In the poem called “Five Ways to Kill a Man‚” by Edwin Brock‚ the poet indicates five different ways to kill a man by using history to relate the topic. A woman named Gerda Hoogenboom said‚ “The key to understanding the poem is to look at the setting of each stanza. Then‚ the rest follows” (Plagiarist Poetry Archive). By going through time and using various poetry techniques‚ Brock was able to get his point across to the reader in his poem. In Brock’s poem‚ there are five stanzas and each of them
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of chlorine gas. Owen paints the soldiers as not necessarily heroic‚ but rather more desperate and terrified‚ "like old beggars under sacks‚" (Owen line 1)‚ also "coughing like hags" (Owen line 2). I feel that Owen portrays his fellow soldiers this way to try and illustrate the point that these people are terribly afraid of death and are faced with it every day they live. They also aren’t this indestructible super human killing machine‚ but rather a group of terrified 20 year olds who just want to
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This poem by Edwin Brock is often considered a poem against war‚ whereas in fact it is a poem about the loss of humanity. It is written much like an instruction guide or recipe book‚ telling the reader the manner in which a man can be efficiently killed. Each stanza deals with one method of killing; each one distancing the killer further from his victim‚ till in the last stanza there is neither killer nor victim‚ but just a living death. In the first stanza the crucifixion of Jesus is refered
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The Five Ways of Knowing: Thomas St. Thomas Aquinas listed what he saw as five intellectual proofs of the existence of God—proofs that were dependent on reason and observation‚ yet not the revealed word of God. For centuries‚ the five ways were regarded as the truth and revered by theologians and common folk alike. The five ways deal with reason and observation. The first way‚ Aquinas explained‚ revolves around a first mover. As described by Young‚ W. (2004) this is‚ “the change of something
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Compare How War is Portrayed in the Poems Dulce et Decorum Est **and Five Ways to Kill a Man Both Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est and Brock’s Five Ways to Kill a Man portray war in a bad light. How they achieve this objective however differs from each other vastly. Owen’s poem is a first-hand account of a gas attack in the First World War. Brock’s poem is a far removed spectator view of war throughout the ages. Owen’s poem uses vivid imagery and strong emotions to attack the fallacies of war‚ while
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Five Ways of Looking at The Penelopiad CORAL ANN HOWELLS As the lights go down in the great church of St James‚ Piccadilly‚ a voice speaks eerily out of the darkness somewhere off to the side: ‘Now that I’m dead I know everything.’1 And then a single spotlight reveals centre stage a small grey-haired female figure robed in black sitting on a throne; she begins to speak. This is Margaret Atwood‚ doubly imaged here in performance as Penelope‚ for I am describing a staged reading of part of The Penelopiad
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all face as Christians‚ no matter how long we have been following Christ. There are a few practical things‚ however‚ that we can do to grow stronger and smarter in our struggle against sin. You can learn how to avoid temptation by practicing these five steps. Time Required: A Lifetime Here’s How: 1. Recognize your tendency toward sin. James 1:14 explains that we are tempted when we become enticed by our own natural desires. The first step toward avoiding temptation‚ is recognizing our human
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After reading Aquinas’s “The Five Ways” I found that his second way‚ the argument of causation‚ is the most fitting to Descartes belief about the existence of god. In my opinion‚ this argument holds the most truth because it supports what Descartes speaks upon in is third meditation. Descartes states that he himself could not have invented the idea of god. He then raises the question of what within himself allows him to believe that there is a god. Descartes cannot recall when the idea of a god first
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Pierson Laughlin Thomas Aquinas’s Five Ways In the beginning of the 13th century‚ philosopher Thomas Aquinas demonstrated five famous proofs for the existence of God. The first of these proofs is the argument from motion. Aquinas explains that everything is moving‚ both though time and space‚ and that each and everything that is moving must be set into motion by a mover. Therefore Aquinas concludes that in the beginning‚ there must have been an original unmoved mover that has set our world into
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There are many arguments based around the origins of existence‚ with all of them claiming to be the correct way in which existence came about. These arguments have been disputed through logic and through faith. Out of the readings assigned in class‚ I will be presenting Aquinas’ Five Ways argument. In short‚ this claim simply gives five logical reasons that prove god’s existence‚ which in turn‚ explains the existence as a whole. Within this paper‚ I will invalidate Aquinas’ argument‚ for his reasoning
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