OF AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY EKPOMA‚ NIGERIA. SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF MASS COMMUNICATION NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVRSITY‚ AWKA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF A MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN MASS COMMUNICATION BY IFIDON‚ EBAHI D.U. MATRIC NO 2006126OO5F SUPERVISOR PROFESSOR ONUORA NWUNELI CERTIFICATION This is to certify that the thesis entitled: Availability And Use Of Internet By Undergraduate Students Of Ambrose Alli
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Chickamauga Ambrose Bierce’s Chickamauga is a disillusioned child’s awakening. Literally‚ a six year old deaf boy is thrown into a most horrifically traumatic series of events. His story is relayed in the third person omniscient perspective through the eyes of the child as well as an elder. It takes place during the Civil War in a southern town. Chickamauga begins with the boy’s entrance into the forest where he goes to play solitarily. With him he carries a toy wooden sword with which he battles
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Question: ‘The history of the world is but the biography of great men.’ (Carlyle) How does Ambrose portray leadership in Band of Brothers? What leadership traits does he identify? Are the officers ‘eventful’ or ‘eventmaking’? ‘I have not been in a battle; not near one‚ nor heard from a far‚ nor seen the aftermath’‚ claims John Keegan a distinguished war historian and lecturer of Military History at Sand Hurst Academy. This begs the question‚ just how competent is a man who has never witnessed
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still practiced. Storytelling binds and defines humanity‚ humans are perhaps the only animals that create and tell stories. There is a wide selection of stories that may possibly be articulated‚ and a wider selection of stories to be generated. Ambrose Bierce created a story that is truthful and emphasizes the real details of life‚ no softening. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a story that explains the traumatic experience of a soldier‚ seeing his life flash before his eyes‚ while being hung.
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Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a short story written by Ambrose Bierce. In this short story‚ the narrator tells of a man named Peyton Farquhar about to be hanged for attempting to interfere with a railroad during the Civil War. Luckily‚ as he falls the rope snaps and he falls into the water below with the noose and cord still around his neck and wrist. He unties his hands and then he “...pounced upon the noose at his neck” (Ambrose Bierce 402). Although he has freed himself from restraints he is
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: Evaluation of Literary Elements Swinging from a noose off a railroad trellis‚ many thoughts race through a condemned man’s mind. In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge‚” Ambrose Bierce effectively uses literary elements to allow the reader to look through the keyhole of the mind of a dying man in his last moments of life. Elements such as realism‚ flashback‚ metaphor/simile‚ setting‚ point of view‚ and character allow the reader to become
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and journalist‚ Whitman before and after the Civil War shows the impact of the romantic idealism which reached its pinnacle in the years to follow. Along with another famous poet who became known for his cynical viewpoint of human nature‚ Ambrose Bierce. Bierce shows his audience the realist violence brought about by the Civil War. These two literary landmarks depict the American society both before and post Civil War. It is often difficult to understand Whitman’s view of the war without understanding
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Death to the traitors! Bierce uses foreshadowing to create a shock effect for the reader’s throughout the entire short story of “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. Ambrose furthermore uses symbolism to foreshadow events in his story. He also uses imagery to indicate events that were occurring. Ambrose Bierce uses foreshadowing and other literal techniques to create a shock effect in his short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. To begin with Ambrose Bierce uses foreshadowing a lot in this
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burn the bridge down. In the story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce. In the short story naturalism is being showed that man is insignificant‚ nature is ambivalent‚ and the effect of stress on the average individual. In the beginning‚ the story starts by showing how man is insignificant or how people just don’t care. One example would be man of “thirty-five years old who is engaged to be hanged” (Bierce 582). Another example is “He was a civilian‚ if one
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only he knows exactly‚ what it is’” (Bierce 11). The statement being a student of hanging by Peyton referred that he was a hangman but in reality he is the one that is hanged. Hanging is not the outcome Mr. Farquhar had in mind. There are some examples of dramatic irony in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. For example‚ Peyton Farquhar dreams of greater glory on the battlefield‚ rather than from the more "humble" duty of spying for the Confederacy (Bierce 71). Farquhar is deceived by the Southern
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