Event: If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (documentary) On Thursday the 25th I attend the showing of a Documentary named “If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front”‚ directed by Marshal Curry. There as well were two guest speakers‚ Denny Jackman‚ from the board of the Central Valley Farmland Trust and of the Farmland Working Group and Brad Barker‚ Conservation Chair of the Yokuts Group of the Sierra Club. The film was a documentation of radical environmental
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All Quiet on the Western Front In All is Quiet in the Western Front‚ Paul Bäumer is the main character: with this‚ the audience follows Bäumer with his story inside and outside of war. It is through Bäumer’s point of view that the audience catches a glimpse of reality during World War I. During his service‚ the audience can see the transformation from a schoolboy to an emotionally and psychologically damaged man. (Cliffnotes) The audience learns the reality of World War I through the story of Bäumer:
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The advent of World War I brought forth new strategies and technology that had never before been seen on the front of war. The rapid industrialism at the turn of the century resulted in a distinct gap between the technological abilities of each nation’s armies‚ and their ability to psychologically deal with the horrors of war. From intensely powerful weaponry to the newly introduced chemical warfare‚ the new war tactics heavily impacted the average soldier and caused warfare as a whole to drastically
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through Symbols in All Quiet on the Western Front War. Very few words invoke such strong and conflicting reactions. War demands honor and death. War offers hope and despair. War creates the ultimate challenge and the pinnacle of defeat. Throughout history‚ man struggles to understand war and its impact on the people engaged in its horrors. Paul Baumer‚ the protagonist in Erich Maria Remarque’s historical fiction novel All Quiet on the Western Front‚ enlists in the war with his comrades. Throughout
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At the turn of the twentieth century railways dominated land transport. Motor vehicles had yet to seriously threaten the railways‚ except for local traffic‚ while aviation was at an embryonic stage. Consequently the main belligerent nations of Europe built their plans for mobilising and supporting their armies in war primarily around railways. Each nation had developed very sophisticated schedules for concentrating troops and equipment at key depots and then despatching the forces rapidly to designated
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In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel ” All quiet on the western front”‚ The uselessness‚ hopelessness‚ and effects of war are displayed using Paul Baumer’s‚ a young German soldier‚ experience and encounters while being on the front line. The effects of war are far worse than the advantages or rewards of war. In the first chapter there is a wide range of greediness and desensitization. When the remaining eighty soldiers came back‚ hungry and wanting‚ heinrich takes no notice and keeps on cooking for one
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All Quiet on the Western Front Vs. The Wars During World War I‚ many soldiers were impacted by the mental and physical effects that have changed their lives in positive‚ but mostly negative ways. There are two novels that talk about two men in World War I‚ however each tells a different story on their struggles on the battlefield. On one of the books‚ The Wars by Timothy Findley‚ focuses on the protagonist Robert Ross‚ a Canadian soldier that joined the war. Robert Ross mainly joined to war because
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All Quiet on the Western Front One of the main themes in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is Futility of War. The novel takes place during the Great War and takes place in France. Paul Baumer is the main character in the book along with many of his friends. In the book the theme of futility of war appears in the beginning‚ middle and end of the novel and Baumer slowly becomes more aware of what war is really like. In the beginning Baumer enters the war as a recruit and
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After a few days hiding in the house of Mr. Cura‚ it seemed that our crossing of the border would be as soon as possible since the controls and patrols of the Germans had intensified‚ therefore the priest this evening after his daily inspection of the fence along the stretch of the border told Claude that it’s time‚ should be ready in an hour. First‚ need to walk a distance of five hundred meters between the trees‚ along the Swiss border‚ to reach the site through which should cross under the fence
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All Quiet on the Western Front Is a Novel told from the perspective of Nineteen year old Paul Bäumer‚ a German Soldier who joins the war effort on the French front during World War I. Bäumer and a few friends get the idea to join the military after listening to patriotic speeches from their previous teacher‚ however quickly forsake these ideologies after experiencing the horrors of warfare on the front. After two weeks of horrific combat‚ a staggering eighty men of the original 150-man company return
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