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I am an American Soldier: Motivational Aspects of Soldiering in Gulf War Memoirs
2015. urn:nbn:hr:142:440185
Zelenika, Jure
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Zelenika, J. (2015). I am an American Soldier: Motivational Aspects of Soldiering in Gulf War Memoirs (Undergraduate thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:440185

Zelenika, Jure. "I am an American Soldier: Motivational Aspects of Soldiering in Gulf War Memoirs." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:440185

Zelenika, Jure. "I am an American Soldier: Motivational Aspects of Soldiering in Gulf War Memoirs." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:440185

Zelenika, J. (2015). 'I am an American Soldier: Motivational Aspects of Soldiering in Gulf War Memoirs', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 30 December 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:440185

Zelenika J. I am an American Soldier: Motivational Aspects of Soldiering in Gulf War Memoirs [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2015 [cited 2024 December 30] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:440185

J. Zelenika, "I am an American Soldier: Motivational Aspects of Soldiering in Gulf War Memoirs", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2015. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:440185

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TitleI am an American Soldier: Motivational Aspects of Soldiering in Gulf War Memoirs
Title (croatian)Ja sam američki vojnik: Motivacijski aspekti vojne službe u memoarima Zaljevskih ratova
AuthorJure Zelenika
MentorSanja Runtić (mentor)
MentorJasna Poljak Rehlicki (sumentor)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2015-09-09, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
Motivation is an important part of everyone’s life, but it might be even more important in drawing people into the military and, almost certainly, the war. This paper analyzes characters from five Gulf War memoirs in order to find the motivational aspects which influenced their decision to enlist. The surveyed memoirs are Anthony Swofford’s Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (2005), Nathaniel Fick’s One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer (2005), Chris Kyle’s American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (2011), Kayla Williams’ Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army (2005) and Matt Gallagher’s Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War (2010). The specific motivational aspects of each of the soldiers have been derived from their memoirs by analyzing their writing. Those have then been sorted into categories which were used in the empirical studies from the field of psychology. Studies surveyed for the purposes of this paper are: "Towards an Understanding of Army Enlistment Motivation Patterns” by Pliske et al. and "Enlistment Motivations of Army Reservists: Money, Self-Improvement, Or Patriotism?" by Gorman and Thomas. The categories of “self-improvement”, “money” and “serve” have been derived from the Gorman and Thomas’s study. It has been found that the motivational aspects of soldiers derived from the memoirs and those derived from the empirical studies match to a great degree; hence, a conclusion is drawn that people drawn to the military calling have similar motivation for enlisting.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:440185
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: Pedagogy (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) pedagogije (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) pedagogije)
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