Rupert Murdoch

Wilfred Owen and John McCrae are two of the most celebrated war poets from the First World War who have written poetry that is still read to this day. War poetry deals with gruesome, heartbreaking, harsh and sometimes happy details of the war that are generally faced by soldiers first hand. War poetry is the writing of experiences, horrors, traumas of war generally experienced first-hand by soldiers who have fought wars. Apart from the themes of suffering, conflict, death and horror the poems…

In writing of his own experience in the Iraq War, Turner creates a style of writing, which is seen as a witness of war in poetry. Brian Turner’s “16 Iraqi Policemen”, and Autopsy is so startling and it is able to leap off the pages and have a grip onto the reader where it refuses to let go. Adding to this, these poems are able to give a taste of what it was like being apart of the Iraqi war, and what it was like to be a bystander. At times Brian Turner is brilliant with how he is able to connect…

Comparing 'Storm on the Island' and 'Exposure' Both poets portray nature as powerful and something which cannot be controlled by man. In both poems the weather contributes to the overall effect on the reader. In 'Exposure' Owen uses weather to achieve effect at the beginning of the poem with the quotes: 'the merciless iced east winds' , 'mad gusts tugging' and 'clouds sag stormy'. These quotes set a theme for the rest of the poem, of pain, suffering and anticipation. The word, 'merciless'…

Today war is considered stupendous, and the only option to some. Many disagree to such opinions. War only ends with one result, death. War can not only tear a family apart, but divide a country as a whole. Many families lose loved ones each year to war. Due to not many speaking out on such topic, authors use their works to screech for them. Many using experiences and storytelling, most use literary devices. Writers use imagery, irony, and structure to protest war.…

What are the costs of war? Both the famous Polish poet, Szymborska, and the famous American poet, Billy Collins, addresses this question in their poems. Szymborska in her poem, “The End and the Beginning” talks about the physical expenses of war. Szymborska begins her poem with the lines, “After every war/someone has to clean up,” (lines 1 and 2). To support the expenses of war, she uses the lines, “We’ll need the bridges back,/and new railway stations,” (lines 22 and 23). Also, she writes,…

While Wilfred Owen may seem like the heroic soldier who embarked on a great journey to come back with great tales of World War 1, Wilfred Owen did completely the opposite of what is believed in a true hero. In order to successfully fight a war, a country would need soldiers who are capable of carrying out the demands of the country. Nowadays, soldiers are only understood as the men and women who fought and defended their nation; instead, soldiers are more complex than what they are known for.…

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…

Sing Him to Sleep In the three stanza poem “A Lullaby,” Randall Jarrell conveys the loneliness and alienation of all people during war. The first stanza shows what the soldier gives up to fight in the war. The second stanza shows how the soldier is treated during his time in the army and the third shows the consequences that soldiers have to face. The first stanza uses metaphors and imagery to show what a soldier gives up to fight in a war. Jarrell uses the first two lines, “ For wats his life…

The more a soldier seeks solace in the trenches, the more the earth of his mind becomes riddled with trenches and scarred from fallen shells. When a soldier returns home, he leaves the battlefield, but the battlefield has scarred his mind, and his head remains foggy with gas. Erich Maria Remarque, Ernest Hemingway, and Wilfred Owen documented the harsh reality faced by a soldier. These poets and authors words describe how loss is not just physical for a soldier. Each work describes how through…

Both Rupert Murdock and Alfred Harmsworth were known to be prodigious journalists in Great Britain. However, Rupert Murdoch was seen to be an immoral baron who wrecked the atmosphere of London’s journalism centre, on Fleet Street. Whereas, Alfred Harmsworth became known for his notion that popular media empires were very much reliant on expansion and evolution. He later became known as Lord Northcliffe. In the second half of the nineteenth century, there was a mass circulation of popular press.…