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1. Motivation:

• Every person has a time in their life where they have to listen to some one of their authority and have to take in what every that person says with out saying anything in return no matter how much they want. Weather it's a parent and a child, a teacher and student, or even military commanders and their soldiers, every one has been a role in one of those situations.
• When you leave home to join the military, once you get there you are no longer to every be the same as when you arrived. The soldiers are coming into practice with passed knowledge in their lives of how they grew up. The military commanders must take grown men and women and reshape their lives completely in order to be in combat and survive. They must take everything that the soldiers know and teach them to throw it out the window so they can start from new, so the commanders can start them from scratch and bring them up like as children becoming grown men. Using their techniques to shape them into the men and women that they want them to be. Weather that means using harsh discipline or not.
• I think team work is the most important aspect in order to complete any task. In the military soldiers first join to protect their country. After the first couple of week that you are still there your motivation to stay there is your family. Once that where’s off and you in the middle of combat you begin to realize that you are there for the guy fighting next to you. So if you mind is not set on team work, then you need to question yourself why you are in the military.
• The reason behind the discipline that the commanders give their soldiers is to keep them in order in and out of wartime. They make sure that if something were to happen the commanders would be able to have control of the troops at all time. During wartime if a commander can not control his or her soldiers drastic things could occur. Like friendly fire, multiple deaths that could have been prevented, or even loss of war.

2. Read and Analyze Poem:

• The poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" Tennyson discusses the nobility of 600 soldiers marching into a vividly described hell raising battle and although they did not all come out of the battle, still all 600 soldier should be honored by every one, for they went against an army of soldiers that were larger and stronger then them.
• In the poem Tennyson has sayings of which he creates to describe the intensity of the battle for example: Half a league: The army was much smaller than their opponents in the valley of death: The battle field Into the Jaws of Death: Into the Mouth of Hell: The soldiers charging into their known death.
• Tennyson uses repetition to describe the intensity of the battle. For example, cannons to the left and right of them- trying to get the reader to visualize the explosions in battle. He also repeats the saying, the six hundred; he says this repetitively to ensure the reader knows that the army is small and is taken a huge risk in order to win the battle.
• Courage and Honor- The six hundred men in this battle would not have gone into the war if they did not have courage. Being such a small army and so weak compared to their enemies. They were all aware of this situation and they still were willing to going into battle. And because of this all should Honor all six hundred who went and fought in the battle.
• Leaders and Followers- In this battle I don’t think that there was any leaders or followers for they all worked as a team instead of individuals. They trusted each other enough to stay alive and gain the honor of their friends and family.
• Justice and Vengeance- Although the 600 soldiers were going into but to get justice and although they did not get it they have justice with in themselves in order to have done that and come out alive knowing that they succeeded in coming out of the battle alive.

3. Overture of 1812:

• This is an up beat song which gives a feeling of power. Not once in this song is there a single instrument playing so that also shows teamwork. It starts off quiet but it gains strength and becomes louder we approach the heat of war and also where the cannons shoot off. When the cannons shoot off you can feel the pain off people dying in a large sum. It gives a feeling of victory at the end, hearing the fast pace and extended notes.