Dear Speaker,
I read the your narrative "Dulce Et Decorum Est" and I am inspired of the work you have done by putting your true feeling and thoughts of the World War II in your narrative. I know most people think it was a great idea fighting for their country and their and gaining power but they didn't realize the waste of human lives. Men have sacrificed their lives for their country and their people, but families have lost their loved ones and never see them again. Many soldiers who fought in wars lost their lives, some lost their arms, legs and even their eyes.
However, when I heard " Dulce Et Decorum Est" I figured out that you were shocked and angry from the line(9) you said "Gas! Gas! quick boy!" but the suddenly your tone had drop lower. I also figured out that you were in the world war I fighting during this time, because in your poem you used "we", "our" and "I" such as in line (2) "knock - knee, coughing like hags we cursed through sludge."
I like the way you expressed yourself briefly, especially in the last two paragraphs where you described every details about the soldier who was yelling and floundering as if he was on fire. You have given every details in such a way that I almost felt I was there. I could picture the position of the soldiers and the way they look, by limping and stumbling with lost boots.
In the first two paragraphs the description was vile, because it explain more about what happened when a bomb was dropped around an area with people and what usually happened such as in line five " Men marched asleep. many had lost their boots", and also in line six "But limped on, blood shod. All went lame; all blind."
The old lie: Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro patria mori." Which means it is sweet and right to die for your country. I have completely agree with you that it's an old lie because I know the government say this lie to young men so they will have courage to fight for their country. However they don't realize the amount of innocent lives that are destroyed each day in a war. The government had brainwashed young men, fooling them that it is right to die for their country.
I would like to know why you became a soldier and decided to fight in the World War I, and if you its a waste of human life? I would also like to know if you usually have flashbacks very often about the things that happen during that time, and are they haunting you in any ways?
I would like to say that this narrative is well written and I like the way the author described it, giving every details about the pain of the soldiers. I am looking forward in reading more of your narrative.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
Frederick Douglass Speech
Frederick Douglass Biography
Frederick Douglass was born in the year 1818 on the Maryland Shore and died on February 20 1895.
- He was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement which fought to end slavery in the United States during the Civil War. Frederick Douglass was a very brilliant speaker during that time, and he was asked by the American Anti-Slavery Society to engage in a tour of lectures where he became one of America's first black speaker.
- Douglass, without any formal education, gained a reputation for his speaking skills and lectured extensively for the anti-slavery forces.
- He used his recall of details and his speaking style to write the important Narrative.
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Frederick Douglass Accomplishments
- However the American Anti-Slavery Society helped Frederick Douglass to publish his autobiography, the Narrative of The Life Of Frederick Douglass
- He started to print the "North Star" newspaper in December 1847.
- He helped and supported the women's rights in December 1848
- In December, 1850, he became involved in the Underground Railroad.
- In May, 1874, he became the president of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust
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Frederick Douglass ambition and Protest
- He taught everyone that freedom is never free—that it is born of and born in "earnest struggle."
Douglass served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights during this period of American history and is still revered today for his contributions against racial injustice.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Site: http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/douglass/home.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00394/douglas.htm
http://www.black-collegian.com/issues/35thAnn/douglass.shtml
The Speech
What to the slave is the Fourth of July? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice embodies in that Declaration of Independence, en tented to us? After all they have done to us how can we forget and celebrate a day like this. What am I to argue that it makes men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages and to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men. If I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of this sorry day, may my right hand cleave to the root of my mouth. I have suffer so much to reach what I am today and I know what other black people have went through. they try to escape so many times but yet being caught and send back to their owners. They have given no rights not even to vote, or own property. They have mistreated us in so many ways that I will never forget this day. And as I speak today my last wish would be to bring freedom into this nation for all black people. After all America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. This nation is a sham. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States
at this very hour. This fourth of July is yours not mine because the liberty, prosperity and independence devised by your father and not by mine. The sun may shine light on you, but it brought death and struggle to me.
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