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    The Proper Homecoming for a Soldier Soldiers are our warriors; the people that fight for us‚ our nation‚ and our freedom. They are the ones that make this country strong. These men and women got to war to fight‚ so we can live peacefully. They are the only ones that know how it feels to see people die and to kill in order to survive at war. Only they know the true torment they live during and after war. The best thing a person can do‚ as a civilian‚ is to educate oneself on the cost of war and then

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    Master Harold and the Boys

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    Gabriel Patino 05/ 06/13 Doc Phillips English “MASTER HAROLD…and the boys” During the 1950’s South Africa followed a system of legal separation known as the Apartheid‚ establishing separate‚ equal rights for whites and blacks. This system brought much controversy and resulted in Athol Fugard‚ a native South African‚ writing MASTER HAROLD…and the Boys‚ a play about the relationship between Harold‚ also known as Hally‚ a seventeen year old white boy and two black waiters named Sam

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    The play Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard takes place in a small Tea House in Port Elizabeth in South Africa. The play starts off with Sam and Willie‚ two black servants at the restaurant cleaning and talking about a ballroom dance tournament coming up. Hally‚ a teenage white boy whose parents own the restaurant walks in after coming from school and begins to have a conversation with Sam and Willie. In the period of only an hour and a half or so‚ Sam‚ Willie‚ and Hally give a small glimpse

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    “Master Harold and the boys” Passage Essay In this passage from “Master Harold and the boys” by Athol Fugard‚ Hally is recalling a memory of his childhood about Him being in Sam’s room.  Through dialogue‚ we are able to comprehend the racist views of that time period‚ and a special and unique relationship that would have been impossible at the time -  a black man and a white boy‚  is examined through the use of descriptive language.  Finally‚ with symbolism‚  religion is indirectly portrayed

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    Homecoming “Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” – Charles Swindoll. My high school years were the best. My freshman year I did very well in school. I made good grades and I played sports. My favorite sport was always volleyball. I’ve always dreamed of playing volleyball since I was in elementary school. We did well that season but did not make the play – offs. We were sad‚ but our coach told us to cheer up and that there always was next year. That same year I met a

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    Harold Krebs Character

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    solitude after returning home from the war. Harold Krebs‚ a World War I veteran‚ attended school at a Methodist college in Kansas but enlisted in the Marines in 1917. Krebs now lives at home with his father‚ mother and two sisters where he spends his days reading books or playing pool. Krebs is careful to keep his life simple due to the fact that he isn’t fond of change. Is Harold Krebs apprehensive to making a change in his daily lifestyle? When Harold Krebs returns home late‚ his return is not

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    will be discussing the way Bruce Dawe’s poems ‘Homecoming’ and ‘Lifecyle’ confront and challenge readers to re-assess or examine their lives and life its self. The way bruce dawe has made his readers reassess and examine their lives and life itself is by using techniques such as emotive phrases‚ repeitition‚ personification‚ visual imagery‚ alleratition and dualitites. Through dehumanising and depersonalising the soldiers in his poem ‘Homecoming’ Dawe has established a con-tem-pla-tive tone which

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    Athol Fugard’s drama‚ "Master Harold" . . . And The Boys‚ was written during a time of great conflict in South Africa‚ where he was raised. Fugard was torn between his mother‚ who was "Afrikaaner‚" (1291) and his father‚ who was "of English decent" (1291). These differing influences caused Fugard to use the discussions between Sam and Hally to demonstrate the religious‚ racial‚ and political tensions of his lifetime in South Africa. <br><br>The discussion between Sam and Hally about who was "a man

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    Dr. Harold Shipman: The World’s Most Prolific Serial Killer A serial killer can be defined as someone who murders three or more people over a period of thirty days whose motivation is largely based on psychological gratification. Throughout the 20th century‚ England produced some of the most notorious serial killers in recorded history. One of the most prolific serial killers in Britain’s history is Dr. Harold Shipman‚ usually known as “Dr. Death.” He carries this title because he is responsible

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    plunges at me‚ guttering‚ choking‚ drowning.” With the uses of onomatopoeia in “guttering‚ choking and drowning‚” Owen accentuates the horrible suffering of the soldiers. Slide 6: While‚ Owens’ poem uses imagery to exemplify death‚ Dawe’s‚ Homecoming extensively uses personification to explore the coldness of death and war. As the soldiers’ dead bodies are returned from war‚ Dawe conveys the undignified treatment of the bodies‚ as they are closed “in green plastic bags”. Personification and

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