xThe topic in which we are currently learning is war poetry in WW1. Although wars have existed for millennia’s‚ WW1 was an especially destructive and horrible conflict‚ partly because of the endless digging and defending trenches‚ and partly because it involved machinery of destruction in the form of airplanes to tanks‚ artillery and poison gas. There were countless of soldiers who went to this war‚ Siegfried Sassoon was one of them. During this war‚ he had experienced the horrors of war‚ he had
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its hind legs and let out a terrifying roar. The tree tops swayed as birds shot from them‚ filling the forest with the sounds of squawking and beating wings. Tyler’s heart beat as if it were trying to escape his chest. His thoughts swirling between outright terror and trying to decide what to do. The bear was closing now‚ his paw raised ready to attack. A deep breath and his mind was made up. Reaching in his pocket he retrieved a small knife. Flipping the blade open he jumped for the bears
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phenomenon known as the fight or flight response‚ we are able to better determine the reason behind our bodies and mind reacting to certain situations. Humans either fight against the dangers that comes towards them or they run away from it. Psychologist say that every person has the fight or flight response in them. It is an automatic reaction to certain situations and threats.Whether it is fighting or flighting‚ people would strive to survive no matter what. In the article The Fight or Flight Response
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Fight Club: An Awakening to Life At one point or another‚ we have all felt our lives were pointless or futile. Chuck Palahniuk harnessed these feelings in his Fight Club through the use of a character‚ Tyler Durden. Tyler shows the people he affects how meaningless their lives had been and gives them new reasons to live. The first life that Tyler Durden changed was essentially his own. The narrator and Tyler are actually the same person although the narrator doesn’t learn this until near the
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Title: “How to Avoid a Fight” Setting: Claymore Elementary School Characters: Kevin (Vansh Zota): The school bully Simon/Swag-Master15: (Anurag Mathews): The boy being bullied Mr. Sherman (Michael Lambe): Social Studies teacher and narrator ___________________________________________________________ It seems like another ordinary afternoon at Claymore Elementary School‚ but things will soon turn out to be not so ordinary. It all started in Social Studies class... Mr. Sherman: Listen up
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The story of Beowulf is a story of a man who fights great beasts and creatures. Beowulf is a great hero who comes to the aid of many who need him‚ one of his first encounters was with the demon Grendel. After fighting Grendel Beowulf then killed his mother after she retaliated. Years after these two fights Beowulf would then‚ at the age of 50‚ kill a dragon that was terrorising his citizens. Beowulf would secede in doing this but in doing so he would die as well. The first battle that Beowulf fought
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William and Dorothy Wordsworth Compared: As Brother and Sister and as Writers. There is no doubt that there are strong similarities between Dorothy Wordsworth’s “Grasmere Journal” and William Wordsworth’s poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud”. The relationship between these two pieces is clearly illuminated by Frances Wilson and his critical take upon events highlighted in Dorothy’s Journal. As well as Wilson‚ Susan M. Levin also takes a theoretical look at the relationship‚ suggesting that Dorothy’s
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Complete opposite attract‚ just like a magnet. However at times‚ it may not always work out for the best. In “Fight” by poet Laurel Blossom‚ the contrast between the narrator and her lover seems to have affected her decision to either strive through their relationship in order to make it work or opt out. The narrator immediately tells readers “That is the difference between me and [him]”‚ helping readers understand from the start that they these lovers have their differences‚ as do most people
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today’s culture of political correctness and female empowerment‚ Fight Club would have never been written. However‚ Fight club offers a unique and new definition of the word masculinity in the context of self-help and violent empowerment rather than modern day’s overbearing and crude meninism. As Tyler Durden proclaimed “we are the middle children of history‚ no great war‚ we have no depression. Our depression is our lives” (Palahniuk 35). Fight Club is an irresistibly fast‚ timely and quotable book which
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In the novel Fight Club‚ Chuck Palahniuk uses the Fight Club‚ Project Mayhem‚ and its members to illustrate their need to rebel against the aspects of society they deem flawed. One of the main characters‚ Tyler Durden‚ acts as the protagonist and the antagonist in many different ways. Tyler‚ along with the narrator of the book start up a fight club so that they could let their frustrations at their lives and society out in a fist fight. The main thing about this is that its not about the fighting
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