Arthur Tsao 25 January 2011 Ritchie 1 All Quiet on the Western Front: Literary Log #1 “We learned that a bright button is weightier than four volumes of Schopenhaur. At first astonished‚ then embittered‚ and finally indifferent‚ we recognized that what matters is not the mind but the boot brush‚ not intelligence but the system‚ not freedom but drill” (22). In this quote‚ Remarque explains the differences between valuable material and knowledge. The imagery he describes compares “educational”
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All Quiet of the Western Front: Movie vs. Book The book all Quiet of the Western Front demonstrates a clear similarity in regard to themes with it’s original movie. Although the reader and the audience of the movie can take different aspects of the theme due to the setting of the movie and the imagery used in the book. In fact the added scenarios in the movie had a different impact then in the book; for example‚ in the movie Paul was introduced as a schoolboy and through the setting of movie
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The military life has not treated me well at all‚ and all of the propaganda about the Germans back home riled me up for a job that I would have never expected. The living conditions here are horrid‚ and every day I question how I am still living and have enough power left in my body to write this letter. Every day‚ my friends in my platoon die from either the awful conditions‚ or they are blown to fractions from enemy shrapnel. Besides the numerous dead bodies‚ there are large‚ repulsive rats that
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“My Last Days” We reached the trench. I was a soldier fighting in the trenches of World War 1 in France. My squad and I hopped into the trench and muddy water splashed into our faces. “Do you think fighting in the trenches is as bad as it sounds?‚” I asked Bobby‚ my best friend. “I think so. Some old dude back home told me he shot his foot off to get out of the trenches‚”said Bobby. Wow‚ I thought‚ he must be dumber than a bag of rocks. Since no one was shooting at us‚ I started to dig out a
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1. The story is narrated in the third person point of view. Aside from dialogue‚ the story does not use "I." Instead‚ it uses his name‚ or refers to the character as "him" or "he." 2. The story starts off as third person objective. It’s first told as how someone would observe from afar. The narrator makes assumptions‚ such as in the first paragraph of part one‚ "It did not appear to be the duty of these two men to know what was occurring ." In the third paragraph‚ the narrator is describing
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Statistically speaking‚ World War I was the cause of over 17 million deaths and 20 million wounded. The youthful generation are innocent and ignorant soldiers‚ who believe that war is an adventure‚ easily getting killed as soon as they step a foot at the front-line. The “Lost Generation” was a term originated from a garage owner in a conversation with his employee that was witnessed by Gertrude Stein‚ which was later popularised by the American novelist‚ Ernest Hemingway‚ as an epigraph to his novel The
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World War I had a definite impact on the European home front; the war was called total war for a reason. The term total war has many meanings when concerned with WWI‚ but it could also be talking about the fact that the civilians were directly impacted and involved in the war. The home front was impacted during WWI because women were having to replace the men in jobs‚ everyone was romanticizing the war at first then were struck by reality‚ and the people were having to ration food. As men began
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“The Latest from the Feminist “Front” by Rush Limbaugh argument is that how male’s pursuit females. The title “Feminist Front is the first evidence that the writer use to characterize feminist create a facade. The writer claims his views on the feminist movement is rough‚ insensitive‚ cruel‚ and provocative. The writer is rough on feminist with is why there is common ground. The excerpt has several logical fallacies which is some type of counter statement that weakens an argument (Writer’s np)
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All Quiet on the Western Front: Alienation According to the Webster’s New World College Dictionary‚ alienation is 1. Separation‚ aversion‚ aberration. 2. Estrangement or detachment. 3. Mental derangement; insanity. The theme of All Quiet on the Western Front is about how World War I destroyed a generation of young men. It has taken from them the last of their childhood years‚ it has destroyed their faith in their elders‚ it has taught them an individual life is meaningless--and
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Company K Company K From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Company K Author William March Country United States Language English Genre Novel Publisher Smith and Haas (USA) & Victor Gollancz Limited (UK) Publication date January 1933 (USA) & March 1933 (UK) Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 260 pp ISBN 978-0-8173-0480-5
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