...English Literature, Key Poems List Thomas Hardy: Men Who March Away - Volunteers marching to war tell those who watch them pass by of their faith in the justice of their cause. Thomas Hardy: In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’ - The routines of life and love continue during conflict, and will continue long after it is over. Rupert Brooke: Peace - This sonnet is an expression of thanks for being able to respond to the call to arms and leave behind the stale and empty concerns of civilian life. Rupert Brooke: The Dead - Celebrates those who have given their lives. The sacrifice of the lowliest of them has given the world honour and nobility. Rupert Brooke: The Soldier - A solider reflects that, should he die, his grave will become a little piece of England in a foreign country. Herbert Asquith: The Volunteer - Celebrates a city clerk whose dreams of military glory have been fulfilled. His death in battle is rewarded with a place alongside the heroes of the Battle of Agincourt. Julian Grenfell: Into Battle - Celebrates spring and moves on to describe the validity of the warrior, whose sacrifice will be rewarded. Nature and the solider are at one and this gives him peace and a sense of destiny. John McCrae: In Flanders Fields - The dead, lying beneath ground covered with poppies, urge the living to continue the struggle against the enemy. Charles Sorley: All the Hills and Vales Along - Addressing men marching past, the poet urges them to sing while...
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...“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is a popular television series that offers a feministic perspective of a combatant. Buffy is the lead character, who is a heroine that happens to kill evil forces such as supernatural demons. In Don McGregor’s late 70’s series graphic novel “Sabre”, tells a story of a post-apocalyptic Earth that is suffering from global starvation, energy crises and plague due to a physical leak from the American government’s development of bioweaponry. The illustration is created by Paul Gulacy. The protagonist Sabre is one of the former battling rebels also known as the “Overseers” who helps defend and protect the remaining sovereignty of the United States from the many terroristic actions that have threatened the lasting, secluded...
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...On her official website, she has a link to UNICEF, which she asks people to donate to. Three years ago, Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, and Rupert Grint, the three leads of Harry Potter, were in an advertisement for BBC's Children in Need program. This organization gives money to poor and/or somehow disadvantaged children in the UK, hoping to improve the safety, happiness, and chance of success for thousands of children. Before her 21st birthday, she also requested to buy paintings from Mark Demsteader, who instead offered to paint several pieces with Emma as the subject of his works. These 34 paintings were then sold in public auctions, 10% of the proceeds of each painting going to CAMFED International. This company's goal is to improve the lives of two million children by 2013, but they also battle poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa through educating young woman and encouraging them...
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... Star spangled banner Francis Scott Key used rhyme for the star spangled banner. He describes every detail that was happening. He used bombs bursting in the air to try to put a image in our mind what was happening in that exact moment. He also wrote how it felt, example in the song he wrote ¨ on the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, what is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep¨. It also used a metaphor an example is it says ¨from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave¨. Francis Scott Key used figurative by using his feeling being there, how it felt and what he saw to make those lyrics. For example he wrote ¨ blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land praise the pow'r that hath made and preserv’d us a nation¨, he wrote that to make us see an image when he saw united states won the war with its power. Another example is what he saw, in the song it says ¨ their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps pollution¨. Also there was a hyperbole in the story behind the star spangled banner, ¨ it says british warships sent a downpour of shells and rockets onto Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor¨, they can't really send a downpour of shells. There was another hyperbole where it says ¨ it seems mother earth had open and vomited shot and shells in a sheet of fire and brimstone¨. Key uses bombs,fire,shots,shells and more to make us get images in our mind to see what happened. Key also put...
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...Aaron Vigna The Red Badge of Courage This book is a story of life. It shows the trials and everyday that henry went through. Scholars say that the war is a comparison to daily life. Life is like a war. In the battles of the war, people will change. They can become stronger. They can become weaker. They can choose to go on or give up. In this book, the main character Henry Fleming, changes throughout the battles he goes through. He goes through a character change that shows how people must get through their own fears, daily life, and struggles that hold us back from becoming the best. How Henry changes in this story, he shows that all people in the world have a sense of fear that we should overcome. In the beginning of the book, the first section, he is a young boy. He is inexperienced. He was selfish. He entered the war for the glory and not to serve his country. He wants to become a hero and be known for it. Us humans have a want for self satisfaction. We are selfish. That was his main motive for the first part of the novel. He soon realizes that to become a hero, it costs a price, by war wounds, or death. He at this point becomes self serving where he just wants to survive. Not for the country. For himself. Then he starts asking himself whether he should leave the battle. He then asks Jim, the tall soldier, if he would run. Jim said that he had thought about it. Henry thought, if it was ok for his friend jim to run, it should be fine for himself to do that. He learns to...
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...News Corporation is the world’s second largest media conglomerate founded by Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. The company conducts business worldwide with operations primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Australia, Asia and Latin America. News Corp has operations in eight industry segments which are filmed entertainment, television, cable network programming, direct broadcast satellite television, integrated marketing services, newspapers and information services, book publishing, and other assets (News Corporation 2009). News Corp’s competitive strategy in creating economic value lies in its ability to acquire new media assets through the steady revenue generated by its already well-established newspaper, television, and movie industries. Murdoch created News Corp in 1979 as a holding company for News Limited, which was Murdoch’s original business interest in Australia before becoming part of News Corp during the growth of his media empire. News Corp’s growth and success can be analyzed using the Balanced Scorecard’s four perspectives; financial, customer, internal processes, and learning and growth. Because News Corp is a publically traded company, its main goal is to increase the company’s profitability to provide shareholders with greater returns. According to News Corp’s 2009 annual report, revenues were down for the year. Murdoch addresses these losses in a letter at the beginning of the report reassuring shareholders that the recession...
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...Logbog Britains response to WWI Brittany made a poster with the quotation “I want YOU for the army”. The British people got dragged by the poster and they saw the war as an opportunity to become war-heroes. Under the war Poems We have been working with two poems in the last module. “The soldier” by Rubert Brooke and “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen The Soldier This poem by Rubert Brooke is as you very easily can see, putting England in a very god light. England is being praised to the sky, and Rubert Brooke can look a little bit self-laudatory since he is saying that if he dies, England will just become some corner of a foreign field. But I think that he wrote this poem, to give the English people a picture of how all English soldiers thinks about their country and them self and how valuable they are for their country. Dulce et Decorum est This poem is quite the same as “The Soldier”. The message is just completely different than the message “the Soldier” have. Both poems is showing how soldiers think doing a soldiers job, but in “Dulce et Decorum est” it is a more negative way the picture of how a soldier thinks, there is being explained by Wilfred Owen. The battle of Hiroshima The battle of Hiroshima took place 19 February– 26 March 1945 and it was the first American attack on Japanese soil. It was America who attacked the Japanese property. The reason why they wanted that island was because they needed airstrips close to Japan. The Japanese would of cause...
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...Meeting name: 2015 Business Retreat Planning Meeting purpose: To agree on a business retreat destination from a list identifying three destinations (Fiji, Noosa or Melbourne) Participants Participant name Reason for participation Margaret Banks National Sales Manager, NM Pty Ltd Margaret Donovan (Minute taker) Personal Assistant to National Sales Manager Eli Chintz Human Resources Manager Adriana Barker Social Media Consultant Ron Weasley Finance Manager Meeting format What format have you chosen for this meeting and why? The meeting format chosen is a face-to-face meeting which will include three of the four individuals who work at Head Office as well as Adriana Barker, Social Media Consultant who works off-site. Ron Weasley is currently located in the company’s secondary office undertaking a financial audit and video-conferencing will be utilized to ensure he can be part of this important discussion. We chose this format to allow for ease of small group discussion in order to maximize collaboration and come to the best possible team decision regarding the site for the 2015 business retreat. In order to facilitate the discussion and still achieve specific outcomes, a structured agenda was used which also allowed time for general discussion. Invitation What format did you use for your invitation and why did you choose this format? The meeting format chosen is a face-to-face meeting which will include three of the four individuals who work at Head Office...
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...Significance of literature in Hemingway’s writings as a “soldier” Literature as a soldier can be of importance in that it is reflected by one of Hemingway’s writing “Soldier’s home” which depicts the life of a young soldier at war who faces challenges and in the end he returns home. It gives clear information on the experience a soldier faces in the war and the shock the soldier gets when he returns back at home. The main character in the book, Harold Krebs is challenged back in his own hometown by the villagers when he and other soldiers return from the war. He is majorly faced with hostility from his opposition members in the society. He as the soldier in the book, literature is important in that Krebs shows the meaning of repetition, characterization including the symbolism in the field of literature. It is true that literature is given power to display the symbolism giving the literal meaning of the events in the book. With symbolism in the book, “Soldier’s home”; gives a soldier profession to have a meaning that is concrete. It gives war to be the main theme while when Krebs returns home, being a soldier becomes a fascinating idea to him. All this is revealed when he returns back home remembering all the challenges he faced during the war. This gives a learning experience to the reader by understanding the real essence of becoming a soldier. It gives the reader the knowledge to understand the profession of becoming a soldier and prepares the reader to be ready for the task...
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...Dulce Et Docorum Est by Wilfred Owen The World War One poet, Wilfred Owen, wrote two poems named ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and ‘Disabled’. The main themes running throughout both poems are that of the pain and worthlessness of war, and the crime towards the young soldiers it was. The beginning and ending of these two poems link these ideas through the use of imagery contrast and language features. The poem ‘disabled’ begins by describing a physically and mentally destroyed soldier, clearly a result of war, welcoming darkness to come and end his misery by taking him away. The image of a “wheeled chair” implies that he is disabled and probably dependent on others. Legless, sewn short at elbow” further implies the disability of the persona. Wilfred Owen describes him as a ‘ghastly suit of grey’ painting a picture of a colourless and lifeless man, an idea that is driven home through the use of the word ghastly, which the reader may easily mistake for ‘ghostly’. “Voices of boys rang saddening” reminds him of the old times when he used to be like them, playing and enjoying himself. The language used in this description of these boys carries very positive connotations, ‘play and pleasure’, in contrast to the dull words used to describe the wounded soldier. Darkness fell too quickly for these boys who were forced to end their games and retire inside, unlike the soldier who welcomed nightfall. The two contrasting sentences are used as juxtaposition, and set up the main theme of the...
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... Repetition is used throughout the poem Homecoming to show that war is repetitive. Example: the repetition of the word “they’re” as the first word of a line. The use of repetition in “Homecoming” is to emphasise the emptiness and dullness of going to war and their homecoming. Bruce Dawes purpose in using repetition is to symbolise the repetition of war. This technique can effect the audience by creating an atmosphere of empathy for the people who go to war. From using repetition in words such as “ day after day”, Bruce constructs a mood of dullness. Soldiers aren’t appreciated When the soldiers came home to their homecoming, they were only met by dogs. “raise muzzles in mute salute”. This shows the meaningless of war and how soldiers weren’t given recognition for their war efforts. Dawe conveys with various techniques such as imagery that war is a waste of human life. “Where dogs in the frozen sunset raise muzzles in mute salute” this quote from the poem, connects with the idea that soldiers were only appreciated by dogs. Bruce Dawe purposely added the line “raise muzzles in mute salute” in his poem homecoming to successfully communicate his idea that soldiers of war weren’t appreciated. And the use of poetic techniques such as imagery. Loss of identity Soldiers are being categorized as “curly-heads, kinky-hairs, crew-cuts, balding non-coms”, these use of words creates a detached and anonymous image, enforcing the idea that class, race or background is no favor in war...
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...his team more profitable. As an inducement to the Dodgers, Los Angeles County purchased a goat farm located in Chavez Ravine, an area two miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, and gave the property to O’Malley for the site of his new baseball stadium. Since moving to Los Angeles, the Dodgers have been the envy of the baseball world: “In everything from profit to stadium maintenance . . . the Dodgers are the prototype of how a franchise should be run.”1 During the 1980s, the Dodgers reigned as the most profitable franchise in baseball with a pre-tax profit margin approaching 25 percent in many years. In late 1997, Peter O’Malley, Walter O’- Malley’s son and the Dodgers’ principal owner, sold the franchise for $350 million to media mogul Rupert Murdoch. A spokesman for Murdoch complimented the O’Malley family for the longstanding success of the Dodgers organization. “The O’Malleys have set a gold standard for franchise ownership. . . . We will do all in our power to live up to that standard.”2 During an interview before he sold the Dodgers, Peter O’Malley attributed the success of his organization to the experts...
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...SWOT Viability Analysis SWOT Viability Analysis on News Corp Schmitt Management Consulting Abstract Buying the newspapers in Rupert Murdoch’s empire is not a viable action for profit today. With the on-going scandal and lawsuit claims, the reputation of the corporation has been damaged beyond repair and your takeover would be fruitless. The future potential regulatory restrictions and fines are unknown today and there-fore leave a large portion of the picture unclear. Being able to hire new staff reporters who have been unmarred by the current scandal will be difficult, and the current staff does need to be replaced to avoid any future problems these recent practices have brought about. The print media is rapidly being replaced by online avenues, so there are few opportunities for growth in the print media. Allowing Rupert Murdoch to accept his own consequences and outcomes of this highly publicized scandal is the best action for you and your future profits. SWOT Viability Analysis on News Corp This is a SWOT analysis on purchasing News Corp. After extensive research and analysis I am recommending that you do not purchase this conglomeration of newspapers. There are currently far too many unknowns in regard to the future outcomes for this to be a viable venture. Analysis This collection of opinions on strengths and weaknesses has been solely compiled from online research of articles posted on the internet. The articles are based on facts known to reporters...
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...Introduction: Many small businesses grow by taking opportunities to diversify, although there are risks because of limited resources on all fronts. Businesses should weigh up the risks and costs of opting for growth carefully against the benefits. business diversification isn’t just selling more types of products. Developing a business plan that includes well-researched, strategic efforts will not only expand the reach of the business, but also help increase the value of existing services. Definition: Diversification refers to a strategic direction that takes companies into other productsand/or markets by means of either internal or external development. Diversification can take several forms, including: • new, related products or services to existing customers • new markets for existing products • new products for new markets Deciding how and when to diversify depends on you having: • thorough market and customer research for the new product or service • a clear development strategy - including trying a new line or service for a short test period with prototypes and test marketing before totally committing to the new project • sales, marketing and supply chain operations that can cope with the added demands DIVERSIFICATION1.Introduction There are basicallytwo broad forms of diversification as listed below: Related diversification occurs when a company develops beyond its present productand market whilst remaining in the same area. For example...
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...Timothy Dixon Leadership Paper Saint Leo University Instructor: Amy Heath Leadership Paper This research paper will be concerning the differences and comparison of two iconic business leaders. Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Iacocca both have made names for themselves in the business world in their own way. It is my pleasure to convey the background and leadership styles of both leaders. Rupert Murdoch background Mr. Murdoch was born March 11, 1931 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. His nationality is Australian-American. In his early years he was raised by a publicly prominent Lady Elisabeth Murdoch and Australian newspaperman Sir Keith Murdoch. “The young Murdoch was educated at private schools and Oxford University in England” (Johnson). He worked as an intern at the London Daily Express under the leadership of Lord Beaverbrook. It has been said that the London Daily Express was the main influence in Murdoch’s development; where he learned to embrace the idea that newspapers were meant to entertain, not educate. After his father’s death in 1953, Murdoch returned to Australia to oversee the operations of the Adelaide News and Sunday Mail. His hands-own commitment and extraordinary approach enhanced movement, and soon was able to add the Perth Sunday Times and additional newspapers in Sydney under his tutelage (Johnson). Furthermore in 1973 Murdoch moved into American newspapers market with the purchase of San Antonio Express. Rejected in his attempts...
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