their possessions and families from the war so all they had to turn to was poetry. The poems that were written by soldiers that had fought in war was not about the war heros and the greatness it brought‚ but yet instead of the great beast that this war was. This was told by Siegfried Sassoon. The other half of the war that was not being fought by the women‚ was told by May Wedderburn Cannan. Even the opposing side had there own thoughts on this war. All Quiet on the Western Front is a diary of a man
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The Quiet Beauty of a Hunter’s Lair For my visual description‚ I chose to write about a photograph captured by Jason Vaughn‚ The Quiet Beauty of a Hunter’s Lair. The picture is part of a series called Hide. The picture was taken in Columbus‚ Wisconsin in the year 2013. Photographs from Hide were placed in the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Wisconsin Triennial and the State of the Art exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The photo‚ which is twenty-four inches high by thirty
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All Quiet on the Western Front is by Erich Maria Remarque. This book was an extraordinary war story. Remarque uses excellent words and phrases to describe crucial details of the book. Remarque had first hand experience because he was a German in World War I. So he expresses his opinions through Paul the main character of the book. One of the strongest themes in this book is that war makes man inhuman. From the author’s point of view soldiers was often compared to various nonliving objects that
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In the novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ the author uses strong imagery and detailed descriptions to convey the horrors of the Great War and their detrimental effects on soldiers from all fronts. Images such as desperation‚ starvation‚ trauma‚ guilt‚ and camaraderie create a lasting impression on the reader as they are planted in the shoes of German soldiers‚ fighting and depending upon each other for survival. These themes were the unfortunate reality of life in the trenches‚ where rival sides
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AP Card for All Quiet in the Western Front 1. Title and Author • All Quiet in the Western Front is a novel written by Erich Maria Remarque Date of Publication • January 29‚ 1929 Type of Work • All Quiet in the Western Front is a novel Period in Literary Tradition • Modern 2. Central Idea • The horrors of World War I had many effects on the expendable soldiers and left them feeling traumatized‚ alienated‚ desensitized‚ and physically damaged. 3. Historical‚ Political‚ or Social Context
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Literature of War / Period 1 The Savage Within Throughout Erich Maria Remarque’s novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ vivid images of gruesome animal instincts and the innocent animals’ lives ending are illustrated for the reader repeatedly. Remarque indicates that for a soldier’s survival in battle they must cease sanity and rely solely on primitive instinct. This notion of animal instincts leads soldiers to be less
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and mentally destroyed the lives of countless men that suffered the rest of their lives from traumatic events that stated place in WWI. Erich Remarque brilliantly brings the tragedy into focus for the new generations in his historical novel All Quiet on the Western Front a book about physical and mental battles fought along the trenches of WWI. The story revolves around the early nineteen hundreds a group of young German men who will all join the war after being urged by one of their high school
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The Not So Good Brother When you have a little brother‚ it can be easy to take advantage of him‚ especially when your brother is crippled. Brother was a bad brother for reasons‚ and the reasons he was a good brother doesn’t cancel out the bad reasons. Brother was a good brother for teaching Doodle movements like walking and swimming‚ but also a bad brother for pushing him too hard and taking advantage of him. Brother was a good brother because he was teaching Doodle some movement lessons like
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for your own good.” The chapter progresses to the poem “Afraid So”‚ where the topic of whatever happens gets more serious. In the poem”Afraid So" the person focuses on fear and anxiety. The poem is created where each line forms a question with the implied response being “afraid
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from the borrowed ideas that Romans converted to match their needs would prove beneficial for the upcoming Europe society that would continue to inherit other technologies much like the Romans did. In continuation‚ the third chapter is titled “The Not so Dark Ages” which is span of time from 500 A.D. till 900. This portion of the book consists of the authors proving that the Dark Ages was not as dark as it has been previously classified. The Gieses state that the Romans significantly influenced future
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