All Quiet On The Western Front : Quotes KEY ; Quotes‚ Source‚ My opinion/own words. Key words Lost Generation – (young boys leaving school and going to war for their country) (Page 85) ‘’That’s what set us apart and made our parents’ world a little difficult for us to understand; because somehow we were always gently bound up with that world‚ submissive to it all‚ and the smallest thing led us onwards along the path of eternity. Perhaps it was just the privilege of our youth – we were not
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The Quiet American: Reading Log PART I Chapter 1 Narrator lives in room alone over Rue Catinat Associated with a man named Pyle‚ has met him many times before Phuong- meaning Phoenix waits for Pyle also. She speaks French. Phuong cannot wait in public as the police may pick her up Phuong and Pyle are a couple Phuong was once in a relationship with the narrator Pyle "Had pronounced and aggravated views on what the US was doing for the world" Narrator smokes opium pipes regularly Phuong
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Quiet Kill Sherlock then thought about his larger than life‚ dramatic‚ screwed-up best friend Teddy Timberland and his “Oh God isn’t strange” big personality. He was someone who‚ even with someone else‚ would be talking highly of no one but himself. Every point made was all about him and no one else. If he didn’t get his way‚ his attitude would become aggressive and moody‚ like he was suddenly a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and start throwing things around‚ cursing while doing so. Those were the
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ideological dimensions. It is a system whereby people rank and evaluate categories of people in a hierarchy of social classes. This causes negative effects on society because one social class is rewarded with more wealth‚ authority‚ power and prestige. The Quiet American‚ a novel written in 1955 by British writer Graham Greene‚ demonstrates the negative effects of social class on society. The story is set in Saigon‚ a large city in Vietnam‚ at the end of the first Indochina war and is told from the point of
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The killing baffles investigators; although a gun is established in the home‚ the weapon of John Wright’s demise is a piece of rope (Glaspell 5). This intriguing murder-mystery is the plot of the one-act play‚ Trifles‚ which was written in 1918 by Susan Glaspell. The tragedy is loosely based on a true story Glaspell covered while working as a journalist in 1900 (Reuben 4). The principle theme of the play draws attention to mind-sets‚ moods‚ and misconceptions associated with social roles of men and
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Kosch Bradford Period 3 March 13‚ 2013 “All Quiet On the Western Front” Book Review “All quiet on the western front” was a war story of a young man’s life during World War 1. The book was told from a different perspective then war books I have previously read before; it showed the German soldiers life and how they perceived the war. It explained harsh events that happened and brutal situations that the Germans endured. This book takes in the western front where Paul‚ the main character
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Brenda Adan February 27‚ 2017 1st Hour The Importance of Socialization Susan Wiley was born in California in 1957. Later in life she would be known as Genie‚ the feral child. Her story consists of neglect‚ abuse‚ and social isolation. Genie at three months had a hip dislocation so she had to wear a Frejka splint. Due to this splint Genie began to walk at a late age and most researchers thought that this led her father to believe that she was mentally retarded. At fourteen months Genie came down
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with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who‚ even though they may have escaped shells‚ were destroyed by the war.” ~~epigraph The epigraph opens the book’s exploration of the effect of the war on those who fought in it. All Quiet on the Western Front takes a big critical opinion against the war and against nationalist and unknowing people like Kantorek and Himmelstoss. Maybe the meaning of this epigraph is the book lets events that happened during the war speak for themselves
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been documenting everything over years throughout history. A practice that is often debated and discussed about the relationship of the action and photograph itself. In the chapter entitled In Plato’s Cave from her book On Photography‚ photo theorist Susan Sontag refers to various photographs and photographers and analyzes the wider questions that individuals should be discussing in regards to the medium. Exploring her thesis as she states that “a photograph is not just the result of an encounter between
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With the touch of a single click a picture is taken and forever revitalized. Photography takes the essence of memory and seals it into the history of those involved in the process. Susan Sontag’s didactic text “On Photography” digs deep into the meaning of photography and claims that it has unlimited power within modern society. Her exclamation that “cameras are fantasy-machines” exerts the idea that photography brings the world closer together‚ yet seems so distant as if it were all but an illusion
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