Beneath The Sword

Transition: Analyzing this quote, it can be evident that Tweed implies that power is hard to get, and instead people must take it from others in order to be successful. Tweed’s quote connects to a popular literary theory dealing with an imbalance of power among individuals.

Richard Pryor once said, “There’s a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at” (A-Z Quotes). Leon Rappoport, a professor at Kansas State University, believed in the same thin line as Pryor. Rappoport received his BA and MS at New York University, and completed his PhD in 1963 at the University of Colorado(Kansas State University). He studied psychological sciences, and concentrated his studies in decision making and human judgment, even writing a book called Punchlines: The Case for Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Humor (Kansas State University). In another book, The Sword and Shield Metaphor and Other Perspectives, Rappoport claims that humor depends on how the audience receives humor. The audience can either be on the side of the audience that is getting laughed at, or they can be on the side of the audience that is laughing with other people.

Gwendolyn Brooks' "First fight. Then Fiddle." initially seems to argue for the necessity of brutal war in order to create a space for the pursuit of beautiful art. The poem is more complex, however, because it also implies both that war cannot protect art and that art should not justify war. Yet if Brooks seems, paradoxically, to argue against art within a work of art, she does so in order create an artwork that by its very recognition of art's costs would justify itself.

For my report, I chose to summarize how Brian Helgeland’s movie “A Knight’s Tale” (2001) draws its medieval themes and story from Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales: The Knight’s Tale”. Besides the nearly identical titles of these works and the moderately similar storyline, it can be further proven that “A Knight’s Tale” is an adaption of “The Knight’s Tale” because Geoffrey Chaucer appears as a character himself—and a vital one at that—in the movie. Furthermore, just to make certain that there is no mistake among the viewers about who they are dealing with, Geoffrey Chaucer (Paul Bettany) even refers to himself as a writer in the movie and points out his very first own work “The Book of the Duchess” in disbelief when some peasants don’t

Many debates have sparked due to the topic of naturalism vs. realism. Naturalism takes the power away from the actual person, it says that people exist entirely in the order of nature, and do not have a soul, or any mode of participating in a religious or spiritual world beyond nature. () Realism however, gives those human like characteristics back to the person. Literary realism has a concern with morality and ethics. It means that humans have a moral agency, they can make choices, take directions, and take responsibility for their actions. () Hamlin Garland’s “Under the Lions Paw” does a good job with strengthening that debate of Naturalism vs. Realism even more. The story incorporates both naturalism and realism making it difficult to

"The Discourse of the Veil" Ahmed examines Amin’s recommendations regarding women and formed part of his thesis and how/why he believed that unveiling was key to the social transformation, which is important for unraveling the significance of the debate that his book provoked (Ahmed, 145). Ahmed discusses the origins and history as an idea of the veil which informs Western colonial discourse and 20th century-Arabic debate have several implications. The first implication is the evident connection between the issue of culture of women, as well as between the cultures of other men and the oppression of women, which was created by Western discourse. The idea that improving the status of women resulting in abandoning native customs was

Undertones of War; was written by Edmund Blunden. Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) Edmund was conceived on 1 November 1896 in London, brought up in Kent and taught first at Christ's Hospital, where he found an ability for calligraphy, and after that at The Queen's College. In August 1915, in the midst of World War I (1914– 1918), Blunden was charged as a minute lieutenant into the British Army's Royal Sussex Regiment. He was exhibited on the eleventh Battalion , Royal Sussex Regiment, a Kitchener's Army unit that surrounded bit of the 116th Brigade of the 39th Division in May 1916, two months after the power's entrance in France. He gave the power on the Western Front straight up to the complete of the war, sharing in the exercises at Ypres and the Somme, followed in 1917 by the Battle of Passchendaele, and getting the Military Cross all the while. Blunden survived almost two years in the forefront without physical damage (in spite of being gassed in October 1917), in any case, for whatever is left of his life, he bore mental scars from his experiences. With trademark self-censure he ascribed his survival to his small size, which made "a subtle target". His own record of his as often as possible horrible encounters was distributed in 1928, as Undertones of War. Undertones of War' is a 1928 diary by Edmund Blunden, in light of his encounters in France and Belgium from late 1915 to mid 1918; the target group is for those to comprehend his experience through the war and after. It

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“In vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace--but there is no peace” (83).

In the short story or prose poem, Mark Twain uses all types of rhetorical devices such as metaphor, alliteration, and diction and many more. This allows to build up an intense way of grabbing the reader’s attention. In the short story, this is manly about how the war is great news and an “aged stranger” is saying be careful of what you pray for. The War Prayer offers a poignant reflection on the double- edged moral sword implicit to war.

Nothing will end war unless the people refuse to go to war”, Albert Einstein. Stephen Crane, the author of “War is Kind”, had no experience with war; that was until the Spanish-American War, where he became a foreign war correspondent. “Dulce et Decorum Est”, was written by Wilfred Owen; Owen survived as a foot soldier during World War I and lost his life fighting for his country. The author of The Things They Carried, was Tim O’Brien who served in the Vietnam War. The final writing was The Yellow Birds, it was written by Kevin Powers after he served terms in the Iraq war. All of these authors use imagery, irony, and structure to protest war.

Mark Twain and Martin Luther King Jr.'s arguements on mankind waging war are Very similar, but there are also differences in why they believe mankind continues to wage war. While Twain believes the human race is helpless and doomed, king believes that humans have the power to bring peace if they unite with one another. King wrote based on personal experience, but Twain conducted experiments to support his thesis and although Twain wrote long before King's time, King wrote about similar events happening around him, proving that man kind will always continue to wage war. "Man is the only animal that robs his helpless fellow of his country-takes possession of it and drives him out of it or destroys him" (Twain 528). He means that instead of helping other countries thrive and use their resources as an aid for survival, we invade, kill, and drive the helpless from their homes.

“Truman Capote the author of the 1959 book In Cold Blood states that “writing has laws of perspective. “In stating this Capote is referring to the fact within writing there are all kinds of perspectives as it is a writers way of regarding something, in saying this he believes there are laws of these perspectives therefore an individual rule as part of that system. Capote could be referring to the fact that there are several perspectives within writing that are correct and they should be followed properly by fellow writers as they are the laws that should be held up like in painting and music how there are certain laws of perspective.”

Since the emergence of written history, many fables regarding war have encompassed a significant portion of prosodic literature. Two of the foremost war poets of the 19th and 20th century—Emily Dickinson and Rupert Brooke—have both written about profound implications of war on society and also upon the human spirit albeit in two very different styles. The book, Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, theorizes through Allie, that Emily Dickinson was indubitably the superior war poet. Furthermore, when we analyze their works as well, we realize the invariable fact that Dickinson’s work delves into war with a much more holistic approach as well. She not only honours the soldiers for their valiant efforts, but also deftly weaves notions of liberty and civilian duty in regards to war as well as compared to Rupert Brooke who carried a romanticized imagery of martyrs within his poetry. In summation, Emily Dickinson is a superior war poet for her incisive analysis of death, and human nature in correspondence to war as compared to the patriotic salvos of Rupert Brooke’s poetry.

In the discussions of underdogs, one controversial issue has been that being the underdog means you hold less power and rarely win. On the one hand, Gladwell argues, more is not always better, and favors the underdogs. On the other hand, In Derksen’s story on the Three strike Law contends Reynolds, who was not considered an underdog, held much power in being able to help successfully establish the law in honor of his murder daughter. Others even maintain that’s power hold no position for winning or losing, it’s how you play the game. Admiring the Derksen family who didn’t have much power or say, and were just very grateful for finding their child’s body after weeks of not knowing what had happen to her. It helped bring the family closure. My own view is when you have more you can do more. William Petit who was much like Reynolds, used his power and voice to make a change in the honor of his deceased family. Whether the change last forever or its tempary, it still can makes a different in somebody life at that moment.