Rupert Gould

Longitude by Dava Sobel is a book about how the first accurate clock for determining longitude was made. The book starts off by describing the longitude problem which is about how difficult it is to determine longitude at sea. In order to determine longitude, two clocks are needed, one from the home port and one based upon the local time of the ship. The difference in times allows for the longitude of the ship to be determined. However, it is very hard to make accurate clocks at sea due to the swinging motion of ships making pendulums invalid. This was such a problem that multiple governments offered prizes to solve this longitude problem with the British prize being offered by a Board of Longitude when the Board has determined that the problem is solved. A man, John Harrison, decided to solve this problem by constructing a clock that maintained its accuracy during voyages. John Harrison made five clocks each with increasing accuracy that solved this problem. However, there was also a competing way to determine longitude with astronomy. The astronomist Maskelyne, who was on the Board of Longitude, preferred his method and was very abusive towards Harrison and his clocks. This led to the clocks being seen as inferior to astronomy until John Harrison appealed to King George III. The king’s actions helped the clocks immensely. After the King’s intervention and the accuracy of John Harrison’s fifth clock’s and a replica of his fourth being determined, clocks finally won out over…

Bewitched: Sisters at Heart Once upon a time there was a typical American girl, who happened to bump into a typical American boy. She kept bumping into him until one day they decide they had better sit down and talk this over before one of them had an accident. They became good friends and found they had a lot in common. The boy found the girl hard to resist so, he did what any red-blooded American boy would do. He asked her to marry him. They had a typical wedding, they went on a typical…

Finding Nemo is a movie that begins with a family of fish. The mother and almost all of her eggs are attacked. The mother is killed along with all of the eggs, except one. The final egg left is named Nemo, and is raised solely by his father, Marlin. In the attack, Nemo was injured and now has one fin that is smaller than the other. He does not let his fin define him and calls it his “lucky” fin. After seeing his family killed, Marlin is very over protective of Nemo and is very nervous to let him…

Explore the psychological and moral impact of war on soldiers and civilians in Pat Barker's Regeneration and Wilfred Owen's poetry. In the course of your writing show how your ideas have been illuminated by your response to Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and other readings of both core texts. Pat Barker's Regeneration, Wilfred Owen's poetry and Joseph Heller's Catch-22 can all be categorised as subjective war texts as the main structural principle is not dominated by character's actions, but…

A timeless challenge for media governance is Media Ownership. Whoever owns the media will be able to govern the media? Or should the media still be unbiased and not submit to the whims of ownership? Shouldn’t the media present and take care of the needs of its consumers? The philosophy that the market will take care of the needs of consumers is just that, a philosophy. Owners of media outlets can and do dictate the content as to not offend advertisers or to promote the company itself. A perfect…

Statement of intent: Written Text essay - Story I am going to write a text analysis essay for the story All Quiet on the Western Front. My chosen essay topic is how you were positioned as a reader to think a certain way about an issue or issues by the creator of the written text. I need to show my understanding of how the main idea of how the reader is positioned to think of the war in a negative way is presented in the story through the use of the theme underlying of the Brutality of War,…

Within this essay, two poems will be discussed and compared to distinguish which of these poems would be considered the most powerful at portraying the theme of the realities of was. The chosen poems, Freedoms Horror was written in 2010 by James Clark and Dulce et Decorum Est was written in 1917 by Wilfred Owen. The theme of both poems is the realities of war. These poems are among the thousands of other poems that are categorized as war poetry. War poetry was written to show what actually…

Wilfred Owen’s Dulce Et Decorum Est from 1917 paints a gruesome picture of a gas attack during World War I. He begins with “bent double, like old beggars under sacks, knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through the sludge.” Owen is referring to the misery of trench warfare. He compares the soldiers to hags pointing out that there is nothing fabulous about being in the war. Soldiers in the Great War were constantly wet, filthy, and getting sick. He continues with “till on the haunting…

War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy is about a photographer who is struggling with the consequences and reality of war. The voice of criticism from the experience of war combined with the use of poetic devices exposes the theme of war. The poet uses compelling and distressing illustrations in this poem to enthrall pathos into the reader’s feelings. The use of pathos stirs up emotions of sympathy, sorrow, and despair. Thus, his photographic films are filled with pictures of the genuine agony…

The subject of war and the loss had deeply influenced poetry on the first half of the 20th century. Poets from all around the world had felt the direct influence of these earth-shattering wars and expressed their passionate responses towards the horrors of war. It was during the times of war in which the poems “Refugee blues” and “Disabled” were written by W.H. Auden and Wilfred Owen respectively. Considered to be some of the most remarkable pieces of literature, they were written in the times…