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    During World War I‚ countless soldiers naively enlisted into the army‚ unaware of the harsh realities that lied before them. In the novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Erich Maria Remarque tells the story of Paul Baumer‚ a German soldier stationed in northeastern France. This was a time period when war was unjustly glorified and only the soldiers understood the battles with their conscience that would follow their deployment. When they first entered the war‚ Paul and his friends were excited

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    The Book All Quiet on the Western Front is written by Erich Maria Remarque. The story takes place in late World War I in German and French front line. The Author has written the book combining his own experiences from war. He also tried to educate his readers about brutality‚ destruction and soldiers’ point of views of war. The protagonist in the book is a young soldier called Paul Baumer. There is no specific character as antagonist but I think the antagonist is the war itself. Even though Paul

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    All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is the greatest war novel of all time. This is not true because it is a cliche story about a war hero who saves many lives‚ but rather because it illustrates the true horrors of war and its effects on the soldiers. This book demonstrates the bloody and dehumanizing effect that was has on a soldier such as Paul Bäumer. Paul Bäumer is the protagonist in this novel‚ a nineteen-year-old boy who enlists in the army with his school mates at the encouragement

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    which can change a soldier’s life forever. In the book All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque uses the symbols of boots‚ butterflies and horses to advance the main theme in the novel‚ that war takes young men’s innocence away. When a soldier begins his first training camp or when he kills his first man‚ his boots are there warming his feet. Soldiers might not realize it but their boots are with them through their change of heart. In All Quiet boots resemble ageing‚ façade‚ and change in heart. In

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    Asian American

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    Asian Americans Asians are not a homogenous group. They do‚ however‚ constitute a significant minority group in the United States. Asian Americans represent many distinct subgroups that speak different languages‚ worship through different religions‚ and practice different customs and beliefs. The main groups are East Asians (Chinese‚ Japanese‚ Korean)‚ Pacific Islanders‚ Southeast Asians (Thai‚ Vietnamese‚ Cambodian‚ Laotian)‚ and South Asian (Indian and Pakistani). Threads of similarities may run

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    Both Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” and Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” relate to the theme of hopelessness during the lost generation. Remarque’s story is set during the war from a younger German soldier‚ Paul‚ through him the suffering and difficulties are presented as fruitless and with out a main goal to look forward to when they return home. Throughout the military travels of the younger soldiers like Paul‚ Remarque’s view on wars disadvantages on people are clearly stated through

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    n Erich Maria Remarques’ Novel All Quiet On the Western Front even though soldiers escaped the war‚ they were still mentally and physically destroyed by what they witnessed and experienced. Destroyed in this sense means that they were ruined by war‚ they will never be themselves again. WW1 and any war for that matter was and are brutal on the soldiers bodies and souls. Many soldiers say that even after returning home they have a strange feeling of “strangeness”. “It will try simply to tell of a

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    Throughout the novel All Quiet on the Western Front‚ the author Erich Maria Remarque‚ explores the effects of war through both literary and structural techniques. Remarque himself being involved in the war‚ writes from the perspective of young German soldiers who were on duty during the World War One campaign. Using various literary techniques‚ Remarque is able to convey the effects of war through the destruction of natural imagery‚ the displacement experienced by the soldiers as well as the loss

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    Essay 2 The religious right has been a part of American politics as far back as the 1940’s but its presence in the late 1960’s and 1970’s was very influential in many ways. The religious right movement focuses on social issues like abortion‚ school prayer‚ religion‚ stem cell research‚ homosexuality‚ contraception and pornography. The Religious right was able to navigate its relationship with the conservative movement through American history between multiple presidential administrations due

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    the mind‚ and questioned the motive of everybody in the classroom. However‚ Abraham Maslow created a five-level table that helps prioritize these needs‚ called the Hierarchy of Needs. This was used to compare Falling Leaves and All Quiet on the Western Front. All Quiet on the Western Front was a story of a raging war‚ where a soldier is highlighted in his fight for freedom. In this novel‚ the main character; Paul is battling for his life and struggling maintain his basic physical needs. At war‚

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