Essays Tagged: "beggars"

"Down and out in Paris and London" by Orwell

of the poor and feels that society is very unfair in their criticism and judgment of the tramps and beggars that roam the streets. He feels that these people are victims of their circumstances. To be ... Through the author we get a very keen insight into this area of human experience.Orwell feels that beggars and tramps have unfair labels and stereotypes attached to them. For example, most people thi ...

(4 pages) 52 0 4.2 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

A look at evil in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and the Prologue to "Canterbury Tales".

e Canterbury Tales" the respective authors tell of how evil, although believed to be a trait of low beggars and such, could creep its way into the higher rungs of society, and through certain circumst ...

(6 pages) 115 1 4.2 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

"Dulce est Decorum..." by Wilfred Owen

fied death; for those who sleep, sleep restlessly. The ugliness of war is described as low like old beggars under sacks, diseased coughing like hags, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind, exhausting d ... can see and war as the disease Owen wants the inexperienced to understand. 1 Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, 14 As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. 20 His hanging face, like a devil' ...

(2 pages) 72 3 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

"How to sweep beggars from our streets" by David Marsland

CRITICALLY ASSESS NEW RIGHT CRIMINOLOGYBEGGARSQ.1Read Item A. To what extent does Marsland's analysis fit the right realist approach?In the ... o what extent does Marsland's analysis fit the right realist approach?In the piece on 'How to sweep beggars from our streets' by David Marsland, he likens them to menaces in society and an 'eye sore' ... eir explanation was to blame a 'decline in moral values' as the main factor. Marsland believed that beggars had no moral fibre and that the problem did not stem from capitalism or poverty but their me ...

(2 pages) 34 0 5.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

The Elizabethan Theater - Who went to the theater in Shakeperean times?

d merchants, but audiences were often a diverse representation of English society, from noblemen to beggars. Plays appealed to many people because they were inexpensive but entertaining. Poorer people ...

(1 pages) 45 1 3.5 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Poetry Review on "Dulce et Decorum est" by Wilfred Owen.

th the narrator in the trenches with his fellow soldiers who are described as "Bent double like old beggars under sacks". This gives you a good image of a group of soldiers who are tired and want to l ...

(3 pages) 147 0 4.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

1)Provide a detailed analysis of Wilfred Owen's Dulce Et Decorum Est , showing how the poet employs poetic devices to convey tone and attitude towards war.

e, the soldiers are bending probably due to extreme fatigue as war tires a person rapidly. Like old beggars under sacks, old again suggest tired soldiers or that war makes a person age due to stress, ... ired soldiers or that war makes a person age due to stress, beggars mean the soldiers are poor like beggars, while beggars have no money, the soldiers have no rest, no hope and perhaps no life as all ...

(6 pages) 82 0 5.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Dulce et Decorum est - a beautiful poem . truly a piece of art .........

ct is war, and the pity of war, The poetry is in the pity.\"-Wilfred Owen...\"Bent double, like old beggars under sacks.\" Is the melancholy air in which the famous poem- \"Dulce et Decorum Est\", beg ...

(7 pages) 85 0 4.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

Alms... Anyone???

Alms... Anyone???Beggars in the streets, leaflets and letters asking for help and donations, charitable groups and in ... le for their own benefits, such as syndicates and fake charitable institutions. There are also some beggars who act violently if you give them a small amount of alms. Some people think thay they could ... etchildren use the alms given to them to buy rugby, cigarettes and to finance their vices yet other beggars use it to at least buy some food for their family. Anti-vagrancy law was also implemented in ...

(5 pages) 26 0 3.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Frankenstein:The Creature's Life

his surroundings. He figures out how to start a fire and, thus, keep warm. A fire was left by some beggars and the creature, feeling its warmth and noticing its light, discovers how to prolong the fl ...

(5 pages) 28 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Summary of A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

that his solution to the overpopulation of children does not affect only the children of "professed beggars" (801) but all the children of certain age, whose parents cannot take care of them.In the fo ...

(4 pages) 163 1 2.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Analysis of Dulce Decorum Est

the Roman poet Horace. In the first stanza Owen says that the soldiers were "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks" (Owen 277). This first sentence is a simile that the author uses to tell the re ...

(4 pages) 179 1 4.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Critical Analysis of Dulce Et Decorum Est If you were asked to choose a poem to be included in an anthology of great twentieth century poetry, what would it be and why?

one, Owen creates an image of the soldiers walking back from the front line."Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,"This image is created by using a simile to compare the soldiers to beggars. It ...

(5 pages) 42 0 4.5 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Speech on 'Authority and the Individual'

luence, lost all respect for his black culture and rejected its authority as they were depicted as "beggars puking Hunter River Rotgut Sherry in the lee of hotel shit-houses" and ppl who would "lend o ...

(3 pages) 32 0 4.5 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Title: Why I chose to give, a speech formatted in APA style.

ve(Attention Getter) I am daily confronted--sometimes it feels like I'm hounded--with requests from beggars to give them money, and I just feels uncomfortable! (Psychological Order) Have you ever had ...

(3 pages) 34 0 0.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Language Techniques and Their Importance in "Dulce et Decorum Est" and "Anthem for Doomed Youth"

d experienced.Metaphors are used to illustrate more vividly the descriptions used in the poem: "old beggars under sacks" describes the soldiers that were deformed by the effort they had to make. This ... t more vividly because of the images.The image at the beginning of the poem, "bent double, like old beggars" describes the soldiers which were barely upright as they struggled to walk. From the start ...

(3 pages) 45 0 5.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Pablo Picasso: Start-off in art, Relationships, Later years

901 to 1904 and is characterized by a predominantly blue palette and subjects focusing on outcasts, beggars, and prostitutes. The Rose Period is characterized by a lighter palette and greater lyricism ...

(2 pages) 36 0 3.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Storming of the bastille

These people that took this action were some of the most skillful tradesmen and merchants, not just beggars that sought a little more money. Although these were respectable people that place the place ...

(2 pages) 22 0 1.7 Mar/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution

War Poets and the five senses.

fred Owen, in his poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est", uses imagery to brutal effect. "Bent double like old beggars under sacks" this simile brings to mind the poor, crippled, dirty beggar that has been throu ...

(4 pages) 44 0 4.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Questions of my Life.

urned a corner I wish we had never turned. We suddenly found ourselves surrounded by nearly a dozen beggars, in rags, stretching out their hands, asking for money in a pathetic tone. Alas! I will neve ... hey disgustedly threw money on the pavement, staring with astonishment and scorn at those miserable beggars vying with one another for the handout. In retrospect, I can still feel my shock at those pe ...

(3 pages) 24 0 5.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing