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Quiet On The Western Front Trench Warfare
5,601 wordsAll Quiet on the Western Front Chapter Summary By: Jesse Cody All Quiet on the Western Front is an anti-war novel from the opening chapters. Many critics of the novel in the early days after the publication of the novel blamed Remarque for writing for shock value. They did not want to believe his novel represented the truth about World War I. In many ways, such people were like Paul's schoolmaster, Kantorek. They wanted to cling to classical, romantic notions of war. However, Remarque wrote his ...
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Quiet On The Western Front Hand To Hand Combat
5,692 words... by comparison. In many ways, the bond forged between soldiers in trench warfare is the only romanticized element to Remarque's novel. All Quiet on the Western Front - Chapter 6 Summary The Second Company returns to the front two days early. On their way, they pass a shelled schoolhouse. Fresh coffins are piled by the dozens next to it. They make jokes to distance themselves from the unpleasant knowledge that the coffins were made for them. At the front, they listen to the enemy transports an...
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Character Traits African Americans
1,839 wordsA Lesson Before Dying takes place in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940 s. In the novel, Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; being the only survivor, he is convicted of a murder and sentenced to death. Jefferson's personality and physical appearance in the novel provides not only a relationship to the courtroom and his cell, but also connected to the geographical setting of the In the initial setting of th...
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Code Of Conduct Sexual Harassment
1,398 wordsDebbie Richardson is in her fourth year at Lamb Consulting and has recently been approached by Susan Gatwick, a project manager for Bob Hatchet. Susan confided to Debbie that when she first came to Lamb Consulting she began going to lunch with Bob and frequently spoke with him about personal issues in both of their lives. Bob would give Susan neck rubs and tell her that she was beautiful and Susan returned the compliments. Slowly the relationship began to change and Bob put his hand on her leg a...
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Deep Throat First Person
5,031 wordsWHAT DOES MYSTICISM HAVE TO TEACH US ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS? Revised version of the paper delivered to "Towards a Science of Consciousness 1996 (Tucson II) April 1996 [Draft for Tucson II Conference Proceedings] Revised version appears in JCS, 5, No. 2 (1998), pp. 185 - 201 Robert K. C. Forman, Program in Religion, Hunter College, CUNY, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA. Email: In this article I would like to bring the findings of my somewhat unusual but increasingly accepted field mysticism...
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Underlying Meaning Peoples Lives
1,126 wordsWhen a country is at war it is the common people who suffer. In Walt Whitman's poem, Beat! Beat! Drums, the speaker signifies the sounds of war. The speaker, listening to the banging of war drums and shrill sounds of bugles, relates the interruption these war sounds have on the harmony of peoples lives. Whitman uses the sounds of drums as an audible image to show its effects on the common people. Whitman uses two types of imagery to express the cold indirect and direct effects of war. Whitman us...
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Erich Maria Remarque Quiet On The Western Front
1,305 wordsFood means different things to people in different countries of the world; pasta is common in Italy, hamburgers are a favorite in the US and tacos are a typical dish in Mexico. Human existence solely depends on this source of energy. A person's fundamental need for food makes it a very important item, placing the people who control the food in a very high esteem. Consistency is also important in the delicate balance of life. Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet in the Western Front, and Eli...
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Stop At Mcdonalds Aunt Florence Alabama
1,498 wordsIt must have been around eleven o'clock in the morning when I awoke from a stuffy and uncomfortable sleep, in the back of a moving mini-van. My mouth was dry, my nose was sore, and my eyes itched from sleep crust. A huge yawn escaped from my mouth as I tried to stretch my aching limbs. As I was stretching out, I accidentally kicked my little brother Sam in the head. So much for peaceful sleep, he woke up in a foul mood. He must have thought that I kicked him on purpose because he punched me as h...
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Gentle Into That Good Night Dying Of The Light
1,159 wordsThe end our road that is life, is death and the second we begin to live, we begin to die. A rendition of death and the loss of a loved one is expressed in two different lights in Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that Good Night and Anne Sextons for Eleanor Boylan talking with God. Both express the fear and vulnerability of losing someone you thought should live forever Thomas message is an imperative one a dark and tangible energy whereas Sextons tone is more passive and quiet and more driven ...
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Personality Types Open Minded
1,215 wordsTo ask the question, My theory of Personality is a hard question to answer. I think the answer is one of many things. The personality that I have is much different from the one that you have. What I will do is use what I know about personality and also use information from other psychologist to answer this question. What I would like to call this theory is the Myersonian theory of Personality. A look at sixteen different personality types that I have constructed using the knowledge on my views o...
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Good Versus Evil In Three Literary Classics
960 wordsAlthough they are three very different books, Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front, Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath, and Shelly's Frankenstein all have themes of the Good, The Bad and the Ugly. Each book has a theme of the confusing of what is good and what is bad, weather speaking of the enemy forces, the evils of corporations and banks, or the evil of a tormented monster and the evil of his maker. In All Quiet on the Western Front, young German soldiers in World War One challenge their idea...
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Erich Maria Remarque Quiet On The Western Front
1,018 wordsA Disease or famine can be an awful thing. It can spread throughout towns and cities quickly, leaving thousands dead and the city in catastrophe. This spread of death and decay can be compared to situation Paul and the other soldiers face in All Quiet On The Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque. In this book the author shows strong feelings of despair towards war. This is done using the theme of decay, showing how Paul and the men become corrupted forever by the war. It also uses the t...
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Extended Metaphor Wife Penelope
1,388 wordsThe epic, The Odyssey, by Homer, depicts the journey of the hero Odysseus as he faces the greatest of obstacles to evolve into a man, preeminent over that of other mortals. In both power and prowess he is unsurpassed, comparable even to the gods themselves at times. In a particular passage within the epic, the powerful nature of this master mariner and soldier is exceptionally portrayed, positioned before the revealing of Odysseus true identity and his slaughtering of the voracious suitors. Such...
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World War One Quiet On The Western Front
1,027 words... quite a lot throughout the book in order to emphasise the pointlessness of war and to make the author realise how hard it was for these common soldiers. A great aspect of this book is that the author conveys very realistically the hardships these young men have to go through. That at any moment you could lose one of your best friends or be killed yourself for stupid, and not so stupid reasons. When the soldiers are going back to the reserve trenches after fighting on the front they have to r...
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Rocking Chair Sexual Dreams
1,793 wordsAunt Rosana's Rocker As times change, everything changes with it. The roles that women take on have changed in certain cultures, but in some cultures they have remained the same. Before, men were treated with more respect and superiority, while women had no voices or say in the events that took place in their society. Today, there are situations where men are taken more seriously than women, but slowly, women are being treated with respect and play an active role in their community and have invo...
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Ambulance Drivers Upper Class
1,806 wordsIn nearly every culture, certain distinctions exist which elevate particular members of society above others. These distinctions may be based upon age, wisdom, ancestry, gender or profession, but more often than not, class lines seem to be drawn on the basis of wealth. While the existence of these status groups may be harmless, when prejudice prevents the movement of individuals or social groups between and within classes, valuable human resources are being put to waste. This issue was of concer...
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Dave Matthews Band Carpe Diem
3,791 wordsImagine standing on a stage, overlooking 69 tiered rows in what is possibly the most beautiful amphitheater in the world. As Dave Matthews and his fellow band mates walk on stage, the crowd cheers wildly. They do this throughout the opening song, Seek Up, and, for the most part, through the whole show. Recorded on August 15, 1995, this was at the height of the bands musical talent and at the bottom step of their climb to fame. It was shows like this that left fans mesmerized by the funky, jazz-i...
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Benedick And Beatrice Claudio And Hero
910 wordsThe Illness! Benedick and Beatrice, Claudio and Hero, these four very different people that all end up with the same illness. They are two relationships with two sets of very different people. Benedick and Beatrice are outgoing and Bold, Claudio and Hero are shy and quiet. Both relationships start out differently as well. Beatrice and Benedick start out hating each other while the other two start out with love at first sight. The relationships are always different with Benedick and Beatrice hati...
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Natural Death Three Weeks
2,287 wordsAn Essay on At Kinosaki by Shiga Naoya Background Facts about At Kinosaki Shiga Naoya wrote At Kinosaki (Kinosaki ni te) in 1917, when he was 34 years old. The story is based on his real experience in the autumn of 1913, when he was recovering at the hot springs of Kinosaki, from an accident which nearly took his life. Shiga was walking with a friend toward Shibaura one evening along beside the train track of the Yama note Line when the train hit him from behind. The incident is recorded in Shig...
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Tiananmen Square Supernatural Powers
2,592 wordsThroughout the extensive history of China, from the Qin dynasty to modern days, the Chinese government has been witness to complete political reformations due to weaker periods in history combined with the rise of a new movement competing for loyalties of the people. During imperial rule, the era of dynasties lasting from third century B. C. up till 1912, emerging movements led by groups such as the Taiping rebels or the Boxers had disrupted the run of government. (Eckholm A Quiet) Chairman Mao ...
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