why do you think this piece of art/literature is important? of world war 1?
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What piece of art or literature are you speaking about? And why is this in the Religion section?
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Check the link below - Lusitania was WW1
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If nothing else, books are extremely important because they record what people know.  Imagine what science would be like if people like Eddison, Newton, and Einstein had never written anything down.  \n\nAlso, history gives people a sense of identity important to any culture.  Anyone raised in America will be able to tell you the stories of Paul Bunyon, Davy Crockett, or George Washington chopping down the cherry tree.  These things get remembered and can be passed from generation to generation because they get written down in books.\n\nYou want something else important to the culture of any society?  How about religion?  And every religion I know of makes sure to write their stuff down.  \n\nFinally, books allow for the spread of culture.  Today it's a bit easier because people can travel more readily and there are other ways of transmitting culture, but take a look at Europe.  The Guttenburg printing press is what allowed French culture and then later Marxist thought to enter Russia.  Why did the Nazis burn so many books during  WWII?  Because they recognized that books can change the way people think and therefore influence society and its culture.\n\nBooks are important influences on culture because they're stable (unlike human memory), they have longevity, they can be reproduced, and they can be carried around.
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It's a pretty dark book, in its theme of imprisonment. It's probably a good book to do a report on though because there are a lot of good literary themes and devices. Also it's a classic - go for it.
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Start off with The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman.  Read 1914 by Solzhenitzyn, 3 Soldiers by John Dos Passos, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Grand Illusion,( film ), Paths of Glory ( book ), A Farewell to Arms, by Hemmingway, That can get you started.  Look up the poets, Wilfred Owens and Siegfired Sasoon. And you might want to read The Sever Pillars of Wisdom, ( by T E Lawrence , the lawreance of Arabia ) .This is the makings of a fine syllabus.
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Are you analyzing the just the symbolism of the sows head or the entire movie?  I think the movie shows what the basics of human nature are and how we will revert back to them once survival becomes a primary concern.  Nice work on the analysis.
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You have to want to learn more about it.  Get a Bible with explanations in the margins about what certain passages mean, to help you better understand.  As far as music and fiction novels and books, they are the work of the Devil, and are made to divert your attention to what is most important is this world.
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Robin_Thor has a good understanding about this literary giant and this is to let him know that we appreciate a good effort. \nWell itsamystery, hopefully you are rested up from your Spring Break because if this is an assignment that needs to be turned in I am afraid that you have some work to do.\nIn gratitude to you for your question I will answer you with 'my start' into this work which if not for your question I would still be outside on the patio.  \n\nHere goes a swell beginning:\n\n.\n\nWhy, Death Be Not Proud\nIn “Death Be Not Proud” the protagonist literary presenters are chosen teenagers for the reasons that the importance of this poem is to have a definite and positive impact on younger students and young adults alike across the world.  For it serves as guide for the confrontatious attitudes necessary in the face of, emotional, physical and spiritual adversity.  To forge a better social function among us that will inevitably present to our younger generations. These are all here and within this poem and which all support the theme of this magnificent writing.  In  “Death Be Not Proud” is found a generational social cohesiveness that is necessary for a functional society’s survival, and which is so well prayed by John Gunther’s 1947 memoirs.  \nIt is a penned offering intellectually and emotionally secured as a memoir to his son whose ultimate youthful death by a brain tumor at the age of seventeen is eminent. Gunther draws from his heart and from John Dunne’s 17th century “The Holy Sonnets: X” in producing this writing.  It is a poem, in which Gunther argues that ‘death should take no pride in what it does, as it is ultimately powerless to prevent the resurrection of all humanity.’ It can be presented at a literary discourse for educational purpose or as a play on a stage.  \n“Death be not proud, though some have called thee / mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,\nFor those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow,\nDie not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.\nFrom rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,\nMuch pleasure:  then from thee much more must flow,\nAnd soonest our best men with thee do go,\nRest of their bones, and soul’s delivery.\nThou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,\nAnd dost with poison, war and sickness dwell;\nAnd Poppy or charms can make us sleep as well\nAnd better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then? \nOne short sleep past, we wake eternally,\nAnd death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.     John Donne\nIt is a versified oratory free-verse poem with melodic tone, chant, and supple plea/defiant texture composed about young Johnny Gunther.  About his attitudes and strife for living in the face of a natural and inevitable defeat.  It is the presentation of the life of Johnny’s family and their recourse to every medical possibility known at the time, taken from an elegy of a long time past, converted from a poem of love and not a poem of mourning. And even unto an eternal spiritual search for the healing of the body, of the mind, and of the spirit of their son by John Gunther and his wife.  About their tessellated forms draught from their experiential abilities within such frames of human suffrage.  In explicit honesty are laid bare the pains and struggles of a family trying to delay the ultimate inevitable end for a son that is as brilliant as Johnny.  From the radical surgeries to strictly controlled diets in endless effort to save his life by a determined harmonious familial union in the face of adversarial reality as they live on for life’s sake. All while in defiance of any honor attributable by mere mortals to death’s demands. \n\nhttp://www.cs.rice.edu/ ssiyer/minstrels/poems/796.html  \n\n\nJose
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Your quoted text is not a question, it is a statement. \n\nIf you have read the text, then you should know you are being asked to elucidate the trials and conflicts of each of those "heroes," and to show how each becomes a character worthy of notice, of the title "hero."
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Given that so many wars have started, and continue because of religious beliefs, I would say religion is extremely important in society.  Anything that can evoke the kind of passion necessary to maintain the level of intensity needed to sustain a war is important.
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Yep I think they hit it right on the head. I think the great war had a very deep and tragic meaning to the British, much like the Civil War to the Americans. I took a tour of Flanders given by a British Army officer. Early war it was Chlorine, burns up your lungs...It doesent kill you right away and they put the guy in the cart and watched him die slowly. He didnt get his mask on in time.Remeber at the start of the poem it talked about how tired they were and they really wasnt paying attention to to gas shells being fired at them. Gas shells usually are not as loud as regular high explosive shells. The early masks were basically chemically treated sacks with cellophane "glas" to see out of.Not easy to put on in a hurry.
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A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens\n\nIt is really a typical Soap Opera taking place during the French Revolution.  So much is going on and he brings in so many characters, that I am always amazed at how he was able to tie together all those loose ends and odd scenerios given the timeframe he wrote the book.\n\nMany people have difficulting reading it because there is just too much information given in the first half of the book ... but if you keep up with it you will truly love it!
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That is a huge question...It can be said to lead all the way back to the Treaty of Versailles ending WWI. \n\nTry this. It's concise. http://ehistory.osu.edu/wwii/timeline.cfm
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I don't know, but I have a LOT of ancient, original love letters from WWI. I bought them at an auction.
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i think you might be referring to the libretto or the story/text that music is based on?
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the moral of the story/the overall message it's related to.\neg:war,betrayal,loneliness\nhope that helped.cheerz!
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You mean Night, by Elie Wiesel, right?\n\nIt is important, and relevant, because "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana\n\nI hope this helps you compose your final paragraph.  :-))