Pretend you are a soldier or nurse in the Civil War. Write a letter home in which you describe/explain at least (4) of the following: the strengths and weaknesses of your side in the war

the military strategies of your side and your personal opinion about them

why you (or your side) are fighting this war

one particular battle and its significance to the whole war

how the war is affecting you personally

how the Civil War is the “first modern war”

Your letter should be carefully written, with complete sentences and paragraphs, an introduction, and a conclusion. Be sure the date on your letter makes sense with the contents.

Here is a link to a website (Links to an external site.) with a collection of actual Civil War Letters. They are in script, but if you select a letter, and scroll down to the "Transcript" button on the lower left, a typed version of the letter will appear.

WORD BANK

secession

Confederate

Union

blockade

Anaconda Plan

Abraham Lincoln

Jefferson Davis

Bull Run 1861

Antietam 1862

Gettysburg 1863

Vicksburg 1863

draft

Emancipation Proclamation 1863

total war

surrender 1865

3 Paragraphs pls

as we know, the english language is spoken all over the world by native and non-native speakers and has become the most certain tool when it comes to communicating. businesses, schools, even romantic relationships depend on it to keep thriving. in addition, it is the language of the internet not only because most of the content available is in english, but also because people prefer to use it when talking to others, since it's the language everyone supposedly learns.

yet, there have been some current claims that chinese will soon take over as the most important language in the world. china's magnitude has never been more evident and doing business with the chinese is a gold mine for any country. we now see language schools offering chinese courses as commonly as english.

however - even though we cannot deny china's importance and the advantage it is when someone takes the time to learn the language their business contact speaks-, people in general seem to be ignoring the aspects that seem to keep english as the chosen one of languages. one of them has been mentioned above: it is the language of the internet. also, chinese people are still learning english, since it opens doors in communicating with practically everyone else, from every single country.

note: if this is not the sort of transition you need, let me know. : d

the thousand and one nights – or, as i prefer to call them in the following for purely practical reasons: the arabian nights – as we perceive them three hundred years after antoine galland’s epochal french adaptation bear a distinct arabic imprint. meanwhile, the commonly accepted model for their textual history acknowledges various stages in the conceptualization and effective formation of both the collection’s characteristic frame story and the embedded repertoire. the vast majority of tales in the preserved manuscripts of the nights has been integrated into the collection during two periods of arabic influence, the so-called baghdad and cairo periods (gerhardt 1963: 115–374). these “arabic” stages are preceded by an iranian version, probably dating to pre-islamic times, which in its turn profits from both structural devices and narrative contents originating from indian tradition. considering the eminent position that iran and iranian culture hold in the early stages of the textual history of the arabian nights, surprisingly few details are known concerning the collection’s relation to and its actual position within the iranian cultural context. in the following, i will discuss links between the arabian nights and iranian culture on several levels. in surveying these links, i will treat five major areas: (1) the iranian prototype of the nights; (2) tales of alleged persian origin; (3) persian characters within the tales; (4)persian translations of the arabian nights; and (5) the position of the arabian nights in modern iran