The Transcendent Maverick Mark Twain‚ American humorist and novelist‚ captured a world audience with stories of boyhood adventure and with commentary on man’s shortcomings that is satirical while it probes‚ often bitterly‚ the roots of human behavior. Additionally‚ the many facets of Twain include: his incomparable humor‚ his revolutionary use of vernacular language‚ his exploration of the realities of American life‚ his irreverence and skepticism‚ his profound grappling with issues of race and his
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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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Both the Bayeux Tapestry and the Portable War Memorial try depict or show just what the war looked like to the artists in different lights‚ while one glorified or showed the victory war can bring the other showed how war affects the present‚ and the awful side that can come from it. The Bayeux Tapestry is showing the events leading up to the Norman conquest in the Battle of Hastings. This work presents an accurate representation of a historical moment. It is from a Norman point of view‚ in that
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Vocabulary: lime (12) - “And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.” The quote speaks about a man in a fire so the word lime can be referring to something that is a sort of substance that is burning through the body. The Latin quotation (27-28)‚ from the Roman poet Horace‚ means “It is sweet and becoming to die for one’s country.” What is the poem’s comment on this statement? The poem’s comment on this statement is the restating of the title of the poem. The title translates from latin to english
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The caliginous effect of war has entailed the dehumanise of soldiers where death apprehends reality as killing the opposing mortal is a sign of success and failing for one’s country is futile as the soldier deceased and no longer needed. Wilford Owen delivers a starling message about the reality and costs of war. He highlights the dehumanisation and futile deaths of the soldier’s life’s in the year 1917 throughout the gloomy war in his poems Anthemed for doomed youth and the next war. In Wilford
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fighting with the British Army‚ wrote the poem Dulce et Decorum est to describe‚ possibly to the public‚ the horrific consequences of taking part and fighting in the war. During the poem‚ he describes the aftermath of a poison gas attack‚ and the injuries sustained by a soldier whom had inhaled the deadly substance. Owen uses gruesome imagery to vividly show in verse the horrible death the soldier faces‚ in the trenches of France. The poem Dulce et Decorum est is widely regarded as one of the greatest
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Contrast and compare the ways in which the characters of David and Hammer Logan deal with the issue of prejudice in “Roll of Thunder‚ Hear My Cry” Mildred D. Taylor’s “Roll of Thunder‚ Hear my Cry” is set during the Great Depression‚ in the rural areas of Mississippi. The majority of the people in this community are sharecroppers‚ who are greatly dependent on plantation farming. The Logan family is fortunate because they have a piece of land of their own‚ so unlike
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As the camera pans back‚ Mr. Blonde stands up and turns‚ holding the officer’s bloody severed ear in his hands. This verse is a reflection of Mr. Blonde‚ and how he sees his lifestyle. He is very proud of his past transgressions‚ and is very much at one with the fact that he is a hardened criminal‚ who not only lives the lifestyle‚ but enjoys it. The lyrics: (And your friends‚ they all come crawlin‚ Slap you on the back and say)‚ refers his friends Joe and ‘Nice Guy’ Eddie‚ who asked him for his
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Jala Witchard Mrs.Reyer 3rd Block 12 September 2016 Compare and Contrast Essay Emanuel Leutze painted a painting in 1851 called “Washington Crossing the Delaware”‚ and David Shulman wrote a poem of the same title in 1936. Both of these men used their own perspectives of this event in history. Many people may have different perspectives based on how they might feel about the historical event. Some might see it as the revolution and others might see it as an act of greed and war. In addition‚ you
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Stephen Crane talks about death like it is a casual thing. He glorifies people dying and uses ironic emotions to show his opposing opinion to war. Crane puts the war in a different perspective than people expected to see it in. Crane opposes the war‚ in the poem “War is Kind” and short story “A Mystery Of Heroism” he uses irony to show this with surviving through bad times and the use of ironic emotions. Stephen Crane shows irony in surviving through bad times in both the short story and the poem
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