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    Futility notes

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    "Futility" Summary The speaker says to move him into the sun. The touch of the sun had always woken him before‚ both at home and in France‚ but it did not this snowy morning. If there is anything that could wake him it would be the "kind old" sun. It wakes the seeds and once it woke the "clays of a cold star". The speaker wonders if the man’s limbs and sides‚ which are still warm‚ are now too hard to stir. He wonders if this is why the clay "grew tall"‚ and why the "fatuous sunbeams" bothered

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    Compare how poets present the effects of war in ‘Mametz Wood’ and in one other poem from Conflict. The poems that I will be comparing are the poems‚ Mametz Wood and Futility. Both Mametz Wood and Futility are about the death of ordinary men in the First World War. They both contrast the images of men and earth and both are concerned with the memory of the dead. Owen’s work‚ however‚ seems angry at the indifference of nature to the fate of innocent men. Sheers’ poem sees a deeper connection between

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    Places in Birdsong

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    The importance of places in Birdsong. Birdsong is a novel written in a tripartite structure‚ which uses many different places in the novel to help emphasise the key elements and also foreshadows certain events which will happen and can also link back to events which have happened which helps to make the specific parts have more of an impact overall. In Birdsong the three different time periods in which the novel is set all have significant places throughout. In part 1 of the novel it talks a lot

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    The Futility of Life Since the creation of society‚ and with it‚ religion‚ humans have pondered about why we are on this Earth. Answers have come from all corners of the world and from a variety of people. In 1942‚ a man named Albert Camus wrote a philosophical essay called The Myth of Sisyphus. In this essay‚ Camus refined Kierkegaard’s ideas about existentialism into a new philosophy called absurdism. Camus’ most famous work‚ The Stranger‚ goes into greater detail as the main character

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    occurred will guaranteed start world war one. It is clear that the war was ongoing for a long time‚ when it began in the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. However many other reasons took a part in starting the war‚ some occurring as far back the late 1800’s. Militarism‚ nationalism‚ and alliances system were the three main factors that were present back then‚ leading towards this explosive war (Turner‚ 2002) The First World War was truly “the great war”. Militarism is a build up of

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    World war one was one of the most deadliest wars in world history. The war was sparked because of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Soon after war was declared‚ allies of the nations got involved. This dragged most of Europe into the Great War. Eventually‚ the United States joins the conflict with the Allied Nations. In 1918‚ world war one finally ended. The assassination of the Archduke played an important role in starting the war. In 1914‚ the groups of people under Austria-Hungary

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    World War One was a dreadful conflict that lasted four years (1914- 1918) and involved all major powers at the time. It was the first total war ever which means it affected all sections of the society‚ not only the soldiers fighting on the front. People of the belligerent countries felt the impact of the war through labor deficiency‚ food shortages and rations‚ government propaganda‚ censorship… Women played a vital role in keeping the war going. They convinced their husbands‚ sons‚ relatives to

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    World War One Summative Assessment. By Kaiden Vun 6C World War One information and who was involved. World War one began on July 28 1914 and lasted until November 11 1918 which is 4 years! World War one originality started form the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand‚ he was one of the leaders of Austria. The First World War began as a local war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia in 1914. It grew into a world war involving 32 countries

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    Militarism played a humongous role in World War 1 because‚ since people became more nationalistic over their home countries‚ they wished to prove superiority and dominance through their armament forces. Due to the Russian’s increasing army size‚ the Germans felt forced to increase spending on their own army so as to be undoubtedly superior to the Russians. The Germans also believed that strong navy and army forces were necessary to survive as a country and as an imperial power (2). Soon enough‚ the

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    World War One was about power‚ the power to devise war and to destroy lives. The underpinning of images discursively shows the prioritised geographical knowledges. By exploring these images it shows a specific narrative about the medium that is being produced. Through the use of images‚ films and poems that notion of geographical knowledges are brought to a greater understanding. The notions of communication through a medium were widely prioritised‚ information about war was comfortable for the people

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