Dugout Essays

  • Journey's End by RC Sheriff

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    this by using the stage directions at the beginning of the play ' CAPTAIN HARDY, a red-faced, cheerful looking man is sitting on a box by the table, instantly drying a sock over a candle-flame, this gives a first impression of the trenches and dugouts being cold and wet. Sherriff then takes this description further when Hardy says "Excuse my sock, won't you... Guaranteed to keep the feet dry, trouble is it keeps getting wet doing it." The living conditions are then further described as poor

  • Journey's End by RC Sheriff

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    so it is easier to stage, it personalizes it, and it creates a sense of entrapment. The whole play is set in the trenches, which are very confined, damp and cold. They were most likely inhabited by rats and the dugouts most likely smelled. The final scene is set in the dugout, at dawn just before a German attack is expected. At he beginning of the scene “There is no sound except the distant mutter of the guns.” But later on in the scene “There comes the faint whistle and thud of falling

  • Journey's End by RC Sheriff - How does the Opening Grab the Audience’s Attention?

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    “Journey’s End” is a piece of First World War literature and presents a realistic picture of life in the trenches as he had known it and a interpretation of the horrors from the war. It is set in 1918, and opens on Monday March 18th. It is placed in a dugout in the British Trenches before St Quentin. It is a powerful play expressing many different sides of the war from the death and fighting to the way the recruits spend their spare time. This play involves the “C” Company including a Company Commander

  • Boat Essay

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    and are allowed to float and travel on water. Small boats are found in lake and the bigger ones are used for other purposes. There are three types of boats unpowered, sailboats, and motorboats. The earliest and oldest boat was the log boat or the dugout. It was made out of hollowed tree trunk. The oldest recover boat was the Pesse canoe. The earliest plank build boat was from Egypt. Egyptians created three types of boats, the Reed Raft was use for hunting, the Wooden boats was faster and more stable

  • Personal Narrative Essay: Playing In A Softball Game Player

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    What I remember is playing in a softball tournament in 2013 with my travel team. It was championship game day and to me, that day was very important. I was playing outfield and it was a new position for me so I had no idea what I was supposed to do besides catch the ball and throw it in to the middle infielders. I was unaware that the ball would be so slippery from the wet grass, which made it much more difficult to control. As the game continued, it started getting very intense and all we heard

  • Essay On A Sense Of Pathos In Journey's End By RC Sheriff

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    different factors. The first is that the scene begins with an emotive description of the atmosphere, describing the ‘intense darkness of the dugout is softened by the glow of the Very lights’ and the ‘distant mutter of the guns’. There is also a frequent reference to the cold, which helps to reflect the bitterness of war. The men in the dugout are clearly trying to keep things normal in order to try and suppress their fears about the approaching

  • Building A Campfire

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    There are many different campfire structures that can be built to start a fire while camping. The most common are the teepee, log cabin, dugout, and tunnel structures. Almost anyone can build these fires if he or she follows some key points. A fire needs three elements: air, fuel, and an ignition of some kind. For a campfire the air element is easily accessible; it's the air a person breaths or oxygen. Fuel is equivalent to wood. Sometimes lighter fluid is used to start big fires immediately

  • The Dugout Short Story

    514 Words  | 2 Pages

    On Top of the Dugout Last Sunday 10/16/16 me, Chris, and Trey went to the dugout and the basketball court at Motes park. In the end, we ended up at my house. I was bored so I decided to call Chris while I was talking to Chris I was pacing back and forth. It was 14 days until Halloween. First, we were playing baseball, Chris hit a homerun, I didn't. Second, we cleaned out the dugout so we could ride scooters and ripsticks. We did some bottle flips Chris landed it so... I yelled,”oooo he got

  • Journey's End by RC Sheriff

    2232 Words  | 5 Pages

    paper ... ...e. Stanhope's journey was made more difficult by the death of Osborne, and he blames Raleigh for this, because Osborne was waiting for Raleigh when he was killed. At the end of the play, after Raleigh has been brought down into the dugout after being wounded by some shrapnel, Stanhope realises how nasty he has been to Raleigh, and tries to make amends. He makes light of Raleigh's injury, and tells him he's getting sent back to England to recover. Stanhope tries to make Raleigh more

  • Cesare Pavese: A Short Story

    1069 Words  | 3 Pages

    “We don’t remember the days, we remember the moments.” Once said Cesare Pavese. Cesare proves a big point if you really sit down and stare at a picture. They really do bring back memories, they make you remember that moment they can take you back to when you were at a birthday with friends or the smallest things like team pictures. I did that exact thing, I stared at a picture and wrote down exactly what I saw. Read on to see my five pictures that really took me back. One of our best pitchers Masin

  • Baseball Field Hugeout Analysis

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    the structures on the baseball field specifically, the dugout. With the most recent renovations to the actual field, it is time to also improve the dugouts in which the players sit. I believe that installing new dugouts for the baseball field would substantially increase the appearance and functionality of not only the field, but the entire complex as a whole. The current issue with the dugouts is that they need to be renovated. The dugouts are starting to look worn out with fading paint, brittle

  • Snapchat Game Safety

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    injured especially if it a small child like the one in New York. The girl didn’t even have a chance to move out of the way of the ball as it was hit at about 100 miles per hour off the bat. If there would of been the protective netting behind the dugouts at Yankee Stadium, that little girl would not have been hit with that foul

  • Paddling History

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    to be made to keep up-to-date with these activities evolvement. Beginning more traditional with a dugout canoe and ending more advanced with the numerous racing canoes, our world has in fact grown to new developments. Kayaks on the other hand are similar in the way that they have progressed through history, however, the boats are all based on the idea of measurements,

  • Descriptive Essay - The Baseball Diamond

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    The Baseball Diamond Many people don't understand the point in playing baseball. Why would someone swing a stick, hit a ball, and try to get back to where they started before the ball returns? What pleasure is there in that? Why not participate in a sport like wrestling or track where there is an obvious level of individual improvement and therefore pleasure. Well, I play baseball because of the love I have for the sport, and because of the feeling that overwhelms me every time I walk onto a

  • Personal Narrative: Creating Firefighters

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    walk to dugout I see my victor team in the dugout.When I first walk up to the cold dirt and dust home plate.As pictch warms up on pictching at the catch.As is done I walk up to home plate.Woshe!clunk! As I make a pop up.On the grizzlies they almost caught my pop up but they drop it on the ground. Cluk!Cluk!Cluk!Cluk!Cluk!As I run fast on my high knees and I slid to the first base.As my team mates chear for me. Jack is up to bat for my team.My other team is watching Jack in side of the dugout Jack hits

  • R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End

    2381 Words  | 5 Pages

    Journey's End had been the first. In the play Sherriff uses many ways to portray the horrors of war and because it is set in a dugout the audience is brought right to the front line for the entire play. The conditions are conveyed in great detail and they are introduced at the very beginning of the play with Hardy trying to dry his sock out over a candle in a dugout. Sometimes the men could not get dry for days and the condition known as trench foot took its name from an infection of the feet

  • How Baseball Changed My Life

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    The most important day of my life was the day I was introduced to sports, specifically baseball. My world changed because sports are something I truly enjoy and are a great stress reliever for me. Although at that young age, I didn’t know it, but I became focused on achieving goals and working towards my future. I wanted to be better so I worked harder and listened to my parents and coaches. Practice paid off and I enjoyed getting recognized for my development. I anticipate that I will always

  • Changes Made to the Draft of Strange Meeting

    1664 Words  | 4 Pages

    version of "Strange Meeting" portrays the moment captured in the poem as a sort of dream sequence.  Several changes were made to the poem to make the setting more plausible and realistic.  The first line was altered from "It seems that from my dugout I escaped" to "It seems that out of the battle I escaped" (Owen 541).  This change is not a minor one.  It is one of the most significant cues about the location and nature of the action within the poem given to the reader.  Owen's...

  • Story about a Baseball Game

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    It had been an unbelievable season so far, we were going into the championship game of junior league with only two losses. Of course, the only other team with a better record than us was the black team. We gave them their only loss on the second game of the regular season. Now, after defeating the better of the Mosinee teams in the semi finals, my dad, who was also the coach of our blue team, had stopped to watch the rest of the game between black and red. As we pulled into the parking lot, Andy

  • John Wesley's 'Methodist Theology Of Grace'

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    DAY 11 Methodist Theology Read: First Kings 12 John Wesley taught a theology of grace. He wrote about salvation and the disciplines taught as means of grace toward entire salvation. What is “entire salvation” about, as if you could be partially saved? Well, I have never met a human being, who could give the ultimate reality of the entire understanding of God. I sense that Wesley is correct in his teaching that entire salvation comes in death. In other words, our journey is incomplete until