...Why Men Love War (1984) ● In what way do the veterans feel a certain ambivalence towards the war, according to Broyles? In one way, the soldiers is raised in the believe that war is a horrible thing you and you can’t like such things. In another way, the men loved being in war. It’s gives them an intoxication, that they can’t have any other way. ● How does he portray the life of a Vietnam veteran? Invariably filled with boozy awkwardness, forced camaraderie ending in sadness and tears. ● Explain and comment on the following statement: "There were no metaphors that connected the war to everyday life." (p. 130). Vietnam veteran why talk about everyday life it makes absolutely no sense when you’ve been in war and you’ve experienced so many things and you can’t connect war and everyday life, the difference is too big. ● Explain and comment on the following sentence: "War is the enduring condition of man …" (p. 131). It is a male instinct to experience war at some point in his life. The text says; “There is a reason for every war and a war for every reason.” There is always an excuse for war. ● How does Broyles characterise himself? Why does he miss the war at some points? Djdj ● Sum up the reasons Broyles gives for why men love war. In this connection, comment on the statements below. Find more statements that explain why men love war and comment on them: ◦ War is an escape from the everyday (p. 133) ◦ War is a game (p. 133) ◦ The enduring emotion...
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...As Bernard Rosenberg once said, “Man is a biodegradable but nonrecyclable animal blessed with opposable thumbs capable of grasping at straws.” (Bernard Rosenberg. p. 96) Human Nature consists of an evolving body and an immaterial mind that has an essence which is the result of a highly complex brain; Both the body and mind die, however, while living, they make their own choices and create their own outcomes because of their immaterial mind; The memory and body are what makes a person who they are and without either of them, the same person does not exist; We make our own choices but without others, we would be unable to define ourselves. The Dualist view of human nature is similar to these ideas. Dualism is the “view that human beings are immaterial minds within material bodies.” (Velasquez. p. 105) The man that ran this show was René Descartes (1596-1650). He claimed that if we can conceive of one thing without the other, than they are not the same thing. He used this notion to state that the self and the body are different. From this, it can be reasoned that there is a soul, which endures. Human nature accepts the idea of an immaterial mind and a material body because of the fact that they can be viewed as separate things. In the words of Descartes, body is: …all that which can be defined by a specific shape: something which can be confined in a certain place, and which can fill a given space in such a way that every other body will be excluded from it; which can be perceived...
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...In this paper I will compare and contrast 2 short stories; “Country Lovers”(Gordimer) and “The Welcome Table”(Walker). Race and Ethncity are alive in the short stories “Country Lovers” and “The Welcome Table”. The stories place at almost the same time, in different countries, but they both show racial discrimination toward the main character. “Racism is an enduring, salient aspect of social and global structures. It is based on demonstrably false theories of racial differences appropriated by a culture in order to deny or unjustly distribute social privileges, economic opportunities, and political rights to the racially stigmatized groups. Racism, thus, structures social differences, power, and culture, as when, according to George Fredrickson, “one ethnic group or historical collectivity dominates, excludes, or seeks to eliminate another on the basis of differences that it believes are hereditary and unalterable” (Racism, 2002). It could be argued that racism is the a theme in both of these stories, but I don’t feel that way at all. I feel that Racism is a big part of each of the stories, but not the main theme of the story. In “The Welcome Table,” judgment and death are the main themes and in Country Lovers it is love and betrayal. Now yes, racism could be the third theme of the stories. Because without racism in each of the stories, you will not have a plot. The author of the each story approached the subject of racism in different ways. I will look at the...
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...chose some of the most beloved stories we revisit again and again even as adults to relive our favorite childhood memories, or perhaps escape from the harsh reality even if only for a short while. The stories featured included Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Empress’s New Clothes, Fairy Tale Theater, and Carine’s favorite, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which makes her cry. As we know by now, Carine’s work is enduring and iconic because it shies away from anything that celebrates the mundane or status quo. In CR Fashion Book 4, there was a twist added to every editorial, and these innocent stories we know so well were transformed and punctuated by Carine’s French accent mark, if you will. And that’s actually one of Carine’s many talents: taking something innocent and revamping it into something provocative and “politically incorrect”. What else do we expect from the queen of Prono-Chic? In Fairytales, we see a stark juxtaposition of brightness, hope, love, and smiles to loss, darkness, and ominousness. The cover stories convey those themes of brightness, lightness, and love. Lindsey Wixson’s E.T. cover photographed by Carine’s crony Sebastian Faena could not be more spot on. Gracing the back cover are Gigi Hadid (who could easily be mistaken for Kate Upton’s twin sister) with Shayne Cureton, shot by the legendary Bruce Weber. With perpetual smiles on their faces, Cureton and Hadid represent the ultimate fairytale love of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix...
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...Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is all about perspectives and understanding. The main point that Plato wants to make throughout the story is the idea that people only know things through the words and understanding of others. This applies to the situation in this story where each prisoner tells each other what it is although they are only looking at a shadow of it. Throughout the first half of this semester there has been many examples in our text with characters experiencing very similar situations. The stories I decided to focus on with these similar situations was in Metamorphosis with the story of Apollo and Daphne, The Bible with the story of Joseph, and the Aeneid. These stories have many things in common with Plato’s allegory of the cave. They all look at things with different perspective after being in different situations and enduring hardships....
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...Claralyn Hapin COM33 Reaction Paper Film: Sana Dati directed by Jerrold Tarog Sana Dati tells the story of Andrea and her past revisited at the day of her wedding. I never expected that this film could be incredibly amazing. I would like to commend the director of this film who not only directed but also wrote, edited, and scored the film. Tayog made use of the combination of his skills to come up with such a brilliant film. It is not film of a typical love story with a happy ending that we usually see, but a love story mirroring reality. /for me, the simplicity of this film made it to have more impact to the audience. Everything is natural because of how the story was put into action. The acting is heartfelt, the script is striking, the cinematography is beautiful, and the direction is simply masterful. Somehow this film is an anti-love story but I can say that this is what reality may bring us. We may not agree but it is communicable because we may also experience it. Sana Dati is not a film about winners. The heart of Sana Dati lies with the losers, the ones we tend to forget when the most intense statements about love have already been declared. It is about Andrea, whose life goes on despite the tragedy of her one true love perishing. It is about Dennis, who is about to marry a girl who does not love him. It is about Andrew, who stirs trouble in somebody else’s romantic affairs. If I were at Andrea’s situation I would also do what she did. I felt the pain of the character...
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...the time this story was written. These ideas have transferred over the ages setting grounds to many stories and ideas about heroic acts and pure courage where the hero is reluctant to back down from a battle and will always save his people. One of the figures that draw inspiration from ancient stories such as Beowulf is the character of James Bond, and in this essay I will evaluate the similarities and differences between the two characters and how an ancient story can provide ground for a contemporary hero. To begin with, in the story of Beowulf he plays the Beowulf takes over the role as a hero by having the archetype as the destroyer. The reason that Beowulf has succeeded in enduring time and is still viewed by our society as a popular story is the fact that Beowulf has been crafted as a marvelous character, where he fights to provide a safe world. He acknowledges that we all will eventually die therefore he faces those challenges in order to establish fame and to be able to live in his people’s memory ( Mythencyclopedia). The character of James Bond is vastly similar to those qualities but in a contemporary and modern style. When you think of a hero you think of the man in shining armor, someone that comes to his fair maidens rescue just in time to save her life. You think of him being handsome with a strong physique and brave. Courageous and brave is what you expect, and with the story of James Bond these are the qualities that you will get (Why Do We Love James Bond?)...
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...The Other Romance in Manon Lescaut Manon Lescaut by The Abbe Prevost is a traditional love story between “star-crossed” male and female lovers. However, it is also the story of a "bromantic" relationship between Chevalier des Grieux and his loyal friend Tiberge. In recent years, “bromance” is has become trendy in television and films, such as the ongoing close platonic relationships among characters in the television series House (Dr. House and Dr. Wilson) or in movies such I Love You, Man and the Hangover series. However, Manon Lescaut is evidence that this idea of strong male friendship is not a new concept. In the article “A Fine Bromance,” Jon Elder traces this theme of strong male friendship back to Aristotle, who wrote that this type of relationship involves “those who desire the good of their friends for the friends' sake … because each loves the other for what he is.” Throughout Manon Lescaut, whenever the Chevalier des Grieux encounters a problem that seems to have no resolution, he turns to Tiberge, who he says "loved me with singular affection" (Prevost 8) and refers to throughout the book with terms such as "ever-faithful" (Prevost 106) and "generous and unshaken friend" (Prevost 107). There are several parallels in the “bromance” between Tiberge and the Chevalier des Grieux and the romance between des Grieux and Manon Lescaut. First, just as des Grieux always appears to rescue Manon Lescaut when she disappoints...
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...school that I really didn’t understand why they took too long to read a simple sentence or a short paragraph. The movie made me wonder if, perhaps, some of them were dyslexic after all. At that time, it was either you were smart because you read fluently, or you were dull because you simply took a longer time to read simple words and sentences. There was no in between, no label for those who had a hard time reading simply because what they try to read were different from what normal people see. The movie made me realize was about parenting about how parents should love their children equally, how they should accept them whatever conditions come with them when they wanted to have. For a person still planning g to have his own family and children in the future like I, that lesson in the movie will not be forgotten easily. With that alone, my mind was already awakened to the heavy responsibility of how parents should love his child. The students involving the teacher students interaction depicted in this movie are so relevant in today’s times when you get to see and hear on television at regular intervals innovative punishment like electric shock being doled out to students. It tells about a boy, his IshaanAwasthi, who was always getting in problem at school for being so misbehaving and out of focus from his lessons. Too often, he would be caught by his trainer they dreaming and getting low grades. Because of this, his father send him to boarding school, all alone and homesick with...
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...The Timelessness of Literature Since the beginnings of society, there have been storytellers. Through these people, their words, and their stories, we have been given a heritage of thought. These stories have provided a basis of thought and action for society, by giving examples and expectations of how life should be. Among these stories and books, very few have been read and enjoyed enough to be called a classic. These few are the books that have, and will, stand the test of time and will continue to be read and taught. These are the books that contain the teachings that have remained true and relevant throughout the ages. These writings and their messages are still taught because, like Calvino’s contends, literature is timeless and ceaseless in its teachings. In present society, we do not often enough speak of how influential the past is and how much it can teach us. In “Why Read the Classics”, twentieth-century Italian writer Italo Calvino writes of the importance of reading classic literature. He defines the word “classic” in many different ways to give different reason they are important or relevant to the present day. In one of the definitions given, Calvino speaks of the influence that literature has had on society. He points out that this influence is often unrecognized largely because the teachings of literature are often understated, but powerful, “camouflaging themselves as the collective or individual unconscious” (127). Calvino makes evident the fact that although...
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...I was born Georgi Melitonovitch Balanchivadze in St. Petersburg, Russia, on January 22, 1904. I am the son of Meliton and Maria Balanchivadze. I was surrounded by music and artistic influences from a very early age. My father was a composer, therefore I studied the piano as a child frequently. However, at the age of ten, I entered the Imperial Ballet School, where I learned the precise and athletic Russian dancing style of ballet. In 1921 I entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music to study piano while I continued to work in ballet at the State Academy of Opera and Ballet. From there I used a group of dancers from the school to present my earliest choreographed works. One of the students was Tamara Gevergeyeva, she was a doll, I later married Tamara in 1922. She was the first of four wives I had, all of whom were dancers. My big break came when the manager of the Ballets Russes, Sergei Diaghilev, discovered me in 1925, in Paris, France. At the age of 21, I became the main choreographer of the most famous ballet company in the world. I worked on ten ballets for Diaghilev, and it was Diaghilev who actually changed the my name to Balanchine. When Diaghilev died and the company broke up in 1929, I moved from one company to another until I formed my own company, Les Ballets in 1933. In that same year, after a Les Ballets performance, I met Lincoln Kirstein, a young, rich American, who invited me to head a new School of American Ballet in New York City. With the School...
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...Cyber Bullying Stories: Tyler Tyler Clementi, 18, was a regular freshman who was passionate about playing the violin and was still new to his gay identity. Instead of enjoying college life at Rutgers University, his first semester proved to be a living hell, one he felt he had no way of escaping. Tyler had a roommate, Dharun Ravi, who had a hard time getting along with him and realized that Tyler liked to keep to himself most of the time. When Tyler informed his roommate that he would be hosting a male guest at their dorm room and asked for some privacy, Dharun went across the hall to his friend, Molly Wei and both of them streamed a video live from Tyler’s room using Dharun’s webcam, they say Tyler kissing another man and Dharun immediately began tweeting about it to friends and other Rutgers students and possibly, the entire world. On the same night, Tyler sent a request to the school’s administration asking for a single room citing the fact that his roommate had used a webcam to spy on him. The next day, Tyler made the same notification to Dharun that he would be receiving a male guest, this time Dharun tweeted that he would be live streaming the entire sexual tryst, and invited everyone to watch, but the viewing never occurred. The next day everyone woke up to the news that Tyler Clementi had jumped off a bridge into the Hudson river, his body was found hours later. His last communication with the world was a Facebook status declaring he was jumping off the bridge and...
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...Mark Upchurch English 255 Professor Kalauli 3/6/2014 A Painting for the Mind Juliet Kono effectively conveys the devastation, horror, and depravity in Japan circa 1940 to 1950 through her unwavering sense of staying true to the imagery and setting of Japan during World War II as well as post war Japan. By effectively telling the story through the eyes of the protagonist Hi-Chan, she allows the reader to personalize not only with the main character but the setting that surrounds the main character as well. The continual turmoil and conflict that the protagonist undergoes contrast the underlying theme (the path to enlightenment) of the novel and remains consistent from beginning to end. There is no question that the author’s effectiveness in delivering the elements of fiction in her novel Anshu: Dark Sorrow creates in the reader’s mind a vivid portrait of the time and place the main character Hi-Chan was living in. By effectively conveying the setting of the novel, the persistent use of conflict with the protagonist, establishing a first person point of view, and the use of effective characterization, Juliet Kono is able to paint within the readers mind the thoughts and emotions within Hi-Chan as well as the world around her. By descriptively establishing the setting in Hawaii at the beginning of the novel, Juliet Kono allows the reader to assume a more peaceful and serene time when Hi-Chan was youthful and care-free on an island of abundant beauty, freedom, and most...
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...Comparing and Contrasting “The Story of an Hour” and “How I Met My Husband”. Lora Cruse Ashford University ENG125 11/20/2014 In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting two great short stories. One being “The Story of an Hour” written by Kate Chopin in 1854 and the other being “How I Met my Husband” written by Alice Munro in 1974. The two short stories share the theme of gender roles/marriage. That being said,, I will be going over plot, point of view and tone. Sometimes women feel like they are trapped in their marriage, and sometimes women cannot wait to become married. Kate Chopin's “The Story of an Hour represents a negative view of marriage. Every individual takes a different approach when enduring the loss of a loved one. Whether it is bursting into tears or being miserable. When a wife loses a husband, she typically tends to be in a state of depression. The feeling of losing your significant other is a piercing agony going through one's heart, but in this case the feeling of loss can turn into someone's freedom. For Louise Mallard she had an erratic reaction when she was informed that her husband had been allegedly killed in a train accident. She locks herself in her room and sits in front of the window in desolation. She begins to ponder how her life will be without her husband. The sorrow that Mrs. Mallard felt in the beginning slowly turns into joy. “Free body and soul free!” (Chopin...
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...I am different. Unlike people here, I posses two different names, two different stories. One story remains in the making, while the other remains as a piece of history, a souvenir from my past. My American name, Kaitlyn Rose Cooper, was given to me by my mother. Kaitlyn, a very common name here, means pure. However, that’s not the reason my mother named me that; instead, she named me after another child in my orphanage who was also being adopted. My middle name honors my grandmother, Rose Cooper. The name Rose reminds me of the sweet- smelling flower. It reminds me of beauty, gentleness, kindness, youth, and love, all of which are qualities I hope I exude towards others. Finally, my last name- Cooper. A Cooper is strong, intelligent, enduring, generous, humorous, and God-...
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