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Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' and the Depiction of War

In five pages this paper examines how the 1929 novel depicts war in terms of plot and characterization. Five sources are cited in ...

Classical Era Transformation and Richard Tarnas' The Passion of the Western Mind

to accomplish this, Tarnas considers he authorship of men like Plato, as a basis for understanding the views of man and religion p...

Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas

human mind contributed to the displacement of Christianity several centuries later from its central position in the formation of ...

"Season Of Migration To The North" - Influence Of Western Education

in contempt of threatening the cultural foundation of rural Africa. While the narrators intent was laced with good intention for ...

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...

Communism and Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

World War I spanned a four year period between 1914 and 1918. Nearly ten million lives were lost. World War I, and in fact,...

Mozambique and Western Intervention

Also, Africa is suffering from a whole host of other societal upheavals due in a large part to the introduction of Western culture...

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Benito Mussolini's The Doctrine of Fascism

a system of education, as a discipline, if it were not always looked at in the light of its whole way of conceiving life, a spirit...

21st Century Western Threat Represented by North Korea

three years. This is a significant development and something that made international news. The scope of this particular article re...

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Expressionism

that wishes to destroy in the following: "We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pie...

Anthropology, the Western Pacific Trobriander Islanders, Bronislaw Malinowski and Male Bias

male bias. The purpose of using Malinowskis work as an example of the male bias which permeates both historical and contemp...

Western Empire and Charlemagne

death of King Pepin; when Carloman died, Charlemagne annexed his lands and disinherited Carlomans two young sons, who ended up, wi...

1970s' Western Ireland's Village Life as Studied by Nancy Scheper Hughes

does not believe that parents saw nascent schizophrenia in these children, or anything of similar nature. Rather it seemed the chi...

Style Analysis of Bound Feet and Western Dress by Pang Mei N. Chang

is from this aspect of her style that the narrative gains much of its strength. It is as if the reader is present, sitting at the...

Oscar Wilde's Western Theatrical Achievements

older brother Willie and younger sister Isola (Kenyon 12). When his beloved sister died at the age of ten, it was a catastrophic ...

Comparing Western and Eastern Religions

ideas more thoroughly, it helps to look at the precepts of the various religions. First, buddhism is a rather well known ideology...

European Rule in the Western Hemisphere

New World empire. Even so, until the colonial reforms of 1764 by the Bourbon dynasty in Spain, the military garrisons were small a...

Western and Eastern Management

Europeans that could be of benefit to them. That all changed in the mid-19th century as Britain became dictatorial over wha...

Comparing Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front with Joseph Heller's Catch-22

the present reality of the protagonists, but providing exposition through the use of flashbacks. This use of voice emphasizes the...

Preparing for Influenza in Western Kentucky

but society as a whole. Businesses, organizations, and even the government itself could flounder in the face of such a severe pro...

Planning for a Pandemic Health Care Oversight in Western Kentucky

but society as a whole. Businesses, organizations, and even the government itself could flounder in the face of such a severe pro...

Western Settlement, Jacksonian Democracy, Manifest Destiny, and the Expedition of Lewis and Clark

Lewis and Clark expedition would be on American soil right up to the point it crossed the Rocky Mountains (Fritz, 2001)....

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...

Western Philosophy and the Middle Ages

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Generations

a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original...

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy" (Remarque 11). One of the most powerf...

Western History and the Divine Nature of God

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

Erich Maria Remarque's Representation of War in All Quiet on the Western Front

and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy" (Remarque 11). T...

The Western Tradition of Psychology

Psychiatry is a relatively new discipline yet its roots can be traced back to philosophers such...

Xunzi and Western Logic

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the works of Xunzi. Logical arguments presented in his writings are analyzed. Paper...