Homecoming

In Homecoming by Bruce Dawe and Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen, the two authors used a range of poetic devices to represent their messages and theme. Dulce Et Decorum Est message is about the authors time in the war and their experience with gas attacks during world war 1 where as Homecoming is about bringing the dead soldiers home from Vietnam war. The two poems have the same overall anti-war message presenting that the idea of war is waste. Both Authors have used some similar as well as…

result from allowing alcohol on campus. As a matter of fact, a case study in the Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership called “Homecoming at Atwater University” outlined an additional reason as to why allowing alcohol consumption at campus events can be consequential. The study talks about students being “extremely intoxicated and belligerent toward alumni” at a homecoming parade…

My senior year of softball was ending; towards the end of the season nominations for homecoming court were due. Out of the four seniors my team nominated me with a football boy to represent softball. The pep rally assembly is a time to showcase a special handshake and to practice for homecoming court in front of the student body. We spent many hours practicing our handshake. In the handshake was a mock lightsaber battle, me standing on top of him as if he was a surfboard, leapfrogging off…

be 60 years old and sitting with your husband and children looking back in your high school yearbook and see all the great memories that you made at your high school. You can see your homecoming memories like dressing up each day and having the homecoming parade, homecoming football game memories with the homecoming court, and everything else that happens in your high school years! Pictures and yearbooks are needed because they mark an important chapter in your life. They document part of your…

The way in which composers convey their ideas dependent on their use of distinctive visuals. Amanda Lohrey’s vertigo and Bruce Dawe’s homecoming show how composers use their distinctively visual themes and ideas presented in their work. Amanda Lohrey and Bruce Dawe utilise strong images to convey an understanding of the themes of loss and grief and personal identity. The purpose is achieved through the distinctive visuals used by the composer to challenge the different perspectives the readers…

X-STEM, I’ve been able to successfully reach my goals by reinforcing teamwork, commitment, and enjoyment. If selected to participate in froshcomm, I guarantee that I will provide an immense amount of effort and time to obtain the most enjoyable homecoming for my fellow peers. Additionally, throughout my various leadership positions and participation in clubs, I’ve attained many valuable skills and characteristics…

Fall break at Central Hinds started on a half a day on a Friday through the next Monday. On Friday we had the Homecoming football game. At the game the Homecoming maids came through so all the parents and fans could see how beautiful they were. All the girls got out of their cars and headed start to the football field with their moms to be announced of the intercom. I was not able to watch the girls walk on the field because I went to pick up my favorite family, the Sherers. I met the Sherers at…

listening to Athena tell him what to do. If Athena wasn’t there to help Odysseus, he might’ve not thought about a plan to kill the suitors. He might have just stormed into his house without a plan. Athena is more responsible for Odysseus’ happy homecoming. Moreover, Athena plans Odysseus’ journey home. In the 1st book, Athena is telling the gods about her plan to make sure that Odysseus gets home safely. She said, “‘... let us dispatch the guide and giant killer Hermes / down to Ogygia Island,…

Bruce Dawe and Wilfred Owen, the writers of the war poems Homecoming and Dulce Est Decorum Est, have completely different stylistic characteristics, both of them effectively use literary devices such as imagery, personification, and simile to help the reader understand the harsh ravages of…

hope that the message was clear to all the students. I even got the art class to create signs to post all over school. I posted even more flyers and with permission, wrote messages for the homecoming game on the white boards in many classrooms. I bothered the hell out of my teammates to help me promote the homecoming game. No one wanted to help but then Doug, a receiver and the team goofball, came out and helped with the pep rallies. Doug was always causing trouble even back in middle school. I…