Conscription

My favorite of the Baudelaire poems selected for the textbook is A Carcass. The poem is incredibly graphic and I love that Baudelaire uses such words as “festering”, “lecherous”, and “marvelous meat” to give the reader a very clear mental picture of the carcass he is describing. The poem forces the reader to address the fact that they will die and that their body will decay and there is literally not a single thing to be done to stop that. I think that in a way, Baudelaire is actually reflecting…

recruits were farmers and laborers with little military or weapon experience. [6] To meet the recruiting demand of General Pershing in 1917, the War Department changed its focus from raising an Army from volunteers, to populating the Army through conscription. The Army faced new issues in dealing with the influx of drafted soldiers. Cultural and language barriers plagued the beginning of the AEF as many of the new recruits were European immigrants who lacked basic English skills. As…

Four Dead in Ohio: Understanding the Kent State Massacre of May 4th, 1970. The Kent State Massacre was a tragic event that occurred on May 4th, 1970, on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. It was a day that began with protests against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War and ended in bloodshed and violence. The United States' support of South Vietnam and involvement in the Vietnam War had deeply divided the American public since 1965. Many members of the public disagreed…

101 And The Final Solution Christopher Browning systematically searches through historical records to trace the actions of the Nazi police Battalion 101. This battalion consisted of older, middle-aged men who joined the police battalion to avoid conscription and the frontline, by all means these men were normal and respectable however, during the Final Solution they were turned into hardened killers. Browning evaluates the factors that these men experienced and attempts to understand how these…

Apartheid is one of the most prominent examples in modern history of virulent tribalism overriding basic moral decency. Built on racial discrimination and segregation, apartheid developed a distorting effect on society by encouraging and promoting the worst of human behaviors. Violence and brutality defined apartheid over its 47 years of operation. Even with these effects and many others in full view of South African citizens and the world, the underbelly of apartheid, marked by deceit, paranoia…

The end of World War II is often viewed as a great turning point in society. The United Nations was created in October 1945, there was an economic boom for many countries until the 1970’s, and a fairly sustained level of peace was maintained in the world. This time of acceptance and change was not, however, extended to all individuals of society. The women of Britain throughout World War II were welcomed into the workforce in a variety of different ways; both in peacetime as well as wartime jobs…

Fighter and Bomber Aircraft of WWII During World War II, aviation firmly established itself as an important part of warfare. Countries taking part in WWII quickly learned that dominating the air meant winning the war. Before WWII, most of the strategies for air warfare were mainly theoretical, since WWI had little effective air warfare, and most air to air combat at the time was primitive. Fighter aircraft are military aircraft which are designed mostly for air to air combat against other…

forced the rich to remain in their posts as curiales making the positions virtually hereditary.” To maintain a tax base the emperors issued edicts that required people to stay in their chosen vocations. Diocletian introduced a system of annual conscription in which recruits were levied much like taxes. Large landowners would have to provide multiple recruits to the army. Smaller landowners were allowed to pool their resources together and provide one recruit. Roman society viewed this as a…

Up to this point in the year, most of the readings have focused on an general analysis of the Byzantine empire. The majority of the readings have looked at overall time periods or major battles, yet none give the reader an interpretation of Byzantine history through the eyes of a specific group. Contrastingly, Cavallo provides the reader with an in depth account of the subgroups in the Byzantine Empire, and the similarities that are shared by them. This paper will discuss and analyze the roles…

back to 1754 (Chandler, 2003) and various iterations of these processes have occurred over the last two centuries up to and including the current method. The iterations of the recruitment processes have based upon two key areas; volunteers and conscription also known as National Service, with the last Serviceman being released from National Service in 1963. During both the first and second world wars, recruitment was driven by…