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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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Listen To What Paul Kill The French Soldier War
582 words
I. a) Why didn't he kill the French soldier? Paul
hesitated to kill the French soldier because the
littlest ounce in his body felt remorse towards
the suffering soldier. Paul did have some thoughts
in killing him, but when he thought about it, he
just could not bring himself to kill him. He
talked to the soldier and explained how their
country did not know what they were doing to each
other. Paul just wanted to increase the peace and
he felt killing the French soldier would not do
any good, sinc...
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Rest Of The World Mental Anguish
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The important conflict in The Red Badge of Courage
is Henry Flemings fear about how he will perform
in his first battle. There are three people who
expressed their ideas abou their fears before the
first skirmish. They are Henry Fleming, Tom
Wilson, and Jim Conklin. Henry is worried about
how he will do in this first battle. He isn't sure
if he will run or not, and he is scared that he
might. He doesn't want to look like a fool and
run, but he is also scared of getting killed. Even
though Henry ...
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Leaves Of Grass American Scholar
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According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American
Scholar is one whose individual character is
split. The Emersonian character is made up of many
different parts, therefore influenced by several
aspects of everyday life. As Emerson states, Man
is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and
producer, and soldier. In the divided or social
state, these functions are parceled out to
individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of
the joint work, whilst each other performs his
(294). One can easily relate...
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First World War Tells The Story
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Question: In what specific ways do Wilfred Owens
poems attempt to dispel the illusions about the
war represented in the art on pages 367 - 368? As
the First World War raged through Europe many of
the countries involved used posters to draw people
to the cause. The posters located in the Human
Record showed scenes of happiness and patriotism.
People were seeing these posters and assuming that
war was similar to them. But, on the other hand,
Wilfred Owens was writing poetry that truly
portrayed th...
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Red Badge Of Courage Summary And Character Analysis
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Stephen Crane has written many remarkable poems,
short stories, and novels throughout his short
life (He lived only to the age of 29). The Red
Badge of Courage is a tale of war, life,
responsibility, and duty. It has been considered
the first "great modern novel of war" (Alfred
Kevin). It traces the effects of war on Henry
Fleming, a Union soldier, through his dreams of
battle, his enlistment, and his experience through
several battles of the Civil War. Henry, "the
youth", was a young man who li...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est Critical Response
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A poem which I have recently read is: Dulce Et
Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen. The main point
Wilfred Owen tries to convey in this poem is the
sheer horror of war. Owen uses many techniques to
show his feelings, some of which Ill be exploring.
Wilfred Owen is a tired soldier on the front line
during World War I. In the first stanza of Dulce
Et Decorum Est he describes the men and the
condition they are in and through his language
shows that the soldiers deplore the conditions.
Owen then moves on to...
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Horrors Of War Shell Hole
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In what ways did Paul Buyers participation in the
First World War change him as a person? Franz
Kemmerich was Pauls first classmate to die in the
war. His death shattered Pauls belief in
authority. He admits to himself that he trusted
and listened to them. They were supposed to have
greater insight and wisdom yet they were the ones
who had encouraged the boys to enlist instead of
protecting them from the horrors of war. The 10
weeks of army training before going to the front
had more profound in...
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The Red Badge Of Courage Critical Overview
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Stephen Crane was born in 1871 in Newark, New
Jersey. The fourteenth child of highly religious
Methodist parents, Crane lapsed into a rebellious
childhood during which he spent time preparing for
a career as a professional baseball player. After
brief flirtations with higher learning at
Lafayette College and Syracuse University, Crane
turned to writing full-time. Convinced that he
must invest his work with the authenticity of
experience, he often went to outlandish lengths to
live through situat...
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Obedience To Authority In The Military
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Obedience to Authority in the Military I would
like to start by saying that during the US-led
operation in Iraq the British and Australian
troops were told to use their own judgment in the
decision making process of whether or not to shoot
in the civilians. They were told that they would
not be punished for disobeying the American
leaders. Here we see the example of how the
personal conscience is used against the obedience
to authority, yet generally the obedience to the
military authority is un...
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Red Badge Of Courage Loud Soldier
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Changes in Character Has it ever appeared that a
person has no control over the events that change
their life? Has their brain ever thought things it
was not supposed to think and their body done
things it was not intended to do? In Stephen Crane
s The Red Badge of Courage, Henry Fleming is in
this situation. In the first half of the novel
Henry acts as though he has no control over his
life; however, halfway through the story he gets a
second chance, and his view on life changes
allowing him to...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est First World War
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The attitudes of poets towards war have always
been expressed vigorously in their poetry, each
poet either condoning or condemning war, and
justifying their attitudes in whatever way
possible. I aim to explore the change in the
portrayal of war before and during the twentieth
century, and also the structures and devices poets
use to convey their views persuasively, and
justify them. These two poems describe war, and
scenes from war, with varying levels of intensity
and reality and also from diff...
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Hospital In Milan Hemingway Short
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Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway was born
in Oak Park, Illinois July 21, 1899. Hemingway is
known to be one of the most influential writers of
the twentieth century. He has written more than
one hundred short fiction stories, many of them to
be well known around the world. Some of these
short stories had just as powerful an impact as
his novels. As a young man, Hemingway left from
his hometown to Europe, where he worked for the
Red Cross during World War I. His time spent there
inspired ...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est Dulce Et Decorum Death
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Explication of Dulce et Decorum Est In Dulce et
Decorum Est Wilfred Owen explores the harsh
conditions and realities of war. The burdens of
war and the overwhelming weariness faced by
soldiers are described in the first ten lines of
the poem. Many soldiers in World War I did not
have the proper training and equipment to fight a
war. The long marches to battle through bad
conditions wore the soldiers down and caused their
reaction times to be down. The author is
expressing the weariness of the so...
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Emerson Whitman
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According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American
Scholar is one whose individual character is
split. The Emersonian character is made up of many
different parts, therefore influenced by several
aspects of everyday life. As Emerson states, ? Man
is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and
producer, and soldier. In the divided or social
state, these functions are parceled out to
individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of
the joint work, whilst each other performs his?
(294). One can easily rel...
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Point Of View P 78
872 words
Elizabeth Shelley Sergeants Shadow Shapes is a
remarkable piece of literature that truly captures
this young womans accounts of war. Her stories
clearly show her views of the war and how she
felt, being a part of it. From it we learn what
the First World War was like for a nurse injured
over seas. Being told first hand, and from her own
accounts, Sergeant clearly shows the position of
the women during World War I. Gender plays a major
role in this excerpt from Sergeants Shadow Shapes.
The author...
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Machine Gun Fire Trench Warfare
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Is it glorious to die for your country? . This
question has been posed to many young people about
to embark on war although the answer has usually
been yes in response to their country due mainly
to the fact that the government instills it in the
people of the country to support ones country and
one way is to send young abled bodied men into the
army. If you were one individual that was not in
favour of fighting for your country you would
surely become an outcast by the countries people.
To avoi...
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World War Ii Kilgore Trout
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THE NOVEL THE PLOT Billy Pilgrim, like Kurt
Vonnegut, was an American soldier in Europe in the
last year of World War II. If you come to know a
combat veteran well- a veteran of that war, of the
Korean War, or of the war in Vietnam- you will
almost always find that his war experience was the
single most important event in his life. The
sights and scars of war remain with the soldier
for the rest of his days, and his memories of
death and killing help to shape whatever future
career he may make. ...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder Third Army
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World War Patton Patton World War II was the most
destructive war in history. It began in 1939 as a
European conflict between Germany and a British
and French alliance, but eventually included most
of the nations of the world. Most of the war was
fought with the same types of weapons used in
World War I. The greatest advances were in
aircraft and tanks. Patton was the first soldier
in the tank corps. He created the training
procedures, the regulations and the methods of
instruction. At that time...
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Red Badge Of Courage Wrote The Book
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Stephen Crane and Critical Interpretation of The
Red Badge of Courage The Red Badge of Courage is
one of the most well known novels in American
history. And the author, Stephen Crane, is a
prominent writer in history. He lived a short life
due to tuberculosis but he still managed to write,
what some critics say, is the best personal
account of the American Civil War (Wolford 119).
Then again, there are others who say that this is
a poor reflection of the War Between the States
and should not be ...
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