‘Teasing and taunting can terrify vulnerable teenagers.’ Figurative language. Using metaphors, similes or personification to draw a picture in the audience’s mind, for example, ‘This war is a cancer’, ‘like vultures circling over their prey’. ‘Young people may not be angels but nor are they devils with horns and a pointed tail.’ Exaggeration. Overstating a view or statistic to impress the audience, for example, for example, ‘There are thousands of cases where …’ Contrast. Putting two opposing ideas or facts next to each other to show up how different they are, for example, ‘Should we support the tiny groups of protesters or the vast armies of the police?’ Using personal pronouns.
The concept in this novel is extremely intriguing to an American reader because we are currently facing a time period were we have been attacked by terrorist in our generation. The novel is being told by Pygmy who is an operative sent to the United States from an unnamed country of a totalitarian bent. At the age of only thirteen and being small for his age he is taken by his native land authority due to his intelligence. As an agent trained in the martial arts and drilled on any number of subjects, he is at last ready for his mission. Their final goal in the novel is to take over and destroy the country.
4. Why history is included in the curriculum? As the great philosopher G. Santayana once said, “those who do not understand history are destined to repeat it.” History teaches us not only facts but also the concept of self-examination of our own history, behaviors and proclivities. History teaches us that those in power tend toward corruption and that those who possess absoloute corruption. History teaches us that long,drown out,protracted wars accomplish little,other than mass suffering, and tend to bleed all nations (involved in such wars) of their treasure,often setting them back decades, or even centuries.History teaches us that if we do not
Dr. Sobel has no choice but to help Paul. In the meantime, a power struggle is brewing with Vitti's long-time rival Primo Sidone, but Vitti begins employing the feel-good self-help jargon and techniques he's learned from Dr. Sobel to keep his enemy off balance. Just as the therapist and his powerful patient are making breakthroughs. Meanwhile, the growing importance of Dr. Sobel’s work to the operation of the Vitti organization has not gone unnoticed in the law enforcement community, and the FBI approaches Sobel with an offer he can’t refuse either to betray Vitti by wearing a wire or spend a long time in a federal prison. Complications escalate, and Ben finds himself dodging bullets, federal agents and rival gang members, but still wanting to fulfill his professional obligation to help the conflicted mob boss.
“Hit and run” tactics are used against enemy bases and communications to demoralize the enemy. A good example of the ideal conditions needed for guerilla warfare is shown in struggles which have involved ordinary people going against an imperial power, such as at the end of WW1. During times like these, the rebels were often very poorly equipped and were therefore, unable to defeat the conquering power by conventional means and rather, had to rely more on the support of the people. The areas of the world where guerilla war has been very successful and which have been suitable for the practice of guerilla warfare,
Why? Royalties, lords, and dictators use torture as on of their main way to control people. Article #3 Source: Database (School.eb.com/levels/high/article/73000) Title of Article: Torture Author: Nigel S. Rodley Quote: “Torture is a extreme physical pain served as the basis for establishing guilt or innocence; to secure confessions in cases of serious crime.” Meaning: Torture has been inflected throughout centuries to make criminals confess information. Why? To show how
O'Brien's extract conveys to the readers the contradictory feelings that war evokes in a person. War can be seen in different perspectives and can be felt with many different emotions. The author describes war as astonishing; an adjective rarely used in the general opinion. But O'Brien has seen and felt first hand, and writes that war makes you grow up and learn about yourself as a person. You learn to value life in those desperate moments where death comes close.
Allusion Assignment: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill In john Knowles novel a separate peace he uses many characters to help identify the challenges and struggles the kids face. He uses these people to show how the boys think they started the war. The overall point is how these two men all played role in the change of finny and genes life from kids to adult hood. John Knowles included these allusions to show he point of view of how the kids saw the war. These men had great power in their country’s Roosevelt in the United States and Churchill in Europe.
Not only that, but Matthews goes about explaining what one must do in order to become successful if one chooses to enter politics. The books main purpose serves to help newcomers to politics or even veterans to better prepare themselves for all of the dirty, clever, and above all, brilliant tricks that politicians use to gain an upper hand in one of the dirtiest “games” around. What interests a reader about this book is how Matthews is able to make a dull topic such as politics interesting and somewhat captivating. He uses well known figures that have been engraved in the minds of people such as Roosevelt, Kennedy, Carter, Reagan, and others to help capture the attention of the
Hence, win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not supreme excellence; the supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. In the business applications, it is better to merge competitor’s company than to destroy it. You will get more human resource and fund to do other business. Sun Tzu said: 1. The highest form of generalship is to balk and attack the enemy's strategy; 2.