In the Flesh Tour

Visual WWI Memory Project by: Lance Canlas Conditions/ Life in the Trenches Conditions in the trenches were considered horrific and filthy, with many men living in a very small area. Living half underground and being unable to cleanse yourself for days or weeks on end created severe health risks for the soldiers. Rats were a common pest that would spread disease and inevitably infect hundreds of soldiers for months. Lice would also spread disease and would often live in the hair follicles of…

the brooch, but also being able to imagine how the brooch would feel in the hands of someone who had never held one before. These five senses that Montgomery portrays countless times throughout her story allow someone reading her story to visually tour Prince Edward Island and Green Gables, without actually having to travel there, because her words are so descriptive and…

Paris World Fair in 1937, he was able to produce the masterpiece we know as Guernica (K Shabi; Guernica Meaning: Analysis and Interpretation of Painting by Pablo Picasso). When first exhibited in Paris, it received little attention, but as it went on tour, it gave the Spanish Civil War international attention (Spanish-art.org). Picasso himself decided that the painting should not be brought to Spain, until “liberty and democracy” was established (PBS.org; Guernica Timeline). Like Dresden,…

prey of an unknown beast you cannot see; only hear its footsteps as it closes in. Author H.P. Lovecraft, in his short story “The Beast in the Cave” takes the readers through a tale of darkness and horror in which a man ends up disconnected from his tour group, lost in a cave, and then realizes he’s not alone. He then goes on to kill a beast with the surprising observation that the beast was half man-half beast. The story basically tells a tale of an nameless man lost in cave,…

Acknowledged as one of the foremost living playwrights of the world, Wole Soyinka is the first African Nobel laureate who was awarded the covetous Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. As a playwright, Wole Soyinka has basically operated within two categories – the tragic and the satiric.Although the dramatic form itself and the Western generic categories are Western import, Soyinka has injected fresh energies into every genre by the incorporation of traditional Yoruba elements. Soyinka’s dramas…

same for both of them, differences exist. Their memories of the significant people who shaped their lives and gave them a sense of identity and anchorage differ. Both Saroja and Kamini remember Kamini’s pure gladness whenever Dadda came home from his tours. Kamini recollects “Ten years ago, I had felt a simmering resentment against my mother. I believed she had wronged Dadda with her rigid anger, her unkind words. I refused to acknowledge the years that Ma had spent being a good wife, looking…

Each had his own following, and there were some violent debates. At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. He was especially successful with the sheep. Of late the sheep had taken to bleating ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’ both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into ‘Four legs good,…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…