Commentary on The Lesson’ by Roger McGough Roger McGough the author of The Lesson’ is a well respected British poet who is still writing poems and is a poetry performer today. His work has become so well recognized that he has received an O.B.E for his contributions to poetry from the Queen. McGough was born in Liverpool and attended school in the nineteen-forties and fifties during a time when corporal punishment was widely present in British education. The Lesson’ by McGough is a poem
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This poem‚ “Dinner Party 1940”‚ was written by Philip Sherlock in 1986. From the title‚ it is obvious that the setting of this poem is in 1940s‚ which is in the beginning of the Second World War‚ amidst the violent and tolling battles. Sherlock employs stark contrasts‚ dark humour and mockery to highlight the selfishness and ignorance of the upper class in society‚ whilst also stressing the brutalities of war. Sherlock employs lots of comparisons in this poem to emphasise the carelessness of the
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Commentary for “Soldier’s Heart” Author‚ Gary Paulsen The book Soldier’s Heart‚ is based on a true story about a fifteen-year-old boy in Minnesota named‚ Charley Goddard‚ who lies about his age to join the First Volunteers of Minnesota to fight in the Civil War. Some of the events and time sequences are not completely factual‚ but the essential elements of the books story are true. Charley Goddard is a fifteen-year-old boy growing up in the farming community of Winona‚ Minnesota‚ in 1861‚
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GUIDE “A QUIETLY SHOCKING INDICTMENT OF OUR GAS-GUZZLING AUTO COMPANIES AND THE PETRO-POLITICIANS WHO LOVE THEM.” –KAREN DURBIN‚ ELLE MAGAZINE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2006 • TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2006 WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? NOTE TO THE TEACHER Who Killed the Electric Car? is a powerful tool pertinent to many academic disciplines and adaptable to a variety of abilities‚ learning styles‚ and classroom goals. This rich‚ self-contained film requires little or no additional
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American Tongues Film Commentary In the film “American Tongues‚” enormous majority of American from different cities have different regional accents of English. Some people have positive attitude towards the different regional accents of English. They believe that the way people speak is always changing based on what they hear from their linguistic environment. There are a few scenes in the film where people share what they think about using certain dialects in positive attitude. In one scene
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Nations have gone to war over land‚ resources and nationalistic pride. Many writers have depicted war as an absurd tragedy. Both “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy and “Old Mother Savage” by Guy de Maupassant explore the theme that war is absurd because it makes enemies of those who would otherwise be friends. First‚ the speaker of “The Man He Killed” discovers that war makes enemies of those who would otherwise be friends. The speaker of the poem is a soldier that is on the battlefield facing
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The narrator’s overall attitude changes from the first quatrain to the fourth quatrain. Thomas Hardy‚ the author‚ reveals this change very subtly. In the poem‚ “The Man He Killed‚” the main character is fighting a war. He meets a man‚ and is forced to kill him because he is on the opposite side of the war. But later in the poem he wishes he could have met the person in a different environment‚ not during the war. The story starts off with our narrator stating that he wishes it was a different time
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essay “Who Killed Benny Paret?” Norman Cousins states‚ “The crowd wants the knockout; it wants to see a man stretched out on the canvas” (341). In this case the crowd
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to here is when American troops conducted illegal bombing raids under the guise of killing Viet-Cong they thought were fleeing into Cambodia. These bombing raids cost 750‚000 innocent civilians their lives. Cambodia was then ruled by Pol Pot‚ who killed up to two million civilians in his reign. James Fenton was particularly disillusioned with those who had the power to stop the war‚ and became a fervent anti-war supporter. He knew that it was the ordinary citizen who was dying‚ not soldiers or the
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Commentary on Soylent Green Soylent Green Soylent Green started out with a montage of America in the early 1980’s and ended with New York City in 2022. The movie was based on what the future could look like for the world if we continue to become over populated. It looked beautiful in the country with plenty of hay for the cattle and food for people‚ taking a ride in the afternoon in the country side was a beautiful luxury‚ people were trying different experiments like the Wright Brothers in
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