before her. At the palace of Chang’an, she was recognized as the bravest of knights. Mulan is a hero not only because she was courageous; she was unselfish too. The incident which best attests to this trait was this: after returning in triumph from war, the emperor offered her a promotion in top ranks and whatever she desired. Mulan refused such an enviable future and simply asked to be returned home. This is why Hua Mu Lan deserves the title “hero”. She changed the views of society on women and
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To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance. This implies that it is not correct to think of the opposite of violence as nonviolence; to speak of nonviolent power is actually redundant. Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it
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before her. At the palace of Chang’an, she was recognized as the bravest of knights. Mulan is a hero not only because she was courageous; she was unselfish too. The incident which best attests to this trait was this: after returning in triumph from war, the emperor offered her a promotion in top ranks and whatever she desired. Mulan refused such an enviable future and simply asked to be returned home. This is why Hua Mu Lan deserves the title “hero”. She changed the views of society on women and
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We live in an imperfect world. Right at this moment, wars are being fought, people being wounded and killed. The media, reporting these to the public, does not generate more violence, rather, it can help to diminish violence in society by making people look these problems in the face. Land mines in Angola were a cause of destruction and devastation to its impoverished people. That is, until Princess Diana stepped in. Photogenic and popular, she instantly attracted all the cameras. The world
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“War is over, if you want it.” As the text shows, this picture clearly demonstrates a strong anti-war stance. In the middle and above part of this picture, the sentence “War is over” is arranged in large and bold typeface, which can attract visitors’ sight even at the first glance; while the sentence “If you want it” is placed in the bottom of the picture, catching visitors’ eyes after they paid attention to “War is over”, and setting them in deeper thinking about this theme. Having been seen as
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UNICEF Wages Guerrilla Warfare CS 4-1. Do you think UNICEF’s campaigns will be affective? Why or Why not? I think UNICEF’s campaign will not be really effective. By setting a brightly colored vending machine at Manhattan’s Union Square, a place always crowded with many people, UNICEF makes a good choice on location where they have high potential to catch the attention of more people. However, they will have to compete against the thousands of ads for glamorous things around the Square that distract
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of own societies and norms- separate cultural identities within a country The protection of a language through the media and education The growth of separate political parties and devolved power Civil disobedience Terrorist violence Civil war International conflict or disturbances The establishment and maintenance of societies and norms with clear separate cultural identities within a country (e.g. the Bretons in France) • The protection of a language through the media and education
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opponent to be one and the same. On the modern warfare battle field your are a man among mice. The difference between kissing your love ones and face down in the dirt depends on your determination to win. As I have grown into a veteran of foreign wars I hold the key to surviving. Its not how much you train nor how much you know but the battle buddies you go in. Battle buddies are more than friends they are an extension yourself. Once while during the train up going to Iraq we decided to celebrate
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tragedy of war? ‘These poems reveal the soldiers’ inability to deal with the atrocities they witness and commit.’ Discuss. “These men are worth/Your tears.” (‘Apologia Pro Poemate Meo’) ‘Owen does not let us view the experiences of the soldiers from a comfortable distance.’ Discuss. ‘In Owen’s war poems, the imagery leads us to focus more on the living than the dead.’ Discuss ‘Owen’s poems reveal tenderness and compassion towards those whose lives have been destroyed by the war.’ Discuss
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How does Hughes use lexis to convey feelings and ideas in Thistles? In the poem ‘Thistles’ by Ted Hughes there is a prominent theme of war and suffering which are intensified by the feelings of relentless sadness, pain in a recurring battle. In the first verse, Hughes uses adjectives to introduce the idea of a recurring battle. “The hoeing hands of men”. The verb here, acting as an adjective symbolises the turning over of Earth. A ‘hoe’ is a garden tool used to cultivate land and encourage it
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