All Quiet on the Western Front “The first bombs‚ the first explosion‚ burst into our hearts.” (Remarque 88) This is what the soldiers felt like in Erich Maria Remarque novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Paul Baumer‚ a young man serving in the German army during World War One‚ is constantly being faced with the horrible and terrifying aspects of war. From seeing‚ his fellow soldiers lying dead on the battle field‚ to learning how to survive on the western front of the war. With his rifle by his
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Erich Maria Remarque’s original 1928 novel‚ turned movie‚ All Quiet on The Western Front‚ is very useful in helping to understand the many social and cultural difficulties soldiers faced in WW1 during the period of 1914-1918. One could argue that the given film is reliable‚ but being a secondary source this is arguable. AQOTWF exhibits the saviour physical‚ and mental stress German soldiers of World War 1 encountered‚ and the raw emotional detachment from civilian life displayed by many on returning
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All Quiet on the Western Front‚ written in 1929 by Erich Maria Remarque‚ is superficially the story of one soldiers’ journey in World War 1 and his eventual death. Beneath this‚ however‚ Remarque has composed a literary treasure which‚ above all‚ seeks to illustrate war as that which is engrained in the nucleus of humanity and through the hugely negative effects of war depicted‚ seeks to question humanities apparent advancement through its need to engage in such a futile exercise as war. Remarque’s
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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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SWOT Analysis of Canon SWOT stands for Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities and Threats‚ and is an important tool often used to highlight where a business or organisation is‚ and where it could be in the future. It looks at internal factors‚ the strengths and weaknesses of a business‚ and external factors‚ the opportunities and threats facing the business. The process can give you on overview of where the business‚ and the environment it operates in‚ is strategically. This is an important‚ yet to
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Vietnam market to date‚ Canon has applied the appropriate marketing strategies to enhance brand and market share in the market. In this report‚ the strategic marketing mix will be analyzed. New product development Product SELPHY photo printers and Laser printers has attracted the attention of customers. To continue that success‚ Canon has improved and developed new products are ES3 of SELPHY line‚ the LBP3250 and LBP5050 of laser printer line. With the development of products‚ Canon is targeting the youth
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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 primary need of Hermeneutics is to determine and understand the meaning of Biblical text. The purpose of Hermeneutics is to bridge the gap between our minds and the minds of the Biblical writers through a thorough knowledge of the original languages‚ ancient history and the comparison of Scripture with Scripture. Through Hermeneutics‚ Biblical Interpretation can be achieved in three ways; historically‚ the message and the doctrine. The Bible is totally authoritive and inspired by God‚ however
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increasingly unstable‚ hateful‚ and violent. In contrast‚ Rama is able to break her samsara by realizing the answer to society’s extremism is not her own radicalization. Upon embracing an enlightening middle way‚ as Gotama Buddha does in the Buddhist Pali Canon‚ she remarks‚ “I let out a sigh of relief. I felt I had emerged into the light after a long journey through a dark‚ narrow tunnel” (Ba‚ 93). Rama’s feelings of liberation in this statement intensely parallel the Buddhist concept of nirvana‚ the state
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Exploring the Post-Colonial Literary Canon Sandhya Rao Mehta Sultan Qaboos University‚ Oman Abstract. This paper addresses some the most prominent problematics of working with an established literary canon‚ including the extent to which‚ when implemented in universities worldwide‚ it represents the emerging concerns of diverse communities across the world. The main argument extended in this discussion is that‚ while the western-centred literary canon is being increasingly replaced by other
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