"All Quiet on the Western Front," by Erich Maria Remarque, portrays the daily lives of soldiers in action and shows the difficulties they face on the battlefield. ... The significance of this illness can be shown multiple times in All Quiet on the Western Front. ... Another illness that is extremely common among soldiers and veterans that is presented in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front is alcohol addiction and abuse. ... " (Chapter 7) This quote shows how often the soldiers drink in order for them to feel sane. ... Every soldier comes home with a different perspective on life, Al...

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Multiple examples of the truth of this statement can be found within the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. ... One situation in All Quiet on the Western Front that can directly relate to this quote is how all the soldiers of the war regardless of side, are fighting for another persons" cause. ... Another example of how All Quiet on the Western Front can relate to this quote is shown by the soldiers of the war fighting and killing each other, when they don't even know each other. ... Ultimately the quote said by Lyndon B. Anthony directly relates to many occu...

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"All Quiet on the Western Front" is one of the most substantial war novels of all time. ... The soldiers in All Quiet on the Western Front depict relations with soldiers in real life by their comradeship, psychological issues, and isolation from the real world. ... " (CHAPTER 7 QUOTE). "All Quiet on the Western Front" showed a great portrayal of how the men in the novel can relate to actual soldiers in real life by the interaction between their fellow comrades, the psychological problems they faced, and their feeling of isolation from the real world. ... All Quiet on the Western Front ...

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All Quiet on the Western Front is a war novel written by Erich Maria Remarque. ... After reading this quote, the reader would not look at death during a battle as glorious way of protecting one's country, but as a senseless waste of human life. ...

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Characterized as the first anti-war novel of its time, All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel dealing with the tragedy of war and the extermination of an entire generation of men, for those that "may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war."" ... "I do not think at all, I make no decision "I strike madly at home, and feel only how the body suddenly convulses, then becomes limp, and collapses."" (263). ... - However, this is not how Paul used to be, and so Paul points a finger at Kantorek and all like him. ... This is perhaps one of the worst cases of man's inhuman...

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All Quiet on the Western Front - Essay All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, is a novel that takes you through the life of a soldier in World War I. ... Paul first enlists with a group of his friends who all have much enthusiasm towards the war. ... All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel that greatly helps in the understanding what really went on during the battles in World War 1. The book is fiction, but the visuals of the war and life during the war are all true. ... (P 139) This quote shows that the soldiers sense that death is a very real possibility and so...

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All Quiet On The Western Front (AQOTWF) was written by Erich Maria Remarque and is set in world war one, beginning in 1916 and ending in November 1918, when the armistice called a halt to the war. ... They calculate that after about five months at the front, of the original 20 classmates, 8 remain and 12 are out-of-action, "(Quote)". ... The comrades are sitting quietly and listening to a bombardment a few kilometers away. ... When the Kaiser visits, the comrades learn that he is not at all a remarkable man. ... "(Quote - Pg 176)" ...

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As Paul spoke to the body of Gerard Duval, in All Quiet on the Western Front, these realizations were brought to is mind; just as they were in chapter eight when he saw the Russian prisoners and concluded that the war had forced men who were not enemies to fight each other. ... The remainder of the quote, "Take twenty years of my life, comrade, and stand up - take more, for I do not know what I can even attempt to do with it now," renders to the fact that although the soldiers may have escaped the bullets of war, they were destroyed forever by it. ... All Quiet on the Western Front attempte...

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"ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT" ESSAY "This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. ... This quote explains the whole meaning of the book "All Quiet on the Western Front". ... This quote by Paul expresses the anger and sorrow he has for what he and his comrades have done. ... The quote alone is enough to have an affect on someone. ... These two element make you realize that war is all about living, and living by all means necessary. ...

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Essay # 5 While reading All Quiet on the Western Front, many passages from the poems we read popped into my mind. The Gerard Duval scene from All Quiet immediately brought back memories from The Man He Killed. ... I was reminded of the attitude in All Quiet when reading Wirers" because each talked about death and war so nonchalantly. ... All Quiet on the Western Front touches many issues that are expressed by anyone who has been affected by war. ... Essay # 7, part C The close bond between the soldiers in All Quiet on the Western Front mirrors our current world to a great e...

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All Quiet on the Western Front In All Quiet on the Western Front there are a few themes. ... The Characters in this book all had a special and different role. ... Kemmerich is the first to die in front of the reader and it shows you how death is not as big of a deal at war. ... Another quote is "I have remade his bed fourteen times in one morning."" ... A third quote is "I put my hand to my eyes, it is so fantastic, am I child?...

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No other events depict this quote better than World War I. ... In the novel All Quiet On the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, a man named Paul Baumer and his fellow German friends thought that going to war had good meaning because they would have a chance to proudly represent their country. ... " This quote best explains the reasons of Bosnian Serbs wanting to start a war against the Austrians. ... Another example of nationalism is from the story All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque. ... In the story All Quiet On The Western Front, Paul Bäumer and his fellow sol...

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War isn't all you think it is, it has much more to deal with then just killing people. The author of All Quiet on the Western Front ,Erich Maria Remarque, and the poet of "Dulce Et Decorum Est", Wilfred Owen, have similar opinions on war. ... Both authors wrote about the ugliness of war and how its not all you do is fight but you are out there for other things. ... (stanza 5) This quote has very harsh saying to it. ... The novel All Quite on the Western Front is very similar to the poem Owen wrote just in much more depth. ...

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Why All quiet on the Western Front will be a superior movie With the film being narrated by Paul Baumer, such a war movie would have a most personal touch on audiences in much of an extensive way. ... Imagine taking a seat in the movie theatre and after all the previews and such, the screen is dark, with narration by Paul. ... That quote in and of itself is a direct spark to motivate a movie watcher. ... In conclusion, If All Quiet on the Western Front, is made into a motion picture, it is promised to bring in revenue, fans, and most important of all a great film to be watched for years....

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The novel All Quiet On The Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, is a novel about soldiers and war. ... These voices, these quiet words, these footsteps in the trench behind me recall me at a bound from the terrible loneliness and fear of death by which I had been almost destroyed"(212). ... Even with all the negatives of war we can still learn a very positive message. ... This quote exemplifies that at one time Paul felt dignity towards himself, and now he feels like he has no place in society. ... Another example of how war destroys the human spirit is when Paul is fighting at th...

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(Remarque 115) This vivid quote is just one of the numerous examples in the eloquently described passages of how Erich Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is a horrific tale of the truly devastating effects that world wars bring. All Quiet on the Western Front, as told by a young infantry soldier who describes the horrible realities of World War I's trench warfare and the drastic consequences of the war upon his generation. ... Brian Murdoch says, "Stolen youth is a recurrent motif," (Murdoch All Quiet on the Western Front 1) which, indeed, is all too true. All Quiet on ...

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Karl Jaspers would believe that these people lacked Existenz (a level of being true to your self) because you cannot find your true self when you are having orders barked at you all day. ... But I would leave a quote with them from Friedrich Nietzsche: "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently- (Qtd. in Moncur). ...

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" The quote describes how even though violence appears to be a viable solution, the benefits are only temporary and will only promote further mayhem. ... The novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque describes the experiences of German soldier Paul Baumer and his comrades during the war. ... In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Paul Baumer and his classmates are convinced by their high school schoolmaster to join the army: "I can see him now, as he used to glare at us through his spectacles and say in a moving voice: 'Won'...

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All these new weapons were the reasons for the three consequences of the Great War. ... (Windrow, 18) This quote shows how thousands of men died in hours from machine-gun fires. ... "Even in "quiet" periods a constant harassing fire of a few shells an hour kept the infantry on edge and caused a steady drain of casualties." (Windrow, 21) These quote shows that even in quiet battles that lasted hours, numbers of death slowly rose. ... Some of the lands that were heavily damaged were the three French cities on the Western Front. ...

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In All Quiet In The Western Front, Paul Baumer, the main character of the book experiences the pain and struggle of World War I. ... It is all a matter of habit-- even the front-line." (pg. 138) This quote discusses that the way of the war had turned Paul and the others to machines and not remain as men. ... "But so long as we have to stay here in the field, the front line days, when they are past, sink down in us like a stone; they are too grievous for us to be able to reflect on them at once." ... (pg. 220) This quote shows Paul's emotional struggle with this man who is obviously hurt...

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We had the curtain pulled from right in front of our eyes, and on stage we saw a tyrant, Osama Bin Laden, and his Al Queda organization. ... The Islamic radicals are quiet about their cause for a simple reason. ... Most people now want to combine a little bit of Western civilization with Islamic beliefs. ... As we all know, they failed. ... A quote said six decades ago still echoes till this day and carries the same meaning. ...

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Because of his life was full of journeys all over the western world, very little of his life is actually completely known. Born of noble descent, in his home land, called Ju, he led a very quiet and humble life (Lau 1). ... This quote and many others like it state the belief of Confucius, and his moral character that have taught many people, and still live on in today's society. ... One is to become more noble and great when he truly learns what is in front of him. ... With all of the lessons taught by this man, and the hundreds of pages of conversations and quotes, his theories can s...

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They die very quietly; one hears very little about them; they come from the world's poorest families, who themselves are the weakest and most powerless members of those powerless families . ... More than 60 percent of the population in Zimbabwe's western region of Hwange requires food relief. ... This quote from Maggie Khumato, who lives in the nearby village of Chidobe (Zimbabwe), expresses how she feels with the situations being presented to her from her current situation of hunger. ... Many other types of hunger are very prevalent, and they all contribute the vast amounts of deat...

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("Race" 1) Also, 1966 was the year that Texas Western won the first national champion in basketball with five black starters. ... This all leads up to today's world of sports. ... First of all, when considering how far the African-American athlete has gone, also see how they have moved into the front office and management positions by overcoming past prejudice. While most people argue about coaches facing discrimination for decades, the sports world quietly started to hire more and more minority coaches. ... Star outfielder Gary Sheffield was quoted as saying, "People do not want to fa...

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Like much of the population at the time, Hollywood films were split between movies that portrayed war in a patriotic, positive light, such as Hearts of the World and those, which were strongly anti-war, such as All Quiet on the Western Front. ... Roosevelt's quote allows transition to another piece of militarization, the need for an all power military component to society. ... Serving your nation militarily (either by fighting on the fronts of aiding in the war effort at home) was now the highest form of patriotism possible. ... In the three movies we viewed in class, All Quiet on the Wes...

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