War Essays

While reading Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road I have noticed that the author Ernest Hemingway is mentioned quite often in the book. This has raised my interest to focus my research on the following. For the purpose of this paper I would like to take a closer look at …

In ‘Journey’s End’ by Sherriff, he uses a variety of language techniques to create a dramatic ending to the play. Stanhope, in this extract, seems to be much more like what Raleigh made him out to be, as he is more like a friend then a commanding officer. This is …

In a modern society such as our own today, we as a collective generally condemn the act of homicide or the taking of human life such that it has been intricately integrated into our legal systems. But why is this so? Is it that we find that nothing can justify …

“After the bomb texts dramatize the necessity of embracing our humanity in a profoundly changed world” The ‘after the bomb’ era of 1945 to 1991 produced waves of new philosophies and ideals in the way people thought of how they should live, and why they were living. As people delved …

Museum is a place used for storing and displaying different objects, illustrating different cultures, natural history, art and craft. It aims to bringing before public mind new things discovered and new researches made. National Museum is one of the great museums of Malaysia. It is located on Jalan Damansara in …

Cola wars continue: Coke and Pepsi in 2006 Written by Alyona Kuzmina. Soft drink industry Shares of beverage companies have always been ranked high among other industries. Although, when consumer incomes decrease, sales of beer and soda don’t drop that much. Additionally, it is cheap to produce those and drinks …

In the two poems, Dulce et Decorum est., and Anthem for Doomed Youth, both written by Wilfred Owen, the author’s main purpose was to expose the true horrors of World War II and to challenge the romanticized view of war that poets such as Rupert Brooke held. To achieve this, …

In novels, the author creates a focus on a relationship – between enemies or friends, a parent and child, or husband and wife. In the two texts, The Book Thief, and The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas this is a aspect that is featured in both, the relationship between children. …

Teddy DuChamp is the psycho and dramatic kid, played by Corey Feldman. Teddy’s father is a shell-shocked World War II veteran who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. After deliberately burning Teddy’s ears on a stove in the middle of a psychotic episode, Teddy’s father was sent to a …

“I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.” Harry S. Truman, our thirty-third president of the United States, spoke this on April 12, 1945. This was a significant day in which two major things happened; President Franklin D. Roosevelt died unexpectedly, and Harry …