...People are still dying one the battlefield, but now their death and struggle become something positive and meaningful. The German soldiers are strong and full of willing power, and they know what they are fighting for. “Though I am no misogynist, I was always irritated by the presence of women every time that the fate of battle threw me into the bed of a hospital ward. ” (Junger 314) They like to fight, fight as those gladiators, who fight like real warrior and never know what is fear. They feel proud about fighting with enemy and kill them by their weapon: “And if it be objected that we belong to a time of crude force our answer is: We stood with our feet in mud and blood, yet outfaces were turned to things of exalted worth.” (316) Although the get hurt or even killed, they feel that they are doing something meaningful and all their sacrifices are rewardable. It’s true that the war is cruel and bloody, but in the real fighter’s heart, it is full of...
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...“Balboa” a short story by Sabina Murray AS YOU READ Pay special attention to descriptions of Balboa's relations with the Indians and the Spaniards. Write down any questions you generate during reading. Vasco Núñez de Balboa ascends the mountain alone. His one thousand Indians and two hundred Spaniards wait at the foot of the mountain, as if they are the Israelites and Balboa alone is off to speak with God. Balboa knows that from this peak he will be able to see the western water, what he has already decided to name the South Sea. He takes a musket with him. The Spaniards have been warned that if they follow, he will use it, because discovery is a tricky matter and he wants no competition. The day is September 25, 1513. Balboa ascends slowly. His musket is heavy and he would have gladly left it down below, but he doesn’t trust his countrymen any more than he trusts the sullen Indians. So he bears the weight. But the musket is nothing. He is dragging the mantle[1] of civilization up the pristine slopes, over the mud, over the leaves that cast as much shade as a parasol[2] but with none of the charm. Balboa is that divining line[3] between the modern and the primitive. As he moves, the shadow of Spain moves with him. Balboa steps cautiously into a muddy stream and watches with fascination as his boot sinks and sinks. He will have to find another way. Upstream he sees an outcropping of rock. Maybe he can cross there. He tells himself that there is no hurry, but years...
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...Intro: Glad to be here, how we know Bedo's preface: NOT a salesman insurance: read list, note 1st and last entries we KNOW trouble is coming: phone call away, accident, etc. How then do we as Christians handle our trials and troubles? James 1:2-4 Overview of James: practical book, Proverbs of the N.T. Theme of genuine faith , inward faith leads to outward actions very first thing James addresses is trials- how we handle this is the key to the other issues speaking from experience: quick testimony, 6 cases of malaria, 1 typhoid, 2 pneumonia, 1 shingles, 1 dislocated knee, then Grady (1st 6 months) even today: no job, no home, possessions in a crate, parents divorce II Cor 4:17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all Why share? No expert but no stranger to trouble One beggar showing another beggar where to find bread Pure joy! v. 2 “Count it all joy my brothers when you meet trials of various kinds” “when” be ready! John 16:33 “in this world you will have trouble” I Peter 4:12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. Jesus' life and ex of suffering (a servant is not above his master) Consider, evaluate – come to a whole new way of thinking This is NOT just grin and bear it world says “keep calm and carry on” motivational poster!” vs. Christianity says consider it Pure Joy! – it is pure joy...
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..."In the end, it was named the Battle of the Cowshed, since that was where the ambush had been sprung." P.44 "Old Major's Dream" is the major cause of the Battle of the Cowshed. Though the animals don't know when the rebellion will take place, but when it happened the were all surprised that a rebellion had taken place and they had won. In the Battle of Cowshed, the animals in Animal Farm fought Mr. Jones and his men. Mr. Jones WAS the farmer of Manor Farm, but since the animals won the Rebellion, it is now called Animal Farm and owned by animals. The pigeons alerted the animals that Jones and his men were going to attempt an invasion on the farm to get it back. Jones and his men broke the barred door holding sticks while Mr. Jones was holding a shotgun. The animals fought wisely and Snowball, the cleverest pig on the farm, led the attack. Snowball ran right up to Jones and attacked him. Jones tried to fire at Snowball, but the sheep behind Snowball was shot and killed. Jones fell to the floor and his gunshot right up and fell into the mud. Boxer ran right up to a boy and attacked him with his tremendous force. The boy fell face first into the mud. Jones and his men were retreating, and the animals had won. After this, they all saw Boxer trying to make the little boy in the mud move, but he did not stir. Boxer didn't intend to take a life, even if it was a human. He forgot he was wearing his iron hooves. Snowball told him to not be guilty because "the only good human is a dead...
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...in the late summer of 1415 when King Henry V was only twenty-seven years of age and had only spent two years as king of England. Many historians have conjectured about his battle strategy upon entry into battle, but his exact planned methods and tactics still cannot be determined. However, the history of the battle is better documented than most, and because of these accounts, historians are able to determine a much clearer picture of the actual events as they took place. One of Henry’s chaplains, along with the Lord of Saint-Remy, wrote their accounts of the battle’s events. The French brought along historians by the names of Enguerrand de Monstrelet and Waurin. There were many secondary sources that contributed greatly to what is know of the battle, but the highest volume of information came from these four men. Nonetheless, something that cannot be documented is where Henry V and his men drew their motivation to enter battle facing a seemingly insurmountable opponent, and leave with victory. The conflict between these two countries over the years reached a boiling point, which lifted tensions high enough to bring the armies within range. This lesson shows that an inferior force can win a land battle given the right battlefield, social population, and troop inspiration. Over the last century, Henry V’s ancestors fought and died throughout the Hundred Years War. However, the feud between the English and French date back all the way to 1066 when William the Bastard conquered...
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...soldiers from Senegal were young men that were trying to flee their villages. Officials in Senegal caught on when many young men started to flee when they would round up men to enter the army. In the document it is described as “often they used to go and enter the army [so that] their fathers [would be] released”(World of History,941). When becoming soldiers of the French they described it as “another [way of] life - which was the French one”(World of History,942). The French took care of the Senegal soldiers, telling them to show their pride of winning on Fort Douaumont. Senegal soldiers described how “officers told us not to wash our uniforms even though they were very dirty and covered with mud… Don’t wash your uniforms. Cross the country as you are so that everyone who meets you will know that you made the attack on Fort Douaumont”(World of History,942). The French admired the Senegal soldiers and with respect, something they did not experience before. Even after the war had ended and the soldiers returned to Senegal, they were respected for their actions, representing their country and the country they fought for with...
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...Wharton1 David Wharton Dr. Northcutt ENG 1020-04 April 10, 2012 “What a Beautiful Bridge” In the writing of A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway employs symbolism in many forms. Hemingway uses water in various states throughout the progression of the novel such as the use of rain and rivers to symbolize life and love as well as death and danger. Hemingway uses symbols to allude to the events that will occur in the coming chapters of the novel if the reader is keen to heed them. Hemingway’s use of the “bridge” and the rivers they cross, represent the lives of people and the hazards people encounter when they approach and cross a bridge in an effort to reach what is waiting on the other side. The novel opens with a beautiful description of life and of living our lives. “In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels”(3). Life’s river bottom is littered with small problems and with large problems. When things are going well, our lives are blue skies and sunshine and we are eager to have life pass rapidly. Hemingway is making a stand on the political atmosphere that was prevalent in America in the late 1920’s and one which can be applied in contemporary America as well. I must Wharton2 disagree with Thomas P. McDonnell, who wrote in an article for the...
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...quickly set me apart from others in training and even now from the other Captains of the Guard. All in all, it was my ticket for greatness, the first step that would be recorded down in my legacy as the move that would quickly rise me to become the 3rd GLORY in the kingdom. So someone explain to me why THE FUCK THIS WAS HAPPENING?!? We were meant to be the vindictive force who would clear the bandits who had recently began targeting our patrols as the fat cats to rob. And yet the...
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...public weal and of the new isle called Utopia . . . Excerpts* _______ Hans Holbein, Sir Thomas More, 1527 A meter of four verses in the Utopian tongue, briefly touching as well the strange beginning, as also the happy and wealthy continuance, of the same commonwealth. Utopos ha Boccas peula chama polta chamaan. Bargol he maglomi Baccan soma gymnosophaon, Agrama gymnosophon labarem bacha bodamilomin. Volvala barchin heman la lavolvala dramme pagloni. Cornelius Graphey1 to the Reader Wilt thou know what wonders strange be in the land that late was found? Wilt thou learn thy life to lead by divers ways that godly be? Wilt thou of virtue and of vice understand the very ground? Wilt thou see this wretched world, how full it is of vanity? Then read and mark and bear in mind, for thy behoof, as thou may best. All things that in this present work that worthy clerk Sir Thomas More, With wit divine full learnedly, unto the world hath plain expressed, In whom London well glory may, for wisdom and for godly lore. Which verses the translator, according to his simple knowledge and mean understanding in the Utopian tongue hath thus rudely Englished. and Utopus by name, My king muchconquererand immortal fame, A prince of renown Hath made me an isle that erst no island was, Full fraught with worldly wealth, with pleasure and solace. I one of all other without philosophy Have shaped for man a philosophical city. As mine I am nothing dangerous to impart, So better to receive I am...
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...Taking traditional poetic form to a newfangled and unknown height, Li Bai created over 1,000 poems that modeled and celebrated the simple pleasures of life and the beliefs of Taoism (a philosophical and religious system that emphasizes harmonizing with the Tao.) This can be recognized in many of his writings, such as in “Drinking Alone in The Moonlight” and “Chuang Tzu and The Butterfly.” After the turmoil and unrest that all of China had faced previous to the Golden Age, Li Bai’s poems that reflected every day topics or themes such as romance, nature, beauty, natural death, and geographical destination, were particularly soothing to ingest. As Walt Whitman, the renowned American poet and journalist had also acknowledged, “simplicity is the glory of expression.” Although the exact date and location of Li Bai’s birth remains unknown, many speculate that he was born in the Central Asian country that is now known as Tajikistan in 701 A.D. Legend also has it that his father was an affluent trader along the Silk Road (the trade route that went from China to eastern Europe,) and that his mother was of Turkish descent, instilling in him an appreciation for culture and a love for language, including for the Turkish tongue (Biography of Li Bai). It was Li Bai’s mother that gave him his infamous name. According to his mother’s tale, when she was pregnant with him she dreamt of a “great white star” falling from heaven, and so she gave him the name “bai”, meaning the white one. Literary critics...
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...same year. These combined forces would control the entire Cape Fear River Valley from the Atlantic Ocean in the south to Hillsboro in the north. Control of the Cape Fear River would free up many of the Crown’s troops to be used to quash the rebellion in the northern colonies. A little-known Patriot Victory at Widow’s Moore Bridge, during the night of February 27th 1776, in a flooded swamp some 18 miles northwest of Wilmington, North Carolina,would put an end to the Crown’s plans for a divided colonies! Most historical novels concern themselves with the Colonel and General Officers that planned the battles and led the troops, and easily forget about the common soldier. He was the ground-pounder, that infantry soldier that endured the heat, mud, poor rations, short sleep and low pay. The guy that was forced to march hundreds of miles to kill or be killed in some miserable swamp or desolate frontier land. He had hopes. He had wants. He volunteered. But why? This novel offers the insights and perceptions of war through the eyes of the common colonial soldier, whether a Loyalist or Patriot. The men who fought the war were the unsung heros. Jack Hawkins is a fictitious figure, yet he is able to reveal the honesty and brutality of war through historical archives. Literary license has given me the right to change the names of places and sequence of events for the ease of reading, but make no mistake - during the wee early hours of the morning, on February 27th, 1776, the combined...
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...Farming's Impact on the Rise and Fall of the Mayan Empire History is an ever-changing concept. The world as we know it has not always been the way we know it to be, and with each new discovery a different connection/story line is revealed. One of the greatest mysteries of ancient history is the fall of the Mayan Civilization. The Mayan's are thought to be one of the most technologically advanced and successful civilizations of our world's early and most primitive times, but as quick as they conquered they vanished. There are many different theories as to what caused the Mayan's to fall and disappear however, the theory that seems to have the most support is that the one thing that allowed them to be most successful also doomed them in their final days... farming. The Mayan Civilization grew so rapidly due to their advanced agricultural techniques, their ability to develop and perfect these techniques based on their need to produce more food for their growing needs, however ultimately these farming methods failed them leaving their enormous civilization dependant on food THEY farmed hungry and forced to move on or die out. To start, the Mayan's weren't a very large nation nor did they have very usable land to be able to farm on. They were located in Mesoamerica in the center of many wetlands and hills/mountains, however they did not let these hindrances stop them, instead, they used their unique habitat, and developed new ways of farming that proved to be VERY successful...
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...Sign Miracles In the book of John, John demonstrates the Deity of Jesus. Thought there are 34 miracles recorded in the four Gospels, John only talks about eight, to illustrate Jesus as the Messiah, the Son of God. One of the first miracles Jesus performed was when he turned water into wine at the wedding. This miracle demonstrates the seeds of the move from law to grace. When Jesus arrived at the wedding his mother, Mary, came to him and told Him they were out of wine. Elmer Towns said that Mary asked Jesus this because she knew that her son was Divine and was able to do something about it. When she asked and after Jesus told her his time had not yet come, he instructed them to fill six pots with water, which he miraculously changed to the best wine they had ever tasted. Mary told them to do whatever Jesus asked you to do. Leon Morris wrote, “The changing of water into wine is surely meant to bring out the power of Jesus to bring about a new beginning. There is a correlation between the best wine they ever had, to the best life they will ever have if they would make Jesus their Lord. Lean Morris puts it like this, “the water of Judaism into the wine of Christianity, the water of Christlessness in the wine of the richness and the fullness of eternal line in Christ, the water of the law into the wine of the gospel. When Jesus turned the water into wine, it showed His power over all creation, and His Divinity. Jesus next sign was the healing of the Nobleman’s son...
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...Eric D. King REL. 221 Dr. John Brannon “Why Was the Bible Written?” Writers have a purpose for writing. One may write to inform, entertain, oppose, expose, persuade or to preserve facts. Why was the Bible written? In this study, we shall seek to answer that question. Our opinion as to the Bible's purpose is not valid or sufficient (Isa. 55:8, 9). Accordingly, we shall let God, the Holy Spirit; tell us why it was given unto man (1 Cor. 2:6-16). If we know why the Bible was written, we shall know how to use it more effectively (2 Tim. 2:15). Dr. Seuss and Mother Goose are literary works, but their purpose differs from that of Sandburg's "Lincoln" or Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. If you doubt that, read them to a three year old at bedtime. If we are to understand the reasons why the word of God was written will assist us in receiving its intended benefits and blessings. To better understand the Bible's purpose and reason for existence, it may help us to see goals that it was not given to accomplish. First, it was not written for profit. Men may make money for publishing it, but the Bible was not written for that purpose. God said, "If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine and the fullness thereof" (Psa. 50:12). Many of the apostles suffered "the loss of all things" (Phil. 3:8; 1 Cor. 4:9-13). Money was not their motivation. Second, the Bible was not written to satisfy idle curiosity. God gave man a curious, inquisitive nature. This wondering...
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...second base, and third base before ending up at home plate once again. While Dalrymple was showing the girl around the bases, he never noticed that the fans remaining in the stadium had stopped to watch him and his companion. He just assumed that the silence in the stands meant the fans had gone home. But when the two of them finally reached home plate, the ballpark erupted. Dalrymple was shocked by the applause. When he looked up, he saw thousands of fans giving him a standing ovation. Dalrymple later told a Sports Illustrated reporter, “It was the biggest ovation I ever got.” I am convinced that we take so many things for granted in life. Sight is one of those things. For those of us who have been blessed with the ability to see, we don’t know what it is like not to see. It is not until moments like the story that was just shared that we realize the blessings of life that we have and that we take for granted. Listen to what Max Lucado writes about one particular man who was blind: For 51 years Bob Edens was blind. He couldn’t see a thing. His world was a black hall of sounds and smells. He felt his way through five decades of darkness. And then, he could see. A...
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