Task Look at the way conflict is investigated in Romeo and Juliet and in poems chosen from the selection. Throughout Shakespeare’s play ’Romeo and Juliet’‚ one of the main themes is conflict and conflict gradually escalates as the play reaches its tragic climax. From the start of the play‚ in the prologue‚ we are told of the futility of conflict as suggested by ‘ancient grudge’. The word ’ancient’ suggests that the ’grudge’ started long ago‚ meaning the real reason for it is long since forgotten
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The poem “Where There’s a Wall” by Joy Kogawa describes the historical event of internment or concentration camps using a wall as a metaphor. The author does not outright identify and describe this unfortunate historical event but readers can use the imagery and symbols along with their historical knowledge to be able to determine that the author could be writing about a person in an internment or concentration camp. The poem is universal in the fact that it may not be interpreted in a historical
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Owen uses various techniques and devices to evoke the sense of World War One. Words such as ‘beggars’‚ ‘children’ and ‘boys’ refers to the soldiers. In the first verse‚ ‘Bent double‚ like old beggars under sack‚ knocked-kneed‚ coughing like hags‚ we cursed through sludge’‚ ‘like’ indicates that it’s the use of simile and ‘old beggars’ is hyperbole of soldiers’ fatigue. ‘Knocked-knee’ is the use of alliteration. ‘His hanging face‚ like a devil’s sick of sin;’ is a visible image of the war. He depicts
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“Heartland” written by Linda Hogan has underlying messages a reader must carefully pay attention to in order to fully understand the poem. Hogan describes “City Poems” as her analysis of city life and how she appreciates it which can seem complex when reading her poem. She begins the poem describing how rare silence in the city can appear to people‚ constant traffic from vehicles and voices of people traveling the streets. Then she understands what the “city poems” other authors write about and how
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Memories shape anothers persons life‚ in all kind of emotions. Sometimes memories bring the the joy in all of us‚ but it can also be a memory that does not want to be shared. Jonas‚ in a strange kind of community nothing like our‚ but has no right to anything at all. Yet‚ he is chosen to be the giver. The giver transmits memories in Jonas of things he never knew before and not experience‚ he then finds out the real truth about his community and decides to change it. Emotions express ourselves about
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Serge Andreou John Whittier-Ferguson English 313 Hugh Selwyn Mauberley IV+V: Leading by Example In part 1‚ Sections IV and V of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley‚ Pound writes a powerful condemnation of war and its effects. Pound writes of the soldiers who were sent off to die for a country that is “an old bitch gone in the teeth” and not worth the “wastage” of life in Pound’s estimation. Even the arts are criticized‚ Pound calling them nothing more than “two gross of battered statues” and “a few thousand battered
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In his speech made to the House of Commons in 1940‚ Winston Churchill once said “Victory at all costs‚ victory in spite of all terror‚ victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory‚ there is no survival.” Many historians as well as leaders argue that although the road to victory is strenuous and arduous‚ it often proves worthy in the end for victory has a direct correlation to survival. This proves true in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front‚ by Erich Maria Remarque. Paul
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“Father‚ why did you join the war?” *** The sun rose proudly as the morning clouds parted revealing the stairs to what seemed like heaven as I glanced through my office window. The light slowly uncovered the field outside as the men marched uniformly while I saluted to my countries flag that stood high above foreign soil. *** My father focused on the horizon through the morning dew that covered the kitchen window. His hands fidgeting with the cross that hanged from his neck. With a small glimpse
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Chris Britz Prof. Nunez EN1102 3 March 2003 Patriotism in the Military As a former president once said " And so‚ my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country". Patriotism is found in every country‚ but it’s the occupants of that country that have patriotism towards their own. This loyalty is seen in both "How to Tell a True War Story" and "Soldiers Home". Patriotism to me is one’s natural right to show pride in being an American. Patriotism
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The Axial Age was a time in mankind’s history when great thinkers started to conceive and develop many new political‚ economical‚ and philosophical ideas. It is defined as a period from 800 B.C. to 200 B.C. The Axial Age was the era of enlightenment and mankind began to develop intellectually. All these ideas soon led to the start of the Age of Empires. The Age of Empires arises from the end of the Axial Age. The rulers and leaders of this new era started to use the new ideas and thoughts in their
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