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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CAPE – Pure Mathematics – Unit 1 Vectors Find the magnitude and direction of the vectors – 3i + 4j‚ -5i + 12j‚ -10j‚ i – j The vector XY has magnitude 10 units and is inclined at 300 to the x-axis. Express XY as a column vector The vector PQ has magnitude 5 units and is inclined at 1500 to the x-axis. Express PQ as a column vector Find numbers m and n such that m 35 + n 21= 49 If a = 38+ λ and b = λ3 where a and b are parallel‚ find λ. The position vectors of points A and B are
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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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and conflict of war affect an individual? War always takes a toll on the individual and leaves drastic changes to the human soul; this loss of innocence is a recurring motif and major theme throughout the novel. Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war novels of all time. The story follows the protagonist‚ Paul Baumer‚ a young‚ artistic boy who enlists into the German army in World War I and challenges the false glorification of war. Throughout the story Paul repeatedly
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wrote the novel All Quiet on the Western Front to show readers the impact that war and death had on soldiers during war times. Many men returned from the war with missing limbs‚ missing clothes‚ and missing minds. They felt displaced and lost in their own bodies and in society. The death toll in World War I was tragically high‚ and it left families without brothers‚ sons‚ husbands‚ and uncles. All Quiet on The Western Front describes a group of soldiers living on western front fighting for Germany during
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Summer Reading 2013 Alternate Ending of “All Quiet on the Western Front” TWELVE It is autumn in Germany. In 1918‚ the First World War is upon us. Upon me‚ as I am the last of seven members in my class. My leader‚ my friend‚ has been killed not too long ago. However‚ that has driven me closer to victory. They all talk of violence and injustice‚ but all have passed. Hope is low that the war will end shortly. If war resumes‚ then there will be resolution. I have fourteen days of rest due inhaling
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Summer reading Night 1). Crimes are committed in many situations. In some of those situations one is not always able to assist the target and extinguish the aggressor. Throughout the novel Night Elie witnesses his father being beaten multiple times by gypsy Kapos and SS guards. It is his silence that reflects both his understanding and his incapability. It reflects his understanding because he knows he can’t possibly overtake the guards‚ in a way he admits defeat. It displays his incapacity (and
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Regardless of the warring nations’ reasons or the outcome‚ in the wake of the battle‚ the soldier‚ or country’s hero‚ actually becomes the victim. Youth is sacrificed‚ lives are lost‚ and the survivors are forever altered. In the novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ written by Erich Maria Remarque‚ the characters sacrificed their youth in the war and their innocence was lost. Paul Bäumer‚ the narrator‚ was forced to discover a harsh reality. Paul’s high school teacher‚ Kantorek‚ pressured Paul and his
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yet through the incorporation of key elements of the Western Australian environment‚ many messages are reveled to us that shape our understanding and interpretation of a text. In An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton‚ Winton uses elements of the Western Australian Environment to address key themes and issues present within our lives‚ and influence our opinion on them through the conveying of important messages. Winton’s incorporation of the Western Australian environment into the novel aims to relay significant
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