Wars of the Roses

World War Two. You really like this German composer, but you can’t listen to him because the United States, or wherever you live, won’t broadcast his music. He’s an enemy! Not every musician was like that during a time like World War Two. Even though a lot of musicians couldn’t perform during wars, music still highly affected people’s life during war times. Prior to my research, I believed that music was still created during wars but my initial thought was by who? In cases like the Vietnam War,…

In the modernism era of literature (1914-1945) William Faulkner wrote several books, short stories, and articles about children, families, sex, race, with fixations and life in the south. I did not feel that “A Rose for Emily” should have been selected to appear in literature books or curriculums for college or high school for that time period. This short story was not a “yardstick” For literature in this era. William Faulkner refuses to discuss his works in interviews. He does not like to…

Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire is the controversial play from Post-World War II America. In the play, the women, Stella, Blanche, and Eunice are victims of the patriarchal society. Stella is abused, physically and verbally, by Stanley, Blanche is ostracized for her promiscuity and then raped by Stanley, and Eunice is complacent and voiceless in the acts. Stanley is portrayed as handsome but is the “stereotypical American male” who believes himself to be above the women and without…

to cultivate plants and settle where there was water and fertile land. They were able to stay in one spot instead of moving around. Cultural traditions arose since communities developed the sense of unity. Religion, art, economy, and administration rose. Civilizations were allowed to grow and stones were used for tools. Pottery was used for cooking and weaving allowed clothing. Wheels were invented and used on carts. The Bronze Age arrived with the knowledge of metal use. 600 BCE to 600 CE…

During World War I and World War II many countries decided to have a dictatorship government. This government allows a single person to have total power of the whole country. Many countries were in the middle of depressions. None of the countries were getting anywhere and they were all looking for a way out. Dictators began to speak out promising that they would make their countries as prosperous as they were during their prime. Dictators such as Benito Mussolini (Italy), Joseph Stalin (Russia)…

A statement that Rose made about Troy refusing to let Cory play football, what Rose had said was very true. There is a lot that is changing around Troy and he is only living in the past. Troy is living in the past based off of what happened to him. Troy claims “The white man aren’t going to let him get nowhere in football” (Fences 1116). Rose statement is true because Rose is trying to convince Troy that it is not the same when he was younger things have changed. Before the war they did not have…

59) In Troy 7a, physical remnants of attacks with burned houses show signs of war. Troy 6 however, seems to have been hit with an earthquake, and no signs of the epic battles have been discovered. Perhaps Homer combined the Trojan war in 7a, with the sizable land of Troy 6. There is also evidence that multiple battles lasted for a long period of time in the Late Bronze Age, around the time of the supposed Trojan War. (Fischman 59) Fischman states that houses in the area and time period were…

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,…

On October 7th, 2016, Netflix released an original documentary called 13TH, produced by Ava DuVernay. The documentary provides a historical account of the U.S criminal justice system following the end of the Civil War, and continuing to the present. The documentary could not have come out at a better time, as the country is currently in the midst of a national discussion of police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement. The excellence of 13TH is evident in its position as the opening film…

written by Ishmael Beah and the documentary, “War Dance” (WAR DANCE) directed by Sean Fine. “A Long Way Gone” follows the true story of the writer, Ishmael Beah during the time when he was a child soldier in Sierra Leone, on the North West coast of Africa. “War Dance” documents the stories of three children living in Patongo, a camp for displaced war refugees in Northern Uganda. Both texts tell the tragic and gory events the subjects experienced as children of war. Globally there are an…