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    The facts are that since Buffy is enrolled in a sociology course, along with working full-time at a local hospital, and being a single mother with five-year-old twins, she is extremely busy. The term paper due in two days, which she needs a passing grade in order to pass the course, must be her original work, as specified by Professor Snidely. Buffy’s good friend, Jim Bob, in the same class, has already finished his paper, and offers to “tweak” it for Buffy. 2. What are Buffy’s options…

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    Dulce Et Decorum Est is a poem written by Wilfred Owen following his own experience in the trenches during the Great War. His poem is based on the death of a fellow solider and how he was haunted by the brutality of war. The rhyme scheme to this poem is chaotic. First we have an octave, followed by a set-set, then a couplet and finally a 12 line stanza. Stanza one starts with the conventional ABABCDCD pattern in, however in the second stanza the rhyme scheme becomes abrupt. The stanza breaks…

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    Good Morning Ladies and Gentleman. Today in Anzac Day, we have gathered here to recognize the deplorable event when millions of lives were lost during the World War 1. This event also denotes the time when the Australian and New Zealand army corps were formed after uniting and battling together and joining as one in Gallipoli. The poem I will be presenting today is a World War 1 poem named “Rain” by a British poet and soldier, Edward Thomas, in 1914. This poem is told from a soldier’s point of…

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    The song ¨Like Toy Soldier¨ by the artist Eminem, speaks about his issues revolving around violence that he has encountered throughout his lifetime. These types of feuds led to his closest friends and family to get involved. In the song he refers to himself along with his friends as ¨toy soldiers¨, in a pointless battle where there is no winner. He portrays himself as a fearless leader, who makes decisions based on the benefit for those around him. The character being described in the situation,…

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    Defining war is easy; it’s an event in which two forces oppose each other. However, defining the war experience is more difficult. The war experience focuses on individuals rather than the forces as a whole. In the documentary “Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam,” viewers hear from many soldiers about their experiences. Tim O’Brien has talked about his experiences in the 1999 President’s Lecture and in his novels. From the documentary, the interview with O’Brien, and his novel, The Things…

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    The war poet and war poetry in general were terms used firstly within context of the World War I.. From the beginning of the war times, poetry was written mostly by civilians, not by poets. Such poetry had no established identity. It was later, between 1914 and 1918 when this type of poetry acquired notion of genre, and so-called soldier-poets became a species. Enormous increase in writing poetry related to the war occurred. War poetry became very realistic, describing situation as it was…

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    George S. McGovern once said “I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” McGovern is stating that the “old men”, the government use the young men of a specific country to fight the wars they initiate. War is most of the time seen as a sense of pride and tribute for one’s country, but many don’t realize the savagery battlefields hold. Just like George McGovern, the poet, Wilfred Owen, who was a soldier in World War One and died in that Great War wrote many…

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    The poem ‘War Photographer’ addresses the tragedies that take place at war and the issues in the way the western world perceive the photos that raise awareness to these horrible situations. The strong feelings of frustration, love of his job and suffering are portrayed throughout the poem. The photographer is ‘finally’ alone implying that he is welcoming his solitary connotes that his company was not welcoming. This is most likely due to the fact that the majority of them would be soldiers and…

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    Throughout history, few conflicts have been that horrific like the First World War. Being one of its combatants, the English poet Wilfred Owen was one of the first to question military propaganda which defended the old Latin proverb: “Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori”; meaning ‘it is sweet and glorious to die for one’s country’. With nothing else than words, he created a distinguished and innovative masterpiece that condemned the grandeur of war by picturing how cruel and deranged the…

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    War, a controversial dilemma, can often resolve itself through an orderly fashion, rather than an atrocious disaster. In “The Sniper,” written by Liam O’Flaherty, a Republican soldier who fights for his life against the so-called “Free Staters” in the Irish civil war, comes to suffer from drastic emotional trauma when someone he loves becomes fatally wounded. In Liam O’Flaherty’s story, “The Sniper” uses irony to demonstrate how war reduces human beings to mere objects. Unexpected occurrences…

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