... all we can of the old worlds cultures. After the great war of 2012 most of what we knew of the old world faded away through the generations to come. Factual testimony till this very day is extremely unreliable; all that we have left are tattered written claims of the outcome of the war. We have bits and pieces of what ensued following the fallout, and how the continents rebuilt post war ... of our goals. Among what we found were traces of fossilized feces (hominid in origin), metal fragments, a statue of a man (possibly religious), and fossilized piece of plastic engraved with an image ...

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... the face and the soul of the world forever. The boundaries of countries, the shapes of cities, and the minds and views of people were permanently altered- (Wise, 5). People's outlooks would never be the same. In December 1941, the Japanese attacked on Pearl Harbor. Within a year, hundreds of thousands of American men from eighteen to thirty-nine years old were fighting in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. The ... that did not, jobs in the air, on the sea, as nurses and doctors, and war correspondents were offered. For the entire time of the war, the U.S. government flattered ...

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... -inch torpedo tubes. It was built in Portsmouth in just over a year. She was the best-armed and fastest battleship in the world at the time. She was powered by new steam turbines. She was the idea of Admiral Sir John Fisher who became First Sea Lord in 1904. Fisher wanted to replace battleships with fast big-gun armoured cruisers, called battlecruisers ... off the side of the car to the car behind. It exploded and killed everyone in that car. The party were shaken by the scare and decided to return home as quickly as possible. On the way back to the train station, Ferdinand's car took a ...

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... led to his working as a correspondent during the Spanish Civil War, which resulted in the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940. Other short-story collections include Men Without Women 1927, Winner Take Nothing 1933, and The Fifth Column 1938. He lived primarily in Cuba from 1940, the locale of his novella, The Old Man and the Sea 1952, which won him a Pulitzer Prize. ... He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954. He left Cuba shortly after its 1959 revolution; a year later, depressed and ill, he shot himself. The succinct and concentrated prose style of his ... early works strongly influenc...

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... , as in this case. The gas itself is thick and green, making the atmosphere thick and the light green. The next metaphor featured occurs in the next line - As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. This situation is linked to the earlier use of the word floundering, and carries on the sea theme in a more definite way. The man is giving up the fight, onomatopoeic of the desperate fight for air under a sea. The "sea" in this situation is actually ... episodes. His last two lines are the main subject of the poem and include the title itself. Although these lines are not separated from the r...

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... . This is as though he is almost painting a picture of what's happening. Saying the man is drowning in a green sea is making it almost cinematic. There are then two lines that are separate from the verse. This makes them more prominent and haunting. It brings the men's death more to life, because of the words he uses. These are words such as guttering'. These words have hard ... to sleep. These boys are going to sleep feeling safe and secure. Like he used to feel. In the second verse he is thinking about how life used to be before he threw away his knees'. This line signifies regret, reg...

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... being led to slaughter. To personify the victim would make it an individual event, a human experience. By keeping the soldier nameless, the death is a group experience. The description itself is particularly gruesome. The underwater metaphor intensifies the reader's impression of the helplessness of the soldiers. It is interesting that in the last line of the second stanza Owen introduces himself into the action. "As under a green sea, I saw him drowning." Knowing that ... has now identified himself as the main character. The impressions and descriptions of the first stanza were anonymo...

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... He is talking about the narrators view from underneath the gas mask. "As under a green sea, I saw him drowning." This simile tells us what the gas would have looked like through a gas mask and the soldier would have almost been drowning because his lungs were filling up with the gas and he was suffocation. The two lines of the third stanza are describing the narrator and the soldier and the way there was nothing ... that either of the men could ... to the man who has inhaled the gas, "his eyes rolling in agony." "His hanging face", meaning that his face was contorted due to his loss of...

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... . He makes use of a simple, regular rhyme scheme, which makes the poem sound almost like a child's poem or nursery rhyme. This technique serves to emphasize the solemn and serious content. In stanza one, Owen describes the soldiers as they set off towards the army base from the front line. The simile in line one, "Bent double, like old beggars" not only says that they are tired, but that ... they are so tired they have been brought down to the level of beggars who have not slept ... who was not quick enough in fitting his mask, and is now yelling out in pain and stumbling around. Owen d...

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... . He makes use of a simple, regular rhyme scheme, which makes the poem sound almost like a child's poem or nursery rhyme. This technique serves to emphasize the solemn and serious content. In stanza one, Owen describes the soldiers as they set off towards the army base from the front line. The simile in line one, "Bent double, like old beggars" not only says that they are tired, but that ... they are so tired they have been brought down to the level of beggars who have not slept ... who was not quick enough in fitting his mask, and is now yelling out in pain and stumbling around. Owen d...

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... Away Peter" is the story of one man's loss of innocence, as he confronts the brutality of human nature during the First World War. Through the central character's voyage of realization, the reader is confronted with a deeply philosophical approach to the meaning of life and death. Whilst on the surface appearing very simplistic and straightforward, multiple themes are intertwined in the framework of the narrative. Jim Saddler's ... not everything in the world is idyllic; he does not realise that not everything has a place. He learns all of this, and more, when he leaves his comfort zone...

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