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    Compare and contrast Sheriff’s and Hill’s presentations of the effect o the experiences of work in Journey’s End and Strange Meetings. Strange Meeting by Susan Hill and Journey’s End by R.C. Sheriff both are books which recover the encounter that occurred during the time of World War one .Journey’s End much like strange meeting‚ goes in detail about the experiences of war and how characters from both books are affected. For example‚ Both Stanhope and Hilliard both have a different feeling towards

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    La’Monta Smith 11/19/12 AP Lit and Comp Strange Meeting By Wilfred Owen In Strange Meeting wrote by Wilfred Owen we enter this poem Owen seemingly escapes out of a battle with very little knowledge of where he is exactly at. After exploratory investigation among the many piteous men and surroundings he discovers he is in the pits of hell. Afterwards‚ we are drawn into a conversation between the narrator and a fellow solder

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    Strange Meeting It was mid morning when I was sitting in the park‚ as I looked across the way I saw an object that resembled a wallet. I walked over just to see what it was‚ and sure enough it was a woman’s wallet. Popping the latch open‚ I examined to see if there was any sort of identification that could lead to the real owner. Sure enough there was a Colorado drivers license. The wallet belonged to an eighteen year old‚ red haired‚ brown eyed‚ Jessica Sheldon. Jessica seemed like your average

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    these dreams as inspiration for his poetry. One image plagued his dreams‚ which was the idea that war was a sort of "mouth of hell‚" and it was this image that inspired Owen’s poem Strange Meeting. Owen’s poem is also reminiscent of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam‚ which also depicts a journey through a strange land. Wilfred Owen’s main objective when writing his poetry is to shed light on the gruesome and horrific reality of being a soldier‚ which counters the nationalistic propaganda that

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    Compare and contrast the ways in which Hill and Sherriff present the impact of war upon men’s relationships in Strange Meeting and Journey’s End and say how far you agree with the view that the relationships in Strange Meeting are more crucial for survival than those in Journey’s End. Strange Meeting and Journey’s End share many similarities; both the novel and the play are set during the First World War following the lives‚ and deaths‚ of the men in the officer ranks‚ and showing the immense

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    In Owen?s poem‚ ?Strange Meeting‚? the theme of war is heavily emphasized‚ as the poet expresses complete disgust concerning the nature of war. Yet‚ rather than describing the violence of war in the battlefield‚ the poet chooses a most unconventional route to attack war by instead placing the soldiers in Hell‚ centering the poem around the civil conversation between two dead enemies. In doing this‚ the poet strips away the barrier between these two enemies‚ and as a result‚ he evokes not anger‚ but

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    Explore the ways in which the effects of war on the individual are presented in ‘Journey’s End’. Then compare the ways in which Sherriff presents the effects of war on the individual with the ways in which Hill shows the impact of war on characters in ‘Strange Meeting’. The character most obviously affected by the war in ‘Journey’s End’ is Stanhope. We learn early on in the play that Stanhope drinks very heavily when Osborne and Hardy have a conversation about him. “I never did see a youngster

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    Cristia Earp Matt Cicci Intro to College Writing March 8‚ 2013 Strange Doctor Strange I’ve never been a big fan of comic books‚ partly because I can’t quite follow them as much as I’d like to. Action comics are the hardest for me to follow for a couple reasons. For one‚ the art is all over the place. I understand that art like this is supposed to display all of the sudden exhilarating scenes‚ but how can a reader pay attention to the story while still pictures on a page distract you? Bright

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    Susan Hill’s Strange Meeting is a modern novel written in 1971‚ a novel names after one of Wilfred Owen’s poems. It concentrates on a realistic representation of relationships between young men in the trenches of World War One and the reality of war and the impacts it has on individuals‚ similar to Pat Barkers Regeneration. Hill is a female author which is significant because the whole novel is based on a women’s point of view. As a reader we can see this because of the devices Hill uses throughout

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    What is the meeting ? When two or more than two persons get together at one place to discuss any common issue‚ it is called Meeting. Meeting Documentation When dealing with formal meetings‚ there is a specific procedure to be followed: 1. Notice of Meeting : To let everyone involved know that you are requesting a meeting for a particular reason‚ and give them the date‚ time and location for this. This is known as a 2. Agenda: Before the meeting starts (sometimes given at the same time

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