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All Quiet On The Western Front Report
5,627 words... than it might otherwise have been. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT: FRAU (MRS. ) BAUMER Paul's mother is a courageous woman who is dying of cancer. She is the most comforting person Paul finds at home. She alone does not pretend to understand what it is like at the front. Paul is in agony over her illness and is overwhelmed by the love she shows him by preparing his favorite foods and depriving herself in order to buy him fine underwear. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT: FRAU (MRS. ) KEMMERICH ...
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Trench Warfare War Effort
1,346 wordsGallipoli truly demonstrated the view points of Australians and the effects the war had on them. A deceiving perception of the war was emphasized, forgetting the warnings and traumas which were so evident by the end of the movie. Innocence was lost before young boys even had a chance to really live their lives. Misleading propaganda and nationalism encouraged the war effort. Much could have been prevented, yet the naivete of the elders and youth alike kept the inexperienced going on for more. Mi...
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Great Gatsby Fitzgerald F Scott Fitzgerald
1,740 words... picture in his mind to mundane reality. The Great Gatsby abounds in touches like these. The Great Gatsby has inspired probably as much critical commentary as any other twentieth-century American novel, but it is so intricately patterned and tightly knit, so beautifully integrated through a series of parallels, that it hardly seems possible that criticism will exhaust the novel. If This Side of Paradise resembles the Wellsian novel of saturation, where everything is included, The Great Gatsby...
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York Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company
9,492 wordsWHY WE SHOULD READ POETRY WHY should one read Poetry? That seems to me a good deal like asking: Why should one eat? One eats because one has to, to support life, but every time one sits down to dinner one does not say, I must eat this meal so that I may not die. On the contrary, we eat because we are hungry, and so eating appears to us as a pleasant and desirable thing to do. The necessity for poetry is one of the most fundamental traits of the human race. But naturally we do not take that into ...
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Put An End Part Of The Book
2,140 wordsThe book Daniel 2 Daniel The book of Daniel has always been a kind of guide and an example for me to use throughout my whole life. I learned about the Bible stories in Daniel when I was very little and I always loved them. They taught me what faith is and how it comes to us in an understandable way. Stories like, Daniel and the Lions Den and The Three Men in the Fiery Furnace first taught me what Gods word is all about. No matter what age you are, the Bible stories in Daniel will give you a sens...
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Young Males Young Woman
1,002 wordsToday Date Rape DATE RAPE Today s, sad growing trend in America is date rape. We hear about date rape on the news, in classrooms, and through school rumors almost daily. But the main question on everyone s mind is, who do we put the blame on, or who s fault was it in the first place? An author by the name of Camille Paglia believes that it is almost always the girl s fault for being raped, due to her own lack of basic street smarts. She states, Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in civi...
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Dead Poet Society Midsummer Night Dream
1,840 wordsThe poets are dead; Transcendentalism lives on Most people look down upon Transcendentalism because they do not know what it means. Transcendentalism is a belief in a higher reality than that found in sense experience, or belief in a higher kind of knowledge than achieved by human reason. Transcendentalism revolves around the existence of absolute goodness, something beyond description and knowable, ultimately only through intuition. The term Transcendentalism became applied almost exclusively t...
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Clear Cut Power
804 wordsReality or Illusion In Nathaniel Hawthorne? s short story Dr. Heidegger? s Experiment, one of the central ideas of the story revolves around the idea of reality versus illusion. Of course the overriding theme of the story dealt with the ethical dilemma of changing old age into youth, still a major part of how the story was interpreted involved a personal decision on how you took the story; as literal or figurative. The perception that appealed to me the most was reading the text as literal, and ...
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One With Nature Sense Of Freedom
3,017 wordsJames Joyce's Dubliners was written in 1914 right at the onset of World War I breaking out in Europe. It is a journey through the stages of life itself: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, public life and finally death. Each one of the stories in the novel fall into one of these stages. " After the Race" falls into the adolescence aspect of the book. It does this because the characters have not yet grown up. Although they are adults they are still immature. Jimmy is easily fooled into g...
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Miss Emily Grierson Emily By William Faulkner
968 wordsThe Symbolism and Characterization in A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner In the short story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, the macabre ending is foreshadowed by the storys opening with Miss Emily Grierson's death and funeral. The bizarre outcome is further emphasized throughout by the symbolism of the decaying house, which parallels Miss Emily's physical deterioration and demonstrates her ultimate mental disintegration. Her life, like the house which decays around her, suffers from lack...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin D Roosevelt
2,075 wordsWhat Fdr Franklin Delano Roosevelt What is the true definition of a hero / role model? What criteria must a certain person meet to be recognized as a hero / role model? These questions can never truly be answered because everyone has their own opinion, making it impossible to create a universal criteria that an individual must meet to be considered a hero / role model. Though society as a whole may never agree on the criteria that one must achieve to become one; individuals within it are constan...
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Nazi Soldiers Concentration Camps
2,673 wordsPEOPLE ARE WILLING TO FOLLOW ORDERS THAT GO AGAINST THEIR MORALS? Tearful day when, from ashes, man shall rise to be judged guilty. ? These are the last words written by the great composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in his Requiem, or funeral mass. These words also describe the day that the Nazi soldiers were declared guilty and sentenced to death at Nuremberg. In the Nuremberg war crime trials, the Nazis pleaded not guilty to charges brought against them regarding the treatment of Jews in concent...
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Emerson Whitman
1,444 wordsAccording 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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Harley Davidson Young Men
541 wordsNearly a century ago, the first motorized bike was invented. The idea came from two ambitious young men, William J. Harley and Ben Davidson. Upon completion of their first successful prototype in a backyard shed, they were ready to show the world their newest creation. They could have never imagined the fame and fortune that was waiting just ahead of them. The invention of this unique machine sparked a revolution in the transportation industry. It could cover ground that was considered to be too...
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Lose Weight Weight Loss
1,392 wordsHigh School Wrestling has always been thought of as the hardest and most enduring sport that takes place in high school. Only the toughest Jocks try out, and the weak are quickly discarded. Young women showing school spirit come to watch as the arms of young men in spandex are mingled about. During matches, coaches yell and scream at their young apprentices while they desperately battle to pin their opponent of equal weight. But, how equally are the two enemies matched? How much weight did one p...
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Late Nineteenth Century League Baseball
984 wordsHistory of Baseball Baseball seems always to have lived more in myth that in history. Children in England and the United States had been playing variants of the game for years such as rounders, one o cat, and base. In 1845, some young men in Manhattan organized themselves into the Knickerbockers BaseBall Club and wrote down the rules of the game they were playing. Twenty years later dozens of baseball clubs in New York and Brooklyn, and their journalist brethren, had made what they called the na...
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Percent Of The Vote Von Papen
2,854 wordsIn 1930, Germany's manufacturing had fallen 17 % from that 1927 level. Bankruptcies were increasing, unemployment was rising and farmers were hurting. Some in the middle class feared sliding into the lower class. And some in the middle class blamed the economic decline on unemployed people being unwilling to work. In 1930, the parliamentary coalition that governed Germany fell apart, and new elections were held. The biggest winner in these elections was Adolf Hitlers National Socialist Party. Fr...
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John Wayne Gacy Rest Of His Life
2,020 wordsOne of the most horrendous serial killers in modern history would have to be John Wayne Gacy, Jr. He was the second of three children and born in 1942. He lived in Chicago and attended catholic schools, and wasnt a very popular boy in school. Gacy seemed to live a very normal childhood, with exception to his relationship with his father, and series of accidents that effected him. No one could have known what the future held for John, not even his father. When Gacy was eleven years old, he was pl...
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Sexually Active Sexual Activity
290 wordsTeenagers and Sex in America TEEN SEX&# 038; PREGNANCY SEXUAL ACTIVITY CONTRACEPTIVE USE SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES (STDs) TEEN PREGNANCY CHILDBEARING TEEN MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN ABORTION SOURCES OF DATA SEXUAL ACTIVITY Most adolescents begin having intercourse in their mid-to-late teens, about 8 years before they marry. 1 56 % of young women and 73 % of young men today have had intercourse by age 18, compared with 35 % of young women and 55 % of young men in the early 1970 s. 2 While the...
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Upward Mobility Lower Class
1,294 wordsBarry Glassners book The Culture of Fear demonstrates how people manipulate our understanding and profit from our anxieties; and how the media gather scares to get ratings. I will demonstrate how Glassners theory proves how forms of inequality perpetuate the culture of fear and in turn, how the culture of fear perpetuates forms of inequality. Poverty is a major problem in the world today. Glassners theory demonstrates how the lower class continues to put out a bad image which is in turn labeled ...
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