Essays on Sledge

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

4. Describe at least two episodes, in detail, that indicate Sledge's attitude towards the enemy. As a personal account, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa recounts harrowing and vivid events experienced by Eugene B. Sledge and his United States (U.S.) Marine comrades during World War II as members of the First Marine Division. As an ordinary soldier, the author elaborates on the military campaigns fought by his division, K Company’s Third Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment (K 3/5) at the Japanese islands of Peleliu and Okinawa. The memoir provides readers with the numerous and graphic horrors suffered ...

E.B Sledge in his book China Marine retells the experiences of an American soldier, a veteran of the Pacific Theater of World War II as part of the First Marine Division’s occupation duty of China after the war was over. In China Marine, Sledge in the form of a memoir retells some of the most memorable experiences he had in northern China. The book is much more than just a simple story of an American serviceman living in China but it is also a description of life for the Chinese people living in the aftermath of World War ...

The personal turmoil of a soldier fighting at the battlefronts during the Second World War of between 1939 and 1945 is evident in With the Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge. In the book, Sledge describes his experiences as a United States Marine. Accordingly, while serving on a mortar faction, Sledge was part of the “Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, [and] 1st Marine Division” during the New Britain campaigns in Peleliu and Okinawa. In that sense, the first person account allows readers to delve into the realities of World War II through the confrontations between Allied forces ...

Sledge used the term “The old breed” to refer to the marine veterans of the first Marine World War. The marines were expected to undertake proper training before going to the Pacific War in Peleliu and Okinawa. During this war, most of the corps exposed themselves to fires, all to save those who were wounded. For this, the sledge was proud of their commitment towards one another. He viewed them as a brave lot as they preferred to suffer for their nation, giving up their lives, health and sanity. Theirs was to ensure that their motherland enjoyed peace, which ...

Amongst mentally ill patients at high risk for early readmission, does the utilization of a multi-component transition care plan as compared to usual care help to improve early readmission rates?

Abstract

The early hospital readmission rate in a 30-bed psychiatric unit in California is 25%. This figure is higher than the 13% reported in the literature for high-income countries like the US (Vigod et al., 2013). Early readmissions are problematic as they are costly and disruptive to the personal and professional lives of patients and their family members. In addition, they are construed to be negative patient outcomes and negative indicators of ...

Database

Data is a term that represents the raw facts about an entity about which a person or organization may have need to store. A computer user feeds this data into a computer using input devices such as a keyboard or scanner, where the data gets manipulated by specialized computer programs. This is called processing after which meaningful and well organized data results. This is called information. With time an organization accumulates large amount of data and information. The USG (2014) asserts that an organization must therefore store this data and information into an organized and efficient system where users may access it ...

The war against the use and possession of marijuana either for medical use or recreational purposes has been a major national controversial issue. This is a controversial issue, considering the fact that for all these years of the fight against the use, there have always been two sides or views concerning the law and fight. While some see the economic benefit of legalizing marijuana, others see the problems such as the violence and crimes that could be associated with overuse of marijuana. Whether such problems will overwhelm the economic benefits of legalizing marijuana remains to be seen. Opponents believe that ...

Geographical and cultural settings say a lot about a film. The geographical setting of a film is usually in line with the theme and plot of the film. Geographical settings are used to make the audience relate more with the film. In addition, it gives the audience an idea of time setting of the film, the location of the film, the cultural setting on which the film is based upon and the influence of the geographical setting in that particular culture. The setting of a film is the first feature to be achieved in coming up with a film.

In the film the fast ...