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    The opening stanza is characterised by language about ’fatigue’: the soldiers ’marched asleep’‚ they ’trudge’‚ and ’limped on’. They are ’deaf’‚ ’lame’ and ’blind’; all rather pitiful language intended to reveal the reality of war and its effects. The speaker describes a vision in a dream of a gas victim ’guttering‚ choking‚ drowning’. The listed verbs are associated with a lack of air and death. The language used in the sections depicting the gas attack is strong‚ representing both the anguish

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    Asleep At The Wheel: Ford Motor Company’s Exclusion of the Older Worker Power Point to accompany Opportunities and Challenges of Workplace Diversity by Kathryn A. Cañas and Harris Sondak Prepared by Levi Baker‚ Kathryn A. Cañas‚ and Harris Sondak “I will build a motorcar for the great multitude.” -Henry Ford Case Overview • Ford Chief Executive Officer‚ Jacques Nasser • A History of Diversity at Ford • Nasser’s Diversity Crusade • Nasser’s Performance Management Process (PMP)

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    Jessie Pope - Extract from Who’s for the game? Who’s for the game‚ the biggest that’s played‚ The red crashing game of a fight? Who’ll grip and tackle the job unafraid? And who thinks he’d rather sit tight? Wilfred Owen - Extract from Dulce et Decorum Est "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: mors et fugacem persequitur virum nec parcit inbellis iuventae poplitibus timidove tergo." ENGLISH "How sweet and fitting it is to die for one’s country: Death pursues the man who flees

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    does ‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen tackle the Theme of War? ‘Exposure’ is a war poem written by Wilfred Owen in 1917 which describes how it felt like to be a soldier fighting war in the winter season. Owen focuses on the weather and shows how they are suffering more from the cold than getting wounded and hurt from the enemy which is not typical in war poetry. He has used a lot of figurative language and literary techniques to portray the cold and the soldiers’ feelings. Firstly‚ Owen applies figurative

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    of war? Wilfred Owens “Dulce et decorum est” tell us about the terrible and dreadful description suffered by a group of soldiers in the First World who gladly laid down their lives in the glory of battle. Dulce et decorum est‚ a very popular propaganda and a big lie which tells us that how sweet and fitting is to die for ones country. This poem is written in horrifying of how soldiers died to make the readers think that it is not sweet and fitting to die for ones country. Wilfred Owen thinks that

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    think of them as ways that have given us freedom‚ hope and safety. However‚ in Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen he interprets the war as a sweet yet beautiful thing. Owen writes this poem to show the negative consequences of war. He does this by mimicking the war as a sweet yet beautiful thing. He describes the tired men walking through the war as gas is filling up the lungs of many soldiers. Owen states “He plunges at me‚ guttering‚ choking‚ and drowning…” line 16 The choice of diction proves to

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    The two poems ’Disabled’ and ’Mental Cases’‚ both written by Owen‚ are about war and cover similar but also very different situations. ‘Disabled’ displays the thoughts and feelings of a young man who has lost his limbs after suffering the injuries of war. ‘Mental Cases’‚ on the other hand‚ captures the damage to men’s minds as a result of war. Owen’s aim is to shock and to describe in stark detail the ghastly physical symptoms of mental torment. The main consequence that is explored in ’Disabled’

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    The poem begins with an order “move him into the sun”. The persona seems to be desperate to move someone under the sun. The second line talks about the beginning of life when the rays of the sun must have touched the delicate body of the person as a baby. The following words “field unsown” refers to immaturity‚ incomplete life or a half grown state. It acts as a metaphor on the cycle of life. The persona continues to speak about the regular behavior of the person. He seemed to have been acquainted

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    Wilfred Owen focuses on the experience of war through the eyes of a solider. By providing a first hand experience he is able to share and construct a reality of war that is crebible and rich in experience. Although war can be a froigen subject to many Owen illustrates its reality to life for the reader through and intense focus on the human expeirnces of fear and pain. Owen then goes on to build this reality by exploring the natrual human reaction to thes experiences‚ which provides insight to the

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    Wilfred Owen‚ War Poems and Others How does Wilfred Owen explore the horror of war through the power of poetry? Throughout the several poems Wilfred Owen wrote throughout his experience during the First World War‚ he explores many themes in relation to the war and the emotions associated with these. One of the most prevalent ideas Wilfred Owen chooses to emphasise in many of his poems is that of the sense of horror associated with war and all the consequences of it such as those including death

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