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Views of World War I

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...

Tragic Themes in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Sophocles' Antigone and William Shakespeare's Macbeth

Shakespeares characters that the audience (or the reader) immediately understands will not have an easy time of it. The story of "...

Historical Inhumanity in Night by Elie Wiesel and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

In five pages this comparative novel analysis reveals how man has historically exhibited inhumanity toward his fellow man. Two so...

Existential Themes in "All Quiet on the Western Front"

all of his previously held values as vulgar absurdities, incompatible with the reality of his experiences. The existentialist them...

Individual Transformation in All Quiet on the Western Front and Journey Into the Whirlwind

soldiers, and their past as innocent young men, comes on page 21 of the novel when Paul is describing the impending death of a fri...

Comparing Three War Films

This essay presents the thesis that All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Apocalypse Now (1979), and Saving Private Ryan (1999) s...

The “Communist Manifesto” and “All Quiet on the Western Front”

War can be seen as an event that ends in ruin for all concerned. He also says that society in general was dividing into two "grea...

Erich Maria Remarque and Maximilien Robespierre Compared

This research report compares and contrasts these two historic French figures. Different ideas about each of these characters are ...

Gender in All Quiet on the Western Front

is fantasizing about sex. All Quiet on the Western Front is an older but expressive work that captures the problem of war through...

Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving

to what love really is because they approach it from the wrong perspective. They believe that love is something to be found house...

Did the Founding Fathers Really Intend for a Total Separation between Church and State?

The writer presents a comprehensive discussion on whether or not the founding Fathers intended for there to be separation of churc...

The Western Front and the Battles of the Somme and Verdun

2004). The decision was made in February to launch an offensive by both British and French armies in Picardy along the Somme River...

Art of China Featured at LACMA

their writing was essential pictorial, but did allow for the expression of abstract ideas. Warfare with neighboring areas was a w...

The Western Influence on the Countries of Africa Africa

6 pages and no sources. This paper considers the nature of western influences on the countries of Africa. Specifically, this pap...

Quebec/The Quiet Revolution

World War II, since 1936.4 The modernization that had been occurring for quite sometime accelerated under this new leadership. Wit...

Marketing the Frigidaire Front-Loading Washing Machine

at the time and promised to be of even greater importance in the future. Frigidaire needed to be positioned to take advantage of ...

The West Front of Wells Cathedral

in early Christianity. This group includes statutes of "St. Augustine...St. Paul, (and) St. Joseph of Arimathea (Van Rensselaer, 1...

Motivation of Death

In four pages death as a motivator is considered within the context of The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm, The An...

Heroines in Literature and How They Have Evolved

than money and position, but in the end, it is the money and position which sentence her to the only action left to her. A woman c...

Gender and Race Issues in 19th Century Literature

passionately involved in the struggles of minorities and minority issues, Childs biographer, Carolyn Karcher (1998), readily admi...

Reaction Paper on Joshua Marston’s Film Maria Full of Grace

perfect mule to travel from Bogota to New York because no one would dare X-ray a pregnant woman. Of course, by ingesting the 62 h...

Maria Full of Grace

girl, Lucy, dies because one of the pellets broke inside her and caused an overdose. She is simply cut open and tossed aside by th...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson in a Historical Context

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

Historical Context of 'The Caine Mutiny'

In 6 pages this paper considers the Communist paranoia of the 1950s as depicted in this film's desire to prosecute Queeg during a ...

Women's Baseball Leagues in Historical Context

Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 for example (Roberts, 2005). The womens movement had begun and baseball was an...

Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Historical Context

1852.5 Stowes portrayal of the cruelty of slavery generated "horror in the North and outrage in the South," as Southerners perceiv...

Oliver Twist and Historical Context

the tender age of 10 to help support the family by pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish at the Warren Blacking Company.5 The r...

“The Great Gatsby” in Its Historical Context

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

Historical Context of the North American Free Trade Agreement

requirements that are costly, and so their corn broom products, products that are clearly not expensive, high-end, or high-technol...

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five from a Historical Context

In seven pages this 1968 novel by Kurt Vonnegut is examined from an historical perspective. Six sources are cited in the bibliogr...