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    In’ War Photographer’, Duffy uses an oxymoronic title to contrast ‘war’ with suffering and death with a ‘photographer’ as life, peace and memories to present life and death. To highlight the contrast, the poem is laid out in four regular six-line stanzas. This rigid structure shows that the job of a photographer is methodological and systematic in the way he sets out the film - “spools of suffering” and “in ordered rows” to restore order on the destruction and bloodshed of “The hundred agonies”…

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    In the midst of one of the biggest storms of their trip; cold, wet, hungry, and scared, were the prevailing feelings of the group, yet spirits remained high as it was set to be their last. It had been a long, hard journey, but even a tempest this ferocious could not dampen their morale. With their new lives set to begin so soon, nothing could get in their way now. … The sky as black as ink and the rain pouring in torrents, nineteen-year-old Nala, hunched over in the middle of the boat trying…

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    Dialectical Montage as a Vehicle for Political Messaging Sergei Eisenstein expertly uses dialectical montage to demonstrate the plight of Russians in the midst of the revolution in his silent film The Battleship Potemkin (1925). Specifically in the massacre on the Odessa Steps scene, montage editing helps convey exaggerated feelings of fear and helplessness in the context of the political state in Russia; the famous and fictitious scene posits political unrest and terror associated with the…

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    funding and opportunities for young Italian researchers, too.” So far, he has raised 2069 in just 17 days and is hopeful he can reach his target, before the campaign expires in 44 day's time. “Money is coming in from other academics who understand my plight as well as many Neapolitans who appreciate the scope and goal of the…

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    There are some salient characteristics that that Judaism share with the Persian religion. The first one is that both faiths view God as being omnipresent, omniscient and eternal. In the same regard, they both agree that God is the sole creator of the entire universe. The similarity extends up to the belief that God tends to operate through and use angles and arch angles to govern. Both Judaism and Persian religion believe that there is an existence of devils and demons. In Persian, the devil is…

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    Expressing the philosophical idea of transcendentalism throughout his novel The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck evokes a clear political statement; undying cooperation of the migrant workers can put an end to social injustice. Through the portrayal of the plight of countless dispossessed farmers, Steinbeck speaks for the voiceless by promoting social awareness and accentuating the theme of working together to achieve a common good. In hopes of an intervention within the social structure as the…

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    student at Carthage and he became in love with the idea of love so he constantly lust after women. This cause him to damage friendship and he becoming vanity, anger, and suspicion. Ch. 2 Augustine go and see a pagan theater shows that mirrors his plight. Augustine talks about how he loved feeling so this causes him to seek out sadness like tragedies. He also how he feel great pity for these who feel joy during sinful acts. Ch. 3 Augustine curses himself as his curiosity and lust led him to…

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    retorted, thinking back to his perpetual cycle of games. This conversation was a daily routine. I began thinking, if I could suddenly end his complaining, perhaps everyone would be better off, including Jarett. I promised Jarett a solution to his plight. Since one of my hobbies is electronics, I knew I could put my knowledge to work to solve this problem. I began researching with fervor methods of charging iPhones, only to realize I could simply create a portable battery pack. I ended up…

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    Schubert’s Unfinished symphony “The Sounds of Hope”. The Symphony was filled with incredible pieces by Verdi, Schubert, and contemporary composers Nigel Westlake and Lior Attar. The evening began with Verdi’s Nabucco from his opera that follows the plight of the Jews as they were subsequently exiles from their homeland by the Babylonian King Nabucco. The next piece was Franz Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, Schubert started this piece in 1822 but wasn’t finished after the first two movements.…

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    J.D. Salinger was a writer during World War and so war has a very big effects on his stories. Reader can see the theme of war in all of his stories. All of them were happening during war or after it. All the characters lost something or someone in war and now they’re looking for that lost thing in kids or the kids remind them of themselves. So “At the first glance, Nine Stories seems to deal mostly with children and adolescents.” (Alsen 87) Three stories that war had a very big effect on it are”…

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