Losing a parent is one of the hardest obstacles life can throw at you‚ which tends to leave a great number of adults devastated‚ and emotionless. Some adults‚ however‚ tend to turn to medication and alcohol as a way to cope with their intense emotions‚ which can result in a full-blown alcohol/drug addiction. Adults may experience the phenomena called “Unresolved Grief”‚ which often develops when a person feels guilty over a loss‚ considers the death to be unfair‚ or has lost a parent due to a violent
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War‚ something that people took part in it in order to be patriotic‚ to travel with friends or not look like cowards to their women and their country encouraged this! “It is sweet to die for your country” they said. War was made to look as a good thing in which men gave up their lives every day in petrifying and unimaginable ways. Families torn apart and men stripped of their innocence all in a few hours and days. In the poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est” Owen shows us that war is not what it is said to
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Bruce Dawe explores the complexities of modern life in Homo Surburbiensis and Enter Without So Much as Knocking. Dawe conveys the ideas through references to everyday life and what the protagonists experience throughout their lives. The author’s perspective on life is contradictory in the pair of poems and this is shown through the use of imagery‚ description of the characters and the tone of his language. In both poems‚ the main characters are not seen as individuals but are used as metaphors to
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Preliminary half yealy exam‚ question 3: Compare and contrast bodies of work by 2 artists you have studied. In your discussion address the significance of intentions to their practice. JACKSON POLLOCK AND ANDY WARHOL Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol were American based artists during the same period; the 1940s‚ 50s‚ and 60s. Almost every aspect of their art is antonymous and extremely different‚ from their art practice‚ to the meaning they constructed in their works‚ to the audience and world they
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“In what ways does a comparative study accentuate the distinctive contexts of Frankenstein and Blade Runner?” Composed nearly 200 years apart with differing contexts‚ the Romanticist‚ Mary Shelly composed a gothic novel ‘Frankenstein’‚ in the Industrial Revolution era and the Age of Enlightenment which draws upon the rise of Galvanism. As well as the post modern‚ post apocalyptic film noir composed by Ridley Scott ‘Blade Runner’ reflects upon the increasing computing industry which changed the natural
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‘[works] at his weapon like an automatic affair’ (Crane 38). Despite the fact he has no idea what to do most of the time‚ Henry acts like the monstrous machine he sees in the people around him. Henry has begun to transition into one of the cold‚ emotionless killing machines that confuse
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different world. These art forms are truly the face of India which form the true allure to tourists and are the symbol of the uniqueness of the grand Indian culture. In the world of globalization‚ these art forms are losing their status and the wave of emotionless metropolitan cities is overshadowing our great historical art forms. One such art form is the traditional Indian art form of puppet plays. Puppet plays have been a part of Indian culture with references to puppets being found even in Mahabharata
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Lady Macbeth suffers from madness. Macbeth wants a quick cure but what he doesn’t understand is that this kind of thing isn’t some sick disease. Lady Macbeth eventually ends up committing suicide. When Macbeth learns about her death‚ he’s very emotionless about it. She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow‚ and tomorrow‚ and tomorrow (Act 5‚ Scene 5‚ page 171). He even seems to be almost calm‚ claiming that he already lost everything and the days just
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Cinematic Attempts and Successes of The Great Gatsby Most bookworms know that the movie adaptation is almost never as good as the book. With a classic such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”‚ it can be hard to really do it justice on the big screen yet somehow a couple directors have done just that. Jack Clayton’s 1974 version of Gatsby and Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 version drawl together old and new aspects of the roaring 20’s to bring to life “The Great Gatsby” in their own unique ways. To focus
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No Love Lost‚ No Love Found That father and daughter bond‚ the sweetest love I’ve never known. I’ve seen my father over a thousand times wondering if he’s ever seen me. Looking with his eyes wide shut. It seemed as if over the years he was disappearing‚ fading into the black. A fragment of what I thought I needed but in all reality became as pointless as the conclusion to book that I’ll never finish My father has managed for eighteen years to be a part of my life without being a part of my life
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