The military life has not treated me well at all‚ and all of the propaganda about the Germans back home riled me up for a job that I would have never expected. The living conditions here are horrid‚ and every day I question how I am still living and have enough power left in my body to write this letter. Every day‚ my friends in my platoon die from either the awful conditions‚ or they are blown to fractions from enemy shrapnel. Besides the numerous dead bodies‚ there are large‚ repulsive rats that
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6 Quotes 1. "You limp‚ will you get out – you hound‚ you skunk‚ sneak out of it‚ would you?" [Himmelstoss’s] eye becomes glassy‚ I knock his head against the wall – "You cow" – I kick him in the ribs – "You swine" – I push him toward the door and shove him out head first.” Ch.6 P.1 This quote shows how power can change a man from being ordinarily timid or shy into someone else. Himmelstoss was given power and changed from an ordinary postman to a tyrant commander. He tells the soldiers how
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“My Last Days” We reached the trench. I was a soldier fighting in the trenches of World War 1 in France. My squad and I hopped into the trench and muddy water splashed into our faces. “Do you think fighting in the trenches is as bad as it sounds?‚” I asked Bobby‚ my best friend. “I think so. Some old dude back home told me he shot his foot off to get out of the trenches‚”said Bobby. Wow‚ I thought‚ he must be dumber than a bag of rocks. Since no one was shooting at us‚ I started to dig out a
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1. The story is narrated in the third person point of view. Aside from dialogue‚ the story does not use "I." Instead‚ it uses his name‚ or refers to the character as "him" or "he." 2. The story starts off as third person objective. It’s first told as how someone would observe from afar. The narrator makes assumptions‚ such as in the first paragraph of part one‚ "It did not appear to be the duty of these two men to know what was occurring ." In the third paragraph‚ the narrator is describing
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Julia Chapman All Quiet on the Western Front Theme Graphic Organizer | Theme | Example | Pg # | Significance | 1. Nature of Power(How individuals control others) | “Under his orders I have scrubbed out the Corporals’ Mess with a tooth-brush.”“There’s a great deal of polishing being done. We are inspected at every turn. Everything that is torn is exchanged for new…the Kaiser is coming to review us. Hence all the inspections.” | 23201 | The Corporal is manipulating his power to get the men
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Quebec’s Quiet Revolution: What Is It? How Has It Changed Quebec’s Society? How Has It Affected Confederation? The English-French relations have not always been easy. Each is always arguing and accusing the other of wrong doings. All this hatred and differences started in the past‚ and this Quiet revolution‚ right after a new Liberal government led by Jean Lesage came in 1960. Thus was the beginning of the Quiet Revolution. Lesage had an excellent team of cabinet ministers which included
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Arthur Tsao 25 January 2011 Ritchie 1 All Quiet on the Western Front: Literary Log #1 “We learned that a bright button is weightier than four volumes of Schopenhaur. At first astonished‚ then embittered‚ and finally indifferent‚ we recognized that what matters is not the mind but the boot brush‚ not intelligence but the system‚ not freedom but drill” (22). In this quote‚ Remarque explains the differences between valuable material and knowledge. The imagery he describes compares “educational”
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soldiers’ experiences. There are many resemblances between the opening night of Le Sacre du printemps and The Great War‚ but the resemblance that stands out the most is the different experiences each spectator had from both of these events. In “All Quiet on The Western Front‚” Erich Remarque conveys a war account that focuses on the insightful depiction of the inner and social experiences faced by soldiers during the Great War rather than the physical combat. Therefore Remarque’s fictional
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Narrated by Anna‚ a woman whose parents had endured the hardships of World War II‚ the film Germany‚ Pale Mother‚ directed Helma Sanders-Brahms in 1980 presents the German point of view of the war. The film examines the way Germany and its citizens struggled during and after the war and gives a very confrontational outlook on war and family. As such‚ Germany‚ Pale Mother primarily depicts the traumatic post-war experiences of women and children. The opening sequence of the film reveals Bertolt Brecht’s
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Within the novel All the Light We Cannot See the reader can see Werner’s changes as he begin to spend more time in the academy and at war. Werner begins to adopt a similar mindset as the German people; he puts his own beliefs aside for the safe of Germany. During a training exercise when a student is asked to pick out the weakest Werner willing joins the mob in chasing him down even though he knows it’s wrong. “Why they’re chasing this boy‚ and what they’re supposed to do if they catch him. Except
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