Joe Haldeman once said, “No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation” (“Joe Haldeman Quotes.”). 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,…
CHAPTER-2 VARIABILITY AMONG THE ALTERNARIA BRASSICAE ISOLATES INTRODUCTION The chapter is mainly concerned with examining the variability among Alternaria brassicae isolates from the oilseed brassicas. Since, the oilseed brassicas are more prone to the fungal attack and thereby, resulting in reduced productivity of the oilseed. Therefore, the present investigation focuses on the studying the features such as morphological, pathological and molecular variability of Alternaria brassicae. The…
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De·hu·man·ize (v) - to treat (someone) as though he or she is not a human being. This is seen in many types of literature for example, In harrison Bergeron when everyone in that society had to think a certain way and anyone that had advance thoughs had to wear a handicap to make sure that everyone was equal. This causes dehumanization because people aren 't given their first right of freedom. Slaughterhouse five by Kurt Vonnegut is an anti- war novel based on the time frame before, during, and…
reign of King Henry III. In a war against the French, the English used calcium oxide to blind their enemies, and defeat them. The industrialization of chemical warfare started during World War One. The Allies and Axis both mass-produced gases such as mustard gas and phosgene gas. In World War One alone, chemical weapons caused 91,000 deaths. The gas chambers of the Holocaust took about twenty minutes to kill the people inside, and killed 1.2 million people. The reason chemical warfare is used…
The world is a mean place with a lot of mean people. In the reading Dave Barry Teaches his Grandson Life’s Lessons-Beginning With the Ketchup the author Dave Barry talks about how mean people and things can be in this world. This is a high level comedic text that uses sarcasm and hyperbole to expose the truth that the world is a harsh place. First, the writer Dave Barry uses sarcasm to show how some people aren't nice. Barry talks about how people think the concept of being nice is easy but in…
Ypres was during world war one it lasted from the nineteenth of October to the twenty-second of November, the year was 1914 and it was fought in western Belgium. It was used on that day by the Germans they were battling French and Belgian. They used mustard gas they had an upper hand with the use of chemical weapons but fueled the fire for the Geneva Convention. But the allies won the battle, after a long battle because they most likely were deployed with gas masks to protect them from the…
What does it mean to have faith that moves mountains? This phrase is found throughout the bible, particularly in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Thomas. When we study this phrase, we can see that when we focus on our problems God looks small, but when we center our attention on God the problems look small. When we turn to Jesus, he takes the weight of our burdens in order to heal us. In the Gospel of Matthew, 17:14-20, Jesus heals a boy who is possessed by a demon after his disciples failed to…
World War 1 is one of the most well known wars, and the war that ultimately changed the meaning of war. However, the purpose of previous wars was to take another country 's land, but this war was different, the purpose of World War 1 became more of which country can kill the most people. On the other hand, with new technologies like machine guns, chemical bombs and trenches, the number of casualties increased and made the war last longer than expected. Also, the idea of going to war and…
Mustard gas and sarin were used by Iraqis prior to four major offensives in early 1988. The U.S. gave Iraq satellite images, intelligence, and land layouts to help with their defenses. These attacks, which were described earlier, helped change the course…