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“Intention” Sullivan merely stated he would not take less than $60,000 for the 40 acres of land. He never made a definitive commitment to a certain price, just a starting point from which to bargain. The is no contract between the two parties and Ball cannot hold Sullivan legally accountable to sell the land for $60,000. 3. Case 9.1 “Contract by Minor”…

Three Messages from The Death of a Turret Gunner An Analysis of Three Messages from The Death of a Turret Gunner The average typical age of a Ball Turret Gunner is 15 to 16 years. Their average number of missions they complete before death is three. If they make it past that, it is extraordinary. A ball turret gunner is faced with many challenges while on the job. They must hang upside for long periods of time in the night. Another terrifying thing of having this job is if the mechanical…

analyze the similarities and differences between the meaning of death in three texts, namely Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Jarrell, and “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” by Yeats, all three texts examine the concepts of life and death. All three texts view death as inevitable; however “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” is more aligned with the ideas expressed in Slaughterhouse 5, that time isn’t a set path, but a picture where one can choose…

one of those, or all of them together, should provide the big picture. For example, in the poem “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,” one can tell what it is about by the title alone. This poem has plenty of figurative language, but by looking at the title, one knows that it is about a ball turret gunner’s death. One example of figurative language in “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” expresses, ”And I hunched in his belly till my wet fur froze.”…

The poems “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen and “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell all have an anti-war theme. They all have different settings of where the war takes place. Hardy’s poem takes place during the Boer War where many of the women and children died in camps. Owen’s poem takes place during World War I on the battle field and Jarrell’s poem takes place in a B-17 bomber during World War II. All of these authors have similar…

firepower. Mac once served as a co-pilot on a B-25 Mitchell, another bomber, but was moved to serve as pilot of the B-17, with a new crew. Their names were Jake “Nobleman” Noble, the chin turret gunner, Scott Filippe, the co-pilot, Joseph Robinson, the waist gunner, Ryder “Aussie” Mein, the navigator,ball turret gunner, and tail gunner. Kenny Bergqvist, the 2nd waist gunner. It was January, 1943. The bombing of Germany had just started, attacking the Nazi regime and their cruel dictator, Adolf…

they want it or not. After experiencing the horrors of war, soldiers form their own opinions about it. In the two poems, the authors express opposite opinions about war due to their experiences. The resentful and angry tone of “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randal Jarrell conveys that the life of a soldier is not as glorious as depicted by the media;…

“The Dacca Gauzes” by Agha Shahid Ali, is another more traditionally formatted piece (with easy to follow, short stanzas, that still pack a punch.) Ali’s piece is also personal, but at the same time takes on a view of society in that Ali writes of a community (that of the world outside of the United States and United Kingdom) that is not always heavily addressed in more contemporary English-language poetry. In the piece, readers are exposed to this via Ali’s grandmother, who comments to him on…

War changes a soldier’s perspective of life, whether it is an optimistic or pessimistic view. Some soldiers will enlist thinking that they are taking part in the war because of the nationalism and pride they have for their country. It encourages them to fight knowing that they are protecting the rights and freedom for the future generation. The soldiers often go to war with little to no knowledge of why the government incited the war. Most of the time, they fight knowing only the propaganda the…

german drilling for oil in Romania. “The forgotten 500” informs what the airmen near Yugoslavia went through to stay alive after they had to parachute out of their planes when they were shot down. Freeman uses actual people such as “Clare Musgrove” a ball gunner at the 15 Air Force to tell the story of the 500 which keeps things real for people. Freeman’s also writes for people who just read for a good story or for those who would like to study ww2 and ww1 history. So what was the forgotten 500…