Also ranks #4 on Every Brad Pitt War Movie, Ranked By How Much They Deserve The Highest Honor Also ranks #6 on The 13 Best Movies Based on Poems 9 The Last Samurai Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Timothy Spall 202 votes In the historical drama The Last Samurai, Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise),...
Throughout history, men deemed sex symbols are representatives of the cultures they thrived in. Before photography and film, men were esteemed for their ...
During the First World War, the horror of facial mutilation was evoked in journalism, poems, memoirs and fiction; but in Britain it was almost never repres... S Biernoff - 《Social History of Medicine》 被引量: 14发表: 2011年 The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian ...
(probably writtenc.1225), Snorri Sturluson tells several memorable stories, based on ancient mythological poems, about the old gods of the North, including such masterpieces as the tragic death ofBalderand the comic tale ofThor’sjourney to giantland. Snorri’s book also contains a summary of...
poemspostwar periodPoems are produced, circulated, and read in specific historical circumstances. It is useful to have some sense of the situation in Britain and Ireland during the decades after the Second World War. This chapter talks a bit about the major historical events and trends that ...
Taking place partly in a field hospital and partly in the thick of the jungle, Finger Bone is wonderfully reminiscent of the poems of Wilfred Owen. A raw tale about the darkest, bleakest moments of warfare. This is about innocent men suffering fatal wounds, struggling to overcome malaria, for...
After the war, they return to Kyiv, where they learn that Debora’s father was murdered at Babyn Yar, and we’re told about the decimation of the Ukrainian Jewish community. It’s possible that as many as 1.6 million members of the Ukrainian Jewish community were killed in the Holocaust,...
Tang Dynasty is the historical period in which a great many classical poems were created. 唐朝是中国历史上的诗歌盛世,唐诗精魂万卷,卷卷永恒。 www.ceps.com.tw 6. Cotton. like silk. was discovered and made into cloth by man before the historical period began. 棉花。象丝绸一样。人类在史前就...
‘national imperialism’ in his long poems, and in 1903 he discussed the characteristics of the twentieth century from an economic perspective. That year, while touring the United States, Liang Qichao closely examined this ‘economic warfare nation’ and published the lengthy article ‘Trust, the ...
Carl Sandburg, “I Am the People, the Mob”- Also from a 1916 collection of poetry, "Chicago Poems," Sandburg reinforces the thoughts of Wilcox. He speaks of the power of "the people — the mob — the crowd — the mass" and the ability to remember wrongs while learning a better way...