Ashley Glaze Mrs. Putman English 12- 7th period 1 October 2012 Imagery in Beowulf Intro: The most memorable stories have the most vivid descriptions. These word pictures help bring the story to life. The author of one of the greatest epic tales. Beowulf, effectively uses imagery to enhance the meaning of this powerful tale. I.
This territory is being shown in the film by an Arabian theme that reinforces and establishes the locale. We can hear a stirring statement of the “La Marseillaise” when the opening credits are shown in the beginning of the film. Steiner uses this to remind the viewers the French control of Morocco. This ends with a sour chord, coinciding with the director Michael Curtiz’s name to support the narrator’s description of dark days for Europe. A narrator also describes the journey people go through to come to Casablanca, and this was supported by repeated dissonant chords.
So to me other nations invading the Great Britain are impossible. 2. How did the naval arms race encourage the development of the alliance system the way it did? Be sure to refer to Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, as well as each of the alliance groups specifically. In the naval arms race, Germany wanted to have a naval army as strong as the Great Britain since the strong naval army brought the Great Britain the control right of the oceans.
There, he worked briefly on a plantation before being sold to a British officer and commencing an active naval career during the Seven Years’ War and after. Purchasing his freedom after eleven years of slavery, he continued his maritime career and became a keen proponent of Methodism. A fairly prominent African in English society, he became heavily involved in the campaign to abolish the Atlantic slave trade, and published The Interesting Narrative largely to promote this cause. Although born in Africa, Olaudah Equiano was clearly a product of the European Enlightenment. The Interesting Narrative reveals this influence through the book’s radical arguments in favor of individual equality and its opposition to slavery as a cruel and inhumane practice contrary to enlightened society.
He also makes loose references throughout the text that go unexplained. The plight he tells about is intended to leave readers pondering the magnitude of loss in identity, culture, and number of people when being brought over from Africa in stream-of-consciousness. These and other elements help to make this work a modernistic piece. The narrator describes the Middle Passage as a “voyage through death to life upon these shores.” He also says “sharks follow[ed] the moans, the fever, and the dying.” This gives readers the first indication of modernism. The voyage, in his personal view, was a journey of turmoil and hardships to get to American “shores,” and the ships that carried the slaves were a “festering hold” that harbored an entire people who were dying, ill, and “blacks [who were] rebellious.” “Some try to starve themselves… [some] leaped with crazy laughter to the waiting sharks.” The narrator’s depictions of the events taking place, like much of this story, are written in stream-of-consciousness, a major characteristic of modernism.
Perhaps this is why skyscrapers are such a tourist attraction to Americans. The Chrysler Building was at one point the tallest skyscraper known to man, the proudest achievement of American architects and citizens of America. The American Radiator Building used to be an office tower for the American Radiator Company, but was reopened as a hotel in 2001. This is the reason it is such a popular destination for travelers. It also represents the economic changes of New York.
1. In the heart of Manhattan, overlooking the entire city of New York, the North and South towers of the world trade center stood statuesque among others. They were a symbol of the American way of life. It brought a sense of proudness, patriotism to our country, uniting all its citizens by one nation under God. Before 1973 the Twin Towers were known to be the tallest buildings in the world, another leading innovations constructed by America.
It was not the whites that were the “devil,” but racism was the evil of mankind (“Black Muslim”). Both men were great speakers. Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his famous “I have a dream speech” in Washington. The speech resonated throughout the United States like a pleasant wake up call. Malcolm X with his persuasive charismatic style of deliverance decided to visit Africa to link its blacks with their other black brothers in the United States.
On february 15, 1898, the american battleship U.S.S Maine, anchored in havana harbor, exploded killing over 260 saliors. The treaty gave almost all of spain's colonies- Cuba, the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico-to the United States. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and woodrow wilson both believed they had an obligation to spread american ideas and interests across the globe. As a new world power, the United States had an apparent opportunity to remake the international systtem in a way that would eliminate the old ravages of war and corrupt alliances. International change of this variety would, they assumed, best serve Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson both belived they had a obligation to spread American ideas band interests across the globe.
That is, one searches for idealism in order to have a better life. An example of improvement is civilization, or bringing civilization to an uncivilized world. In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad sheds light on the idea of bringing civilization to Africa by an idealist called Kurtz. The European community has held meetings to discuss the matter of developing other countries or areas like Africa. Conrad mentions one of the European bands “this devoted band called itself the Eldorado Exploring Expedition” (43).