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    Alienation of citizens in politics is measured by the comparison of indifference vs. activism in American political systems and culture. While a slim number of citizens vote in every election and pay attention to their state policies and officials‚ there is a large number of citizens displaying indifference about politics‚ who do not even vote at all. These citizens who do not care to participate in or pay attention to politics may be consciously choosing this path on their own‚ or they may have

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    Both Paul Baumer of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and Brutus of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar are innocent and trusting when introduced to the reader‚ but after experiencing indescribable pain‚ both become realistic stoics without hope for a better life. Both characters’ naiveté leads them to make a fatal error. Because of their mistakes‚ Paul and Brutus suffer horrifying experiences and must do things that they later regret. The trauma that they must live through

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    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT The author Erich Maria Remarque wrote the book All Quiet on the Western Front to present how a group of naive and enthusiastic teenagers endure and suffer from the cruel battlefield during WWI. All of them are motivated by propaganda techniques to join the army and they expected the quick end of the war. However‚ none of them seems to realize the fact that they are not able to go back unless they died or the enduring war ends. From their belongings‚ the readers can

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    The concept of alienation is one that most people tend to view with great trepidation‚ and wish to avoid at all costs. Most people abhor the thought of being excluded from social groups and activities by their peers because they do not accept them as they are. People tend to behave in such a manner that keeps them within their own peer groups’ social norms‚ or even adapt their behaviors to fit multiple groups to avoid being excluded. Society has taught us that it is necessary to behave a certain

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    Alienation in Death of a Salesman It is often said that society‚ family and your inner self is very judgemental. Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman tells the story of Willy Loman‚ a salesman living in Brooklyn‚ New York and his family. Willy knows deep down what his capabilities and problems are which is why he exiles himself socially. Biff Loman‚ Willy’s eldest son‚ is misunderstood but it is known that Willy has affected his life since Biff was a young man causing him to be isolated from

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    Kindred: A Story of Alienation Since the dawn of time‚ society’s views on inequalities have been its greatest shortcoming. The fact of the matter is‚ there are several aspects in society that determines these inequalities. In the novel Kindred by Octavia Butler‚ Dana is alienated from society through race‚ class‚ and gender. Thus‚ she faced much hardships and tribulations throughout the novel. Society’s outlook of African Americans caused Dana to be abused on many different levels‚ especially

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    Alienation in Fahrenheit 451 We sit on the subways and we ride on the busses‚ we drown the outside world with our headphones and our television sets‚ and we walk on the sidewalks brushing past one another just enough to avoid physical contact so that we can continue on our "merry" way towards our next destination. As a society‚ we beeline our way through life‚ weaving between moments of rendezvous and accidental concurrence‚ and we surround ourselves with instruments of interference in an attempt

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    Christine Barna Date 2/29/12 Per. 4 All Quiet on the Western Front Essay All Quiet on the Western Front is a historical novel‚ written by Erich Maria Remarque. It is set during the World War I between France and Germany. The book explores the lives and deaths of men who fought the war and how it tore them apart. The story is told through the eye of Paul Baumer‚ who enlists with his class mated in the German army. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm‚ not expecting the hardships and despair

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    All Quiet On the Western Front‚ written by author Erich Maria Remarque‚ takes readers through a series of events in which the main character‚ Paul Baumer‚ ends up eventually being a true shattered‚ broken man. Remarque takes readers through Baumer’s transformation‚ as he starts out a hometown‚ naive‚ schoolboy who enjoys reading plays and eating potato-cakes‚ and is changed to that truly broke and shattered man as he is struggling to survive World War I on the front. Prior to the war‚ Paul’s schoolmaster

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    who served in the war. You are a lost generation.” In this sense‚ lost is exemplified as “not vanished‚ but disoriented‚ directionless‚ and wandering.” One of the “Greatest War Novel of All Time‚” written by Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front described the journey of a fictional character‚ Paul Bäumer‚ who enlists in the German army in World War I with his classmates after listening to their stirring

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