... " of the group. In raising Selvon to the heights of praise, as "the greatest and therefore the most important folk poet the British Caribbean has yet produced" (The Pleasures of Exile, 1960), Lamming allied himself, a Negro, with Selvon, an Indian, in emblematic partnership. He contradistinguished them both, as grounded in "the peasant sensibility" from V. S. Naipaul, who "with the diabolical help ... career places him in the two worlds of colonial and post-colonial experience. His work extends from the period of waning colonial control by Britain, through the dislocating experience of ...

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... partition along with many other themes. Here Thamma's uncle also refuses to join his niece in India becoming a victim of forced exile. The old man refuses to change his identity at the very dawn of Partition. His attitudes towards forced exile are very similar to that of our narrator: "Once you start moving you never stop. That's what I told my sons when ... ...

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... organize a counterrevolutionary army of exiles led by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas. On June 18,1954 a force of 150 invaded Guatemala from Honduras, the key to the invasion was not the exile force, but the regular Guatemalan army. When Arbenz tried to arm his civilian supporters, the army blocked the move and forced Arbenz to resign on June 27 1954, and went ... into exile. Castillo Armas, would succeed Arbenz as president, reversed most of the reforms of the previous decade and offered generous concessions to foreign investors. During the fighting, Guatemala appealed to the ... ...

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... first inflicted (zufugen) high damage in foreign politics - he allowed the invasion plan of the CIA. On april 10th 1961 an in the USA trained invasion troop of living in exile cubanes landed in the ,,Bay of Pigs", which had the aim to stop the prosoviet activities on Cuba. The CIA didn't recognize the critical situation on Cuba and assured that ... military forces would be there to help. But this wasn't so, in contrary, the invadors had a lot of opposition. After 10 days the invasion was suppressed and the still living exile - cubanes were taken as prisoners. This plan, supported by the...

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... Spain. The anger of the people only intensified with this change of power, suspension of the constitution and the high unemployment rates and inflation. Miguel Primo went to Paris in exile, leaving Alfonso to resume power. Hard times caused the Spanish people to call for political, social, economic, and agrarian reforms. Alfonso, once again unable to control his country, eventually agreed ... came away with the plurality. The Spanish people voted overwhelmingly for a republic, and Alfonso XIII was advised that the only way to avoid large-scale violence was to go into exile. Alfonso left...

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... better. The atmosphere is now calmer and quieter and you get the warm feeling of the bonfire on which the guy is being consumed by the flames, for example the metaphor "greedy flames" was effective because it made me think as if the guy was being eagerly eaten up buy the flames. The warm words the poet uses such as "flames ... that the firework was going to injure someone intentionally because the poet also gave the firework personification. Verse 5 When the poet put sly into the last paragraph it separated the metaphor physically to show that the firework almost intentionally waited, a...

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... in war, and he subsequently has difficulty returning home to the perfect little town of Shady Hill. The story continuously references war and battle, or it illustrates the idea with a metaphor or allusion. Conformity seems to be the best option for veterans when they return after war, but it is difficult for them due to the impact that war has had ... no powers that would let him re-create a brush with death-particularly in the atmosphere of a commuting train, journeying through a sunny countryside." The plane crash is being used as a metaphor for the near death experiences that he expe...

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... title "who's for the game?" is a question directed to all unsure would- be young recruits needing answers. The title is repeated in the first stanza. Who's for the "game?" is a metaphor for war making war sound like fun, trying to remove any fear for the would-be recruits. Jessie Pope recognises that if she compares war to something young men enjoy ... persuasive way, " Who"ll give his country a hand?" Is very patriotic as everybody would like to think that they could support their country in some way. The next line is a metaphor for war, " A turn to himself in a show " This suggests fu...

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... flesh and is caught up with the idea of being a hero and the romantic notion of war. Both author's accomplish their intended message, and desired effect through a serious of simile's, metaphor's, and personification. In "Dulce et Decorum Est" there are such similes as "And floundering like a man in fire or lime", "As under a green sea," "like a devil's suck if sin;" and ... "Bitter as the cud." In "To Lucasta", a metaphor is used in comparing the comfort of her breasts to a nunnery. "That from the nunnery of thy chaste breast." Metaphors in Wilfred Owen's Poem include "An ecstasy of fum...

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... are some different techniques used in this verse. Firstly, when Owen is describing the fire they see at their homes. He writes, "Glozed with crusted dark-red jewels". In this metaphor, he is comparing the red coloured fire to something precious and attractive. This shows that the fire is a major part of the men's hallucinations and that they see it as ... possible to escape from it. This line contains personification because the frost cannot literally fasten on to them, but this is the feeling that the men have. I can also see a metaphor is Verse Eight. This is "All their eyes are ice"....

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... title "who's for the game?" is a question directed to all unsure would- be young recruits needing answers. The title is repeated in the first stanza. Who's for the "game?" is a metaphor for war making war sound like fun, trying to remove any fear for the would-be recruits. Jessie Pope recognises that if she compares war to something young men enjoy ... persuasive way, " Who"ll give his country a hand?" Is very patriotic as everybody would like to think that they could support their country in some way. The next line is a metaphor for war, " A turn to himself in a show " This suggests fu...

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... the heavy, ponerous image of the war. The mood of "Dulce Et Decorum Est" is angry and condemning and the accusatory tone shocks the reader. The devices of similie and metaphor are also used to emphasise Owen's resentful thoughts of war. Such as the powerful phrase in the first stanza 'blood- shod', this actually dehumanises the young soldiers. As the word ... made old by the torment of war. By likening Owen's experience to something the reader can relate to, he is increasing the impact that the poem will have. The underwater metaphor is also used, which describes the soldiers being infl...

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... is described through allusions to sleep and alcohol, as in the phrase "drunk with fatigue", which makes the reader picture the soldiers dragging themselves as drunken people do. An important metaphor is present in the second stanza, which compares the process of gas poisoning to that of drowning. The gas is referred to as a "thick green light, /As under a green sea ... description of the blood "com[ing] gargling from the froth corrupted lungs" creates disturbing sound and visual effects. The metaphoric use of the personification "innocent tongues", where "tongues" acts as a metaphor for...

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... among its people. Furthermore, even if people happen to acknowledge the actual situation of the country and try to escape from the nation, there is too high of a risk of exile. People will be prisoned and tortured or immediately killed if they are caught trying to running away overseas. In the old world, before globalization became an objective for countries, there ... ...

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... remain docile (SA). After the invasion the remnants of the Polish government fled first to France and then in 1940 to the United Kingdom in order to continue operations in exile (PP). As the newly relocated government were organizing and stabilizing, they determined five essential tasks to be completed with haste. The first priority was to establish radio communication within occupied ... ...

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... by a Jewish king before Islam ever existed, and the remains of the temples that were destroyed when Babylon invaded and occupied the country after-which the citizens were sent into exile to neighboring countries such as Iraq, Iran, and Syria or elsewhere where they were treated as second class citizens for two thousand years until their return in the late 1800 ... ...

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... Chinese Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, could not withstand the advance of Communist forces under Mao Zedong. Government troops had been devastatingly defeated, and Chiang led his forces into exile on Taiwan. Mao then formed thePeople's Republic of China. It was said that the Truman administration hadfailed to support Chiang Kai-shek against the Communists. People were also alarmed when ... ...

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... the tub while he was bathing. The victims of such violations were genuine outcasts." (A Turn with the Sun: 12) The other boys see Lawrence as an annoyance rather than an exile, while he feels that he is better than the other boys at Devon. This is reinforced when he thinks, "When he plunged from the railing he had been just another ... ...

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... the party, his lack of response to Japanese invasion, his neglection to appeal to peasant majority of China, and his inability to focus on a single ideology, all contributed to the exile of the KMT to Taiwan in 1949....

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... is clear from his recollections and from the conference notes that Churchill was impatient and eager to solve the issue, regardless of the specific demands of the Polish government in exile.i Both Britain and the United States readily acknowledged the special interests Russia claimed to have in this area from the point of view of her security. They did not intend ... ...

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... his cousin Elsa Einstein. His fleeing from Germany, his letter to President Roosevelt and his anti-fascisms made a deep impact on politics in the 20th century. After being branded an exile with a prize on his head by Adolf Hitler, who became dictator of Germany, he had to flee to America in 1933 (Candee 180). In America he published the book The ... ...

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... Chinese in order to acquire more living space (a World War II trend). Still, the League of Nations and the United States did nothing as their own problems forced them to exile from the world. These problems caught up as Germany sent its whole force on each unprepared country, taking them one at a time until they came to France and Britain (which ... ...

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... of his opening ceremony. Congress, controlled by the Democrats was very open to FDR's ideas and accepted nearly everything put forward by the President. Like Napoleon's return to France from exile on Elba, this special session of Congress during which FDR found his agenda accepted was known as the "hundred days."" FDR seized the reigns well and started improving American confidence ... ...

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... evacuate 350,000 of the 400,000 trapped by the German defeat of France (blitzkrieg) o Among the evacuated is Charles De Gaulle Forms the basis for a Free French government-in-exile July 10, 1940 Beginning of the BATTLE OF BRITAIN o Hitler attempts to bomb England into submission in preparation for his planned invasion o After 6 months Hitler abandons his plans to invade ... ...

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... 's bedroom who claim that this was the case. While there are strong arguments that Hitler did not take his own life, but escaped Berlin and died of old age in exile after the war, this is not the generally accepted idea. The third ring of the seventh circle is divided into three sections, all of which are dedicated to those who ... ...

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