To hell with the glory. | 83 | Why the hell should they want the war to end? They got lots of damn fools like us who’ll enlist, and when they stop enlisting they’ll drag ‘em in. | 95 | Who can comfort whom in war? Who can care for us, we who are set loose at each and tear at each other’s entrails with silent gleaming bayonets?
This is the moment at which Stowe wants every 19th century reader to realize the full horror of slavery. Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear. What brother-man and brother-Christian must suffer, cannot be told us, even in our secret chamber, it so harrows the soul! And yet, oh my country!
The homesickness that these men undoubtedly suffered at that very moment is enough to make an observer of the photograph turn away, too weak to combat the powerful emotions that it instills. This particular photograph taken by Robert Capa during the D-Day invasion almost seventy years ago illustrates the raw emotions of war that those brave men on the beach were undergoing. His emotional appeal to viewers of this picture is a reminder of what they did, not only for our freedom, but for the liberation of whole continent under the boot of a ruthless mass murderer. Society today should honor the valor of that generation and note their deeds in order to make certain that what happened then will never transpire in the
The Maine had exploded in Mid-February, and on April 11, 1898, McKinley finally sent a message to Congress giving his support for a declaration of war on Spain. Congress, which now had the President's word that he would not block a war with Spain as Cleveland had threatened to do, was ecstatic. On April 24, 1898 Spain declared war on the US. The next day, on April 25, the US declared war on Spain. The US public was exuberant, and the people celebrated as the country cheerfully went to war.
Black, Brown, and Beige was a historic performance by composer/arranger Duke Ellington in January of 1943. This performance was Ellington’s longest and most ambitious to date, not only in the length but in the content and stature as well. With mixed reviews, the performance was widely contested in terms of the actual “parallels”, the performance, and the presentation. None the less, it is an epic performance deserving of its chance to be reviewed and appraised. In particular, the buildup and reviews in the periodical Metronome from January 1943 until March 1943 are going to give a good insight into the times, atmosphere, and reactions leading up to and after the monumental performance.
The Ardennes had already played a great victory for the Germans because in early 1940, Hitler’s soldiers and tanks blasted its way through its rugged terrain in the Blitzkrieg attack (Blitzkrieg meaning “lightning warfare” because of the speed with which the attack advances.) It took them into France and ended with that long time enemy in German hands. The attack in 1940 was a success because it took the French by surprise as they had never dreamed that the Germans would strike from that direction because the Ardennes forests promised to make infantry and tank movement impossible. Hitler planned to do the same attack through the Ardennes on the western Allies to get the same victory they received when they did it in 1940. As German forces controlled most of the land all the way to Antwerp, the plan was
| Macbeth: | (Turns his body to face Macduff) Thane of Fife, Macduff? Of all men, I chose not to kill you, for my sword is filthy with the blood of your wife and son. | Macduff: | (Shouts angrily) Killer! Traitor! It is destiny which fated me to revenge for my wife and my son.
Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream In the Old World while still a serf of kings, Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true, That even yet its mighty daring sings In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned That's made America the land it has become. O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas In search of what I meant to be my home-For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore, And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea, And torn from Black Africa's strand I came To build a "homeland of the free." The free? (It never was America to me.) O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
This came into play in 1898 during the Spanish-American War, when Hearst was quoted telling a photographer who was complaining that there was no war in Cuba, “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” By saying this, Hearst was hinting that he would sensationalize the explosion into war if pictures were leaked. By proof of evidence to support his accusations that the Spanish did explode the USS Maine, he controlled the people’s opinion by convincing them how awful the Spanish were, further provoking a war, further gaining fame and fortune for having a voice that could control the fate of a nation. The explosion parallels to the destruction of the Twin Towers that happened in New York and also the destruction of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Both of the attacks shocked the nation, but also sparked tensions for waging a war. All over the news such as CNN the towers falling down was aired a prodigious amount repeatedly, and the media shed a light on the perpetrators of the attacks who were believed to be Osama Bin Laden and the Al-Qaeda.
Red signifies danger as well as the color of a matador’s cape, whereas Pamplona is described simply as a yellow town. This creates vivid imagery of a hot, dry, sandy village. The two are symbolically linked in the tenth paragraph: “The yellow and red Spanish flag blowing in the morning wind.” The repetition of these key words works very well, conjuring up images