English Discuss the ways in which text you have studied has value to a contemporary society in your response‚ refer to at least 3 of the following: ideas and themes‚ characters‚ language‚ structure and context. Value today: * Know the past so we don’t repeat the horror. * The importance of storytelling is to record the history. Gemma and briar is in the story for the future. Linking the past for the present and future. * Value of families/ family histories * * The books is
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called the Atreidae. HELEN‚ _most beautiful of women; daughter of Tyndareus‚ wife to MENELÂÜS; beloved and carried off by Paris._ PARIS‚ son of Priam‚ King of Troy‚ lover of Helen. Also called ALEXANDER. PRIAM‚ the aged King of Troy. The Greeks are also referred to as Achaians‚ Argives‚ Danaans; Troy is also called Ilion. The play was produced in the archonship if Philocles (458 B.C.). The first prize was won by Aeschylus with the "Agamemnon"‚ "Libation-Bearers"‚ "Eumenides"‚ and the Satyr
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In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises‚ Jake Barnes is the main protagonist that lives in Paris after World War I. He works as a newspaperman in Paris (Shanman 1071). He is one the many American and British expatriates who overran the city shortly after the war. He is a Midwestern‚ middle-class‚ and a lapsed Catholic. He falls in love with a nurse Lady Brett Ashley with leads to part of his downfall (Bloom 122). Jake Barnes is troubled about his injury from World War I that leaves him impotent;
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Sun Also Rises The Aimlessness of the Lost Generation (for Text to text comparison) World War I undercut traditional notions of morality‚ faith‚ and justice. No longer able to rely on the traditional beliefs that gave life meaning‚ the men and women who experienced the war became psychologically and morally lost‚ and they wandered aimlessly in a world that appeared meaningless. Jake‚ Brett‚ and their acquaintances give dramatic life to this situation. Because they no longer believe in anything
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individual‟s sense of self. Belonging is a basic human desire. It can be formed via family ‚ culture and also self – discovery. Texts can show the importance for one to belong to a purpose as an outrageous world of dancing in Baz Luhrmann‟s “Strictly Ballroom” demonstrates how the use of filmic techniques can bring an understanding of the difference between conforming and belonging by choice. Also the novel “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka illustrate the difficulties to accept individual human conditions
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Dwayne Johnson MILS 1120 CPT Vogan 2.11.13 First Aid Lab Ever since warfare started humans have had to find ways to mend and preserve there bodies for fighting with medical care. The battlefield has been the birth place of many modern techniques used today to treat injury. One of the most important area of warfar is First Aid. First Aid is extremly important in the military‚ especialy while in a hostile area or on the batttlefield. First Aid is thee to take immediate action in treating the
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Mental Diagnosis for Emily In the short story “A Rose for Emily”‚ the reader can conclude that Emily appears to have had schizophrenia by way she interacts in the town. Emily’s mental problems start to come to light to the reader when she begins having hallucinations. The reader gains further background and further sees mental instability in Emily right after her father dies. The town people also begin to see that there are mental issues with Emily‚ yet do not want to make it known to keep the integrity
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Sophie and the White Rose group first started out as the role of the instigator‚ trying to reach the highest position that they could at the time. Sophie was a high role in the Nazi girls’ section‚ whereas Hans was a high role in the Nazi boys’ section. However‚ the actions that they had to do mad them realize that everything they were doing wasn’t really what they had wanted to be doing to begin with. When they opened their eyes to see what was actually happening‚ they ditched the Nazi regime and
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assumed new importance and relevance. In an attempt to satisfy the mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001‚ a growing number of special educators agree that full inclusion is the optimal approach for providing the individualized services needed by young learners with special needs. Known as “mainstreaming” in the past‚ full inclusion means integrating students with special physical‚ cognitive or emotional needs into traditional classroom setting.
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Are there two sides of a person? Ernest Hemingway’s novel‚ The Sun Also Rises‚ follows the story of an American man named Jake Barnes‚ who abandoned America after World War I to live abroad as a writer in Paris‚ like many modernist writers. During this time period‚ people’s faith in the American government and policy was shattered as they were deeply effected by wartime experiences‚ which drove them to distant countries and new professions as they tried to avoid their war stained past (Baym 13-18)
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