just went ahead and stared bye-bye to the steadily employed. (Gilb 311)” Due to his lack of attention and a crash‚ he is forced to meet a young girl named Mariana. Mariana is foreign‚ not from Los Angeles‚ and obviously quite naïve. This crash of fate leads to the noticeably smooth and very dishonest Jake getting away with fraud‚ leaving Mariana to handle the damage he caused. Lie‚ deception‚ and fantasy are a few of the main themes portrayed in "Love in L.A.". Student Response Love is a powerful
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that he is daydreaming instead of paying attention to the road. Some of these thoughts include the brief idea of getting a steady job and his fantasies regarding his lifestyle (Gilb‚ 113). His carefree attitude can be seen through his dialogue with Mariana after the accident with remarks such as “So how ya doing? Any damage to the car? I’m kinda hoping so‚ just so it takes a little more time and we can talk some. Or else you can give me your phone number now and I won’t have to lay my regular b.s. on
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Wars pre-1914 were very different to WW1. Wars such as the Boer War and the Crimean War were fought by soldiers using mainly sabres and muskets. These wars had little in the way of powerful weaponry such as heavy weight machine guns. WW1 also saw the beginning of trench warfare‚ tanks‚ planes and gases. Almost all of the poetry written during WW1 was written while the soldiers were on the front lines. Pre-1914 poetry however‚ was written by poets back in England. Education really developed during
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viewpoints using their own words. Two of the most prominent writers of the Victorian Era‚ Mathew Arnold and Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson‚ are also among the best quest seeking story writers of the Victorian Era. Some of their greatest quest tale stories are “The Scholar Gipsy‚” “The Lady of Shalott‚” and “Ulysses.” In both “Ulysses” and “The Lady of Shalott” by Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson‚ Tennyson speaks about people who are in love‚ but cannot experience that love for the reason
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In this essay I will be comparing the poems ‘The Charge Of The light Brigade’ By Alfred Lord Tennyson and ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ By Wilfred Owen. I will be evaluating the points of the language‚ emotions‚ the subject and the purpose of both of the poems. I will contrast both and then conclude what poem I believe presents a better picture of war to the reader. Poem 1 will be The Charge Of The light Brigade and poem 2 will be Dulce et Decorum Est. First off I shall talk about the purpose of the poems
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studied the poems: Dulce et decorum est‚ the charge of the light brigade‚ suicide in the trenches‚ the man he killed and in Flanders field. THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE- Lord Alfred Tennyson The first poem – the charge of the light brigade- which I have studied. In this poem lord Alfred Tennyson is describing the event in the Crimean war when a cavalry regiment of around 650 horses and 650 men misheard an order “to attack the guns” meaning to get back the guns for the Turks that the Russians
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showing them that their best ideas may result in disastrous actions being made. In The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred Tennyson reflects on the consequences of war for the whole of the British cavalry who were killed in the Crimean war. In Mametz Wood‚ Owen Sheers describes the rediscovery of lost World War 1 graves so that we can be reminded of what happened. Both Alfred Tennyson and Owen Sheers reflect on how fragile life is and that it can be wasted so easily due to war. Both poets use imagery
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from getting shot. Tennyson’s poem observes the battle from a distance as if he had a good viewpoint. He was not a participant like the poems of Wilfred Owen or Rupert Brook who wrote their poems and died in the trenches of the First World War. Tennyson sets the scene of battle and creates the atmosphere for ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by the form and structure of the poem. The six stanzas have a clear and powerful dactylic rhythm‚ representing the galloping hooves of the horses as they race
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different composers have reflected the concerns of their society‚ in regards to gender‚ through a variety of texts. I will be focusing on two texts in particular‚ an excerpt from The Princess entitled “The Woman’s Cause is Mans” by playwright Alfred Lord Tennyson written in 1847 and the film adaptation of the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” originally composed by Tennessee Williams in 1947. Both of these texts offer readers an insightful analysis of the gender issues prominent at the time. A key gender issue
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Bush’s 211 million acres. “More land has been protected than ocean” David Helvarg tells nationalgeographic.com. Nereus‚ a robotic submarine‚ dove 6.8 miles in the Marianas Trench‚ which is a part of the Pacific Ocean. It is currently the deepest-diving vehicle‚ according to bbc.co.uk. Nereus is controlled by a remote that is attached to the vehicle. The remote is controlled by men above the ocean in a ship. Currently
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