Fatima By Andrew Geddis: A Personal Analysis

An unsettling tone is furthered by Owen with his use of sensory imagery that is able to capture the dehumanisation of soldiers during the war. This manifests in Owen’s poem “Insensibility”, where Owen gives insight into the shocking way the soldiers are treated. Clearly depicted in the first stanza, “Men, gaps for filling”. The metonymy of the soldiers as gaps in the front line demean the men as they have become expendable. This horrific truth that the soldiers have been dehumanised to the point of being pawns gives the reader an unsettling sense. The next sentence of the poem further demonstrates this idea, “Losses, who might have fought longer; but no one bothers”. The collective pronoun neglects the soldiers as real humans by remembering them only as “losses”, this dehumanisation of the soldiers after they die further pushes this unsettling tone. Moreover, the fact that these “losses” may have been prolonged, but “no one bothers”, is extremely unsettling. Owen uses direct language to portray the indifference towards the soldier’s deaths. Their deaths are insignificant as they are expendable and because of this the soldiers have been dehumanised. Therefore, Owen further develops this unsettling feeling in the reader by displaying the dehumanisation of the soldiers.

“No Good Men Among the Living” tells readers about the situation in the Middle East, specifically Afghanistan, but from an unusual perspective. Written by Anand Gopal, a journalist from the United States, it is not common to see a book entailing the other side. That is, the perspective of actual Afghan’s along with a first-hand account of what is was like to be living the “war on terror” from their side. Gopal is careful to make sure that the stories he hears are all true (to the best of his ability) and distills a sense of empathy from the audience. Gopal tells the stories of three individuals in specific: Mullah Cable, Jan Muhammad, and Heela. Each story is as powerful as the others and each story tells a side that the United States often doesn’t hear about.

I start reading my book and worry about Fatima. I want to do something to help Fatima because she saves my life. I just wish I could save her. I hope she has escaped and is just hiding. It has been over a month since Loki took over Silver City. Jason and Victor cannot do anything. Loki and King James are already getting an army together to take over Crystal City. Jason says that they could not enter Crystal City without a starring from Crystal City. I hope Jason was

On May 13, 2017, it will be the 100th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima's first apparition. The lady had appeared to three Portuguese children in Fatima. The names of the children were Lucia Dos Santos, Francisco Marto, and Jacinta Marto. During the times of the apparitions the children went through a lot, but that all changed after an incredible miracle.

Through this use of strong diction, Dewan also identifies a target audience: humanitarians. Humanitarians would read the word “survivors” and would feel the need to get more informed about the Syrian chemical attack in order to be able to help the survivors of this tragedy, since humanitarians care about the welfare of others. Emotionally -loaded diction helps inform the audience by attracting as many humanitarians as possible to read the article on how the gas attack affected many Syrians. This genre is revealed to value conveying their information through loaded diction in order to appeal to humanitarians and lure them to read the article in its entirety, thus provoking a more informed audience.

Imagine living in Afghanistan circa 1979. Pro-communist Soviets have just invaded the homeland of millions and from that point on, life will never be the same again. For the next two decades, the country would be divided, vying for control of the land they love. It is no secret to the rest of the world that Afghanistan has been in turmoil for quite some time, especially because of the Taliban. However, Afghanistan was in trouble long before the Taliban made their appearance. Such examples besides the Taliban include the treatment of Hazaras by Pashtuns, significantly with the act of rape. One of the greatest depictions of life in Afghanistan comes from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. When Khaled Hosseini set out to write The Kite Runner,

In the first article, the victim; ‘Patty Slater’ is said to be ‘found unconscious shortly afterwards with wounds to his chest, ankle and a deep cut to his head’ which were ‘too distressing for court’ giving the readers a horrifying image of the occurrence. The second article does not focus on any of the injuries caused but magnifies on only the boy and his current situation, refusing to mention any information on the violence. For example, Daily Telegraph writer reports on how the boy ‘has only one soccer ball and allowed into the yard for only 20mins a day’. This convinces us, the audience that he is still a normal child and makes us pity the poor childhood he is experiencing. In conversely, in the first wounds are described in detail but with very little description of the boy’s current struggles. Another example of how the media selects information is the use of one-sided quotes and the exclusion of others. In article one, quotes only from the victim’s family are mentioned, especially the victim’s cousin. Although in the second article, the victim’s mother’s quotes are mentioned, the majority are from the boy’s family friends. These two articles fail to present the opposition side and as a result, the articles do not provide a fair report of the event. Examples of these

This article posed a challenge for me because I have no military background and I assumed that most of the information collected in the war zone is by using multi- intelligence sources. Nonetheless, my assumptions were confirmed by Hamilton Bean in his book “No More secrets” that the intelligence analysts are using different sources “newspapers, journals, radio, television broadcast, commercial satellite imaginary, and blogs” (p.3). However, the article suggests that most of the information was obtained from open sources intelligence reports. According the State Department website, Afghanistan is a country dominated by civil war and political instability (“Afghanistan,” 2002). The United Nations diplomatic efforts to end-up the conflict in

This text explored this concept through the issue of propaganda creating a false illusion which glorified and endorsed the idea of war. The propaganda manipulated many young boys hastening to participate in the war. The text emphasised the author’s negative perception of war through an insight into a young boy’s changing perspective from glorifying war to realising its full horror. In the first stanza, a positive perception on war was established through the use of emotive language such as ‘Joy’ ‘whistled’ and ‘grinned’. The first stanza established the original perception of war for the audience. The emotive language used in the second stanza ‘cowed… glum’ juxtapose with the first stanza. This emphasised the shifted perspective of the young soldiers, they are no long joyful, hopeful for they have experienced the horror of war. The harsh condition and the mental state of these young soldiers was represented through the symbolism of ‘winter trench’ in the second stanza. Winter represent death, loneliness or an end, and ‘trench’ represent somewhere filthy and confined. Sassoon used ‘winter trench’ to symbolise the harsh reality of the war, the depression of the young soldiers and their belief that they were confined and that there were nowhere out. Through the use of juxtaposition, emotive language and symbolism, the author

Fairy Mary was given the opportunity of watching over the newest Fairy named Tinker Bell even though Tink did not like her job as a Fairy she believed it was useless. When Fairy Mary discovered Tinker Bell’s true feelings about the fairies she was greatly offended. However Fairy Mary had hopes for Tinker Bell. During the climax of the film, when Pixie Hollow suffered great damage from the destructive nature of the sprinting thistles, Fairy Mary was impressed to see Tinker Bell finally putting her talent to good use by creating new ways on how to set up for the fairies travel to the mainland despite the great damage. The plot in the story Tinker Bell is when the new fairy Tinker Bell is less than thrilled to find out that her talents lead

Jaroslav Pelikan was a marvelous church historian who wrote “Mary Through the Centuries” where he examines the view of Mary in late antiquity. This idea of Mary as the Second Eve is something that Pelikan examines. Mary does several things at once she repels Gnosticism with Jesus birth. Eve is the mother of all living but she was deceived from the serpent. Mary was swayed by evil, the Lord's word. Mary was obedient, saying: "Behold, O Lord, your handmaid; be it done to me according to your word.Eve, was disobedient which in the end resulted of the Lord’s anger and her demise. With Mary giving birth to Jesus Christ while still a virgin. Thus Mary in a way amend what Eve did. Mary brought Life into this world and all of their holiness with. Eve,

We managed to convey the feeling of discrimination and a link back to our stimulus of war through our portrayal of the death of Emily Davidson. I decided that we would use physical theatre during her death scene, as I thought it would bring more meaning and significance to her death. Caoimhe, Chloe and I acted as if we were the horses that ran over Emily, and we lifted Emily (Rhiannon) up, as if we were ‘running’ through her. By doing this, we were conveying to the audience what happened to the real Emily Davidson and the atmosphere we believe would have been present when it happened. I know that we successfully conveyed this to the audience, as one audience member said (Insert quote here). This tells me that the audience understood our intentions and understood

Afghanistan is a country which has been suffering since the rise of the Taliban on October 10th of 1994. This group of people have caused a lot of vandalism to the world and mainly to the people of Afghanistan for years, and they still are. Many people create assumptions around things or countries they know nothing of and that has become a big problem because these assumptions might not be true.“For more folks in the west, Afghanistan is often a sound bite on CNN about the Taliban, or the soviet war or maybe the land mines, “he says, “But i don’t think a lot of people have a sense of the culture. Some people don’t know it snows in Kabul. They think it’s all deserts and hot” (Khaled and Cowan). Hosseini’s novels educate and somewhat minimize the stereotypes and

The article chosen is from the New York Times. This article states how the Taliban shows no mercy to the Afghan country. The statistics show that in 2016 alone, 600,000 people migrated away from Afghanistan in order to get away from the brutal conflict in their hometown. For example, the Taliban has been taking major hits on the police officers in the provinces. In the middle of February, the Taliban attacked a police guard post on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah. The result of the attack was eleven deceased officers. The Taliban was stated to have stolen the victim's’ weapons and then blew up the post.

In this regard, our presence in Afghanistan does us no good anymore – we gain no advantage from being there. As the former British Ambassador to Afghanistan, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, told the Guardian, “for every dead Pashtun warrior, there will be 10 pledged to revenge.” [7] Killing Taliban fighters is pointless. Even though we have increased the