The speech ‘Funeral Service of the Unknown Australian Soldier’ by former Prime Minister Paul Keating has been chosen as the basis of this commentary. It was given on 11th of November 1993 at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra as a commemoration in honour of all of the soldiers who have served for Australia in conflict situations. Paul Keating’s point of view is evidently reflected through his speech. He aims to bring about the development of Australia as a unified nation by the instilling patriotism among the citizens and to overcome such obstacles of loss and demise as a nation. As such, the audience is swayed to readily acquiesce with Keating’s opinions about building a united nation. Keating is successful in gaining such a reaction from his audience as a result of his effectual use of persuasive techniques. Devices such as inclusive language, synecdoche, and emotive language have been extensively employed in Paul Keating’s speech. This makes the speech worthy of analytic evaluation. Keating has utilized inclusive language to a great extent to develop a strong connection with his audience and make them feel part of the speech which would give them a better understanding about his speech. Additionally emotive language has been cleverly manipulated in the speech to provoke remembrance and sympathy towards the dead and stir patriotism among the spectators where they will feel united and as one nation. Lastly synecdoche has been applied by Keating in the speech to represent the Unknown Soldier as…
When assigned as the Director of Long Island National Cemetery (LINC), I came into a facility with an abysmal organizational culture. The Cemetery Staff, Union, and Management were in turmoil. My challenges were to change the negative organizational culture at Cypress Hills National Cemetery (CHNC) and (LINC). I worked to improve management’s relationship with the workforce and union officials to reduce or eliminate the House Veterans Affairs Committee, Congressional, Unfair Labor Practice, and Equal Employment Opportunity complaints. Increases in the response rates for the All Employee Survey (AES) would contribute to the overall understanding of the factors contributing to the poor organizational culture.…
The current exhibit in the Bohachevsky Gallery features photographs taken by William L. Morris III. He has been photographing Bald Eagles in the Gulf Coast Region since 2008. The last day of the exhibit will be Sunday, August 14. Please let me know if you have any questions.…
The quote “An epilogue...is more than a body count. An epilogue, in the disguise of wrapping up the past, is really a way of warning us about the future”(469) does relate to the epilogue in this chapter in a couple ways. What Garp was trying to say was an epilogue states good memories people had with their loved ones. For example, on page 469 it says “At noon… he came and kissed Helen and fondled her breasts and kissed baby Jenny, over and over again while he dressed her…” expressing how good of a husband and dad Garp was. Also on page 468 it reads “the February day, Helen heard him telling jokes to Ellen James and Duncan at breakfast….” Helen admired Garp for the good that he was. Epilogues are supposed to recognize the good in people not…
Garp is the first spouse to cheat on Helen with another female., but Helen doesn't react like you would expect women to act during this time. Helen did not feel it was necessary to get mad or upset, all she did was sleep with another male. Which does not make her right at all. She just…
Grief and loss issues are prevalent in many Aboriginal families and communities and also continually adversely impact the lives of many people. All these grief and loss issues are a combination of European colonisation which gives forced removal of children and other underlying socio-economic factors. The path of destruction is cyclical and…
Our impression of the novel and its happenings are largely dictated to us by Nick, because he is our eyes as well as our ears in this fictitious world. In telling us his story about the "great man," Jay Gatsby, he goes to quite a length in establishing a credibility which is essential for the story. His reflection on his upbringing, particularly his "advantages," as his father called them, those being his spiritual and moral values only work to build upon his credibility. For example, by saying that his upbringing provided him with the moral fibre and that consequently he is, "inclined to reserve all judgments," about other people provides us with the impression that Nick with give us an accurate, level-headed insight to the story. Ironically enough, this really isn't the case. He makes an exception to that statement when he judges Gatsby, whom he says has an, "extraordinary gift for life, a romantic readiness." In making the preceding statement, he overlooks Gatsby's bootlegging and his association with Wolfsheim, who is rumored to have fixed the 1919 World Series of baseball. So this tells us that Gatsby is not perfect as well which appeals to us because it makes him appear more human, which adds realism to the…
Writing two years after Gatsby’s death, Nick describes the funeral. Wild, untrue stories, more exaggerated than the rumors about Gatsby when he was throwing his parties, circulate about the nature of Gatsby’s relationship to Myrtle and Wilson. Nicks tries to make a large funeral but Gatsby’s former friend either are gone or don’t want to come. The only persons at his funeral are, a few servant, Nick, Owl Eyes, and Gatsby’s father, Henry C. Gatz, who has come all the way from Minnesota. Henry Gatz is proud of his son and saves a picture of his house. Tired of the East, Nick decides to move back to the Midwest. He breaks off his relationship with Jordan, who suddenly claims that she has become engaged to another man. He then meets Tom on Fifth Avenue. Tom tells him that he was the one who told Wilson that Gatsby owned the car that killed Myrtle. He says that Gatsby deserved to die. Nick comes to the conclusion that Tom and Daisy are careless and uncaring people and that they destroy people and things, protected by their money.…
"I'm inclined to reserve judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me... " - Nick Carraway. In this classic novel, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Nick Carraway as a narrator. Nick changes profoundly over the course of the novel, and his transformation is just as intriguing as Gatsby’s dramatic story. Nick does not clearly know the past between Daisy and Jay Gatsby, Nick is too submerged in events and relationships therefore he is somewhat biased as exemplified by his relationship with Jordan. Nick Carraway judges people even though he repeatedly states he is “Inclined to reserve judgements” (p.1) With this stated we can concur that Nick Carraway is an unreliable narrator, He promises to remain non-judgmental throughout the story but quickly fails and tells the story of the “Great Gatsby” through his own views instead of having an unbiased opinion on…
My only hesitation towards Nick Carraway’s telling of Gatsby’s story is his unfailing trust in Gatsby. Carraway says “Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction- Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn”. Within that quote there is a clear contradiction in Carraway’s words, but I believe that Carraway was simply trying to use the rhetorical device of irony. By spending all this time retelling Gatsby’s story in a fanciful light, Carraway unconsciously hid the fact that Gatsby, at his core, embodied all of the traits that he felt made people the scum of the earth. Gatsby is filthy rich, literally, and he has only one superficial care in the world, a married former debutante. Gatsby’s story may have been told in a better light as a result of Carraway becoming a victim to hindsight bias, which is when an event is changed in ones memory to make the result more predictable, despite there have been little or no objective basis for the original…
Owl eyes notes that people used to come “by the hundreds” to Gatsby’s extravagant parties, drinking his liquor, and not being certain who he was, to begin with. The irony is that with the exception of Nick, some servants, the postman, Mr. Gatz, and Owl Eyes, not one other person of the hundreds that would go to his parties came to his funeral. Then there’s the irony that the people who did attend the funeral were quite insignificant throughout the novel and that Nick, who had only meet Gatsby recently, planned the…
A lot of people seen Gatsby as a mysterious wealthy guy that they just attend his parties. But when Gatsby was faced with the problem that Daisy might not have loved him. Or she onced loved another man, a lot was revealed about Gatsby. It was shown that Gatsby was just another normal guy but because of love he became corrupt and did things one was not suppose to. He became a loner became he had to be able to achieve the goal of getting Daisy.…
One must think with a great deal of precision and infallibility when memorializing history. The creator should have a sense of where it will be placed, the size, significance, and the pros/cons of it. Any memorial is a stamp of history, because it outlines an important person or event. It has a chance of effecting people while appealing to their emotions in positive or negative way. So when an agency is considering memorializing an event or person in a monument one should have a feel of how it would affect the mass population.…
2. According to the Crime and Investigation crime files “Gacy had convinced his self that his alter personality Jack Hanson had committed the murders and was trying to frame him for them.”…
All Soul's Day (sometimes called the "Day of the Dead") is a Roman Catholic day of remembrance for friends and loved ones who have passed away. This comes from the ancient Pagan Festival of the Dead, which celebrated the Pagan belief that the souls of the dead would return for a meal with the family. It is also believe that candles in the window would guide the souls back home and children would come through the village, asking for food to be offered symbolically to the dead, and then donated to feed the hungry.…