The Old Man from "The Old Man and the Sea" is another hero that follows these rules. ... The following quote from the "Old Man and the Sea" exemplifies the type of personality that a conservative America idolized. "Man is not made for defeat," he said. ... " - The Old Man Hemingway did not just limit heroes to fiction. In "The Old Man and the Sea," he equates the "Old Man" to Joe DiMaggio, who, at that time, was playing valiantly through a bad bone spur in his heel. ...

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Another simile that Owen uses is - "coughing like hags" that quotation shows that the men are like old women with a harsh hacking cough, being ill and too weak. ... We can feel the mans pain and agony as his flesh is burning. Owen uses an extended metaphor - "Dim, through the misty pains and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning." Owen compares a man dying in an attack to a man drowning in the sea; the clouds of green gas are like the sea surrounding the soldier. ... Another comparison is the green sea is meant to be a cloud of gas. ...

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An example of this would be: "flound"ring like a man in fire or lime- this example makes us aware of the movement which this soldier would use during the gas attack "flound"ring". Another implication this simile has is that the soldier would not be in control of the situation as if a man was on fire he would not be able to put it out simply and this would be similar with the soldier used in the example as this would be an unusually helpless situation for him to be in. ... The second and final image group I will be studying is: "Sea or Drowning". ... An example of when Owen uses this method: ...

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He refers to the soldiers as 'hags', 'old beggars', who are 'bent double' and 'knock-kneed'; creating an impression of tired, filthy, unshaven, pitiful people. ... "As under a green sea, I saw him drowning", links directly back to the impression created by "flound'ring", of someone struggling to stay alive, but is going to die regardless - quite like someone drowning. ... The dying man is treated like chunk of meat. Owen uses gruesome imagery to portray the man's death. ... "My friend, you would not tell with such high zest, to children ar...

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Owen depicts the men as "bent double, like old beggars under sacks.... Furthermore, the comparison of the soldiers and the "old beggars" is important because the adjective 'old' helps depict how the men have aged prematurely by their experiences. ... The suffering of an individual soldier who failed to get his gas mask on in time, "flound'ring like a man in fire or lime" depicts the harsh realities of what it is like to be a 'decorated hero.' The term flound'ring suggests that the man is having an absolute panic attack set on by somethi...

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With a length of 745 feet, she was one of the largest man-made objects in the world. ... The day before Lusitania sailed from Pier 54, U-20, skippered by thirty-two-year-old Kapitãnleutnant (Lt. ... Walther Schwieger, left the German naval base at Emden on the North Sea. Schwieger's orders were to take U-20 around Scotland and Ireland to the Irish Sea. ...

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George Johnston portrays this time in his novel "My Brother Jack", through the eyes of Davy Meredith, a young boy, (who in turn is portrayed unmistakably as a young Johnston), who develops into a young man. The cultural influences of this era shaped the men that both the young boy and his older brother, Jack, developed into. ... When his boss discovered who Davy really was, he explained, " It was our impression, that you were a retired sea captain. A sailing man. An old shell back (Pg102)", because Davy writes such descriptive pieces, even at the age of sixteen. ...

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In the first stanza, Owen opens up by giving phrases such as "like old beggars under sacks", "men marched asleep", and "drunk with fatigue", which strongly provides the readers with vivid pictures of soldiers pushing forward in slow and controlled pace despite of deplorable conditions they are in. ... "As under a green sea I saw him drowning. ... In the end of the four lines, usage of the words such as "with such high zest" implies that "once the sentiment of dulce et decorum was once held by either the speaker or the dead man who he now sees on the wagon." ...

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There we are given one of the expressions used by Owen to compare the men like "old beggars under sacks". ... " Knock-kneed coughing like hags- Here we can visualise an image of a body bent double, wheezing and coughing like old witches, shattering the body in one blow! The young men are referred to as "hags", in other words old women compared as witches. The impact that Owen draws upon the reader is of young men who are no longer young but who look old and dying in amongst the crud. ... "In all my dreams ." whenever he tries to sleep he cannot fight that mans agonizing death. ...

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DISCUSS "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow" - ECCLESIASTES 1:18 David Malouf's "Fly Away Peter" is the story of one man's loss of innocence, as he confronts the brutality of human nature during the First World War. ... Jim happens to be in Brisbane when the first news of the war reaches Australia. " It was already several days old, over there, in countries to which they were not linked, and now it had come here." ... Breaking glass a white shirted man with his hands over his face and blood between them" staggers onto the pavem...

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"If anything will rouse him now, The kind old sun will know," The second stanza goes much deeper into the Generals emotions he is saying why did the sun break the earth to create us, if we are going to slaughter each other. ... "And floundering like a man in fire or lime" This line is saying the soldier was panicking too much that he was making mistakes and because of these mistakes the soldier doesn't get his helmet on in time and now he is surrounded by green gas. The last two lines of this stanza describes the soldier dying, "Dim through the misty panes and thick green l...

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This line needs to be remembered as the poem is based on the idea of it as 'the old lie' mocking the established belief of nationalism and duty to your country. ... The line is sarcastic as Owen has now himself seen a gas attack and a man drown 'under a green sea', and has found out that dying out there in a far off land was a waste of a life and is completely pointless. ... It uses similes such as 'like old beggars under sacks' and 'Bitter as the cud'. ...

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Hemingway was a rugged man in the true sense, and his writings show this. ... Hemingway was known as an "expert in the areas of war, bullfighting, deep-sea fishing, boxing, big-game hunting, and reckless, extravagant living--experiences that he often recounted in his fiction" (Shaffer 1). ... She instead left him for an older man very abruptly. ...

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Involvement in World War I and II Only about two hundred years old, the United States had developed into a major world power by the beginning of the 20th Century. ... About two million men were sent away over seas in the American Expeditionary Force. ...

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Such exposure to new democratic ideals during the war put the old European empires under constant tension that would eventually lead to their collapse in the 21st century. ... So, the question is now, how could this one man and his political party (the Fascists) become so unbelievably popular within Italy in a post World War One era? ... When a man cannot earn a living simply because there is nothing he can do no matter how willing he quickly turns on the government for help. ... He founded the Fascist party within Italy and set himself up as a powerful and lively man who could "sort out" Ital...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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