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    Through the mist of the morning‚ the scarlet leaves could be seen. In front stood a tree‚ waving its arms at me. The sky wasn’t visible to my sight‚ the deep grey clouds were disappearing‚ and the sun was nowhere to be seen. Regardless‚ I continued my journey with my obsolete umbrella firmly tucked under my arm and against my battered coat; that I have been wearing for the past fifteen years. The roar of engines could be heard as I continued my journey. The mist thickened into a dense fog‚ mirroring

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    Report on the International Situation to the Cominform Andrei Zhdanov‚ September 22‚ 1947 ________________________________________ The fundamental changes caused by the war on the international scene and in the position of individual countries has entirely changed the political landscape of the world. A new alignment of political forces has arisen. The more the war recedes into the past‚ the more distinct becomes two major trends in postwar international policy‚ corresponding to the division

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    the underlying message or big idea that is portrayed throughout the story” (What is Theme in Literature). In reading this book you can learn that being a soldier during any war can be a hard road to go down. In the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Remarque‚ the theme of the story is how the main character learns that the effects of war is hard for some soldiers to deal with. The novel shows this theme in at least instance; going home from war on leave‚ losing your friends in battle

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    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT ~ Movie Review 1. Describe the plot of the film (What it’s about‚ what happens) knowledge /10 All quiet on the western front is about six German solders that volunteer to fight in World War 1 after listening to many speeches from their teacher. They were all confident with going into war until they saw people coming back from the war. But after Paul the main character and his friends experience the 10-week brutal training they felt tired of the training

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    World War 1‚ aka The Great War‚ was a time of bloody battles. The problem being‚ those that were killed were never really recognized beyond having fought for their country. One of the most memorable characters in the story All Quiet On the Western Front is a French soldier named Gerard Duval‚ because he symbolizes the millions of good people that lost their lives during the Great War. All soldiers in the war were trained not to care about anything but war itself‚ and to only pay attention

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    In the film “All Quiet on The Western Front” a first hand war experience is depicted from the point of view of soldiers who fought on the front of the German line. People who were not fighting had these beliefs of what happened at the front. They were told countless stories but all of them were war cliches which were far from the truth of what really happened. The blood‚ sweat‚ bodies‚ countless injured and dead‚ the suffering‚ people knew it happened but not to the extreme that it was. This film

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    In every Disney movie‚ the villain is portrayed as a horrendous beast who was once a human. The thing is‚ every wicked witch or horrendous beast was once a human with a kind soul who suffered a traumatic event. In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque‚ the German soldiers shift from fresh-out-of-high-school kids to shameless killing machines after witnessing the horrors of World War I. In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ while fighting the Vietnam War without understanding

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    Inhumanity of War In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque‚ one follows the life of Paul Baumer‚ a private in the German military in World War 1. He and his friends try to survive as the people around them get slaughtered. Slowly one by one his friends die while the others fight for their own lives. This is a war with many inhumane actions that lead to unnecessary death or injury. In the story many inhumane actions spark guilt within a character‚ causing a humane

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    are only a few of the horrid images that the World War I soldiers endeavoured. Serving in war is not for the faint of heart or those considered not able to stomach the sight of gore and dead bodies every step. In the story‚ All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque‚ this story depicts these exact horrors during Remarque’s time spent on the German battlefront. Deaths are of the norm. Soldiers become immune to the smell of rotting bodies and bits and pieces of flesh everywhere. Although

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    stories before Erich Maria Remarque’s times still leaned toward themes of glory‚ adventure‚ and honor. In presenting his realistic version of a soldier’s experience‚ Remarque stripped that from war novels in his antiwar novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque accurately depicts both the physical and mental hardships of war. This novel should be read by all soldiers thinking of enlisting in the army for several reasons. First‚ the novel describes in detail the worst case scenarios associated with

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