Rupert Giles

It has long been suspected that the media, as a whole is a deceptive organization. Conspiracies have run rampant for decades, and simple common sense of the people has infiltrated the masses enough now alerting us not to believe everything we read. Deceptive reporting was first brought to public attention when Operation Mockingbird, designed and implemented by the US Central Intelligence Agency in the early 1950s was uncovered. It was exposed as the clandestine activity of those who wanted…

War is brutal, animalistic, and goes against human reason. “Civil War” by Guns N’ Roses is a anti-war protest song about how war only creates more hate and how it has been going on for so long and no change has occurred. The song presents examples of anaphora, allusion. and personification in order to set the tone, include multiple perspectives, and to highlight diction which creates pathos. Anaphora, which means the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases,…

“Contact rear, enemy, three hundred meters, open fire!” The command could be heard by the troops, who were crouched low behind a sandbag wall, providing covering fire until reinforcements arrived. All at once Alpha section raised their rifles over the cover and fired off all their rounds in rapid succession at the shout of their commanding officer. Bullets whipped through the air at the enemy, neutralizing the targets one by one without any casualties. “Alpha section, prepare to move!” The voice…

Furthermore, Samuel examines how glorified soldiers for their service while Owen clarifies the desire for attention is not worth risking one’s life. The soldiers assume that war will be easy, so they picture themselves victorious. After they defeat the opponent they will arrive “arrive home from war, bronzed heros … submerged in golden seas of glory” (Twain). Being a “bronzed hero” conveys that the society places soldiers on a pedestal to flaunt them similarly to a trophy in a case -- the…

Quiet Kill Reacher did as instructed, handing over out the requested amount and then handed it to him. “Thank you,” said Bones placing the cash in his black attaché case, without any intention of actually purchasing the igloo plate. Reacher did not know that everybody except the “buyer” loses. And that often the seller is forced into foreclosure which hurts their credit and the neighborhood, as the igloo plate is left standing empty with its value deflated. And the lender who has been…

War is considered by many to be one of humanity’s central traits as an advancing species and as such it holds a heavy influence on our past, present and future. From warring tribes in Africa during the dawn of man to the great Empires of Greece and Persia warfare has always been present, whether this war is for defense of a homeland and families, to conquest for more power and wealth or freedom from persecution and oppression. These forces drive mankind and have pushed us technologically and…

Western front, experiencing shellshock. Owen developed his war poetry by getting inspiration from Siegfried Sassoon who was a poet himself. (bbc.co.uk) Rupert Brooke was also a soldier who fought In World war 1, but did not experience it fully, due to his death in 1915, when the war was not over at all. Through the poems of Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke, form, structural devices, figurative language, and sound devices will be explored further to show the contrast in viewpoint of glory between…

War is one of those things that as much as one tries, one will never fully understand till one has lived the experience. However, Stephen Crane in his novel, The Red Badge of Courage, and Edward C. Judson in his poem, The Attack and Repulse, thoroughly explain the experience of being on the battlefield from two different perspectives. Crane, specifically in Chapter 5, writes about war seen through the eyes of the protagonist, Henry, and Judson writes about his own experience. Though both…

Human nature can be of full compassion, care and understanding, but elements of sorrow, corruption and violence can also reside in our characters. Louis MacNeice’s “Prayer Before Birth”, Gabriel Okara’s “Once Upon a Time” and Carol Ann Duffy’s “War Photographer” all seek to explore the negative characteristics that are crucial to the human condition. MacNeice’s “Prayer Before Birth” was written during the Second World War. The poem explores the negative aspects of human nature through the…

Yiluo Li HWL Ms. D’Eon 5 February 2015 Poetry Presentation Script Jessie Pope is an English poet, writer, and journalist. She is famous for her patriotic motivational poems during WWI. Starting from 1914, her poems were widely printed and published on Daily Mail, encouraging men and women to go to war. Her Pro-War attitude presented in poem also attracted some criticism, such a Wilfred Owen. Title is “A Humble Appeal” So the first time when I read it, I thought that this should be something…