Dulce Et Decorum Est: Analysis Of Military Life
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The brochure for the U.S. Army, Count Your Benefits in the Army
Reserve, lists attractive advantages for those considering a career in the
military field: reserve pay, money for college, vocational training,
income tax breaks, and retirement benefits, among countless others. None
of the benefits mentioned, however, are meant to outwei ....
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.... text alone concerning the
way he saw his fellow soldiers in combat while describing his chimera, for
they were "knock-kneed, coughing like hags"and "bent double, like old
beggars under sacks". These words don't necessarily bring to mind a
healthy 17-year old boy, does it? The other words he used- "drunk" "lame"
and "blind,"- all showed soldiers' impaired state, and held both
denotative meanings and connotative meanings in their vagueness, ....
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Number of pages: 3 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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