Effect of Death on Soldiers based on Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front demonstrates the effects of war on soldiers The novel takes place during the last two years of World War I The three main events that cause World War I are the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the rise of nationalism and militarism Remarque tells the story of Paul Baumer and his school friends enlisting in the army through the influence of their schoolma
Transformations How has your perceptions of transformations been illuminated by your comparative study of the prescribed texts The responders understanding of transformations has been illuminated by a comparative study of Jane Austens Emma and Amy Heckerlings Clueless The word transformation refers to the change of form or appearance In order for Heckerling to transform Emma she needed to change the context of Austens 19th Century English novel Emma to better fit her 20th Century American film
Its interesting to think about the things people might carry with them if they were forced to go to war Would you sacrifice a little extra weight to bring a good luck charm or an extra gun and ammunition to provide more safety In Tim OBriens The Things They Carried much of the story is spent describing the certain weapons materials and emotional burdens the men in Viet Nam carried Even though some soldiers such as Mitchell Sanders carry extremely heavy objects like the PRC 25 radio a killer twe
Essay Robert Graves The Shout The Shout by R Graves is a rather strange short story it tells a story from the point of view of a visitor in a small town He meets a peculiar man who is a patient in the local asylum and during a cricket game the strange intelligent man tells the Ill call him the Visitor for the sake of saving time Visitor a story Crossley it is the name of the asylum patient claims he is responsible for the deaths of three people he also has a story which is completely true accor
Octavia Butlers Kindred tells a story of how a modern day black woman Dana is transported from California to the antebellum South to protect a man that would become her ancestor Her survival essentially relies on her ability to keep him alive She is summoned to a plantation in Maryland that her ancestor Rufus Weylin lives on Every time Rufus faces danger Dana would be called upon to protect him so that he can father the child that will become her ancestor Each time Dana goes back to the past sh
Greco Roman Influence in Shakespeares Antony and Cleopatra Greco Roman mythological images seem to dominate Shakespeares Antony and Cleopatra Ever since the humanist revolution started Renaissance writers including Shakespeare systematically tried to revive Greek literature and Greek mythology It was an attempt to establish an alternative authority to Catholic scholastic dogma that has the stamp of antiquity Shakespeares knowledge of mythology was almost exclusively Roman especially in relation
The fate of Romeo Montague is predicted in the chorus of the play The audience is immediately informed that Romeo and his love will take their lives and thus they are immediately aware that a great ordeal will happen at some point in the play However they are not informed of the dramatic changes that he will undertake as the play carries out its course Romeo seems to be a rather complex character a character of many layers Is he the highly romantic soul we meet in Act 1 Or perhaps his darker si
Fahrenheit 451 takes place in an unspecified future time in a hedonistic and rabidly anti intellectual America that has completely abandoned self control and bans the reading of books Anyone caught owning them is at the minimum confined in a mental hospital and has the books confiscated and burned At the maximum the penalty is a sentence to immediate death People are now only entertained by in ear radio and an interactive form of television The protagonist Guy Montag is a fireman certain that h