Jonatha Brooke

The cheer team, The Great White Sharks, represented the school The Great White Shark High School in Maui, Hawaii. It was a big school that had 9,000 students. Every year the cheer team practices all summer so that they can compete in the World Championship. The World Championship is held in Maui, Hawaii this year. The cheer team has three stunt groups. In one of the stunt groups is Reece, the flyer, Maggie, the back spot, Mauri and Carci, the bases. They have competed together for almost 10

Hooded eyes. Dark brows. Olive skin. We are sitting side by side in his parked car, and I am thinking of how similar we look yet how deeply our opinions contrast. Never have I been his enemy, but today I certainly am not the protagonist. “I’m sorry,” I almost lie. Almost. But I had promised myself I wouldn’t lie to him. And now, with my conviction heavy between us, I have no desire to lie. “Say that again.” “The protest. I went to it.” I watch as disapproval creeps into his face: a furrowed brow

World War One poets Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen both use poetry to examine their differing perspectives surrounding the idea of heroism in war. Brooke’s The Soldier depicts an idealistic, patriotic view towards fighting for his country, whereas Owen’s Dulce et Decorum est demonstrates a realistic view of the senseless horrors of war. Both poets utilise similar poetic techniques of imagery and sound devices to express their contradictory views of the atrocious events of the greatest war that the

During times of war, it is inevitable for loss to be experienced by all. In the poems “The Black Rat” and “The Photograph” written by Iris Clayton and Peter Kocan respectively, the idea of loss is explored through an omniscient narrator recalling a soldier’s involvement in warfare. While Clayton writes of a soldier’s abrupt loss of hope and how this experience negatively affects his life, Kocan explores how the loss of a loved one affects a family sixty years later. While both poems incorporate similar

In the play Journeys end and novel The return of the soldier it is important to define what is meant by failing mind this relates to the psychological effects, which an individual may experience leading to abnormal behaviours of the mind or body. Sherriff explain that a failing mind is a primitive emotion that can be found in everyone caused by fear, trauma and suffering. However, in the play the effects differ depending on a characters hierarchy, the audience is shown this through Hibbert who has

Short Bio Ashley Burgos is an American model and social media personality who is most recognized as the daughter of the famous model and entrepreneur, Bernice Burgos. She and her mother own their own line of lingerie under the brand Bold & Beautiful. Ashley Burgos is of American nationality and belongs to black ethnicity. Birth Ashley Burgos was born on 9th May 1996, in New York City. Her full name is Ashley Marie Burgos. She is the daughter of the internet sensation, Bernice Burgos, and her father’s

Portrayal of soldiers/Making significant connections across texts - Alec Mudgway The portrayal of soldiers means how soldiers are viewed by society, whether it be positive or negative. The four texts I have chosen to write about are ”Hero of War” by Rise Against, “Dulce et decorum est” by Wilfred Owen, “Who's for the Game?” by Jessie Pope and “High flight” by John Gillespie Magee Jr. All of these portray brotherhood amongst soldiers and two of these texts “Dulce et decorum est” and “hero of war”

Compare the ways in which the writers create sympathy in ‘Out, Out -’and ‘Disabled’ In the poems, Robert Frost and Wilfred Owen both create sympathy for the characters through different ways. In ‘Disabled’, Owen paints a vivid, moving picture of a soldier who has been injured in World War One and lost his legs and an arm. Wilfred Owen himself took part in the war, consequently witnessing first hand many young men whose lives were similarly destroyed. In the poem, ‘Out, Out’, Robert Frost shows the

Wilfred Owen uses language and poetic devices to evoke sympathy for the soldier in the poem by using in-depth descriptions. An example of this is in the first stanza where the soldier in the poem ‘shivered in his ghastly suit of grey’. The ‘g’ sound in the words ‘ghastly’ and ‘grey’ emphasises the horror of ‘ghastly’ combined with the dreariness of ‘grey’, which are now the two main features of his life. The word ‘ghastly’ shows something that is strange and unnatural. The adjective ‘grey’, which

1. How does O’Brien use The Things They Carried to cope with the psychological impact of his experience in the war? In “The Things They Carried” Tim O’Brien uses this story as a coping mechanism; to tell part of his stories and others that are fiction from the Vietnamese War. This is shown by using a fictions character’s voice, deeper meaning in what soldier’s carried, motivation in decision making, telling a war story, becoming a new person and the outcome of a war in one person. Tim