dead and 1,178 wounded. For over 70 years the Attack on Pearl Harbor has been called the "date which will live in infamy." The attack has been recalled in books, movies, interviews as the perfectly executed attack. But Dr. Alan D. Zimm's Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions sets out to provide a modern military analysis of the attack to disprove many of the misconceptions and myths of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Zimm, a former naval commander and currently a member of the Johns
CORPUS • Corpus Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis: A Case Study on News Reports of the 2011 Libyan Civil War1-Sibo Chen School of Communication, Simon Fraser University This paper reports a comparative analysis of the news coverage of the 2011 Libyan civil war in two national media. The 2011 Libyan civil war attracted wide attention and was extensively covered by various media around the world. However, news discourse regarding the war was constructed differently across various news agencies
Introduction Childhood Deployed: Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone by Susan Shepler is a relevant and well-written book, which analyses the indications of the participation of former child soldiers in the Civil War in Sierra Leone (1991-2002) and the difficulties of their reintegration to the post-war society. The analysis is based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in communities, schools, non-formal apprenticeship programs and interim care centres as well as her long lasting experience
literal level of analysis? Slaughter House-Five starts with the narrator telling his audience about how he attempts to write a book on his experience of the war of Dresden in Eastern Germany during World War II. He says, "All this happened, more or less" (pg 1) by which he wants his readers to know that by and large the part of the war is true although he changed some of the names of the characters. He needs help from his war buddy Bernard V. O'Hare, to recollect memories to write the book. His friend
is Robert Cormier. He lives in Leominster,Massachusetts. Robert was inspired to write this book by his heroes when he was in seventh grade and all of his heroes were writers. The theme of this book is Some people aren’t who they seem to be. I liked this book because it was interesting and I liked how it went back and told the story about why he went to war and kept you on your toes through the whole book. I liked when francis went to kill Larry LaSalle but put his gun down and had enough nerve to
Matthew Barnett Dr. Charlotte Power U.S History since 1860 November 13th, 2014 Vietnam War: Comparative Literary Analysis People, through their lifetime, will sooner or later hear the Vietnam War mentioned. Sure it was a war with great value to historians, but the average person does not even know what the war was fought over. The soldiers who fought in the war were asking the same question. The war was fought to try and combat communism from consuming South Vietnam. Most people didn’t understand
throughout the book can help us to grasp a better idea of what truth really is. O’Brien’s thoughts on truth may seem oversimplified or confusing, but they carry a lot of meaning. “This is true,” (O’Brien 64) This simple sentence is how Tim O’Brien starts a chapter in his book which is composed, almost entirely, of fiction. Even so, according to how he determines truth, the book really is completely and 100% true. “True war stories do not generalize. They do not indulge in abstraction or analysis,” (O’Brien
Times book review, Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children’s Crusade, written by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt praises Vonnegut for his work in his book SlaughterHouse-Five, which indirectly told of his experiences in World War Two and the bombing of Dresden. The article claims that the story is a “highly imaginative, often funny, nearly psychedelic” piece. While I agree with Lehmann-Haupt that Slaughterhouse-Five is effectively written with the use of imagery, I maintain that what makes Vonnegut’s war novel
Greek Sources on Sparta Tyrtaeus (7th century BC) Around the middle of the 7th century BC, Tyrtaeus wrote poetry that encouraged the Spartans to fight bravely during the Second Messenian War. They were a form of propaganda to enforce Spartan devotion and bravery, and thus were taught as a part of the Spartan education. Soldiers advanced into battle to the poetry of Tyrateus to rouse the spirit and to inspire military efficiency. Apart from fragments, four of Tyrtaeus' elegies have survived. Who
Marilynn S. Johnson’s Violence in the West: The Johnson County Range War and the Ludlow Massacre is a poignant depiction of the kind of violence that occurred in the West in the early days of the American settlement. Instances of gender-based violence on the basis of perceived gender roles are also captured in the book. Gender role is a set of societal expectations that reads out how an individual of a gender should think, behave and feel. Significantly, there is close interlinking among gender roles