imagery that the poet creates in our minds. These aspects help to express the theme of the poem‚ which is the cruelty of war and human suffering. Firstly‚ the poet uses language to bring out the overall glum mood of the poem. In the first stanza‚ cumulative listing is used with the line “Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh.” This overwhelms the reader with the immense number of places where war is common‚ bringing about a sense of gloominess and wide spread depression. Furthermore‚ by using the phrase “Something
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thought the speaker was showing sympathy by saying “war is kind” to people who had lost loved ones in the war‚ or that “war is kind” because it eventually makes peace. But then I realized‚ the more that I think about war and how it is not at all kind makes me believe the speaker in this poem is being sarcastic when he says that “war is kind”. I still believe that he was showing sympathy in a paradoxical way. Society tends to overlook how bad war really is and how gruesome it can be. We take for granted
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From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam) Part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War Clockwise‚ from top left: US combat operations in Ia Drang‚ ARVN Rangers defending Saigon during the 1968 Tet Offensive‚ two Douglas A-4C Skyhawks enroute for airstrikes against North Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin incident‚ ARVN recapture Quảng Trị during the 1972 Easter Offensive‚ civilians fleeing the 1972 Battle of Quảng Trị‚ burial of 300 victims of the 1968 Huế Massacre
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An essay on war Let us commence a journey into the much travelled topic of war. I find my self constantly drawn back to the subject of war. Though war is a favourite topic of discussion amongst monarchs‚ presidents and dictators‚ spasmodically it returns to create a new passion amongst those who study its history. It is estimated that that war is thought about eight times every day by the upper echelons of progressive service sector organisations‚ who just don’t like that sort of thing. Hold onto
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The Cold War was a period of hostility‚ fear‚ and tension between the United States and the Soviet Union from the end of the 1940s to late 1980s. Like what Winston Churchill said‚ the world has been divided by the “Iron Curtain” during the Cold War between the Communists and the capitalists. It was called the Cold War because it was only a psychological warfare with no active wars between the two nations‚ which were due to the fear of nuclear arms. The result of the Cold War affected the world
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Morality of War There are nine conditions under which fighting a war can be moral. Although‚ that does not mean that wars are moral‚ especially not any of the wars this country has engaged itself in. War seems to be the most destructive type of human interaction. No other medium allows people to kill each other in such massive numbers or to cause immense suffering. Wars often take years to develop and can last for an undetermined amount of years. The effects can reverberate for decades if
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All wars result in many tragedies‚ some are known by the whole world‚ but no one knows the stories of all the men who fought. Whenever someone went off to war‚ the families were always affected. If a soldier came back alive‚ they would often be wounded‚ which would change their whole life. Without a doubt‚ the greatest tragedy of war is death of the innocent. The film “All Quiet on the Western Front” demonstrates some of these tragedies. War did not only have an effect on troops lives‚ the families
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“War Photographer” critical essay “War Photographer” by Carol Ann Duffy is a poem that uses features such as word choice‚ imagery and tone to make us feel pity for the main character. The poem is about the emotional struggles that the war photographer faces daily in his job. The author has written the poem to make us question the morality of taking photographs of people suffering in war zones. “War Photographer” makes us feel pity by using effective word choice. “Hands...tremble” The
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The book here in discussion is “War Fighting”. The main and over all purpose for this book is to explain and give examples of fighting wars. The book consists of the chapters‚ the first “Nature of War”. In this chapter the writer had many different topics‚ The Evolution of War‚ Violence and Danger‚ The Human Dimension‚ Uncertainty‚ and the definition of war just to name a few. The Definition of war is; War is a violent clash of interests between or among organized groups characterized by the use
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President George Washington and John Adams had as its primary goal the avoidance of war at all costs.” The above statement is a fact. Presidents Washington and Adams did everything in their power to avoid war. This idea is supported by the Jay treaty with Great Briton‚ the farewell address of George Washington‚ and the convention of 1800. The first supporting reason why we know that George Washington avoided war at all costs was the Jay Treaty‚ negotiated by chief justice John Jay‚ and ratified
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