PowerPoint PresentationLesson Thirteen
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004).
Anti-War Films often ______________the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting or conflict (against nations or humankind) provide the ________plot or background for the action of the film.
I. Listening: Anti-war Films
Anti-War films can make _______statements— unpopular wars (such as the Vietnam War and the Iraq War), have _________critical films about the conflict, such as Michael Moore's ____________
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Themes explored in war films include combat,______________________, tales of gallant sacrifice and struggle, studies of the futility and inhumanity of battle, the effects of war on society, and _________________________________the moral and human issues.
survivor and escape stories
I. Listening: Anti-war Films
Lesson 13—Soldier’s Heart
Some war films do balance the soul-searching, tragic consequences and inner _______ of combatants or characters with action-packed, dramatic spectacles, ______________ illustrating the excitement and ________of warfare. And some 'war' films concentrate on the homefront rather than on the conflict at the military war-front. But many of them provide _________ criticism of senseless warfare.
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When the Children Cry
How can I explain the fear you feel inside
Cause you were born into this evil world
Where man is killing man and no one knows just why
What have we become just look what we have done
All that we destroyed you must build again
When the children cry let them know we tried
Cause when the children sing then the new world begins
Sing a Song About Peace.
Iraq War
When the Children Cry
To a better day for all the young
Cause you were born for all the world to see
That we all can live with love and peace
No more presidents and all the wars will end
One united world under God
When the children cry let them know we tried
Cause when the children sing then the new world begins
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When the Children Cry
What have we become just look what we have done
All that we destroyed you must build again
No more presidents and all the wars will end
One united world under God
When the children cry let them know we tried
When the children fight let them know it ain't right
When the children pray let them know the way
                  
Lesson 13—Soldier’s Heart
Agent Orange () is a kind of Vietnam-era herbicide used by U.S. forces. Approximately 20 million gallons of herbicides were used in Vietnam War between 1962 and 1971 to remove unwanted plant life and leaves to expose Vietnamese guerrilla forces in forested areas and to destroy crops needed to feed Vietnamese troops.
Agent Orange contains varying amounts of dioxin. Exposure to the defoliant () has been linked with chemical acne, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and soft-tissue sarcoma.
Nightmare: Agent Orange
Lesson 13—Soldier’s Heart
Agent Orange caused serious damage to wildlife populations and therefore biodiversity, because it caused habitat loss, depleted food sources, and contaminated water. It contributed heavily to the destruction of more than half of the mangrove forests. The forests, which were once relied upon to help maintain water levels throughout the flood and dry season, have been decimated. Now flooding is a greater threat and occurs more often, and the hills are eroding quickly. This also stops the re-growth of the forests, and the lowland agricultural area has filled with sediment.
Nightmare: Agent Orange
Nightmare: Agent Orange
Agent Orange also caused extremely serious harm to the Vietnamese people, because it was dumped at a concentration two to five times higher more than the recommended amount. Because Agent Orange contains dioxins, which have a half-life of more than two decades, it can take more than twenty years for its chemical components to decay. Currently in Vietnam, the effects of Agent Orange can be seen in over one million people, 100,000 of whom are children. Its contamination can be spread from mother to child either in vitro or after birth through breast milk. It has been linked to an increase in cancer, immune and neurological disorders, as well as hepatitis in both the Vietnamese and American veterans of the Vietnam War.
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Nightmare: Agent Orange
Although birth defect rates are dropping as dioxins break down, more than thirty years after the war, the effects of Agent Orange are still present. It caused an irreversible ecological imbalance when it destroyed wildlife, forests, and soil, and tragically ruined the health of countless people.
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Anti-war Voices
There were and are many bloody wars in the world.
Language itself cannot display the sorrow, grief and disasters suffered by people of different nations.
Iraq War is used only as an example in our hearing the voices from the world:
Peace, No War.
Anti-war Voices
war and peace.
War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hatred.
An Iraqi girl facing soldiers
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Lesson 13—Soldier’s Heart
The author tells people why he keeps writing about his war experiences and his life after the war. Wars should be remembered because the people who have so bravely borne the hardships, sufferings and sacrifices of war should be remembered. These common people are people who deserve respect and admiration.
Nazi Bombing of London in WWII
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Part 2 (Paras. ) about:
Part 3 (Paras. ) about:
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The author’s description of his war memories in France in the summer of 1944.
The author’s life after the war, how he goes back to the university to continue his education and how he breaks down and is diagnosed as suffering from “soldier’s heart”.
The author’s reason to write all of these.
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Hyperbole is the delicate use of overstatement or exaggeration to achieve emphasis.
They were deaf to the music.
Hyperbole
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I’m the happiest man in the world.
The whole world seemed to have turned golden.
Pay special attention to the italic words.
Hyperbole: more examples
-ous: adjective suffix