the speaker, a young ordinary soldier, says that his life would be so much different if he was an older officer. During that war, only young soldiers were involved in the fighting; Sassoon was one of them. As a British soldier in World War I, Sassoon well understood the military life. Raised in the carefree, luxurious life of the British upper classes, Sassoon was at first a strong believer of war; however, his attitude completely changed as he became angered by those who profited at the expense of others. “Base Details” is an example of him expressing anti-war sentiment. The sarcastic tone of Sassoon reveals his true thoughts, developing the poem’s central message that the officers’ indifference unnecessarily leads their troops to death. Sadly, older officers had a lot of excesses; young soldiers were the ones facing their fate. The narrator, speaking in first person in this dramatic monologue, states that if he was a major, he too would have a ““puffy, petulant face” (4) and would spend his time “guzzling and gulping in the best hotel” (5). The speaker believes the majors send young men to die in battles. Then, safe from the deadly bullets in their headquarters, they read the list of those who died, making ignorant comments like “Poor young chap,” and “Yes,...
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...For years people have been scared by horror movies and they continue going back. Alfred Hitchcock once said, "drama is life with the dull bits left out." Why do people like to watch other people get hurt and die while being scared enough to make them jerk in their seat? Movie goers like horror movies because people in general have dull lives. Males just use it as a opportunity to get close to their partner, while females like to get scared while in the presence of their "man." Every day people simply get up, go to work, and come home for supper before going back to bed. People believe that their lives are boring. That is why horror movies are popular. Movie goers like to be able to see blood, guts, fingers and toes, while having the ability to simply walk away. People in general want to have suspense in their lives but want to be able to turn it off. As for men, they like to be frightened as well as women, but most of all men like the sex appeal of horror movies. Almost every horror movie made in the last 20 years has a young attractive female actor running around mindlessly. If men were not attracted to this, then producers obviously wouldn't make movies this way. Men would also rather take their partner with them to see these kinds of movies. Men know their "female friend" will want to cuddle up! Women on the other hand want to have the fear factor but want their partner to be by their side. Most women movie goers will NOT watch a horror film alone. They want to...
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...Concentration camps 2 Concentration camps: A miserable persecution A concentration camp is a large established area used to consolidate a certain population considered hostile, usually in very poor conditions. This population may have political opponents, residents of an enemy country, ethnic or specific religion, civilians of a critical zone of fighting, or other human groups, often during a war. People are detained at the rate of general criteria, without legal process, and not under individual judgements. The Nazi regime has created confusion on using the term concentration camp to designate some of its camps; it should be distinguished, even if the conditions of detention in concentration camps can lead to levels of morbidity and extremely high mortality. A concentration camp is a detention facility where they locked up, usually a simple decision of the police or the army, people who are considered troublesome for power.Most concentration camps were also forced labor camps.(Lucas,1987,p.64) Mortality is very high due to poor living conditions, work and food. Those concentration/extermination camps were created by Adolf Hitler and the first one was named Dachau saw the day on January 1933. Twenty three camps were created but there were also sub camps which were smaller. The Holocaust, the concentration camps, were functional from January 30th, 1933, to May 8th 1945.The objectives of the concentration Concentration camps 3 camps set up by the Nazi regime...
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...In “The Odyssey” after Odysseus takes revenge on all of the wooers, he punishes all who were involved with the wooers. The constant debate of this topic is if Odysseus really was justified for what he did. He is justified for very important reasons such as, one the other people involved had it coming because they should have stayed loyal to Odysseus. The second reason is that everyone deserved the punishment because even though the wooers were taking over they should have not have slept with them or done anything. The third reason is because Odysseus needed revenge for the purge on his house so anyone who took part in the purge deserved to die. As stated before the first reason is because the servants of Odysseus should have stayed loyal...
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...wife of the island’s owner. Emily Brent, General Macarthur, Tony Marston, and Judge Wargrave think they are going to visit old friends. When they arrive on the island, the guests are greeted by Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, the butler and housekeeper, who report that the host, someone they call Mr. Owen, will not arrive until the next day. That evening, as all the guests gather in the drawing room after an excellent dinner, they hear a recorded voice accusing each of them of a specific murder committed in the past and never uncovered. They compare notes and realize that none of them, including the servants, knows “Mr. Owen,” which suggests that they were brought here according to someone’s strange plan. As they discuss what to do, Tony Marston chokes on poisoned whiskey and dies. Frightened, the party retreats to bed, where almost everyone is plagued by guilt and memories of their crimes. Vera Claythorne notices the similarity between the death of Marston and the first verse of a nursery rhyme, “Ten Little Indians,” that hangs in each bedroom. The next morning the guests find that Mrs. Rogers apparently died in her sleep. The guests hope to leave that morning, but the boat that regularly delivers supplies to the island does not show up. Blore, Lombard, and Armstrong decide that the deaths must have been murders and determine to scour the island in search of the mysterious Mr. Owen. They find no one, however. Meanwhile, the oldest guest, General...
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...be focusing on euthanasia and how it relates to the Deontology Theory. The Deontology Theory relates to the rights and wrongs of actions themselves. It is defined as "the focus on the duties and obligations one has in carrying out actions rather than on the consequences of those actions” (Mosser, 2013). Meaning, the act is right or wrong, depending upon the action in which it was brought upon. In general, Deontologist tend to focus on the the will of the person and their intentions. Euthanasia is a very debatable topic. It is a heated topic because it relates to death. Some may say euthanasia is allowing people to die, which is the same as killing. Whereas others may see it as the right to die, especially when one is suffering with a terminal illness …."life is a precious gift from God. To end it prematurely is to reject that gift; only God should determine when life should end" (Mosser, 2013). In judging whether or not euthanasia is moral in regards to Deontology, we have to first talk about the action, killing. Morally speaking, not all killings are the same. Being able to die with dignity, gives one the ability to make an important decision not only for them but for those around. We must respect people's dignity, according to Kant (Lacewing...
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...The general made one of his deepest bows. “I see,” he said. “Splendid! One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in this very excellent bed. On guard Rainsford…” Rainsford and Zaroff knew that they were about to battle. Consequently, they both knew that their lives were on the line. Then Rainsford started thinking that if he didn’t win, this savage man killer would continue his cruel acts. “General, you are outmatched, I have the knife you gave to me at the start of this.” Rainsford began, “You may as well step down and let me lock you away in a prison, or if you choose to fight I will end you with the same weapon you bestowed onto me.” Zaroff replied “I see, you have trapped me and clearly aren’t planning on fighting fair.”...
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...Christopher Abrogena NUR 440 Vulnerable Population and Self- Awareness Professor Nita McGee-Cornelius PhD, PMHNP-BC, MSN, RN 07/15/2013 Introduction “Vulnerability is a general concept meaning “susceptibility” and has a specific connotation in health care—“at risk for health problems.” According to Aday (2001), vulnerable populations are those at risk for poor physical, psychological, or social health. Any person can be at risk statistically by way of having potential for certain illnesses based on genetic predisposition (Scanlon & Lee, 2007)(Chesnay 2012). A vulnerable population that I would like to focus on is the island of the Philippines and its people. There are many factors that make this country and its people vulnerable. Being a third world country, the Philippines have many people that live at or below the poverty level. Many Filipino’s live in areas that are susceptible to disease, flooding, and other factors that endanger their life style. In some of these areas, or provinces, a lot of the houses are made of sheet metal, dirt, and even trash. These living conditions leave Filipino’s vulnerable to disease from the trash, water and the many animals and insects that roam around their living spaces. Demographics As of the 2012, the demographics of the Philippines contained the following statistics. The population of the Philippines is estimated to be around 103,775,002 people. The birth rate is 24.98 births per 1000 people. The infant mortality rate...
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...The Ethical Struggle between Right to Life and Fight to Die Assisted suicide has been and always will be a controversial dilemma not only in the United States but across the world. There are two landmark cases in the State of California that have shaped both federal and state legislation regarding the topic of assisted suicide. During the 1980’s it was Elizabeth Bouvia whom was making headlines, and, over 30 years later, the debate continues with the circumstances surrounding Brittany Maynard. This sensitive topic will likely continue be controversial, however recent legislation changes that have been adopted by the State of California may lead to the new ethical standard that may be considered to be acceptable. Elizabeth Bouvia Elizabeth Bouvia was born in 1958 and is a significant figure in the right to die...
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...Deciding whether to stay and possibly die or leave and have many others die is one of the hardest choices you will experience if you are put in a situations like this. The first two years of the American revolution did not go so well. People were dying and getting sick and you never knew if you were next. There were 12 men ,including yourself, that would be crowded into one hut. I have decided to not re-enlist for the three reasons which are trust, family, and valley forge’s conditions. These reasons are only few of the many that are making me want to leave once the 9 months are over. Washington decided to build valley forge for the soldiers to stay and rest. The village was not big enough to be called a village but Washington still decided to call it valley forge. General Washington also marched his army into the capital. There was a victory at Philadelphia before this all started. Valley forge is a resting camp for the soldiers 18 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Many things happened before...
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