by Alexis Jennings | Mar 6, 2024 | Literature
Coming from a time when the Vietnam war was as it were fair wrapping up, however, the bad dream of the Cold War appeared to be moving theatres, from the blanketed greys of central Europe to the ruddy aridity of the Centre East, All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)...
by Alexis Jennings | Mar 6, 2024 | life essays
[ad_1] A few weeks later, I started a journey in earnest to restart a hobby that I had abandoned a long time ago: baseball card collecting. Up until recently, I hadn’t opened a pack of baseball cards since probably 1994. However, I have always enjoyed the idea of...
by Alexis Jennings | Mar 6, 2024 | Literature
Being considered one of the most recognizable poets within American poetry Robert Frost offers the rhetorical question in his work “The Road Not Taken” (Poets.org). If I were asked about what the poem is about, I would reply in several words it is about life, choice,...
by Alexis Jennings | Mar 6, 2024 | life essays
[ad_1] My passion for physiotherapy grew when I experienced Osgood Schlatter and shin splints. Also, understanding the positive outcome that this treatment can deliver. However, I was restricted in taking part in athletics and other sports I enjoyed because I was not...
by Alexis Jennings | Mar 6, 2024 | Literature
In Animal Farm, George Orwell attempts to lay bare the hypocrisy, brutality, and moral corruption at the heart of the Soviet Union under Stalin. At the time when Orwell wrote the book, a disturbingly high proportion of leftist intellectuals in Western Europe and the...
