Show how the respective codes of honour in 'The Battle of Maldon' and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade can be compared and contrasted. What differences in verse-style account for the different effects of each poem?
Poetry Coursework Show how the respective codes of honour in 'The Battle of Maldon' and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade can be compared and contrasted. What differences in verse-style account for the different effects of each poem? There are a number of rules of the code of honour that are shown in 'The Battle of Maldon' and they start off straight away. On the second line, the first rule is shown: "Then Byrthnoth ordered every warrior to dismount, drive off his horse and go forward into battle with faith in his skills and with bravery." This means that he is not going to give his men the chance to run away. Also, it means that they should never give in and always fight for their country. The last line says that every warrior should have faith in his skills and bravery. If you have faith in your skills then that is half way to bravery. The problem is that Byrthnoth is too brave for his own good and it makes him make a stupid decision. The main example of this is letting the Vikings across the river at the start. The writer does not praise this decision: 'Then Byrthnoth gave word that all his warriors should walk with their shields to the river bank.' The next important part is where Offa's young son sends his falcon away: "He sent his best falcon flying from his wrist to the safety of the forest and strode into the fight;" This is because his best falcon is no
Battles and arms of the Civil War
Battle of Antietam Also known to the Southern as the Battle of Sharpsburg, this was the first major battle fought on Northern soil. It was fought on September 17, 1862. With the casualties of about 23 thousand, this was the bloodiest single-day battle fought in the civil war. Confederate leader General Robert E. Lee with 45 thousand men moved on through Maryland. Leaving the battle plans behind wrapped in three cigars, his army divided to take certain parts around the Maryland area. The Union under the command of Major General George B. McClellan was to intercept Lee, but by mistake, a union soldier found Lee's battle plan. With this advantage, they set up fortify positions according to the map and made their move on the Confederate. After hours of fighting, the Confederate surrendered. They made truths and collected the wounded. Lee was to fall back into Virginia leaving a Union victory. The Union casualties were up to 12,401 and the Confederate were up to 10,318. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Antietam) First Battle of Bull Run Also known as the Battle of Manassas, it was fought on July 21, 1861. It was the first major battle of the civil war. The Union under the command of Brigadier General Irvin McDowell was to go through and fight Confederate General Beauregard at the Manassas Junction. While this happened, Union Major General Robert Patterson was to
Describe the strengths and weaknesses of British tanks in World War One.
GCSE HISTORY COURSEWORK QUESTION 1 Describe the strengths and weaknesses of British tanks in World War One. By the September of 1914, after the Battle of Marne, the Germans had been forced back to the River Aisne. Here they dug trenches, well defended by machine guns. Britain followed suit and by the end of 1914 trenches stretched from the English Channel to Switzerland. Neither side could break the others defences. A stalemate had been reached. Between the front lines of the two sides was 'no mans land'. This was often a sea of mud, covered in craters, and had huge quantities of barbed wire in front of the trenches. These problems made quick attacks impossible as the soldiers would have to run across the difficult terrain carrying very heavy equipment and then cut through the wire before attacking the trenches, whilst all the time being under fire from machine guns. Both the Germans and the British desperately tried to develop a weapon to break the stalemate and it was the British who came up with the idea of tanks. They developed what was dubbed 'Little Willie'. This could not however cross trenches. To solve this problem Britain invented a tank with tracks that went the whole length of the vehicle. This was called the 'Mark One' and it was able to cross difficult terrain and trenches. There were two models, a male and a female. The male had four machine
Why did Britain beat the Nazis in the Battle of Britain
Why did Britain beat the Nazis in the Battle of Britain? The Battle of Britain was fought totally as an Air battle, this was because Britain, being an island was unreachable from any other continent by the mean of land transport. This gave Britain a significant advantage however, the German should have won because, they outnumbered the British planes in the air by almost 5 to 1. The German aircraft was also of very high quality they had over 1000 Messerschmitt 109's and the Heinkel 3 fighters that were both equipped with machine guns. They also had 1600 Junkers Ju88 and the Dornier D.17 bombers. The aircraft should have been able to break the lines of British planes and bomb the major town successfully. Britain was forced to fight over her own shorelines and also the English Channel. This led to many different advantages, the first of which is that the pilots that were shot down could bail out of their planes over Britain and return to the Battle, however the Germans that were shot down over Britain were either taken prisoner or they took to hiding in the countryside, this increased the number of German pilots that were lost in Battle, which gave the Britons other advantages in the economy of the pilots they had to use. However the Germans were training over 800 pilots a month compared to the British that were only training 200 pilots a month. The Germans pilots also
Compare and Contrast the Poem ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ (1854) by Tennyson and the Film Version (1968) of the same events by the Director Tony Harrison
Compare and Contrast the Poem 'Charge of the Light Brigade' (1854) by Tennyson and the Film Version (1968) of the same events by the Director Tony Harrison The Charge of the Light Brigade was a dramatic historical event that has inspired many artists to work around these events. Two such examples are the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson written in 1854 and the film of 1968 directed by Tony Harrison. Both these works have similarities and differences, such as attitudes towards the soldiers and officers, the amount of emotion and attention to detail but both the poem and the film paint a vivid picture of the events surrounding this famous blunder. The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War which lasted from 1853-56 and was fought between the Russians and the Allies, who were France, Britain and Turkey. The actual Charge of the Light Brigade occurred during the battle of Balaklava in 1854. Although in poem the names of the officers are not mentioned, they are in the film. The Chief Commander of the army was Lord Raglan. He sent the message to the cavalry, which was taken by Lord Nolan down to the commander of the cavalries, Lord Lucan. Lord Lucan read the order but due to the hurriedness of Lord Nolan the order was misinterpreted and Lord Lucan, and he and the Commander of the Light Brigade, Lord Cardigan, marched with their cavalry towards the Russian army,
The Battle of Loos.
The Battle of Loos The officers had already been told that they were going into the biggest battle the world had ever known, and where also told that their role would be to march through to Douai and hold it, a task which was considerably modified before we actually reached the battle. On the morning of September 25 the 72nd Brigade moved to Beuvry, and from there marched to a point behind behind Vermelles, where the battalions rested on the road-side. The Battle of Loos was now in full swing, and many prisoners and wounded were coming down from the line, but no very definite information could be got from them. The task now allotted to the division was that it should pass through the village of Hulluch, which was belived to be in our hands, and then capture and organise the Pont-a-Vendin bridgehead some three and a half miles further east. As a matter of fact, the 73rd Brigade and two battalions of the 71st were detached to other parts of the line, leaving only 72nd Brigade to carry out the attack. When night fell the brigade moved up from Vermelles, and opened out into artillery formation, as the exits to the village were being shelled, advancing first on Le Rutoire Farm and then on a compass bearing to the Lone Tree, where the battalion halted and got in touch with the other battlions of the Brigade. Later the advance was resumed, with the Battalion leading the Brigade,
Was the Battleof the Sommea failure?
G.C.S.E COURSEWORK HISTORY Was the Battle of the Somme a failure? ) Source A, written by Malcolm Brown, expresses the opinion of people who believed the Battle of the Somme was 'a tragic massacre of a generation' and 'an event so terrible it killed the breezy, crusading spirit of 1914-15. Furthermore it tells of the opinion that the Somme ended a 'Golden Age'. Brown states the fact that the 9th Yorks and Lancasters Lost 423 men in its first battle. 2) Source B, a cartoon from Punch published in February 1917, is giving the artists impression of World War I Generals and their roles in battles. Before World War I, battles had been fought on much thinner fronts, thus making Generals able to give commands to all his troops because he could be close to all of them at the same time. In World War I, fronts were much wider and Generals had to stay way behind front lines to give orders to all the troops and had to be done using phones and messengers. The artist clearly does not like the way that the General stays in safety while the infantry fighting are suffering immensely in hard conditions with death everywhere. This feeling was common among a lot of people and the artist portrays the General as quite fat and unfit in the drawing, illustrating how he is always in safety not doing any action while his soldiers go to there deaths without the General caring. The dialogue below the
"With reference to the chosen sequence from the Gladiator, write an analysis which focuses upon how editing, cinematography, and sound create meaning and generate response within the audience"
Saleem Deen "With reference to the chosen sequence from the Gladiator, write an analysis which focuses upon how editing, cinematography, and sound create meaning and generate response within the audience" The film that I have chosen to analyse is Gladiator. I have chosen to analyse the scene where the gladiators are battling in the Middle East. The scene contains many features and editing techniques which make the fight sequence exciting and thrilling. The scene begins with a medium high angle shot of a goat with blood dripping down its body. This shot frames the body of the goat and gives it a sense of vulnerability. The shot creates meaning to the viewer who can predict that the scene might contain violence or bloodshed of some sort. The camera then zooms outward into an establishing shot to give the viewer an idea of the setting. The mise en scene conveys the setting, which is in the desert, the costumes are distinctive of the Middle East and to accompany this there is non diegetic Middle Eastern music. All of these aspects of mise en scene and the camera shot completely give the viewer an idea of the setting. The title of the film is Gladiator, from this the viewer would expect the film to be set in Rome, but these features are put together to highlight that the setting is not in Rome. The desert and Middle Eastern music are not typical features of Rome. The props
Source based work on The evacuation at Dunkirk.
Gcse history course work 2003-4 assignment 1 Question 1 Source A Source A is from Commander Thomas Kerr, one of the navel officers sent to organize the evacuation at Dunkirk. This source is useful because it is an actual account. Source A is an account on how the evacuation on the beach was carried out and what happened but it doesn't describe how or why. We must also take into account that there is a possibility that the text may have been altered because it doesn't say where it is from just who wrote it. It doesn't say if it's from a diary, letter or some other text. If it was a letter than it would have been censored. It says in the text "there were hardly any officers, and the few present were useless" this shows that its unlikely that the text has been edited in any way because letters were censored this shows that it must have been a diary most likely. This or an extract made after the war showing that it might have been have to have been done by memory. The memory might have been blurred. In the extract he doesn't talk much about personal emotions this shows it might not have been purely personal so it might have been done especially for a text book. Source B This gives emotional retelling of what happens. This describes how they felt on the beach with the German guns firing at them. This helps us to understand how defenceless they feel. It also
Compare the 'song of the shirt' to 'the charge of the light brigade'
Compare the 'song of the shirt' to 'the charge of the light brigade' The poems I am going to compare were both witten to make social or political statements . The Song of the Shirt was written by Thomas Hood in order to illustrate the plight of the working woman in 1843, who worked in 'poverty, hunger and dirt' every day in order to survive. The Charge of the Light Brigade was written by Alfred Lord Tennyson to remember and highlight the bravery of the men who were sent to their tragic deaths due to a simple human error at the Battle of Balaklava. . The Song Of the Shirt is constructed using alternating ryhme in eight line stanzas. These stanzas also alternate in rythm from a line of iambic to a line of anapest.Together with the repetition of phrases like 'work-work-work' and 'stitch-stitch-stitch', a regular monotonous rythym that is similar to stitching is established. Similarly, in The Charge of the Light Brigade, the poet uses trochee and dactyl rythm, free verse, short lines and repetition in order to mimic the movements of a charging horse. Both Poems are about being trapped in situations to which there is no escape. The Song of the Shirt is about a woman having no freedom; having to spend every spare second stitching in order to buy a crust of bread so she can live. She knows her only option in life is to work until she dies of either exhaustion or starvation. In
