Significance of Irony Irony is a rhetorical device used to illustrate a discordant situation or verbalization in which the outcome is opposite of what was expected. As a result‚ this writing technique often introduces humor into the storyline‚ depending on the tone of the story. This element of indirectness is partly what makes poetry so interesting. Poetry’s lack of simplicity forces the reader to think independently‚ therefore creating numerous possible interpretations. The techniques of irony used in
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War Horse film is a drama movie inspired from the the children’s novel War Horse written by the British author Michael Morpurgo in 1982. The movie displays the journey of an English horse in Europe before and during the First World War in order to illustrate the strong relationship between the horse and its owner. The film was professionally directed by Steven Speilberg who was successful to attract the attention of the young audiences during the 146 minutes of the film. War Horse was released in
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home feeling like a winner. Both sides suffer irreplaceable losses. For this reason‚ there are no true winners in war. Some people may feel that they came out of the war victoriously‚ but as Agatha Christie said‚ To win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. For example‚ in the American Revolution‚ we won‚ but is it really victory when 8‚000 Americans died on the battlefield? We lost more soldiers than the British lost during that war‚ yet we came out of it looking like winners. Theres a reason that
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Winners Never Quit How many of you are living your childhood and adolescence dreams? Two years back I went to Arbaminch University to give a bridge design course and on my way back in a plane‚ a 9 year old kid sat beside me. His mother and elder sister sat one step behind us. After some acquaintance‚ I asked him "What do you want to become when you grow up?" He replied "I want to become a pilot." Then I asked him "What about your sister?" He said "She wants to become a queen." The girl’s
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literature we have read thus far in this course because it upholds many of the realist themes. Such realistic themes include determinism and survival‚ which are also portrayed throughout the short stories “To Build a Fire” by Jack London and “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant. In the poem “A Man Said to the Universe” by Stephen Crane‚ the man declares‚ “Sir‚ I exist!” to which the universe basically responds by saying it does not matter because it is
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Thomas Gradgrind‚ sir. A man of realities. A man of fact and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four‚ and nothing over‚ and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind‚ sir -- peremptorily Thomas -- Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales‚ and the multiplication table always in his pocket‚ sir‚ ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature‚ and tell you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures
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Romanticism and Realism in the Arts Romanticism and Realism were two forms of art that came into existence in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Both formed as a resistance to traditional standards and in response to a time of war and revolution. Both Romanticism and Realism are prevalent in works of art to this day. This is where the similarities of the two art forms end. So how can two opposing literary movements overlap time periods yet be so different in style? Romanticism
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Realism in International Relations The video begins with a lecture from professor Richard Betts who is the director of the institute of War and Peace studies and director of the International Security Policy program in the School of International and Public affairs at Columbia University. In the lecture video he was discussing and explaining the many different theories of realism. Realism is a theory of how the world usually works. Realism is not a blueprint to how things should work in special
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Idealism Vs. Realism Interpreting both poems‚ “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth and “Smell” by William Carlos Williams‚ these authors take diverse approaches towards these poems when it comes to realism and idealism. William Carlos Williams tends to take a more realistic approach towards “Smell” by demonstrating forms of anti-romanticism‚ and negativity towards his own nose‚ while William Wordsworth leans toward a more idealistic approach by personifying non-living things and
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