No Country for Old Men

Dulce et Decorum Est Dying for one’s country in a battle is often depicted as one of the most honorable and noble things to do. The reality is that war is not heroic at all, but has in fact been romanticized before being presented to the public. In Wilfred Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est he illustrates to the reader his realistic and terrible depiction of dying for one’s country through precise diction, moving imagery, and beautiful figurative language. Wilfred Owen uses precise diction in many…

Paralympic Cross-Country Skiing is one of the sports that will be showcased at the 2018 Pyeong Chang Winter Olympics from March 9-18. It is a sport for Skiing athletes that have physical disabilities. In the winter Paralympic games, this sport (along with the biathlon) is a part of two nordic skiing events. It involves cross-country skiing in short, middle, or long distances. There will be 20 medal events at this year's events. This year it will be the forty-second year of the event. The…

Between This World and Me, confronts the issue of what it means to be Black in America and navigating through life in a country that has never fully accepted the true humanity of its Black citizens. In the book, a missive to his teenage son, Coates talks about what it meant to be a young Black man in Baltimore seeing other young men whose only way to claim any sense of power in a country where merely having Black skin and kinky hair is seen as “other” or less than, was through the bravado gained…

The topic of women’s rights is very controversial, especially in today’s society. Each country has its own perspective on women and their rights. In America, women are treated with the same rights as men as where in Yemen, women are treated very poorly and not given any rights. In third-world countries it is more common for the women to not be given equal rights. In America, there is a social movement called Feminism. A feminist is a person who agrees with the views of feminism – which are that…

through slavery or through religious reasons. Many countries, such as the United States, do not discriminate against women in their agricultural sector, yet Benin is not one of these countries. Benin is a smaller, undeveloped country located in West Africa. This makes the country’s production of agricultural products much less diversified and focused on ridding itself of sexism. This article goes into an example of how women are worse off than men when they produce agricultural products. This…

one of many third world countries. It is located in South Asia. Afghanistan is surrounded by other countries such as Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan,Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. Its also close to the Arabian Sea. Some places have kings and queens, monarchies, and etc. Afghanistan has a president just like us. Right now their president is Ashraf Ghani. The population in Afghanistan at this time is 30.55 million. Fifty years from now the population should be 40,216,962.37. Men and women have…

came out, the country had just emerged from the war after battling through the Great Depression of the 1930's, and suddenly the national spotlight focused on the middle and lower classes as the true bearers of the heroic American spirit. Young men who had served in the war returned to their families and were ready to settle down - with wives, with children, and with steady jobs. The nation had suffered through a terrible war, and it was ready to embrace the…

who encouraged young men to risk their lives for their country and honor to Owen Wilfred who’s words reached out to the soldiers who went through the traumatizing pain. From the propaganda making men feel like cowards if they don’t step up, the truth about what life is like in the trenches to the PTSD vietnam soldiers had to live with for the rest of their life.…

and forgetting old traditions. Young people did as they pleased, as older people tried to keep old traditions alive. The prohibition was in full swing in the early 1920s. Women were changing the way that they were seen, as far as how they dressed, spoke and acted. There was a general feel of happiness and positivity throughout the country. The 1920s were a time of dramatic social and political change. It brought a feeling of freedom and independence to millions across the country, especially…

some parts of the world, there is over 39,000 girls that are forced into marriage everyday and “ sold like cattle to enrich their families” (“Third of girls in 42 countries forced into child marriages” ).These young girls are mostly from ages eleven to eighteen or even younger. Most of these marriages around the world, occur in 42 countries such as: India, West…