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    own lives. In the musical Les Misérables‚ we feel the passion the students had for the revolution‚ as well as the anguish the survivors felt for their fallen companions. The responses inducted by this piece can allow those who have never fought in a war to connect to those who gave their lives for their county‚ without having to go through the gruesome trials themselves. In the video game Halo we can experience what it would be like to live in space‚ fighting the forces of evil with our own amazing

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    essay is available at the end of the article for reference. An Excuse for Horror: Stephen King’s “Why We Crave Horror Movies” The first Stephen King novel I read‚ Christine‚ was chilling‚ weird‚ creepy‚ and strange. But I loved it. The second‚ Carrie‚ was even less normal‚ and I was enthralled by it‚ too. How could these horror stories of a possessed‚ homicidal car and a supernatural‚ misunderstood‚ vengefully murderous teen be a story for

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    War Is Terrible

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    Saying that ‘war is terrible’ is such a simple statement but makes us think of the emotional stress and physical pain. There is a wide variety of texts that explore the ideas about war. Various composers agree that war is a terrible thing and isn’t necessary. There are some composers however who believe that war is necessary and that people should do their duty and fight for their country. These can be shown by a range of techniques. The war poetry of Wilfred Owen‚ “Dulce et Decorum Est” and “Anthem

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    was the first war that issued full freedom to the press‚ allowing media to cover the war as they saw it. Without censorship‚ appalling images enabled the public to see war‚ as they never had before. Many people believe that it was the media that sparked the lack of support for the war. The Tet Offensive‚ for example‚ would become one of the most controversial and climactic events in which the media played a role. Up to that point‚ the media had portrayed the U.S. as winning the war. When the North

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    War Is Futile

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    Prompt: “War is futile” Discuss in relation to Owen’s poems (Ducle and Anthem for Doomed Youth). Wilfred Owen once wrote‚ “All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.” Owen’s poetry on war can be described as a passionate outrage over the horrors of war and pity for the young soldiers sacrificed in it. By combining gruesome images‚ effective similes and a range of other poetic techniques Owen evokes an appalling picture that war is futile because soldiers were

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    War Photographer

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    War photographer. * As he says remember the man’s wife he is reflecting on his job and the moment he took the photo. * He sought approval- shows that it is an emotional reaction of how he is profiting front the suffering of the people. * Stained foreign dust shows that shows that this horrors that are happening in this foreign country should not be happing. * War hurts everyone no matter what occupation you are. * A hundred agonies shows that he took hundreds of photos of people

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    war poems

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    and explore Owen’s portrayal of suffering and pity. Prescribed text: War Poems and Others‚ Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen wrote about the suffering and pity of war from his first -hand experience at the Somme. He was appalled by the overwhelming and senseless waste of life‚ the “human squander” and detailed its devastating effects on young men. In both ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Mental Cases’ he writes with intense focus on war as anextraordinary human experience. The poems also document other experiences

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    Stephen King’s presumptuous article‚ "Why We Crave Horror Movies"‚ inspects the inner‚ mentally psychotic adaptation of human beings‚ and explores our obsessive attraction to gruesome and tantalizing  horror movies. He believes that we are all secretly morbid and insist on using scary films to produce our psychotic relief from the demanding civilized society we live in; King states‚ " I think we are all mentally ill; those of us outside of the asylums only hide it a little better ". He values the

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    In Stephen Kings essay "Why We Crave Horror Movies" he claims that we are all mentally ill. According to King‚ people’s quirks are proof of this. The antidote to our mental illness‚ king says‚ is that we watch horror movies to "re-establish our feelings of essential normality". King also says that we watch them to satisfy the bad in us. We all do crazy things in our lives. Once in awhile we all want to thrash out on someone‚ to prove a point‚ or just to hurt them for the sake of hurting them. We

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    author write the passage. The tone‚ the punctuation and the rhetoric are all included in style. After knowing the meaning of the word‚ “style”‚ we didn’t begin to analyze the prompt itself‚ instead we began to analyze the rhythm of the story which is Horror Story at the Lonely Lake. This is quite a reasonable way to solve the problem because rhythm is

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