Appreciation of Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” In a Station of the Metro is an observation of the poet of the human faces seen in a Paris’s subway station in which the faces turned variously toward light and darkness. The poet‚ Ezra Pound‚ was famous for advocating free meter and a more economical use of words and images in poetic expression. He is also one of the leaders of the Imagist Movement of poetry. He advocated to use sharp‚ accurate‚ implicative and concise images to express concrete
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Do the Right Thing “When we open our eyes today and look around America‚ we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism‚ we see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don’t see any American dream; we’ve experienced only the American nightmare. We haven’t benefited from America’s democracy; we’ve only suffered from America’s hypocrisy.” Malcolm X Spoken in 1965‚ these words still ring true for people of color in
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A Fight between Love and War In The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien the narrator of the story tells of the burdens him and his Soldiers face mentally‚ physically and emotionally in the Vietnam War. Tim O’Brien describes many of the physical things the Soldiers carried‚ pictures‚ letters rabbit’s feet‚ and a pebble. The characters in this story also carried mental burdens from being at war. Jimmy Cross is comforted by the items he brought with him‚ but his obsession with “love” causes the death
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travel with fraud‚ you reach your destination‚ but are unable to return” (Ghanaian proverb). What are the assumptions underlying this quote? How possible is it to undo the bad we do? This proverb describes one of the significant themes in The Things They Carried. It describes the mental and emotional burden the soldiers are forced to carry throughout their lives as a result of the atrocities they committed during the Vietnamese War. This proverb is assuming that the soldiers had in fact committed
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therefore‚ construction of a new morality is inescapable. Within the stories in The Things They Carried‚ soldiers are required to do so during and after the Vietnam War. War breeds monstrosities and wanton cruelty. When faced with two evils‚ picking the lesser immoral option is not necessarily something to be frowned upon. This is what separates a soldier’s morality and a civilian’s morality. Civilians see things through a black-and-white perspective; fundamental standards that must be obeyed to
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The role of ignorance in the novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ pertains around the idea of life and death and the way the soldiers become affected by certain events. Most notably‚ Azar is ignorant of his surroundings. He views Vietnam as a game‚ as he is always messing around and being immature. For example‚ “Azar shrugged. After a second he reached out and clapped [Tim] on the shoulder‚ not roughly but not gently either. ‘What’s real?’ he said. ‘Eight months in fantasyland‚ it tends to blur the line
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The Things They Carried Argument Essay Most people are not war veterans‚ and will never truly understand how soldiers felt when serving. But emotions are a common concept among people‚ and as people experience life they endure different emotions through different situations. When reading The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ you are shown through storytelling how the soldier felt when they were in Vietnam. Each story has different connections with different emotions to show how the soldier
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Music 105 March 7‚ 2012 Music Final Paper #2 DuPage Community Concert Band Concert Report On March 4‚ 2012‚ the DuPage Community Concert Band performed American Titled Songs at the College of DuPage. They performed a total of seven songs. I really enjoyed this concert. It featured many instruments like the trumpet‚ tuba and trombone. It was different from the concert I attended for my first concert report because it did not feature any stringed instruments. Something I found very different
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SPEECH #2: Deciding Whether or not to Live Together before Marriage Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about making decisions on whether or not to live together before marriage. Thesis: Deciding whether or not to live together before marriage is an important decision to make that has both negative and positive consequences depending on which side you choose. I. Introduction: A. Marriage is like fine win‚ if tended to properly‚ it gets better with age. According to Neil Shah‚ “In the
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Paper 2: Living Apart Together 1. Explain what “Living Apart Together” is‚ and give an outline of the different views presented in text 2 and 3. “Living Apart Together”‚ also know as LAT is a relatively new concept. The whole idea is that a couple‚ both those in long-time relationships and the officially married‚ is living in separate homes. They could live on different floors of the same building‚ down the block from one another or in different neighbourhoods. In that way it gives both part of
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