1. rap is crap
Aurora: In your books there is also a search for a hero. In The Wars, the protagonist is seen as a hero because he cares for human and animal life, and then dies because of that conviction.
Findley: He died for life. The thing that moved me in writing that book was that Robert Ross believed above all else in life. If you couldn't save people, but you could save the horses, you were, in fact, saving life. You were making a statement about life. The whole point of life is that life itself is the embodiment of hope. That is why the birth of a child is always so moving.
Aurora: In The Wars, you write of Robert Ross: "He did the thing that no one else would ever dare to think of doing. And that to me is as good a definition of hero as you'll get. Even when the thing that's done is something of which you disapprove.".
Aurora: You also suggest in The Wars that people are capable of any atrocity. If they can imagine it, then they can do it-the flame-throwers, for example.
Findley: That was an instance of someone asking, "What is the most insidious, terrifying thing you can do?" Nothing is more frightening than fire, and so they created the flame-thrower. That thinking has continued to this day with the creation of new weapons as a means of creating terror. To terrorize people into submission.
The novel explodes the myths of "ordinary" and "heroic." It describes the place of ordinary men in an epic situation, a situation which magnifies action until it seems either heroic or insane - or both. By examining humanity at war, it can be seen that no one is ordinary; ordinary does not innately exist in humanity; we create it through our accepted, written, historical context. Humanity, divested from the pretty wrapping of social manners, turns out to be flawed, even when precious. .
The novel critically, often shockingly, explores the nature of humanity. It raises the question: what is history? It asks: what is an ordinary human being? It cries: human activity is ordinary or heroic depending on the context it exists within; war is a sickening context.
Music Today : Just a Bunch of Garbage? It's 4:00 pm and you just got home from school. You turn on the radio only to hear some media generated stuff banded together by some lame drum beats. This is unfortunetly, the music of today. Along with pop music and boy bands, alternative and rock music ...
Morgan believed that literature was worthless, as he put it "crap". ... He concludes that therefore literature is no longer useful in our society because it is a sham, and that means it is crap. ... Morgan's argument, as stated before, is simply that literature is out dated and therefore it is crap. ... However, is someone wants literature to be crap then it will be. ... Ditto proved, through using real life experiences that literature is not crap. ...
Nathan Detroit is the manager of a notorious floating crap game in New York City. Desperately in need to find money to finance his crap game, he bets Sky Masterson a thousand dollars that Sky will not be able to take Sarah Brown, an innocent, local Salvation Army girl, to Havana with him. ... Later, when Sarah's mission is in need of sinners, Sky bets his fellow gamblers at the crap game a thousand dollars for their souls, in which they will have to attend the mission. ...
I no longer had to listen to that county crap. ... After about a week my mom regretted getting me that stereo, I listened to the crap she didn't like now. ... I finally let her listen to that music I once considered crap as loud as she wanted. ...
College Dorm Life Vs. Life at Home Last month in our country, thousands of eighteen year olds flocked and migrated to a location where they could finally escape the stress of parents, siblings and their very own house and neighborhood. For the majority of the students, the move was indeed a success,...
Such words usually include crap, ass, shit, bitch, and fuck. ... The word "crap" dates back as early as 1846, and is usually used as a euphemism for shit, yet many people find it equally offensive. As most cuss words do, crap has several different variations, such as, "eat crap," "crap-ass," and "crapola." ...
Reflective Essay Title I"m the leader on the mat. I try to be an example for everyone on the team. I have to go as hard as I can, all the time, so my team mates never question my work ethics. I am our wrestling team's captain. After my first wrestling match ever, I decided I was going to...