Supporting Keegans Interpretation of Haig Historians often differ greatly with their opinions on Field Marshal Haig and how successful he was during the Great War. John Keegan is a modern historian very much in favour of Haig. Keegan is quoted as saying Haig was an "efficient and highly skilled soldier who did much to lead Britain to victory in the First World War". In recent years most historians have begun to accept that Haig was not nearly as bad as the seemingly common view of him as a bumbling idiot portrayed in the era after his death. Source C is an article from the conservative paper 'The Telegraph'. The article is written by Field Marshal Haigs son, Earl Haig. With a source of such a nature it is obviously necessary to look for any possible bias in his sons article. Coming from a high class and traditional family Earl Haig was no doubt brought up very much to respect his father. Earl Haig may not want to write anything negative about his late father or simply acknowledge its existence, in effect writing the article 'with blinkers on'. The veterans that he had spoken to in the article, according to him never spoke a word of criticism about his father, but they no doubt knew who he was and did not want to cause any offence or upset. Earl Haig criticises people, in the article, for 'pouring scorn' on his father despite not being in the war themselves, but neither was he and probably heard the of war very much from his fathers viewpoint. Source D is a fake poster from 'General Haig's Private War' showing Field Marshal Haig and the words "Your country needs me…like a hole in the head - which is what most of you are going to get." This is obviously taking a very negative view of Haig, focusing on the amount of deaths and casualties incurred during the conflict. This source has no clear author, so is impossible to see the author's background and knowledge or the situation.
Scientists successfully cloned a sheep in July of 1996. Her name was Dolly. Even though scientists cloned a sheep, cloning humans is illegal. If someone tried to clone themselves, they might get a clone if the scientists complete the process correctly, but it is extremely wrong and illegal. The book, The House of the Scorpion, written by Nancy Farmer was about the life of a clone. The main character was Matteo Alacran, Matt. In other words the clone. The story takes place in the future. Matt lives at an estate owned by a drug lord. Matt is 1 of 7 clones. El Patron, the drug lord, uses clones to stay alive. Matt escapes the power of El Patron and survives. Throughout The House of the Scorpion the author analyzes the theme of acceptance and how happiness
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With quick wit and an enlightening explanation of the Constitution, Jay Wexler’s The Odd Clauses did not disappoint. Covering the Constitution in a completely unique way, even the most simple-minded people in the world could walk away from this book understanding how complex the Constitution really is. Wexler takes a weird clause from the constitution, explains why it is odd, and then uses the clause to explain a whole segment of government. For example, Wexler uses the Weight and Measures Clause to explain the powers of Congress, and how they are to blame for crashing a $125 million probe into Mars.
Robert Louis Stevenson shows a marvelous ability to portray. He depicts the surroundings, architectural details of the dwellings, the inside of the houses, the instruments and each part of the environment in detail. He even specifies that the laboratory door is “covered with red baize” (p.24). Not only does he offer a precise picture of the setting, but also he draws accurately the characters. About 200 words are used in order to describe Mr. Utterson the lawyer (p.5). Dr.Lanyon, the gentleman who befriends Mr. Utterson and Dr. Jekyll, is described as “a healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white.” (p.12). Each of the characters are described according to their importance in the novella. Each of them except
Every 60 seconds a person is murdered in the U.S. Yearly there are over 12,000 gun deaths in the United States. The amount of violence in our country is a result of how cruel people can be to each other and the lack of humanity we have as human beings. In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding there are British boys that were on their way home but they crashed and now have to endure through the challenges the island they are on gives them. The book is representing humanity’s inner nature and shows the reader how different human actions are when bad things happen. A philosopher named John Locke believed that people are born with a blank slate and something bad must happen first in order for someone to be evil. Human nature is usually good but things can always change. The nature of humanity is inherently good because something must happen in order for people to be evil. If you were friends with somebody, something must happen between you two in order for you to hate them.
In Robert Louis Stevenson’s, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll’s struggle between two personalities is the cause of tragedy and violence. Dr. Jekyll takes his friends loyalty and unknowingly abuses it. In this novella, Stevenson shows attributes of loyalty, how friendship contributes to loyalty, and how his own life affected his writing on loyalty.
Duality has an impact on everyday life. Every action one takes could be intended to be a good action, but others might think of it differently Duality means things that appear to be purely good have a dark side. It could be good or evil, black and white.
society. Rose writes, “Through serial adaptation, the story of Jekyll and Hyde yields a paratragic, predictive investigation into frightening themes; the process of adaptation reveals itself to be a cultural too, used to retain and refurbish images that contain too much anxiety, or hit too close to home, to be allowed to languish” (Rose 156).
In chapter 4 the assault by Hyde was a completely spontaneous and vicious attack on an innocent old man. Hyde’s assault on Carew can be vividly depicted in the text. The text on page 28 reads, “And then all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman.” This snippet of text allows the readers to fully understand the complete bizarreness of this unfortunate event. Robert Stevenson uses the phrase, “And then all of a sudden”, to capture the impulsiveness of Hyde. The maid describes Hyde as a “madman” before he has even committed the crime. This crime was based merely on unknown anger, but this text uses the word “brandish”, which gives the readers the idea that he may have bee trying to intimidate the old gentleman before his attack.
Shabash is a book written by Ann Walsh and it is about a kid named Rana who wants to join the minor hockey team. The book tells about the challenges Rana faced and his thoughts on the fact that only white people can play hockey.
As Twenge continues her argument she compares it back to her own experiences which ties up this argument in the successfulness of it. She uses these comparisons to help emphasize important parts of her argument. Beginning with “they think we like our phones more than we like actual people.” This state of unhappiness around teens forms her bigger argument that this is a main reason smartphones have destroyed a generation, “It was exactly the moment where the proportion of Americans who owned a smartphone surpassed 50%”. The owning of smartphones “placed in the young people’s hands are having profound effect on their lives -- and making them seriously unhappy.” Their social interactions decrease and their screen time increases as the years go
Romeo and Juliet and Jekyl and Hyde both show duality. One example is how Jekyl and Hyde are the same person just living a double life. He wanted to be able to live a life where he was able to let loose and still be respected at the same time. So he found a way to do that by making a potion that could make him someone else. However he could change back to the other person when it was necessary. An example in Romeo and Juliet is how their deaths were tragic but without them the families aren’t fighting anymore.
Beowulf is the conventional title of an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature due to the fact that it is the oldest surviving epic poem of Old English and also the earliest vernacular English literature. Tragedy and epic have been much discussed as separate genres, but critics have not hesitated to designate certain characters and events in epics as tragic. For the most part, they have assumed or asserted an identity between epic and dramatic tragedy. Even in The Odyssey, Penelope and Telemachus suffer enough to rouse their deep passions and to force them like the tragic sufferer to consider their own predicaments in the world they live in. C.L. Wrenn wrote on Beowulf, “A Germanic hero is a tragic hero, who shows his highest greatness not alone in winning glory by victory, but rather by finding his supremely noble qualities especially in the moment of death in battle” (Wrenn 91). Beowulfs hubris, the representation of wealth as a profiling characteristic for the villages, and Beowulf’s ability to find his might in his moment of “death,” all show the very nature of the poem which defines it as not only an epic poem, but also a tragic one.
During his last years, Keats ponders about what it would mean to die. He translates this into fears of what he hasn’t yet accomplished and would like to have time to do. This aspect of time is emphasised with the use of the word “when” at the start of the first three quatrains which is also used in Shakespearean Sonnets. The heading, “When I have fears that I may cease to be” demonstrates Keats’ belief, or rather, lack of belief in the idea of an afterlife. In the first quatrain of the poem Keats describes his fertile imagination, yearning to have “glean’d my teeming brain” before it is too late, the image of abundance is instilled with the words “high- piled” and “rich.” The paradox of a field of grain is used to depict Keats’ brain being ‘harvested’ of the knowledge into poems of his own creation. In this stanza, Keats reveals his want for fame through his works and his fears of being unable to fulfil this in his time.
Written in 1962-3, Play depicts three characters, a man (M), and two women (W1 and W2) trapped in urns with only their heads showing. These characters each present their own version of a love triangle, which once occurred between them. It becomes clear during the play that the characters, once tortured by each other, are now tortured by their situation. A spotlight acts as a "unique inquisitor," compelling each to speak when it shines on them, and to stop when it goes out. As this assault continues, the characters become increasingly maddened by the light, and increasingly desperate to make it stop. The play repeats itself, providing the audience with a sense that these characters have been saying the same words for an eternity, and will continue to do so until the light decides they can stop. Beckett demonstrates how "A style of living, theatrically communicable, is used to express a state of mind."