Examine and compare the ways in which Pat Barker in Regeneration and
Wilfred Owen in his poetry explore the nature of life in the trenches.
Pat Barker and Wilfred Owen are both successful writers in delivering an insight into trench life from the perspective of a soldier, although in different ways. Owen, being a soldier himself, has had first hand experience of trench life and describes the pity of war, in that war is a waste of young, innocent lives, and the bitterness of the soldiers towards the people who do not have to fight. Whereas
Barker recreates trench life through the nightmares, hallucinations and memories of the soldiers. Despite the fact that Barker is a modern woman writer she still manages to write a realistic
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Owen describes how the waiting for the inevitable keeps the soldiers awake as the "night is silent" and this is worse than the noise of activity. All these soldiers have to do is wait and wonder "what are we doing here?" "But nothing happens." In the sixth stanza Owen refers to the "ghosts drag home" almost suggesting that the soldiers are alone, not even their spirits can survive the emptiness of the trenches. To begin with, the images in the poem appear to contrast with those in "Regeneration" as we see Sassoon looking forward to sleeping in "clean whit sheets," although we realise that he feels guilty that he can enjoy this luxury and his comrades cannot. He says to Graves as he is seeing him off at the station "Dottyville is almost bearable knowing you don't have to be vomited on," this gives us an insight into the physical well being of some of the soldiers.
After Graves has gone Sassoon "hates everybody, giggling girls, portly middle-aged men, women whose eyes settled on his wound stripe like flies" indicating his bitterness towards anybody that didn't have to fight and especially towards people who appeared to have "done well out of the war." This is the same attitude displayed towards shirkers and pacifists. In "regeneration" when Mr. Prior comes to Craiglockhart and find Billy unable to speak, he is convinced that his speech "comes when it's convenient and goes when it isn't"
A couple that met at a Cystic Fibrosis Society support group is contemplating having children. They both had brothers who developed cystic fibrosis and they are concerned about the likelihood of having sons who have the disease. As a counselor, you are to answer the following two genetic counseling consult questions in addition to the five critical thinking questions that are listed below.
dead.” (p. 48) He says this at one point in the novel after a fight with his
Rehabilitation, what is rehabilitation? Rehabilitation is the action of restoring someone to a normal life through training and therapy after incarcerated, addiction or illness. Rehabilitation can be used for an offender who has committed a crime and is incarcerated, someone who is struggling with addiction or illness. Rehabilitation was originated in 1779 by the British Government as part of the Penitentiary Act, rehabilitation would consist of punishment along with treatment for the offenders. (Benjamin Disraeli 2004). The purpose of rehabilitation is to treat the offender in order for the offender to return to society and be able to contribute, rehabilitation is also a punishment for breaking a law.
He can only do that in the army. It goes to the heads of them all, you see. And the more insignificant a man has been in civil life the worse it takes him.” (Pg 45)
Very soon after he said this he became an empty shell as if the last part of him finally allowed death in until he died.
On the Merv Griffin show in 1979, President Ford is interviewed about his book “A Time to Heal”. Merv points out the meeting General Haig had with Ford at the end of Nixon’s presidency, in where he recommended that the President pardon Nixon. August 1st, 1974 General Haig, who at the time was Nixon’s Chief of Staff, gave Ford a call in which he told Ford he had important information that they must discuss. They then met, and Haig told him that the “smoking gun” tape was being released by order of the Supreme Court and the situation in the White House was dissolving and Ford should be prepared to take on the role of President. Ford was shocked by this because Nixon had originally told him he had no role in the break in or the cover up, so why
He does not want the war to change him, but it had without his
"A lot of your men are dead my dear Count. Don't worry I assure you that when this army reach the Southern Isles, there will be very few of your men in it. We will need to make a lot of rearguard actions to protect our retreat and that means a lot of casualties."
from mustard gas, he addresses his audience directly to state that it is not at all a great and glorious thing to die for one’s country. He likens the deadsoldier to a child, an innocent doing an adult’s bidding and implies that his death is based on propaganda and deceit, perpetuated for
Explore the psychological and moral impact of war on soldiers and civilians in Pat Barker's Regeneration and Wilfred Owen's poetry. In the course of your writing show how your ideas have been illuminated by your response to Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and other readings of both core texts.
Know him I shall, I am well sure of it. Lie not a night from home. Watch me like Argus. If you do not, if I be left alone” (V.I.221-231).
On Chapter 28, The Myth That Correctional Rehabilitation Does Not Work mainly discussed about how most of Americans would believe punishing the offender is a way of justifying what the victim endured. We rather to balance out the harm between the offender and the victim to achieve justice is known as retribution or simply, deserts. Over the time, politicians slowly leaned more on the “get tough” approach which produced mixed results. However, not all criminals need to be toughened and punished severely over a crime that is not even violent such as marijuana charges. This one of the several reasons why the word, Rehabilitation, were brought up. According to Cullen & Jonson 2011, “rehabilitation is a planned correctional intervention that targets for change the factor known through scientific studies to cause crime.” Unlike the get tough stance, which is sending the inmate to prison to reduce the recidivism rate, but studies showed that it does little to reduce; its goal for rehabilitation is to reduce recidivism rate and improve other aspects of the offender’s life. According to the studies Martinson conducted in 1974/5, he discovered that “recidivism actually reduced when there are some sort of intervention
‘Sheriff’ was “excited, enthusiastic. It would be far more interesting to be an officer than a man in the ranks ”, telling us that he was also plagued by an opinion that being in the army was almost a better job than being in a highly qualified job in society, with propaganda posters -saying “do the job HE left behind ”, as if saying war is more important than your job, and this is reinforced by ‘Stanhope’s’ own decision to join the army. ‘Owen’ saw himself as a conscientious objector, opposing ‘Sheriff’s’ own beliefs. His poetry, however, also highlights society’s reflection of war, where in ‘Disabled’, the narrator joins ‘to please his Meg, Aye, that was it, to please the giddy jilts’, showing how they were under the sole impression that war would give them a better name with their lady’s, so that he didn’t ‘have to beg’, ‘he asked to join’, emphasising how easy it was to enlist to go to war. As “Owen wrote several poems in Sassoon’s drily satirical mode ”, a friend he met at “Craiglockhart” we know that ‘Owen’ believed the way to enlist as being stupid, as they only
The first factor, instillation of hope, is based on the members need to feel there is hope for their eventual healing and recovery to be found in group therapy. Being able to see and getting encouragement from other members that have overcome issues with which they are struggling with also provides much needed hope. This is often seen early in group therapy and because the drop-out rate is highest at this time instillation of hope needs to be facilitated quickly by the group therapist. An example of this factor is Alcoholics Anonymous. Established members provide hope to new members beginning the journey to defeating alcoholism. Being at various stages in the recovery process can be an inspiration to others to keep trying so that they may reach that point eventually.
Throughout the years, many processes have been created to form the rehabilitation process of criminal justice. This process has reached out to many offenders and their families by allowing them to return to the community as changed individuals. Rehabilitation has many different process, but most, if not all have been proven successful in returning offenders to the community as changed individuals.