Farewell

we look back on the time of World War 2 and we can only imagine how these innocent people must have felt to be categorized as the enemy and treated like criminals. In the book Farewell to Manzanar , in the article “Resistance to Syrian Refugees Calls to Mind…

”). This means that the trauma of war is as inescapable as Einstein’s laws of relativity. The authors of these books explore the inevitability of war’s trauma throughout their works. In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, the authors use the rhetorical devices of imagery, similes, personification, and arrangement in order to achieve their purposes of demonstrating the destructiveness and terrible reality of war; saying that it is worse for the mental…

George Washington was born February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland Virginia. Washington was the first to become president of the United States of America from (1789-1797) he was the leader, general and commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolution he was what was called the gorilla leader . Washington came from a wealth family in North America where his father Augustine Washington was a determined man who Grew tobacco, built mills, had land and slaves. When George Washington…

The use of weather in literature is found to either set the tone of a book, describe a character, or foreshadow an event that could occur. One author in particular who took enormous advantage of weather was Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell To Arms. In the book A Farewell To Arms, the main character, Frederic Henry, is an American in the Italian Army, fighting in World War I. While Frederic is away at war he falls head over heals for a nurse named Catherine Barkley. Before you know it, their…

Farewell My Concubine is a drama directed by Chen Kaige in 1993. Although Farewell My Concubine and To Live have different perspectives but they both have the same aspects in reflecting on the histories of why tragedies have happened. Both films have similar history background setting which…

Within minutes of hearing the news on the radio I booked a flight to Israel. On this occasion I went as a private citizen representing nobody but myself, with a simple wish to pay my last respects to a Jewish friend as she was lowered into her grave. On arrival a telephone call to Lou Kaddar guaranteed that I would receive the necessary security clearance to attend the burial at the national cemetery on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl. Lou was a warm, witty, wonderful Jewish lady of French origin. She…

What do the words, “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” mean to you as an American citizen? Historically speaking, they were the some of the most powerful words uttered in American history. On April 30, 1789, and then again on March 4, 1797, the first president of the United States of America, George Washington, told the nation that…

sometimes the change is positive, other times it is negative; either way, there is no avoiding change. You can learn from animals, they are there for you when needed, and help you go through changes good and bad. John Grogan wrote, Saying Farewell to a Faithful Pal, about the him and his best friend Marley who is a dog. The article states that “ A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours (Grogan, pg 150, pp 13).” Marley was a dog who was not the best but he also…

The novel A Farewell To Arms shows the development of the main character, narrator, and protagonist, Lieutenant Frederic Henry. From the beginning of the novel as a character that had not experienced true lost and his feelings towards war, Catherine Barkley, and his friends all seem superficial yet go through a drastic change as the character develops throughout each book. Book One introduces the readers to the character Lieutenant Frederic Henry, who is portrayed as naive and did not think…

Good evening, Vice-Chancellor, distinguished guests and academics, family, friends and of course my fellow grandaunts, to whom I offer my sincerest congratulations. It is an honor and a great pleasure be here before you and to celebrate this special occasion together. We made it, we made it through all those lectures, tutorials, readings and assessments, we made it in succeeding our hopes and dreams of becoming educators, and I am sure we will make it, through what I hope will be the most…