Tomorrow When The War Began Essay

mainland at all, much to my disgust. I’ve been carrying around a waterskin just for this purpose since I began training under Doctor Valeron. How this city hasn’t been scoured by some mass-spread plague is beyond me, with these ignorant practices. What a start to this journey, no? Already I have performed my first surgery not a day after I arrive. There will be many more like him, I fear. War still rages on all over the mainland. Most of the tension lies far to the north, away from marvelous…

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 1942 Steve sat quietly, hands tucked in his lap in the poorly-lit theater. For about 20 minutes, the white sheet had broadcasted war propaganda: little boys pulling dirty red wagons missing wheels, collecting scraps of metal for the war effort, soldiers hiding in ditches, clutching helmets to their heads and rifles to their chests, the sound of bombs exploding and tanks firing seemingly unnecessarily loud in Steve’s ears. A booming voice described the terrors soldiers faced…

has become a part of Russia, there is still a large struggle ensuing in Ukraine. With the way things are going now, there appears to be no end in sight. The beginning of conflicts between Russia and Ukraine began in the 1900s. Ukraine, for a while, was controlled by Poland. After World War…

Jake Parson’s mother called it the magic hour: the moment when a day passes into evening, when the earth feels suspended before darkness and slumber. In the gold and reddening light, an easy southwest breeze propelled Jake’s thirty-five-foot sailboat through the Beaufort Inlet for the first time. As he navigated through the channel, he heard the cries of distant seagulls. It was the first land animal he’d heard in days. The last low rays of the sun illuminated the white church steeple and the…

Demise of the American Dream Published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has and still remains a staple of American Literature and is acclaimed by generations of readers. Often considered “the novel of the jazz age”, it tells of a time when lavish parties were an everyday thing. Above all, The Great Gatsby shows how the drive to achieve the elusive “American Dream” can corrupt oneself. Best remembered as a decade of prosperity and dissipation, and of jazz bands and flappers, the…

playing dolls. Mrs. Johansen was in the kitchen making tea, actual tea. World War Two was finally over and all of Denmark got all their resources back. “Why do you still wear that Jewish necklace? Your not Jewish,” Said Kirstie. “It’s all i have left of Ellen,” said Annemarie. It’s been 9 months since they’ve seen the Rosens. Kirstie is now 6 and Annemarie will be 11 in 4 days. “Face it Annemarie, its been 9 months, the war is over and there still not back from Sweden, its not going to be…

become Macbeth. When King Duncan asks the Captain about the stance of the battle, he says that Macbeth, through his brave fighting, is single-handedly winning the battle for Scotland; this is said in, “For brave Macbeth–well he deserves that name–Distaining Fortune, with the brandished steel, [w]hich smoked with bloody execution” (1.2.16-18), because Macbeth is…

The introduction of the scene first starts us off at a room within the castle, where we can see King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, along with two newcomers, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. These newcomers are, in fact, old, distant friends of Hamlet whom were summoned by the king himself. The reasoning why would be do this is because his majesty had hoped that maybe these two could talk, spy, to Hamlet and help find out what 's going on with him. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were happy to be of…

the theatres. The role of the technical master evolves as we see the introduction of more and more scenery and lighting techniques in the Renaissance period, which can be considered to be the late 1500s to mid 1600s. To begin with, the playhouses began to get increasingly more elaborate, and as such started to allow for increasingly technical performances and innovations. These new playhouse considerations also allowed for the stage design to be completely reworked for every performance, rather…

his opinion of the medicated society that we live in. Should we be reliant on drugs to make us feel better rather than addressing the issues we face? What is the true cost of comfort vs. freedom? Perhaps Huxley’s biggest question is at what point when we eliminate the pain, struggle and suffering; do we also sacrifice what defines us as human. What will come of humanity is a question that cannot be answered, but Huxley like so many other dystopian writers offers a possible outcome if we as the…