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…, and even biographical. Successful authors such as Washington Irving, use particular literary elements including a well thought out and instructive theme, characterization, and setting. These helped compose a story that would entertain and maintain the reader's…

…Anthem for Doomed Youth What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells,<Tab/&…

…. In the movie, The Searchers, he is the hero who rides off in pursuit of the Comanche tribe, so that he can gain vengeance on the deaths of his brother and relatives, and to find his niece as well. In his essay “The Invention of John Wayne”, Louis Owens writes…

…Wilfred Owen was born into a middle class English family in eighteen ninety-three. He was the eldest child in the family of four children, he was the son of a railway official named Tom Owen. He aspired to win two scholarships but was unsuccessful both…

…PROGRESSIVISM Keating - Owen Child Labor Act 1.How did it work? The Keating - Owen Child Labor Act outlawed the interstate sale of products produced by child labor. It banned articles produced by child labor from being sold in interstate…

…, the children in the minority. Individual, silent, personal prayer never has and never could be outlawed in public schools. It is dishonest to call any prayer "voluntary" that is encouraged or required by a public official or legislature. By definition…

…"Dulce et Decorum est" The title, in Latin from Horace's Odes, means that it is sweet and decorous (proper/fitting) to die for one's country, is ironic in the context of the theme of the poem. To say this is satirical in a sense as Owen's expression…

…Gunn's 'The Reassurance' and Owen's 'Futility' are thematically apt for comparison as they both focus on death. They will be interesting to compare regarding the causes of death- AIDS and war- being natural or man-made. Structurally, the poems…

…Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum est" clearly portrays the true identity of war. "Dulce et Decorum est" being a war time poem tries to show its readers the reality of the war, and to show the world that the war is very different from what people believe…

…Prayer of Steel Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) Lay me on an anvil, O God Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations Lay me on an anvil, Oh God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. Drive me…