residences often answer the door to a military officer whom bears bad news about their sons. During the reconstruction‚ the sex ratio is off balance and many women do not have a full grasp on why they are lonely. In “War is Kind” by the famous poet Stephen Crane; he adopts sarcastic diction and syntax to display war as a destructive force. The author uses ironic diction to present war as a calamitous machine that of which yields to no one. The first words that arise from the work to the reader is “Do
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How could war be kind? War cannot be kind. Throughout Stephen Crane’s stories‚ we learn he is opposed to the civil war. Stephen Crane uses sarcasm in “War is Kind” and then gives gruesome details of a soldier’s experience in “A Mystery of Heroism” to prove he is opposed to the war. Sarcasm is meant to provoke thought and to poke fun at the other topic. “War is Kind” uses sarcasm to explain the horrors of war‚ and the effect it has on those related to those in the war. “Great is the battle-god‚ great
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Stephen Coonts’ "Flight of the Intruder": Summary This week I read Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts. I read from page 1 to page 437 for a total of 437 pages. The book is about an A-6A Intruder (a naval bomber) pilot named Jake Grafton. In the first few pages Jake’s best friend and B/N (Bombardier/Navigator) is killed by a Vietnamese soldier’s rifle. In this mission their target was a "suspected truck park." Jake goes into despondency (depression‚ despair) for a days and tries to
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Reflecting on Addiction On the surface‚ “Miracle Polish” mirrors the myth of Narcissus‚ following a man who‚ after discovering the effects of a mysterious polish‚ becomes obsessed with his own reflection. However‚ within the fantasy of Steven Millhauser’s short story lies a very real and morbid subtext. “Miracle Polish” presents an allegory of drug abuse and substance addiction‚ using symbols to control the story’s significance and depth. Millhauser effectively creates an allegory with the use
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Spoken English and Broken English By G. B. Shaw ...If you are learning English because you intend to travel in England and wish to be understood there‚ do not try to speak English perfectly because if you do‚ no one will understand you. ...Though there is no such thing as perfectly correct English‚ there is presentable English which we call ’Good English’‚ but in London nine hundred and ninety nine out of every thousand people not only speak bad English but speak even that very badly.
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Sweetness by Stephan Dunn Just when it has seemed I couldn’t bear one more friend waking with a tumor‚ one more maniac with a perfect reason‚ often a sweetness has come and changed nothing in the world except the way I stumbled through it‚ for a while lost in the ignorance of loving someone or something‚ the world shrunk to mouth-size‚ hand-size‚ and never seeming small. I acknowledge there is no sweetness that doesn’t
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Effect of the Past in the Present in Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of being a Wallflower L.Lakshmi M.Phil. Research Scholar Department of English Alagappa University Karaikudi Literature is an amalgam of social issues which always highlight the problem of identity crisis‚ gender discrimination‚ child sexual abuse‚ familial struggles‚ alienation and so on. The prevailing crisis in contemporary period is the problems of adolescence which affect the progress of adults and humankind. It is a preventable
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Stephen R. Covey book is titled “The 7 habits of highly effective people” helps to develop individuals’ personality in relation with others. The author takes us on the journey thru becoming proactive. Than we learn to realize where are we going with our life. The next step is to set priorities in our life. What things are important and what things can wait. We also learn how to achieve compromise that is satisfactory to all parties involved in daily activities. The author teaches us how to practice
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Trashcan Man English 10 Honors 2/28/10 Mrs. Borrego Stand Together‚ Stand Strong People behave strangely when more than ninety-nine percent of the population is dead. They behave even more strangely when they’re the prize of a cosmic struggle. In Stephen King’s fantasy/horror‚ The Stand‚ a plague created by the military decimates the modern world. The humans that survived the plague are now the commodity of the personifications of good and evil‚ the troops in an epically proportioned conflict. The
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Classic American Short Stories in the Class Resources Additional Readings folder. • Each essay should dedicate a paragraph or two on the following topics about the story: Style‚ Setting‚ Point of View‚ Conflict‚ Theme. • Make sure to express your informed opinion about the subject and explain why you came to that opinion. Do more than state whether you liked or didn’t like something. Instead‚ base your opinion on common expectations that you share with your readers. • Include
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