faced with the horrific and soul-destroying war. One by one the classmates are fall in action… 1. What is the title of this film? When was it made? Who wrote the original novel? Title: All Quiet on the Western Front Made in: 1979 Author: Erich Maria Remarque 2. Why did the students join the Army? The students were taught fighting was something good. War was an adventure. When being soldiers‚ the students did not have to attend school and they want to fight for their fatherland.
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Adolf Hitler‚ World’s Best or Worst Ruler? He was a German politician‚ Chancellor of Germany(1933-1945)‚ and Fuhrer of the Nazi Party(1934-1945). Hitler ruled with an iron fist as a dictatorship. Some supported him‚ some opposed him. His rule led to World War II and led to the Holocaust. Because of this‚ 6 million jews and 5 million noncombatants were killed. (“Adolf Hitler.”) Hitler was born on April 20‚ 1889 in Braunau am Inn‚ a large city in Upper Austria. His parents were Alois Hitler and Klara
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All Quiet On the Western Front‚ written by author Erich Maria Remarque‚ takes readers through a series of events in which the main character‚ Paul Baumer‚ ends up eventually being a true shattered‚ broken man. Remarque takes readers through Baumer’s transformation‚ as he starts out a hometown‚ naive‚ schoolboy who enjoys reading plays and eating potato-cakes‚ and is changed to that truly broke and shattered man as he is struggling to survive World War I on the front. Prior to the war‚ Paul’s schoolmaster
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Both Paul Baumer of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and Brutus of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar are innocent and trusting when introduced to the reader‚ but after experiencing indescribable pain‚ both become realistic stoics without hope for a better life. Both characters’ naiveté leads them to make a fatal error. Because of their mistakes‚ Paul and Brutus suffer horrifying experiences and must do things that they later regret. The trauma that they must live through
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Essay: All Quiet on the Western Front An anti-war novel often portrays many of the bad aspects and consequences of war. Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel set in the First World War that is against war. Remarque describes the terrible reality of the war‚ focusing on the horrors and involved. The novel portrays an anti-war perspective as it brings up issues about the brutality of war‚ the narrator’s change of attitude towards war‚ the futility of war and
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was later signed by Britain‚ thus creating Triple Entante. Then Europe was divided into hostile camps. During this time nationalism had caused a glorified view of the war. These views showed how inexperienced the people of Europe were in warfare. In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front‚ we can
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All Quiet on the Western Front vs. Postmodernism There are many novels that recollect various periods throughout the decades. The novel All Quiet on the Western Front is one of these. The Author Erich Maria Remarque uses a fictional character named Paul Baumer to install feeling‚ thoughts‚ and actions that the German soldiers went through during World War I specifically battling on the Western front. This novel gives a historical outlook on how the war affected these soldiers during and after the
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Chapter 2 is a part of Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paolo Freire’s book published in 1970 in New York. In this chapter‚ Freire compares two concepts of education. They are banking and problem-posing concepts. The banking approach considers students as the passive‚ lacking initiative “containers”‚ while teachers “fill” these “receptacles”. Students have to memorize mechanically information given them by teacher excluding the processes of inquiry. In contrast‚ the problem-posing concept encourages the
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A common language. There is no doubt that a common language used throughout the world would do much to brings countries closer to each other. Thought it is becoming increasingly easy to move from place to place‚ our inability to communicate with one another‚ gives rise to numerous misunderstandings and makes real contact between people of different nationalities impossible. Many attempts have been made to overcome this problem and they have all failed. The fear of foreign influence and domination
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battle was fought between France and Germany. The Commanders in the battle for France was General Philippe Pétain and a French artillery officer known as Robert Georges Nivelle. The Commanders in the battle for Germany were Chief of the General Staff Erich von Falkenhayn and the last Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire‚ Frederick William Victor Augustus Ernest. To Germany‚ England was their most important enemy and therefore had to be defeated. Commander-in-Chief General Falkenhayn
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