Freedom's Obligation We have freedom today because of the veterans of war that have sacrificed their lives for us to live. Some have died to give us freedom. Some have been injured to never make their life the same again. Others have not been injured, and not died, but remember gruesome scenes ...
Although the elegy is among the oldest poetic forms with a rich history in myths and in religious texts, the elegy was a popular nineteenth-century genre. Walt Whitman was familiar with both old and contemporary elegies and was well-acquainted with the history of the tradition. ... Or if it does, as in Whitman's poem, it moves quickly away from the particularity of the occasion, and without proposing the dead person as an example of tragic crisis in the human spirit or in human history. ... The sun, day and land suggest life and the physical, while the moon, night and sea represent death ...
O'Sullivan on Manifest Destiny in 1839 (Document A) stating "national birth was the beginning of a new history, the formation and progress of an untried political system, which separates us from the past and connects us with the future only we may confidently assume that our country is destined to be the great nation of futurity.... That is why they had no problem going to war with Mexico thus making it an important part of history when they were able to take more land and show aggressive imperialism which ended up hurting many individuals in the process. ... According to "The E...
Specifically after Jim's death when Henry is making a speech he is interrupted by a description of the uncaring sun "pasted in the sky like a wafer."" (74) After his first encounter with battle he notes nature by saying "that nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment."" (47) And we are again remind of natures uncaring attitude on (127) " A cloud of dark smoke, as from smoldering ruins, went up toward the sun now bright and gay in the blue, enameled sky."" ... Crane's objective when writing this book was not to give a history lesson on t...
According to black historian George Williams' account of the battle, "All day they marched over the island under the exhausting heat of a July sun in Carolina...All night the march was continued through darkness and rain, amid thunder and lightning, over swollen streams, broken dikes, and feeble, shuddering, narrow causeways." ...
