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being the best of the best. Jesse Owens was this star athlete. Owens was not only a star athlete, but he was an inspiration to many people in this time. Being an African American star athlete in the early 1930’s came with difficulties; however, Jesse Owens was always eager to learn, was determined to accomplish, and confident in what he did best. Jesse Owens was the best of the best, but he never took that to his head. Owens was always eager to learn. While Owens was in high school the track…

Spoken Task Will: Morning/afternoon Hayden, what’s been happening mate? Hayden: Ahh not much, what’s new? Will: Well not much, you know, school and football keeping me busy. Hayden: Yeah school is getting tough, I’m not enjoying it too much, except for English, we’re learning about growing up and it’s finally an interesting unit. Will: Oh really? We are too, with Tom Brennan and Flirting (Hayden: Yeah, those are the ones). Okay, what do you think about it? Hayden: They’re both good…

Jesse Owens Jesse Owens is considered to be one of the best athletes of his time and one of the best track and field athletes of all time. Owens had faced racism throughout his entire life. Owens would often have racial slurs yelled at him during his races but Owens was a determined athlete and wouldn’t let that stop him. Born on September 12, 1913 in a small town in Alabama. James Cleveland Owens grew up in a time of racism, discrimination, and poverty. James Owens was the grandson of…

Once upon a time there was a really short, skinny kid. His name was Chris Brown. Chris weighed ninety-five pounds soaking wet. Chris wasn’t very fast, but he decided to go out for track in the spring. Chris usually only ran cross country and played basketball, but Chris decided he wanted to do track. He signed up for the track team, and he became a distance runner. Chris was pretty good at distance running, and he soon began to break school records. He set a conference record in the mile, and…

Cars 3 is an animated sports film directed by Brain Fee. In the movie, Lightning McQueen (the main character), found himself fighting to stay relevant in the vast and ever-changing world of Cars. As new cars and superior models entered onto the race track, Lighting started to fall behind the batch. Thus, he tired reinvented himself to compete at a high level. In this process, he met a race car trainer, Cruz Ramirez, and together they tried to get McQueen back on the winning path. The movie…

Foreshadowing in Owen Meany (612-617) A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving gifts us with the story of Owen Meany, a small, miraculous boy with a big mission. Owen Meany knows that he is ‘god’s instrument’. He later finds out, in a dream, when he is going to die, how he is going to die, and he is going to die a hero. The story offers a great deal of foreshadowing. The main idea that has foreshadowing are things being ‘armless’. Some of these items that are armless include: Owen, the…

Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen , “Hell Broke Luce” by Tom Waits, and “The Words That Maketh Murder” by PJ Harvey have a common theme, war. These poems use the point of view of a soldier. A soldier is young man or woman that fights to protect the place/country they call home. Many soldiers experience different things, but all the experienced come from the same general area. Combat troops are the ones that experience the worst of it because they are forced to see many of their friends and…

Inspired by the events of the 1991 Gulf War, Gillian Clarke’s Lament effectively describes the impacts of war on the surrounding environment and wildlife. Although written specifically about the Gulf War, the message of the poem can be applied to the present day - using only words, Clarke paints a vivid picture of the effect of humanity’s behaviour on nature and its inhabitants. Similarly, Boey Kim Cheng’s Report to Wordsworth illustrates the extent of the damage done to the environment. Written…

Both Wilfred Owen and Seamus Heaney present the power of nature in their poems “Exposure” and “Storm on the Island”, respectively, as overwhelming and uncontrollable. Between the two, they both emphasize nature as an unparalleled power, however, Owen’s poem is a visual representation of life in the trenches of WW1, contrasting from existing government propaganda glamorising the adventures of war and emphasizing the futility of the situation by depicting the fate of soldiers suffering from…

The poem that I have studied is ''Dulce Et Decorum Est'' by Wilfred Owen. The poet is trying to depict the reality. of war through this poem. The poem begins with a description of a group of soldiers retreating from the front lines of the battlefield. They are exhausted and are,''Bent double like old beggars under sacks ''. The poet used a simile to convey the ragged wretched state of the soldiers. They are''Coughing like hags''. The once clean, strong, handsome, young men are being compared to…