Anzac Exposition Writing

for the past 3 weeks, our teacher have changed up our writing programe where we have a topic and this weeks one was Anzac, and with the topic we have 3 options of types of writing we have to do. We Pick our type and then we have 3 weeks to write on. After we finish writing we have to publish so that we can post it to our blog. When we publish them tho, it has to fit one page. The one page really limited my choices on how to publish it. So this week I just did a boring publish presentation on Google Docs. For my first week I did a Exposition and I argued that Men should've had a choice to go to war. Here is my BORING Google Doc... Hope you enjoy :)

To go or not to go ?

Should men have had the choice to go to war or not? I firmly believe that men should have had the
choice to go to war. Why? May you ask, because firstly men had a very little amount of training and
was expected to just go and shoot someone. Secondly, they would’ve had families, businesses, and
a farm to run. Lastly, Men who were deserted in war couldn't deal with all the harm and chaos that was
going on. All this chaos and fear should have stopped !

Firstly, Not all men were trained to use guns and fight in wars. Yes there is a list of men like farmers
that were trained with guns but then there were barbers, teachers, and all those people that never had a
experience with a gun. What even made it worse was that they just had a tiny amount of time to learn the
ways of the gun and all the techniques. Can you imagine a barber going in the war not knowing a single
thing to with guns ?

Secondly,   They have family and businesses or farms to run and look after. Young mothers were left to
look after her and her husbands and then plus the farm that the men would usually look after.
Those same young women couldn’t handle the stress of the farm so they would ask their kids to stay
home from school to help out, which causes the child to have less education. Quickly imagine, your on
your own, just you, your kids, and your farm. You have to wake up every morning, feed your kids and
then straight after feed the animals. Tell me, how will you feel ?...How will you feel ?

Last but not least, Men who deserted in war because they could not deal with it and were severely
punished. Archibald McColl Learmond Baxter, does this name ring a bell ? Yes?, if not, he was a boxer
and marksman that didn’t want to lay a hand on a single man, because in the year 1900 Alfred Barclay
stood and spoke against war, which made him realise that war was not good and it was bad to kill
someone under any circumstances. Archibald was just one of the few that were punished. People after
had PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder) after the seeing what they done to innocent people.
Archibald Baxter if you ask me, was a humble man. Humble man like him had to be punished.

In conclusion I strongly believe that all men should have a choice to go to war, because, Not all men
were trained to use guns and fight in war, They have family and businesses and farms to run, and men
who deserted in war because they could not deal with it and were severely punished. If I was in the past
when all this terrible stuff I will stand and make a point and would have tried and persuaded the country.
So please think about if men should have a choice to war. Think hard and deep.

Written by: Jacque