Bill speer had just stepped out of his morning shower on the light cruiser uss honolulu when the attack began. "i saw a torpedo drop and our guns were firing before they'd even sounded general quarters. i ran to my battle station and went through the rest of that day without getting fully dressed." speer tells of the deep sorrow they felt during those first terrible hours. "we could clearly see the arizona and all of battleship row from our post. at one point we were all just standing there with tears in our eyes watching the devastation and feeling , with nothing to be done about it." for many survivors, "doing something about it" meant getting back to their posts as quickly as possible, even if they were injured. of the hundreds of men wounded in the attack, only 10 percent stayed in their hospital beds more than a day. the rest went almost immediately back to their duties. "that gives you an idea of our patriotism," speer said with a note of pride. courtesy of the national park service drawing on this excerpt, and the information you learned in the lesson about the manzanar internment camp, draw two connections between the ideas in this excerpt and the lessons. explain each of these connections using evidence from the excerpt.

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.

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