How Does War Damage Us

English Project

The Address
- Marga Minco

Name: Kartik Gulati

Class & Section : XI – D
School : Sachdeva Public School
Objectives Of Project
• It helped me to develop and integrate the use of
English.
• It helped to develop moral values like peace,
brotherhood etc.
• It helped to make me more creative and critical
thinker.
• It also helped me to enhance research and
vocabulary skills.
 Acknowledgement
I would like to convey my heartfelt thanks to my English
teacher Ms. Chhavi Verma who guided me through the
project and gave me valuable suggestions and guidance
for completion of the project. She helped me to understand
and draft the important details of the project. This project
is submitted as per the practical examination in the
curriculum of Central Board Of Secondary Education
[CBSE]

Teacher‟s Signature :
 Certificate
This is to certify that Kartik Gulati of class XI d of Sachdeva
Public School, Pitampura has completed the project as partial
submission of certificate as required by Central Board of
Secondary Education [CBSE] for English. It is certified that
thus project is all original piece of work and id completed
under the guidance and according to the curriculum and
instructions given by CBSE.

Mentor: Ms. Chhavi Verma

Teacher‟s Signature:
 Date
Action Plan Activity
8 November 2021 Activity orientation about the ALS project
11 November 2021 Choosing of project and developing the project plan.
15 November 2021 Online group meets to discuss the progress
23 November 2021 Apprising the teacher mentor
26 November 2021 Students worked individually and updated the teacher
29 November 2021 The students drafted a logical, deliverable and practical plan

2 December 2021 Goals and objectives were clearly defined.

10 December 2021 Detailed project schedule shared with the teacher
13 December 2021 Assignments and questionnaires are prepared, statistical data
is collected, articles and informative material pertaining to the
topic is collected
24 December 2021 An essay of 800 words is written after preparing the survey
report
31 December 2021 My reflection is written
10 January 2022 Suggestions and improvements (if necessary) shared by the
teacher
11 - 13 January 2022 Group meets were organized to coordinate and interact with
students
16 - 24January 2022 Gaps (if any) were filled by individual students
2 February 2022 Final draft of the project portfolio/report prepared and submitted
for evaluation
“The war will
never be over,
never , as long
as somewhere
a wound it
had inflicted
it still
bleeding.”
 Questionnaire & survey on war
Q1] Attacking religious and historical monuments in order to weaken the enemy. Is that
wrong or just part of war?
Wrong 10%
Part of War 90%

Q2] Attacking hospitals, ambulances and health care workers in order to weaken the enemy.
Is that wrong or just a part of war?
Wrong 20%
Part of War 80%

Q3] Depriving the civilian population of food, medicine or water in order to weaken the
enemy. Is that wrong or just part of war?
Wrong 40%
Part of War 60%

Q4] attacking enemy combatants in populated villages or towns in order to weaken the
enemy, knowing that many civilians would be killed? Is that wrong or just part of war?
Wrong 10%
Part of War 90%
Q5] Humanitarian workers are sometimes injured or killed as they are delivering aid in
conflict zones. Is that wrong or is that just part of war??
Wrong 30%
Part of War 70%

Q6] What about torture. Is that wrong or just part of war?

Wrong 20%
Part of War 80%

Q7] Can a captured enemy combatant be tortured to obtain important military information?
Yes 15%
No 85%

Q8] When combatants attack to weaken the enemy, should they…?

Yes 10%
No 90%
Headlines & Articles
War V/s Peace
Survey Report: Iraq War Tracker
Graph : Impact of Wars on Different
Basis
 War : A Blot on Humanity
There is a common saying that war is never for betterment, peace is never bad.
But if we look back into the history, it will be cleared that there have been wars
since ancient ages. Although attempts have been made to abolish it, success
has not been achieved so far. Thus, eternal peace seems to be beyond our reach.
There are people who justify wars and say that it is necessary because it is the
law of nature.

They highlight their point by placing Charles Darwin at their front. It was he
who established the principle of survival of the fittest. He told that there is a
constant struggle for survival in all nature, both animate and inanimate. In
this struggle only those will succeed who are the fittest. Thus, war is held
necessary without which there will be any development of humanity.

But such people forget that war always brings destruction on mass scale. They
forget Mahatma Gandhi's teaching of non-violence, following which he freed
his motherland from the sackles of slavery. They forget that if Gandhi could
oust the powerful Britishers by dint of non violence, why not others follow the
same foot print.
Wars are necessary evils and their horrors are so many and of such
magnitude that they cannot be described in words. We must not forget the
horrors of the two world wars. In there wars, these was mass-killing and
destruction of property. Thousands were made widows and orphans. War
brings hatred and spreads falsehood. People become selfish and brutal. As a
result humanity and morality suffers.

War is the enemy of all humanity and human civilisation. Nothing good
can be achieved out of it. Hence, it can never be glorified in any form. It not
only hampers the development the nation but also uproots social
cohesiveness. It slows down the pace of progress of mankind.

Wars are not the solution of the problems. Instead they generate problems
and create hatred among nations. War can decide one issue but gives birth
too many. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the greatest horrible faces of the
consequence of wars. Even after 60 years people are suffering from the
miseries of war. Whatever be the cause of war, it always results in
destruction of life and property at large.
One obnoxious face of modern warfare is terrorism which targets the
strongest of the strong and causes dangers beyond control of anyone.
Terrorists do not discriminate between races, religion, and culture. They
target only the humanity as a whole. Even the world's super power, the
USA remained helpless when its prestigious twin towers of the World
Trade Centre were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001 with a well planned, well-co-
ordinated and most massive suicide terrorist step. Indian Parliament was
also attacked.

These terrorists did not leave the temples like Akshardham in Gujarat.
These terrorist attacks are nothing but the misguided zeal of a few
derailed members of our society. They work under some provocations
which have no goals.

On the whole, war has always been the greatest blot on humanity. It was
created by man himself but now it is beyond control of all human forces.
Now it requires retrospection for the whole of human race to think over it
for the sake of humanity, otherwise nothing will remain neither war nor
humanity
The chapter „The Address‟ by Margo Minco also revolves around losing author‟s
entire family in the Holocaust. Further, this chapter tells about war that with war
comes death, destruction and a dehumanising effect on human beings.
The Address is a poignant story which deals with post-war pain. Wars destroy
normal life and compel people to struggle and face financial hardships. The
narrator and her mother were displaced from their homeland.
In the midst of everything, the narrator lost her mother. She was haunted by the
memories of the past. The story highlights how during wars, greedy and selfish
people like Mrs. Dorling take advantage and cheat simple people like the
narrator‟s mother. Thus, wars destroy human relations and people face various
hardships.
The narrator belonged to an affluent family. As the second world war was going
on, the Jews lived in terror of being imprisoned or murdered by the Germans,
they experienced uncertainty and insecurity. So, the narrator's mother allowed
Mrs. Dorling to take away their precious belongings for their safety.
So, The narrator was haunted by the painful memories of the past. She felt
isolated and had to endure the pain of losing her mother. She had to live in a
small rented room and didn't have enough space to accommodate her belongings.
She herself struggled for survival after being displaced.
 My Reflections
I really enjoyed making the project on „How Does
War Damage Us‟. Due to this project, I came to know
about how war becomes a blot on humanity, i.e. War
has a catastrophic effect which leads to
mortality and reduction in human capital.
Therefore, I learn about many righteous values i.e.
anti-terrorism, anti-war etc. Moreover, I enhanced
my vocabulary and writing skills and improved
my knowledge.
 Bibliography
i. Snapshots [NCERT]
ii. Newspaper And Magazines like
The Indian Express, The Global
Times etc.
iii.www.brainly.in
iv.www.indianexpress.com
v. www.wikipedia.com