lower-middle-class family. In 1916‚ he was drafted into the German army to fight in World War I where he was badly wounded. Ten years after the war ended‚ he published a book which was translated a year later into English with the title All Quiet on the Western Front. This is a novel about the experiences of ordinary German soldiers during World War I. Remarque starts off the novel by stating‚ "This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession‚ and least of all an adventure‚ for death is not an
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Analysis on the Relationship Between Poetry & Painting An analysis on the relationship between poetry and painting Lope De Vega‚ in one of his sonnets‚ refers to two famous contemporaries in a striking way; he calls the Italian poet Marino “a great painter for the ears” and the Flemish painter Rubens “a great poet for the eyes”. Six hundred year and 6000 miles away‚ a similar concept occurs in a parallel situation. The Chinese poet Su Shi‚ in one of his poems‚ praises two men
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the power objects used to channel the spirits of ancestors‚ celebrate rites of passage‚ and ensure the well-being of the community. Beadwork using seed beads and wood carving with hammered brass were unique features. 7. Post-Impressionist paintings were a broad reaction against Impressionism. The works continued to use the bright Impressionist palette‚ but rejected the Impressionism’s emphasis on the spontaneous recording of light and color. Post-Impressionists sought to create art with a greater
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Revisiting the Legacy of the Early Filipino Baptists in collaboration with the First American Missionaries in Western Visayas‚ Philippines 13 Mar 2012 posted at http://yercyasnot.wordpress.com/ During the beginning of the Baptist Mission in the Philippines‚ Western Visayas was strategically divided in three ‘mission stations’ in Jaro‚ Iloilo‚ and Capiz in Panay Island‚ and Bacolod in Negros.[1] Significant efforts were made that kept the Christian faith alive even up to this day. Likewise‚ it
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n Erich Maria Remarques’ Novel All Quiet On the Western Front even though soldiers escaped the war‚ they were still mentally and physically destroyed by what they witnessed and experienced. Destroyed in this sense means that they were ruined by war‚ they will never be themselves again. WW1 and any war for that matter was and are brutal on the soldiers bodies and souls. Many soldiers say that even after returning home they have a strange feeling of “strangeness”. “It will try simply to tell of a
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At age nineteen‚ Paul Bäumer and his classmates enlist in the German army of World War I. His elders constantly pushed him to sign up for war‚ as serving his nation was seen as the greatest honor of all. People like his old schoolmaster convinced him and his classmates that war was an honor and constantly romanticized the idea of fighting for your country. Since all these ideas of defending the German pride were indoctrinated into his head‚ Paul absent mindedly followed along without questioning
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Japan and China had many contrasting responses to western penetration in the nineteenth century‚ including economic interaction - economically China suffered and Japan prospered‚ Japanese agricultural productivity increased while China’s did not‚ and China only accepted a small amount of goods while Japan accepted a wide range of goods- and political interaction - China went to war but Japan did not‚ Japan adopted western learning styles but China did not‚ and Japan heavily increased taxes on their
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War is good and bad‚ beneficial and pointless‚ but above all other things‚ immensely inhumane. Man created war‚ and with our controversial human nature egged it on. “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque is a war novel that shows the war experience and how war changes people. During the time spent at the front and at rest the soldier is turned from human to inhumane. They are taken away from the normal human emotion and placed into a state of being more animalistic and superhuman
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literature stretching from Josquin to Bach without a thorough grasp of one of the more important classes of text-influence: namely‚ word painting. The variety of ways in which words may influence music can be formed into a surprisingly symmetrical array (Figure 1). Figure 1. Classification of Text Influences vol24id199 In this classification‚ word painting represents only an option of one of the eight primary surface effects (rhythmic‚ phonetic‚ formal‚ rhetorical‚ dramatic‚ lyrical
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фреска statue — статуя bust [bʌst] — бюст sculpture — скульптура b) genre [ʒa:nr] — жанр landscape — пейзаж seascape — морской пейзаж‚ марина still life — натюрморт battle piece painting — батальная живопись genre painting — жанровая живопись mural painting — настенная живопись portrait painting (= portraiture) — портретная живопись с) artist — художник painter — художник‚ живописец engraver — гравер landscapist — пейзажист seascape painter — маринист animal painter
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