Comparison and contrast of literary devices is used to show how ironic tone, graphic imagery, and heroism can create great compositions such as "War is Kind" and "A Mystery of Heroism". ... The effort of Fred Collins in "A Mystery of Heroism" is splashed out with a surprise element of situational irony. ... Also with his short story "A Mystery of Heroism" Crane uses the imagery to help depict his ideas. ... The only difference is that in "A Mystery of Heroism," there is only one scene to speak of, and in "War is Kind," there are a few more to describe. ... "A Mystery of Heroism" beholds ...

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Stephen Crane's "Mystery of Heroism" is a story about war. There are a lot of stories about war, but this one is quite unlike most. And unlike a lot of war stories, this is not a story about the glory of war, or how everything turns out okay against all odds, but a story about the bleakness of war. ...

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Literary Analysis of "A Mystery of Herosim" The theme of "A Mystery of Herosim" is the foolishness and pointlessness of war. ... He also contemplates heroism, and contemplates that as his motive. ... The desires of thousands of men at war to be heros and their confusion about wether or not they actually are heros, is represented by Collins consideration of heroism. ...

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It contains a revelation of an age-old mystery of man (existence of universe and God). ... It takes pure heroism to change your life just based on a spiritual gut feeling, that there is something else out there, which is more important and divine than any of us. ...

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Speaking about the mystery of death, Socrates came to the conclusion that there is no point in fearing death if you don't know what its like (pg. 41, 40d-e). ... I believe that the quote, "if you kill the sort of man I say I am, you will not harm me more than yourselves", vividly describes the heroism of Socrates (pg. 33,30c-d). ...

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She is my confidante, my source of comfort and yet for a long time many areas of her life are a mystery to me. ... I remember that Edwin Hubbell Chapin once said, "No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love". ...

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She felt slavery to be the issue which separated whites from true heroism: whites can not "hope to find/Deivine acceptance with th' Almighty mind" when "they disgrace/And hold in bondage Afric's blameless race." ... The end of her life remains a mystery. ...

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Such messages are formed in the recollection of 'War Stories' (Ford) that transpire the core values of policing and exaggerate values of heroism, physicality, danger, and a general 'us versus them' mentality that acts as a divider between police and regular citizens. ...

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David Leeb wrote a very compelling, unpublished paper titled "Shades of Goodman Brown". In this paper, Leeb discussed a common "yarn" that presented itself in Young Goodman Brown, The Man that Corrupted Hadleyberg, Monster, and The Devil and Daniel Webster. He writes that "It is truly curious that ...

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This mystery soldier is the one who ignores the forewarnings prompted by the most respected philosophers of our time, and although he knows that war leads to carnage, continues to fight until an opposing bullet kills him. ... These words lack individuality, and attempt to imply a certain image of heroism. ...

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1. 60 million years ago, the age of giant reptiles came to an end. Dinosaurs ruled the earth, while mammals were not able to evolve because they could never challenge the dinosaurs. Then, a comet hit the earth and the dinosaurs disappeared. Mammals, including primates, were then able to evolve. Over 5 million years ago, primates walked on all fours. ...

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