“To Hell with Spain Remember the Maine”‚ this was the slogan used by Yellow journalism after the Maine explosion and also before the beginning of the war. This slogan reminds the Americans that their beloved ones lost their lives and it was because of Spain. This slogan gives the feeling of nationalism and courage to fight against the enemies and to take the revenge for humiliation. Americans were already sympathetic towards Cubans. The destruction of the Maine convinces many Americans that the U
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In “Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History‚” Art Spiegelman evokes German expressionist wood-cut drawings‚ similar to Lynd Ward‚ to convey and suggest depth and weight through his use of heavy and jagged lines. This strategy in turn helps the viewer embrace the emotional anguish Artie is feeling after finding out his mother had passed. Spiegelman sets the shockingly confessional tone of the piece in the first two frames by wasting no time describing his mother’s method of suicide. The 1972 story’s
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“Pray the Devil Back to Hell.” Recently we watched “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” in English class. A few of the social issues addressed were: poverty‚ peace and women’s rights. The women were so fed up with how their president has been treating everyone. He got young children to run around with guns and hurt innocent people. Everyone was so below poverty that children were starving to death and there was nothing the parents could do because they themselves were starving. The women wanted so badly
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When I was a child‚ my parents had told me hell was a place for people who defied God. Their description of hell was this fiery habitat for demons‚ where humans would have to spend an eternity being punished for their sins. For many people‚ the threat of eternal damnation is terrifying‚ let alone a child. It was so alarming that for a while I simply shut out any questions that might undermine my assurance of salvation. I was taught that hell was run by a demon known by many names; the devil‚ Satan
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J. Alfred Prufrock and Rhapsody on a Windy Night‚ such as the increasing alienation of society‚ the loss of identity and the dismissal of functional traditional conventions. Eliot achieves this through the prevalent themes of time and memory‚ and the depiction of the urban environment. The isolation of individuals within society was a key feature of Modernism‚ and was suggested by man’s uncertainty and lack of direction‚ therefore leading to the inability to take initiative. Prufrock in Eliot’s
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Response) When thinking of a typical love story a reader expects compassion and romance‚ but in T. S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ romance is not the topic of discussion. The backdrop of the poem is a typical London‚ England day with numerous travels through the seamless foggy streets early 1900’s London. The mystery or puzzle through the poem tend to transpire with cleverly diverted unanswered question from the narrator that somehow get overlooked
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stanza‚ the fog and smoke is said to be yellow‚ supernaturally describing the atmosphere as dirty and possibly sick‚ also contributing to this sense. As the poem progresses‚ Prufrock continually contrasts himself using irony and rhetorical questions‚ connoting that he is both indecisive and confused. Many times does Prufrock emphasise that he is afraid to confront the society‚ especially the women in it. However he then moves on to rhetorically ask ‘Do I dare?’ and‚ ‘Do I dare?’ suggesting that despite
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From the “Prisoner on a Hell Planet” by Art Spiegelman” Now you cry better you cried when your mother was alive. The comic quotes was triggers me in a way I fell that Artie did not taking paying attention to her mother when she was alive. He does not care for her mother. There is some of the example I thinks that may cause her mother’s suicide. For example‚ he stated that‚ his parents did not like her girlfriends‚ and I believe that her mother has been advises him or warned him to stay away from
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quite openly while Eliot seems more wary of the temptations they pose. This slightly Puritanical outlook that Eliot had brought with him over from America to the more relaxed Europe is one that can be seen quite clearly in A Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. This poem was a pointed attack on all the well-dressed‚ upstanding bourgeois who loved their material wealth but had nothing when it came to love or happiness. But not only that‚ in a way it is a love song of unrequited feelings and the fear of
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“Hells Bells” AC/DC By: Mitch and Trevor Background about the song- The lyrics‚ sung by Brian Johnson‚ explain how the narrator will attack and drag a victim to hell‚ comparing his actions with natural phenomena such as rain‚ thunder and hurricanes. The song‚ as were all the tracks on Back in Black was written to commemorate the death of the former lead singer Bon Scott after he drank himself to death. This is the first track of Australian hard rock band AC/DC’s first album without Bon Scott
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