... theory and a distinctive body of films that are still considered important by nowadays film makers. Elements like economics, politics, war, aesthetics, art, literature and culture also played a big role within these movements and will also be touched on. It all started with the Great War that crippled ... quickly. After the war, avant-garde experiments liberally punctuated French cinema, and theorists began to treat the medium more seriously, as coequal with literature and the fine arts. In Germany, UFA set about consciously raising the aesthetic standards of German film and producing fi...

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... little on the lives of the enemy, except for the instance where Paul, the character telling the story in first person, is stuck in a hole and must stab and kill a Russian soldier who falls into the hole and then must stay in the hole with him for hours. This traumatic part of the story presents many questions of the value of ... always made and they never are rational about anything but their own sense of safety and security. Another attitude that All Quiet on the Western Front shares with a piece of literature is patriotism. In "Pericles" Funeral Oration" by Thucydides, the speaker has...

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... to liberalism to date, this does not mean that it cannot be made into a liberal world order. Given this disposition, it is not surprising that Liberalism is described in the literature as the `tradition of optimism' (Clark 1989: 49-66). While the belief in the possibility of progress is one identifier of a liberal approach to politics, there are other general propositions ... no longer be contained. Europe stumbled into a horrific war killing fifteen million people. The war not only brought an end to three empires it was also a contributing factor to the Russian Revolution of 1917. The ...

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... the fusion of the LaSalle and Marxian socialists. At first, Bismarck met the socialist opposition with particularly cruel procedures. An antisocialist law approved in 1878 banned the spread of socialist literature, it gave the police power to break up socialist meetings, and put the trial and punishment of socialists under the command of police judges. Bismarck used his power to help ... a rigid pattern which shaped international relations until the First World War." (2) Bismarck then negotiated the Three Emperor's Alliance (Austria, Germany, and Russia) in 1881. This was difficult by t...

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