the selection that do convey the futility of war and some that do not at all. Wilfred Owens ’Futility’ and ’Anthem for Doomed Youth’ are examples where pointlessness of war is addressed. On the contrary‚ ’The Dead’ differs with the question given as it exalts the dead and affirms that war is a place where one can die with honour. In the poem ’Futility’ by Wilfred Owen‚ he emphasises that war is pointless and stresses that the soldiers that have died in the war would not come back to life. He
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The life of a soldier in the trenches during World War I was unimaginable to the people back home in Canada. Soldiers carried out their duty to their country in the most horrifying conditions. The trenches were rivers of mud and blood‚ food rations were very basic and designed only to keep the soldiers alive‚ hygiene was non-existent‚ and military direction was poor as these men fought for their country. Constant shelling and gas attacks made many soldiers feel that death was imminent and a great
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country can establish and retain a state of ‘Total War’ inevitably leads to victory. In World War 1‚ the allied forces ability to achieve this resulted in their success. The production of munitions and American funding‚ resource allocation and the British Blockade‚ gave the allies a clear advantage on the home front. The utilization of the superior weaponry and manpower as well as improved tactics on the battlefront gave the allies an upper hand in this war of attrition. The final loss of German morale
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-No one in England knows what this is like. If they could see the way these men live they would not believe their eyes. This is not a war‚ this is an exploration of how far men can be degraded. -You see their faces and think they will take no more‚ that something in them will say‚ enough‚ no one can do this. -Where the telegrams would be delivered‚ the houses where the blinds would be drawn‚ where low mans would come in the afternoon behind closed doors…to pup up only granite slabs instead of living
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Austria-Hungary was the power whose territorial ambitions played a large part in the coming of war in 1914. Although head of an increasingly fossilized and outdated regime‚ the Habsburg emperor Franz Josef was an expansionist. In 1914‚ his latest addition to the Austro-Hungarian Empire was Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bosnian Serbs resented Austrian rule and sought the protection of independent Serbia. It was one of these Bosnian Serb groups‚ the Black Hand‚ that assassinated the Crown Prince‚ Franz Ferdinand
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World War 1(WW1)‚ also known as the Great War‚ was one of if not the most horrifying of wars in history. Spanning for 4 years from 1914 to 1918 millions of soldiers were killed. A still debated question however is the cause of the Great War; two major worldly forces grinding against each other or a single bullet fired by a rebellious Bosnian Serb? The 28th of June 1914‚ the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was going to make a speech in Sarajevo‚ a Bosnian city under Austria-Hungary’s rule‚ where the Black
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Owen uses structure to present the loss of innocence of the soldiers in Anthem for Doomed Youth alongside Futility. The poem is presented in a Petrarchan sonnet form‚ which is ironic as their conventional functions are as love poems. However‚ it can be interpreted that this sonnet conveys strong emotions of fear and grief‚ reflecting the love and admiration he had for the soldiers lost. In the first eight lines (octet)‚ the soldier asks a rhetorical question in the present tense. The imitation of
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Summary of talk: Mai Birdsong‚ family activist‚ explains that many people have been tried to reduce poverty in the U.S for last 50 years. People have created and invested million dollars NPO-non profit organization with a purpose of helping people for poor; however‚ it is not enough for people in poverty. Therefore‚ she insists that we should reconsider at people in poverty: they may sift their poverty because marginalized communities are full of talent people‚ hustling‚ and working. She indicates
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WHY DID THE GREAT EXPERIMENT OF DEMOCRACY SUCCEED The Constitution republic that was envisioned by the Founding Fathers became a place of liberty and opportunity for countless millions of people from all over the world (Our Ageless Constitution‚ 1987). Their ideas worked whereas others failed because they were based on enduring principles which recognized human imperfection and the need to structure a limited government of laws‚ dependent upon the consent of a people
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d Character | Evidence | Victory | Defeat | Stephen | ‘She said nothing to Stephen’‘He lay and stared at the night beyond the window. He felt himself grow cold.’ | He finally has Isabelle all to himself. | He loses Isabelle‚ loses his job and has a child he doesn’t know about. | Berard | ‘He gave a glance of complicity to Berard‚ who chuckled.’‘Azaire took over in the stern from Berard‚ who sat perspiring next to his wife.’ | He thinks he knows all about Azaire and Isabelle.He is pompous and
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