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    World War 1 shattered the innocence of many people. The constant shelling, trench warfare, and death left many people broken and with shell shock. Robert Graves was no exception. In his book Good-Bye to All That, the war makes him lose his respect for the cowardly English authority. His religion goes with him to the trenches but was one of the fatalities. Finally, his secrecy and embarrassment of private matters become his ammunition and never return after they leave his gun. However, a value…

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    author Ginny Graves (2017) argues that peace and happiness should be obtained from one’s inside. While the article ‘Happiness Is Other People’ written by Ruth Whippman (2017) suggests that people achieve happiness by interacting with others. The article written by Ginny Graves is more persuasive as this article has clearer stand and amounts of supporting information, and the language as well as the tone she used shorten the distance between the author and readers. Firstly, Ginny Graves presents…

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    An iconic Texan writer, John Graves in his memoir, Goodbye To A River, published in the year 1960 addresses the topic of his experience on the Brazos River and argues that the Brazos River is important to keep. He supports this claim by illustrating the plant and animals, then the sounds of nature, and finally the life of the river. Graves’s purpose is to protect and convince the people to save the Brazos Rover and land around it, to preserve the river for future generations. He adopts an…

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    In Katherine Anne Porter’s story “The Grave,” she explores one of the inescapable moments in all living thing’s existence: death. Through the story of the two protagonists, she shows that our innocence is truly gone once it clashes with the end of life. Once we are exposed and accept the existence of death and allow it to defeat our purity, then we are truly adults exposed to the realities of this world. Paul and Miranda are two young siblings living their lives as they always do. Their family…

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    Grave of Fireflies and Barefoot Gen are two famous anime dramas that depict the grave effects that World War II had on Japan. The devastations felt by the Japanese people after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are seen through the eyes of young children as they provide for their surviving family members. Each drama illustrates autobiographical journeys through the trials and tribulations of war. Throughout this paper I will analyze the two protagonists, similarities and differences between…

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    "The Land of Open Graves" is a book written by Jason De León; a professor in Anthropology. The book focusses on reveling the troubling political issue that is facing immigrants when trying to enter United States through Sonoran Desert of Arizona. The author of the book highlights the sufferings that immigrants undergo as the result of implementing the US immigration policy for decades. While drawing insights from four core fields of anthropology, the author is able to articulate his ideas and…

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    Most of us have been made to think of war as an opportunity for men and women to show their bravery and dauntlessness. Since armies have been legalised, we all feel war is acceptable and nobody feels as though it is a type of crime. In fact, we have been brainwashed; war is neither prestigious nor captivating. During WWI, the government had so much control over the media, it was easy to glorify war and give people a false understanding of it. With the media having control over what people…

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    Gift From Beyond The Grave Most teenagers are given a bit of money to spend or a special gift for their sweet sixteen that are kept as a keepsake. On my sixteenth birthday, I received money from my grandmother that I will never spend. I was given a five dollar bill dated back to 1950 that my grandfather kept in a box since the day he was gifted it. My grandmother wrote to me on a notecard my grandfather had from when he was a lawyer that has “From A. B. Stover written on the bottom. It reminds…

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    Robert Graves was born in Wimbledon, in the year of 1895. He came from a respectable family and, courtesy of his critical father, went to many charter schools. His last school before college was Charterhouse. Here, he was bullied for being an acolyte, among other reasons. He loathed the social hierarchy between Houses, socioeconomic statuses, and race. Graves found solace in the Poet’s Society. He grew to have an affinity for poetry and talent for it. Through this Poet’s Society, he met a boy…

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    plethora of information on any given society. Some tombs that stand out from the Bronze Age Aegean time period are the following: The Grave Circles at Mycenae, The Treasury of Atreus, and the Lefkandi Heroon. Thanks to the discovery of these ancient tombs we were able to uncover an abundance of information on the civilization from that era. At Mycenae there has been two grave circles discovered. The first, Circle A, was discovered by Schliemann in the nineteenth century; and, Circle B was…

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