No man's land

and medical advances, economic reasons, and the motivation of prestige and White Man’s Burden. Physically, Europeans were more advanced in weapons and disease prevention. Making advances in medicine was very important because, malaria was a prevalent disease that killed many Europeans, discouraging colonies to be made in Africa. Now learning how to combat it was

has “an eye of a vulture.” As explained in the story, the old man’s eye is a pale blue eye, with a film over it. The unnamed narrator has nothing against the old man, but his pale blue eye. To be free of the “vulturous eye,” the narrator goes into the old man’s room every night at 12:00 for seven days.

or darkness. Marlow continuously equates light with knowledge and civility and darkness with mystery and savagery. When he begins his narrative, Marlow evokes light and, therefore, civility, with reality, believing it to be a tangible expression of man's natural state. Similarly, Marlow uses darkness to depict savagery as a vice having escaped with nature. However, as he proceeds deeper into the heart of the African jungle and begins to understand savagery as a primitive form of civilization and, therefore

ill-experienced, and ultimately dies on his trek from one camp to another. Three things led to the character’s death, which were all his own decisions: building a fire under a tree, traveling alone, and ignoring valuable advice. As stated above, one of the man’s mistakes was building his fire under a tree. When he did this, all he had been concerned about was creating the fire in the most time-efficient way possible, which, of course, was his mistake. Had the man not built the fire directly under the tree

presents a terrible prophecy to his friend Delio, telling him that “a prince’s court/Is like a common fountain whence should flow/Pure silver drops in general; but if’t chance/Some cursed example poison’t near the head,/Death and disease through the whole land spread” (Webster 1.1.11-15). Death certainly spreads throughout the play, with the majority of the characters dying by the time curtain drops, but what “poison” engenders this doom? Initially, the audience might view the Duchess’ deception as the poison

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses, where a man’s relationship with each other is an unbreakable bond and is an elegantly strong. In Cry The beloved Country Alan Paton uses anaphora to show man’s relationship with each other. However, in CTBC the relationship with each other fearful, different, useful and heartbreaking. Paton uses Anaphora of “the fear” to explain man’s relationship with each other by quoting, ‘ the fear of the unknown, the fear of

nations, which caused the change from old imperialism to new imperialism. During old imperialism, European states simply asked for trading ports to carry out trades or missionary activities while new imperialism demanded direct control over other lands (Textbook pg. 188). Due to the imperialistic approach made by imperial powers towards weaker territories, there were several positive and negative effects on the mother countries and the territories that were colonized. Imperialism had brought many

that go into the war or had an influence on it had their own specific role. Trench warfare was a common type of fighting where both troops would build their own trenches in order to protect themselves from their enemy on other side separated by no man’s land. Trenches were a key part of the battleground during World War I and became the home and final location for millions of soldiers. Trenches were necessary for American troops survival in World War I because they were an effective form of protection

About 500,000 pigeons were regularly dropped into enemy lines by parachute, and then sent back with messages. On Christmas Eve, 1914, both sides declared an unofficial truce and sung Christmas carols to each other. A football match was played in No-Man’s Land, and German and British soldiers exchanged food and souvenirs. The following Christmas, sentries on both sides had orders to shoot any soldier who did this (http://primaryfacts.com/1645/world-war-1-facts-and-information/). Cannons and artillery

man in a washroom washing his hands with soap. It can be made out that the man is white and of high social class. It is an advertisement about Pears’ soap and its advances in cleaning purposes. But on the other hand we can read the saying “The White Man’s Burden” which is used to indicate that white men have a responsibility o0f being paternalistic towards the first nations. In this case it is most likely first nations since in the background there are signs of ships and imperialism. The ideological