"What is Feminism..."
What is Feminism?...
Contrary to popular belief feminists are not "ugly, man-hating, bra-burning, radicals outside of respectability." Despite such absurd accusations and rumors, feminists are passionate humanitarians that are invested in pursuing the continual progress of equality for a....
Achilles
Anyone who has read HomerÂ’s The Iliad knows of the Trojan War. However, the actual Trojan War took place nothing like the one in The Iliad. Historians are not even sure if a Trojan War took place, but most believe that some kind of battle did occur around that time period (1200 B.C.). Historians le....
Achilles in Vietnam
Achilles in Vietnam
The Vietnam War is one the most controversial wars in American history. The objectives and purposes of the war were unclear to the soldiers as well as the citizens of the United States. Due to constant protests, President Richard Nixon ordered the last American troops out in ....
Alcibiades as Dialectic Instrument in Platos Symposium
AlcibiadesÂ’ speech in praise of Socrates (221C-222C) reflects, through the reversal between Alcibiades and Socrates vis-Ã -vis the roles of the lover and the beloved, the dialectical method by which Socrates taught his students, and features the devices of metaphor and irony to demonstrate the rela....
all quiet on the western front
All Quiet on the Western Front – Chapter SummaryBy: Jesse CodyAll Quiet on the Western Front is an anti-war novel from the opening chapters. Many critics of the novel in the early days after the publication of the novel blamed Remarque for writing for shock value. They did not want to believe his n....
An analysis of Socrates' Oedipus Rex
In the fifth century, as philosopher became more prevalent, one extremely well known philosopher named Socrates became prominent. He influenced and taught many other Western Philosophers such as Plato, Xanthippe, Aristotle, and many more. Much of what we currently know about Socrates is derived ....
An Issue of the Past and Future: Abortion
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An Issue of the Past and Future: Abortion
Roe vs. Wade was a very controversial issue for its time, and today. Roe vs. Wade was a landmark case for womenÂ’s rights. RoeÂ’s case required states to allow women to have an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy. This all....
Analysis: Plato's Allegory of the cave
Progressive Maturity
"The Allegory of the Cave," by Plato, explains that people experience emotional and intellectual revelations throughout different stages in their lives. This excerpt, from his dialogue The Republic, is a conversation between a philosopher and his pupil. The argument made b....
Ancient philosophers: Aristotle, Socates, Plato
Humanism
Throughout history, people can notice as the generations go on, ideas are improved based on those who proceeded. Those before us set the basis, while we take those ideas and change them to fit out society. In philosophy, you can see a noticeable trend which dates back to BCE. Philosophers....
Australians In Vietnam
The Vietnam War was not like any other as there was no battlefront as such, instead fighting was sneakier and guerrilla warfare wasnÂ’t uncommon.
The enemy, members of the Vietcong, the National Liberation Front and the North Vietnamese Army, could not be recognised as they blended in with the ci....
CANADIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SUDAN AND RWANDA
Canada is an important player in the international peacekeeping system. Canada has been involved in important crises like East Timor, Rwanda, Tsunami and many more. Canada has fifty years of experience in peacekeeping and has participated in most of the missions mandated by the UN security council. ....
carter wiliams... the average life
Born an only child to a Christian family in Clinton Iowa, Carter Williams was always trying to find his way out of his small town even as a child. his parents Mary and Doug Williams were constantly having to keep the doors and screens locked to keep little Carter from running out into world. He was ....
Characterization of Jimmy Cross and Cassio in Literature
An essential part of the development of any good book or story is the characters. In addition to the story line, the characters are what keep the reader interested. Character development, or under development, will limit the readers interest and undermine the plot of the story. Though very importan....
Col. Winters
Dick Winters was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on January 21, 1918, Winters spent
his formative years in eastern Pennsylvania. My earlier hereos were Babe Ruth and Milton S.
Hershey, who founded a school for boys in the town that now bears his name. I graduated from
Franklin-Marshall Coll....
Comparing and Contrasting Military Life To Civilian Life
Comparing and Contrasting Military
Life to Civilian Life
My alarm clock would go off at 5:30am, well before the sun was due to rise. Within minutes there was someone pounding at my door, demanding I open it because it was 5:30am, the day had begun, and I am a Marine. I would rush over to the d....
Comparison of Plato and Aristotle
Comparison of Plato and Aristotle
Throughout time changes in epistemology have varied significantly. An Important turning point in epistemology was when PlatoÂ’s view of the world was revised by Aristotle. Plato was a student of Socrates and was one of the greatest philosophers who ever live....
Crash Landing
He woke up; there was excruciating pain all over his body. The smell of burning plastic and metal was everywhere. He stood up and inspected the wreck of his plane; he knew he was lucky to be alive. Fortunately the only really damaged parts were the nose and tail; the cargo hold was relatively intac....
Defining Moments in Canadian History
In 1867 Canada became a country as the result of the act of Confederation but continued to be dependent to the British Empire especially when it came to the defence of Canada. Over the last century Canada's involvement in two world wars put enormous strains on its society or that this, at the same t....
diary of a soilder- trenches
Memoirs & Diaries: Trenches At Vimy Ridge
Updated - Sunday, 23 September, 2001
by Harold Saunders
As the War had to be, I shall always be glad I was able to play even a negligible part in it, or I should never have known with such certainty the madness of it.
During training I was aware on....
Dualism - Plato and Descartes
Concerning Dualism.
I would like to take this opportunity in order to bring forth some charges against the concept of Dualism. Essentially, Dualism, or Pluralism, is the belief that their are two types of things which compose a human being - body and mind. This is opposed to Monism, a belief in o....
Ecofeminism and Animal Rights
WomenÂ’s spirituality is connected to goddess mythology. In mythology goddesses are women who are shown as strong and creative, with the ability to create change and make a difference. In modern times it is a male centered system which has the power and there is nothing for women to take on spirit....
forrest gump
Forrest Gump
“Forrest Gump” is more than just a movie directed by Robert Zemeckis; it expresses a cultural plethora of events occurring in the United States during the disorder of the 1960’s and 1970’s. The sense of realism throughout the movie allows individuals to achieve a better understand....
French Revolution
Causes of the French Revolution
Primary causes for the French Revolution were inequalities, both socially and politically. The clergy and nobles were allowed privileges such as not paying taxes like the commoners were forced to. The commoners had no political freedoms or power, but they paid the ma....
Great Gatsby
The “Great” Gatsby
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates a main character that can be seen as an idol. He represents the American ideal of the “successful” man, who was motivated by his dream that was pursued as an ambitious teenager. Jay Gatsby is considered “great” due to his ....
Great Gatsby
THE SINCERELY “GREAT” GATSBY
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, is a novel of a man’s unwavering and futile love for an undeserving woman. The story is set in the flamboyant “Jazz Age”, told through the character of Nick Carraway. Nick saw the world around him as a “desolate, moral w....
He Never saw the day we left
The day began just like any other day in Iraq. I got down from the top bunk of
the bed stretched and shook my head trying to wake myself up. I started putting on as I picked up my top dust flowed off of it like it had just sat there for years. I finished getting dressed and walked towards the door;....
Hobbes and Plato's views on justice
The idea of justice is a direct correlation with conceptions of a just society. Every philosopher with their idea on a just society has their own definition of justice. Justice is a loaded concept with different aspects to think about. How it relates to the individual and how it relates to the so....
How much can we trust our friends?
Trust is the belief that somebody or something is good, honest, fair, reliable and will not betray or cheat you. Trust is very important because it allows us to build up a good relationship .Without trust there is nothing, without trust we can never fulfill our lives, without trust we cannot have a ....
Hypatia of Alexandria
There is an added interest in researching ancient women philosophers due to the fact that in those days women were generally considered vastly inferior to men- especially when it came to intellectual matters. It is clear that, nevertheless, there are some examples of very intelligent women who stood....
impact of the vietnam war with australias relation with asia
Vietnam War 1962 - 1972
Australian support for South Vietnam in the early 1960s was in keeping with the policies of other nations, particularly the United States, to stem the spread of communism in Europe and Asia. In 1961 and in 1962, Ngo Dinh Diem, leader of the government in South Vietnam, repea....
In what ways do KellyÂ’s speakers show their human frailty, especially in relationships?
Paul KellyÂ’s speakers portray their insecurities, pleasures, pain and confusions honestly within the lyrics of the songs, showing the fragility of a situation due to the erratic conduct of emotional humans. The lyrics prove that despite human frailty being most apparent in that of sexual relation....
International Terrorism
In this assignment I will review my knowledge and experience about specific aspects of International Terrorism by examining the past 37 months I have spend in Iraq as a section leader as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. I will describe at length the deterioration of the situation here in Iraq; from ....
Interrogating the Enemy – How Far is Too Far?
Almost every American citizen is familiar with September 11, 2001. This is the day that forever changed our nation. One change in particular is the limits of our PresidentÂ’s authority. During the past five years the Bush administration has been overstepping its boundaries by using more power ....
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson, who was born in Cairo, Georgia on January 31, 1919 and dieing on October 24, 1972, broke the color barrier in professional baseball. Robinson was not only a great baseball player; he was a great American and a patriot to his society. He was a civil rights advoca....
John Locke and Thomas Hobbes - State Of Nature
To think of life without a government and exactly how it would present itself is almost impossible. To rely on nature for our societal structure and values over some order of government is quite difficult to picture for anybody within a governmental system. People may fear this mode of thought most ....
Kalaif a Muslim
Research Paper
Donald D. Tompkins
Mr. Juan Dugan
Phil 201, DLP
31 March 2007
To begin such an arduous task of deciding which religion I would choose to complete this academic research paper, I needed to reflect on my life experienc....
Kantianism - Ethics in Business
In Kantianism reason is the sole authority for determining what is ethical and what is ethical must be based on a principle or rule that that must apply to every human being universally, without exception. The rule is based on what Kant calls the Categorical Imperative- they base morality on uni....
Kidnapping
Frank knew that they had already received the ransom money. He had heard them counting it in the room next to his.
“Yes, it’s all here. What do we do now? Turn him loose?”
“No, he will set the whole police force hot on our trail the minute he is set free.”
That was all he needed to hear.....
King Lear - Men more sinned against than sinning
There have been many words used to describe the full wheel our lives take when serving justice to those who deserve it. The words can vary from karma to fate, each of them sharing the common purpose of wrongdoers being punished for their actions. Yet, when taking into consideration the fact that ma....
Lee harvey oswald brother interview
In your mind, are there questions about whether Lee shot President Kennedy?
There is no question in my mind that Lee was responsible for the three shots fired, two of the shots hitting the president and killing him. There is no question in my mind that he also shot Officer Tippit. How can you expla....
Life of Hypatia of Alexandria
HypatiaÂ’s life it was filled with a passion for knowledge. She was known as the earliest woman mathematician who also taught philosophy and astronomy. She was born in Alexandria, Egypt; the year she was born is generally thought to be 370AD, although some scholars argue that she was born at an ea....
Men and women writers of the Romantic period
Love. It seems to have an infinite number of forms. One loves his or her mother and father; one loves his or her soul mate and spouse (not implying that these are necessarily one in the same); one loves oneself; one loves his or her object of addiction. Love is a psychological game—sometimes exc....
Mental effects of war: A life long suffering
Mental effects of war: a lifelong suffering
Some men make it out of war physically intact, but not mentally unaltered. In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front , written by German author Erich Maria Remarque a soldier by the name of Paul Baumer experiences the terrors of war which even....
Michelangelo
Michelangelo was an optimist in his artwork. Michelangelo's artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity in it's natural state. Michelangelo's poetry was pessimistic in his response to Strazzi even though he was complementing him. Michelangelo's sculpture brought out his optimi....
Michelangelo
Michelangelo was pessimistic in his poetry and an optimist in his artwork. MichelangeloÂ’s artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity in itÂ’s natural state. MichelangeloÂ’s poetry was pessimistic in his response to Strazzi even though he was complementing him. MichelangeloÂ’....
Motivation: A definition essay
Defined on Wikipedia, "Motivation is the activation or energization of goal oriented behavior, Used internally or externally and may be rooted in the basic need to minimize physical pain and maximize pleasure." Motivation can be defined as many things, it is seen and used in many situatio....
Mr. Arcularis by Conrad Aiken
Patriarchal society has hindered or prevented women from realizing their creative possibilities. Often, the derogatory stereotypes of women in literature are written by men merely to enforce the relationship of power in society. In an ideal world, men and women are treated equally in life and litera....
Myth and Modernity in the Novels of R. K Narayan
Myth and Modernity in the Novels of R. K Narayan
The study of myth began with the publication of FrazerÂ’s The Golden Baough. Ernst Cassirer in his Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923-29) writes that the symbols are shaped by manÂ’s needs and purposes. In the symbol there is a thorough going iden....
Nubby, A Chance for Love
Nubby, A Chance to Love
6 o'clock in the morning and it was already ninety degrees in Iraq. Our Platoon from Company H was ready to roll out for that day's mission. It seemed like someone or something was trying to keep us from going, because we already had two vehicles with flat tires that mo....
Oliver Perry
The United States and Great Britain did not have an amicable relationship after the Revolutionary War ended. In fact, both countries had a strong dislike for each other. These tensions would continue to rise in the early 1800Â’s with the British occupying Canada and many forts along the American ....
Plato
The influence that Plato, the Greek philosopher born in 427 BC in Athens, has had throughout the history of philosophy has been monumental. Among other things, Plato is known for his exploration of the fundamental problems of natural science, political theory, metaphysics, theology and theory of kno....
plato
At the end of Book II in Benjamin JowettÂ’s translation of The Republic, Socrates began a detailed description of the construction of a good city. The good city is PlatoÂ’s view of the perfect state and its relation to the human soul, and its four virtues. In the following paper I will discuss Plato....
Plato
1. Explain Plato’s tripartite theory of the individual and the society. Show that you can use the terms such as appetites, passions, and reason and relate them to the three classes – shopkeepers, auxiliary /soldiers, and philosopher kings/queens. Discuss the concepts of balance and harmony – and ....
Plato
An Analysis of The Republic
The Republic is an examination of the "Good Life"; the harmony reached by applying pure reason and justice. The ideas and arguments of Plato center on the social settings of an ideal republic - those that lead each person to the most perfect possible life f....
Plato
Plato tends to believe in his heart of hearts that his respective philosophical utopia is just that—a perfect little world engulfed in himself for himself. I, on the other hand, grossly disagree with him, Plato’s idea that people are born into their lot in life with basically no choices. This li....
Plato
Plato
David Rothman
‘There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.’ The aspect of Plato's thought is the theory of "ideas" or "forms." Plato was stymied by the question of change in the physical world. Heraclitus had said that there is nothing....
Plato - A Just City
Plato, one of the most influential minds in western philosophy. Plato followed the basic ideas of Socrates, in which no laws are to be broken despite their relevance. He makes it clear as to why laws should be followed and why disobedience to the law is rarely justified. In the book entitled, “T....
Plato allegory of the cave
Progressive Maturity
"The Allegory of the Cave," by Plato, explains that people experience emotional and intellectual revelations throughout different stages in their lives. This excerpt, from his dialogue The Republic, is a conversation between a philosopher and his pupil. The argument made b....
Plato and Machiavelli
Machiavelli’s “The Morals of the Prince” and Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” both demonstrate the representation of the views upon human nature. Both illustrating the perspective of nature, Machiavelli and Plato strive to give their solutions and advice of how to experience life. While Mach....
Plato and NietzscheÂ’s Accounts of Virtue
Throughout history there have been many different views on what traits a particular person should possess. Philosophers refer to these traits as virtues or a person s ability to conform to a standard or having a moral excellence (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). One of the earliest accounts of this....
Plato on Liberty : An Analysis
In Western civilizations we tend to associate liberty and freedom with a just society but what would happen to a society if liberty and freedom were taken to their extreme limits and people and states acted without limitations, controls or rules? In The Republic, Plato argues that liberty can only ....
Plato on who should rule
Plato`s The Republic, a comprehensive treatise on man`s interactions with others in society and the rest of the world, as well as his own personal conduct and responsibilities, is a work dedicated to explore a certain theme, that of the concept of morality and justice. However, his work is too wide,....
Plato- the republic
“The aim of the Republic is very simple: to discover what justice is, and to show that it is more beneficial, in a certain sense of that word, that it’s contrary, injustice (White, 13).” On the whole, Plato believes that justice is needed in the life of both the state and the individual to accu....
Plato, Is the life of the just man happier than that of the unjust man
Socrates argues that a tyrant, though from outward appearance, seems a happy, powerful man, is truly living an unjust, unhappy life, slave to his desires and fearful of his power and the limits of his power. To illustrate his point, Socrates puts his illustrations on a larger scale, a city, in this....
Plato's Phaedo
PlatoÂ’s Phaedo
In the opening of PlatoÂ’s Phaedo, Plato introduces the well known myth of Theseus and the Minotaur to Echecrates. The narrated story of SocratesÂ’ in Phaedo by Plato is assumingly parallel to that of the well known myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. There are points which it su....
Plato's Philosophies
Plato was born to an aristocratic family in Athens, Greece. When he was a child his
father, Ariston, who was believed to be descended from the early kings of Athens died, and his
mother, Perictione married Pyrilampes. As a young man Plato was always interested in political
leadership and event....
Plato's The Symposium: Response Paper
PlatoÂ’s book The Symposium is an in depth analysis into the complex subject of love. As in any quest for knowledge in any subject, the journey is to find the objective truth of that subject. Plato makes his point in The Symposium that there is no definite answer to the objective truth of love. We s....
Platonic forms
Platonic forms
Plato is one of the world's best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. Known as the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, he wrote in the middle of the fourth century B.C.E. His earliest works are regarded as the most reliable of the ancient sou....
Platonic forms
What are the platonic forms, how can we know them,and how are they related to the things we are familiar with?
Plato (BCE 427-347)
Plato is one of the world's best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. Known as the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, he wrote in t....
Platos Republic Justice
In Plato's Republic, Socrates defines justice in two ways, as being harmonious and as each person doing their own job. The harmonious definition aims at the relationship of the conflicting parts of the person or state. Socrates divides both the soul and the state into three parts. The soul's thre....
Precis on Plato's Meno
Precis – Meno
Plato presents here in the Meno dialogue, the idea that knowledge is much like that we know to be true about matter; it can neither be created nor destroyed. Socrates (S) begins his discussion with Meno (M) by comparing himself to a torpedo fish, which has the ability to ‘numbÂ....
Review of Paul Fussells WARTIME
“War is Hell” is a phrase which has been used to describe the effects of war on not only those who actually participate but those on the homefront as well. Although, in all honesty, war is not a subject that I would normally choose to delve into, reading Paul Fussell’s Wartime has give....
Roger Mais's Brother Man - Priniciples of Rastafarianism as they are related to Broher Man
In Roger MaisÂ’ Brother Man, Rastas were viewed in this way:
The leading newspapers played up the angle that a community of bearded men in their midst, formed together into a secret cult, was a menace to public safety.
People began writing letters to the press. All bearded men should be placed b....
Shakespeares sonnets
Introduction
Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 poems that deal with such themes as love, beauty, and mortality. The Sonnets were written over a number of years, possibly beginning in the early 1590s.
In a Shakesperean sonnet, poets often divide its 14 lines into 3 quatrains, followed....
Social Changes in the 60Â’s
Many social changes that were addressed in the 1960s are still the issues being confronted today. the ‘60s was a decade of social and political upheaval. in spite of all the turmoil, there were some positive results: the civil rights revolution, john f. Kennedy’s bold vision of a new fro....
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle: Great Philosophers
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
Logic and arguments made by philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle on acquiring knowledge go hand in hand with each others philosophy statements. Though Socrates did not share interest and practices of arguing just to argue, he wanted to go beyond arguing he wa....
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle on Argument, Knowledge, Love, and Existence
The three most well-known philosophers of all time are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. The teachings of Socrates were passed through Plato to Aristotle and the world. All these men had keen minds, which created some differences in how the viewed existence, argument, knowledge, and love. Although our....
Soul Views by Plato, Aristotle and St Augustine
Soul - Views by Plato, Aristotle and St Augustine
People say that nothing is more important than your soul. Not all the riches in the world can equal to the worth of one single human soul. Every single person, sooner or later, starts to question the existence of God and soul. What is soul? It....
Source Of Normativity
The Source Of Normativity
What is the source of normativity? What does that mean and what are the arguments? Well, in 1625 Hugo Grotius stated that we all have obligations. He argued that we all have obligations whether or not you believe in God, or furthermore whether or not God even exis....
Star Wars: Clone Wars
In the star wars universe the clone war was amongst one of the deepest impacting upon the galaxy. With most of the jedi eradicated from their own troopers the galaxy was left in turmoil as a supposedly new empire began to rule with tyranny and oppression. The soldiers the jedi had so recklessly to....
The American Revolution
History plays a huge role in who and what we are today. To think that if just one thing was changed in the past, then our whole way of life would be different is preposterous. David C. McCullough once said, “History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are ....
The Cause of Human Suffering
Human suffering presents itself through several specific examples in the short story The Things They Carried by Tim OÂ’Brien and the book A Rumor of War by Phil Caputo. Both stories take place during the Vietnam War and were also written by veterans of the war. In The Things They Carried Lt. Jimmy....
The Fate of The World: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
Philosophers are the most influential people on the planet. Before science was ever heard of, there were philosophers. Some of the most famous are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. They were the first breed of their kind, free-thinkers. In a society that was built on a foundation of religion, thes....
The Impossible Union of Asrtophil and Stella
The sixteenth century was a time of scientific, historical, archaeological, religious and artistic
exploration. The attention was into the depths of the human psyche and it was up to the artists and poets
rather than the priests and scholars to examine and mirror these internal landscapes. Th....
The republic - Plato
The Republic
Plato was born in 427 B.C. He came from a family that played a prominent part in Athenian politics. However, Plato did not join politics, as he was disgusted by the violence and corruption that came with it. PlatoÂ’s work contains aspects such as mathematics, history, morality and re....
Themes in the great gatsby
The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a book of love and tragedy that all leads back to dreams and ideas, but never reality. The Great Gatsby, describes the events that happen to eight people during the summer of 1922. In the book, people went from west to east because something they ....
Thumos: Coping in Plato's Republic
Platos Republic is mainly the discussion of justice versus injustice and the task of defining each. To figure out how to grasp a definition, Socrates, Glaucon, and Adeimantus set to creating a Just City as a model for the individual. Eventually they come to the point of seizing the land of neighbo....
Todays Leading Commentator - Brian Williams
Brian Williams climb to the top of the broadcasting ranks was and is a long and arduous adventure that no other reporter in the history of broadcasting has ventured. Williams proved himself to be worthy of his position through his desire and his active involvement in his work through his years and h....
United State's Involvement in the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War is truly one of the most unique wars ever fought by the Unites States of by any country. It was never officially declared a war. It had no official beginning or an official end. It was fought over 10,000 miles away in a virtually unknown country. The enemy and the allies looked exact....
Vietnam and its effects on Iraq
Nathanial Bronson
Critique-Summary Essay
“I’m proud to be an American...” is the opening statement in a popular country music song that has ridden the radio airwaves lately. However, as in any society, Americans have moments in history that do not make anyone proud. Case in point, the atr....
vietnam war
The Vietnam War The Vietnam War is truly one of the most unique wars ever fought by the Unites States of by any country. It was never officially declared a war (Knowll, 3). It had no official beginning nor an official end. It was fought over 10,000 miles away in a virtually unknown country. The enem....
Vimy Ridge
The Allied commanders decided to launch another assault in 1917. The duty was given to the still relatively fresh, but previously successful, Canadians. For the first time the four divisions of the Canadian Corps were brought together. They were joined by the British 5th Infantry Division.
The Ca....
Vimy Ridge Battles Report
The Battle of Vimy Ridge, 1917
The First World War is known for its destruction, massive slaughters, and countless offensive failures. Few battles were clear successes while most became large-scale chaos and butchery, killing thousands upon thousands of men. This destructive power called the....
What are the poetic techniques used in “Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori
This poem was written by Wilfred Owen, war poet and pacifist who was one of the many that registered their protest to the nature of the First World War through the medium of poetry. One of the most famous pieces eh wrote is “Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patra Mori”, at the time a popular epitaph for s....
What Is Love
What Is Love?
The dictionary defines love as a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. However, there is much more entailed by the mentioning of the word love than just a mere definition. When two individuals claim they are “in love,” the people surrounding them typically ass....