In the novel‚ The Slopes of War‚ by N.A. Perez‚ there are many displays of mental‚ emotional‚ and physical effects of war on a family. The author uses a myriad of quotes referring to the obstacles people faced in the era of war. She also uses quotes from different perspectives. Perez uses an example of imagery with Buck after he was struck in his leg. “A gassy stench was thick around him. Dead men lay blackening in the sun‚ they’re clothes bursting from their bodies as they swelled. He did not
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War is an inconvenience that destroys everything. To Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth‚ the first world war started out as a personal inconvenience. However as time passes and the war drags on‚ she later realizes that the war is also a universal inconvenience that spares no one and nothing. War affects thousands‚ and destroys everything in it’s path. Brittain’s changing viewpoint on war is shown in chapter eight‚ passage three‚ taken from pages 370-372. The passage shows her obvious disdain for
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Writer’s Rationale In this Writer’s Rationale‚ I will be covering the topic of the “War on Drugs” to convince legislators that it has proven to be a phenomenal waste of time and money‚ incarcerates minority people disproportionately‚ and does not solve the drug problem at all. To show that they should work to repeal all applicable draconian drug laws immediately. The reason legislators need to hear this argument immediately is that since Richard Nixon initiated the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention
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passionate; it was quiet. Before this mysterious figure delivers his speech‚ the church people are praying for the safety of their soldiers and the defeat of their war opponent. This is an ironic situation‚ because in Christianity (and many other religions)‚ murder is a sin and the people in church are asking God for everything he’s against: war and destruction of humanity. Also‚ even though the identity of this man isn’t exactly confirmed‚ he introduces himself as God’s messenger who is supposed to have
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Poetry is considered one of the most challenging literary genre to translate. American poet Robert Frost argues that “poetry is what gets lost in translation‚" (qtd. in Gentzler 27) which is agreed by many others. Many scholars even denied that possibility for poetry to be translated into other languages‚ namely its untranslatability. Translatability is “the capacity for some kind of meaning to be transferred from one language to another without undergoing radical change.” (Baker & Malmkjær 273)
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Elle McHugh English L202 Paper 2 – Analysis October 15‚ 2012 The Poetry of “Cosmic Love” Emerging in the summer of 2009‚ Florence and the Machine‚ a British indie-rock band‚ has a style of a mix between soul and rock. Nonetheless‚ their sound is best described by their lead singer Florence Welch as‚ “something overwhelming and all-encompassing that fills you up . . .” That said‚ their music contains an ethereal intensity with poetic elements that set them apart from other music. Such
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sweetest in the gale is heard; and sore must be the storm that could abash the little bird that kept so many warm. I’ve heard it in the chilliest land‚ and on the strangest sea; yet‚ never‚ in extremity‚ it asked a crumb of me. Analysis of the poem In first stanza Dickson defines hope by comparing it to a bird‚ which is metaphor- a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity. The poem
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Thucydides‚ the greatest conflict was the Peloponnesian war between the Athenians and Spartans‚ along with each of their allies. In the opinion of Thucydides‚ the Peloponnesian war was due to the growth of Athens and the fear‚ the growth caused in the Spartans and their allies (Thucydides‚ Book I‚ chapter I). Accounts of events by Thucydides‚ for Francis Cornford‚ are not merely historic‚ but rather works of art. The History of the Peloponnesian War according to Thucydides is artistic through carefully
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When soldiers come home from war a large majority don’t know how to fit in with the rest of us as they have been away for a long period of time doing things that your average person wouldn’t do on a day to day basis. I have chosen the theme “When soldiers return home from war the don’t know how to feel or act”. This theme is portrayed in the songs “Hero of War” by Rise Against‚ “21 Guns” by Green Day and in the films “Rambo: First Blood” directed by Ted Kotcheff and in “American Sniper” directed
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again after they were brutality beaten by their owners . 1.) Phillis wheatley was the first African American to publish a book ‚ and the first to achieve an international reputation as a writer . Wheatley poetry not only grasp the attention of blacks ‚ but also white readers. Whealtey ’s poetry was stunning news to whites who encountered Poem on Various Subjects ‚ Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley ‚ Negro Servant to Mr.John Wheatley of Boston . Before Wheatley ‚ grew the attention of white
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