Should All Quiet on the Western Front Be Taught In School? War is hard. Losing family members isn’t the easiest thing in the world. Not knowing what could have been of them in the real world out of war. Having to learn about these things is hard‚ but I believe that it is something that we should learn. Learning about all these things teaches about the way that war messes with your mind. It makes you think of the things in ways you shouldn’t think of them. It teaches us what we would have to go
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Personality: What makes you the way you are? - Science News - The Independent At some point in your life‚ you ’ve probably filled in a personality questionnaire ("Do you see yourself as....?")‚ and wondered as you ticked the boxes if there can really be any validity to such a simplistic way of assessing people. Surely the scores just reflect your mood on the day‚ or what you want the investigator to think. Surely everyone gives the same answer‚ which is "it depends". Or even if the scores measure
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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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extreme hardship 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
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written by Ernest Junger‚ and All Quiet on the Western Front‚ written by Erich Maria Remarsque which were written on the same frontier‚ yet were different on many basic levels. In Storm of Steel‚ Junger explains the war through his own personal journal that he had written while in the war and though very patriotic and nationalistic the events in the book were as they hapepned in history to the last detail that Junger wrote down. Meanwhile Remarsque having written All Quiet on the Western Front as a fiction
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sludge in whatever kind of motor powered his brain. Solomon’s knee-jerk mental reaction was to think about how deeply he’d sleep and how loud he’d snore if he had to sit through a lecture or monologue from the man in front of him. Also‚ wasn’t the “YOU SHALL NOT PASS”-thing kind of played out? Solomon’s next thought was about delivering a witty comeback in response to the fact that they literally just said they like his sack‚ and they want what’s in it. Certainly there was something humorous to be
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All Quiet on the Western Front is a historical fiction novel written by German author Erich Maria Remarque in the late 1920s. It is narrated by Paul Baumer‚ a young man who joined the army voluntarily after listening a patriotic speech from his teacher‚ Kantorek. Paul shared his experiences and stories during the time he fought in the German army on the French front in World War I. Paul Baumer is a nineteen years old high school student. He and several of his friends from school were encouraged
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ESD‚ you are really a very pathetic soul. I have been analysing your writings over the last while. I have to admit‚ I actually feel sorry you. It appears from your reactions to comments that really should not impact on you personally‚ that you suffer from an inferiority disorder. You know that you will never measure up to your peers so it makes you happy to try to discredit others. It does not make you a better person to behave the way you do. You also display the characteristics of a narcissist
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All Quiet On the Western Front: Themes All Quiet on the Western Front is a graphic depiction of the horrors of war. In the short note before Chapter One‚ Remarque lets the reader know exactly what themes he intends. War is a savage and gratuitous evil‚ war is unnatural‚ and war is responsible for the destruction of an entire generation. Remarque is very clear on the strength of his themes‚ and uses graphic imagery to convey to the reader the physical and psychological impact that war
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Hemingway‚ as an epigraph to his novel The Sun Also Rises. Also‚ Stein told Hemingway‚ “That is what you are. That’s what you all are ... all of you young people 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
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