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    Bruce Lee’s Speed Training by Bruce Lee and M. Uyehara What is speed in fighting? Is it the velocity of your hands‚ feet and body movement? Or are there other‚ prevalent essentials in a good fighter? What is a good fighter? A good fighter is one who can hit his opponent quicker‚ harder‚ without much perceptible effort‚ and yet avoid being hit. He doesn’t only possess a pair of fast hands and feet and quick body movement‚ but he has other qualities such as non-telegraphic moves‚ good coordination

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    shown great ability to as persuading audiences is The poem “Weapons Training” by Bruce Dawe‚ Charlie Chaplin’s speech from “The great dictator” and the song “Where is the love” by The Black Eyed Peas. Weapons Training is a piece of war poetry written by Burce Dawe in 1970. This poem is considered a dramatic monologue spoken by an aggressive and intimidating sergeant who’s training soldiers that are about to be sent off to war. Bruce Dawe has used rhetorical questions to encourage the reader or

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    Bruce used dialogue to portray people‚ places and ideas in his poem to reflect on his personal values and moral. Discuss using o ne poem. Dialogue was explicitly employed in Enter so much without knocking written by Bruce Dawe to portray his personal values on consumerism in society. Through the employment of dialogue; people‚ places and ideas were portrayed to reflect on Dawe’s negative perception on the impact materialism has played in society through the epitome of a boy’s life from birth to

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    Condolences of the Season “Identi-knitted out as fulsomely as the most wanted criminal” – The identity is relentlessly picked apart and related to other relatives as if he was a master criminal that everyone was trying to identify. Fulsomely - Unrelenting “Any means you choose to shake them off are bound to fail” – All the attempts that the child will make in its life to break free of their family heritage and become an individual will be futile‚ as the family members will always be able to identify

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    Good morning/afternoon everyone. I am sure that many of you will agree with me‚ after studying and discussing in class war poetry‚ that war is destructive; it destroys properties and lives. It is also the meaning if not dehumanizing as Owen in his ’Dulce et Decorum Est’ has pointed out. The violence and destructiveness of war reduces men in the battlefield into something less than human; they are stripped of their dignity. Ultimately as Owen points out in his poem‚ war is senseless or futile. Whatever

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    The poem "Homecoming" originates from Bruce Dawe. Its journey depicts the aspects of war and its devastations upon human individuals. Using mainly the Vietnam War as a demonstration for its destructions. Within this poem Bruce Dawe dramatizes the homecoming of Australian veterans’ bodies from Vietnam. This is clearly an anti-war poem‚ reproducing the sentiments of those who opposed the time when this war occurred. The poem starts of in what seems to be a monotone. With many simple verbs such

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    world more clearly”‚ the poem “Enter Without So Much as Knocking” by Bruce Dawe‚ published in 1950 is true to this quote because it is outlining the passage from the hospital to the grave. It makes the reader realise that when you die you will eventually be forgotten‚ unless you have made an impact on the world. The persona in the poem is the man who’s being spoken about because it’s about his life‚ making him the subject matter. Dawe is a voice for the persona because he is telling the story about

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    ourselves and what defines our identity and others. The Running Man‚ by Michael Gerard Bauer‚ explores ideas on the effects of war and society’s expectations through the relationships formed throughout the book. Similarly‚ the poem ‘Weapons Training’‚ by Bruce Dawe‚ uses the relationship between the drill sergeant‚ the soldiers and their enemy to shape our understanding of the viciousness and brutality of war and the expectations of society. In The Running Man‚ the relationship between Joseph and

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    Bruce Dawes poems explore the impacts of consumer culture and are an indictment of the growing materialism in modern society. In Enter Without So Much As Knocking (1962)‚ Dawe portrays a world dominated by consumerism‚ which has lead to `conformity‚ and eroded the individuality of many people. The idea that our view of the world can only be seen through television and that our experience of life is restricted and controlled by it is highlighted in the satirical poem‚ Tele Vistas.(1977) This idea

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    Poems that use dialogue include ‘Weapons Training’ (WT) and ‘Pleasant Sunday Afternoon’ (PSA)‚ written by Bruce Dawe. The themes these poems express include ‘strive for happiness and fulfilment and make the most of life. Another text that also displays these themes is ‘V For Vendetta’ directed by James McTeigue. The poem ‘Weapons Training’ written by Bruce Dawe is monologue from military instructor that is lecturing recruits on what to do in a battle situation. Dawe expresses his ideas about military

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