... Paul becomes weary, broken, and burnt out throughout the course of the war; he becomes consumed by it at the end. Through Paul Baumer, Remarque shows how war makes man inhuman. He uses excellent words and phrases to describe crucial details to this theme. "The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our ... of his defiance. The first dehumanizing encounter was using the latrines with no doors and twenty other men. Paul said, "I well remember how embarrassed we were as recruits in barracks when we had to use the general latrine."3 When Paul was sent to the front, along with his other ...

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... in a different way, "My mother, she cant sleep for fear of what might be a-happening here to me. Perhaps it might be best to die, and set her fears at rest," (Gurney 5-8). Gurney describes that the soldier in this poem is hoping to put his mothers pain at ease by wishing ... he would die. The soldier considers the effect his absence has on his mother and realizes her pain must be too great to handle and would do as much as ... Two people hurting one another," (Findley 160). Juliet believed that what she saw did not look like two people making love and becomes confused as to how people t...

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... today. Though I am a girl I am still interested somewhat in political affairs and a war is quite a significant event though as of yet we do not know how long it will last. Yours, Amelia Evans 31 July 1914 The political situation is getting far more interesting now as the papers have just published ... and the laws." Whenever those words are said I still have a feeling of pride run through me when I know I follow that pledge and at the thought that we are part of the great British Empire. Yours, Amelia Evans 8 August 1914 Now there is a lot to write. Firstly, as always, I will give a bri...

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... The Wars, fire represents many things, both good and evil. For many of soldiers of the Great War, the element of fire made life a living hell, and we see this as the story evolves. The invention of the flame thrower, as mentioned in the book, brings a great deal of fear to the soldiers. A fear ... which they cannot escape no matter how much they want to. None of them know what this new invention is or what it is capable of doing, therefore they fear it. Many soldiers doubted that ... "Earth and Air and Fire and Water." Robert came to be, in a sense, from the earth and air, all that is ...

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... This is very effective, as it highlights that line and allows the reader time to reflect. Another factor, which I particularly admire in this poem, is how well the poet conveys the tone and feeling of the piece. In the first stanza, the poet does not express any of his own emotions, only ... presents us with a dehumanising vision of men, your heart wrenches for their suffering. Owen uses many metaphors in this poem, an example is "distant rest" where we are reminded of the fact that for some soldiers, this could be a permanent one. The second stanza presents a dramatic change from the f...

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... you will be part of history so make your self stand out and be proud that you can be considered one of mine" (Stalin 4). This shows how Stalin felt people should be motivated for his benefit not their own. All though Stalin makes speeches that say he is going to consider you one of ... 50-100 years. Stalin came up with a plan and named it his 5-year plan in 1928; " We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it or we shall be crushed" (Stalin 2), this was a plan to catch up for those fifty to a hundred ... in o...

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... -war sentiment: "There's no time to grieve in combat, so you just stuff it...You see your friend die and then you go back to work." Tim demonstrates how he fights out of fear and does not reflect on his inner emotions. This deeply affects Tim's personal life when ... quot; he is basically a nobody. However, when given power in the army, he becomes a cruel drill sergeant. This example demonstrates the key reason that we fight. Power-striving leaders like Himmelstoss tell us misleading information, or propaganda, to make young soldiers fight. Soldiers are misled constantly about what they ...

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... at the man "as under a green sea"(line 14). The dying man is said to be "drowning"(line 14). By the use of this word we are reminded that the mustard gas from the shells corrodes the lungs, so not only is he being deprived of air, he is drowning in his own ... to force his readers to react. For example, the simile "obscene as cancer"(line 23) is effective, because everybody fears cancer; it is a horrible way to die, much as war is in Owen's opinion. Also, the mentioning "Of vile incurable sores on innocent tongues"(line 24) not only tells the reader why the ... troops will never forget...

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... at the man "as under a green sea"(line 14). The dying man is said to be "drowning"(line 14). By the use of this word we are reminded that the mustard gas from the shells corrodes the lungs, so not only is he being deprived of air, he is drowning in his own ... to force his readers to react. For example, the simile "obscene as cancer"(line 23) is effective, because everybody fears cancer; it is a horrible way to die, much as war is in Owen's opinion. Also, the mentioning "Of vile incurable sores on innocent tongues"(line 24) not only tells the reader why the ... troops will never forget...

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... by the allies once again. As one German Field Marshall named Hindenburg put it, "In the event of a resumption of hostilities we can . . . defend our frontiers in the east. In the west, however, we can scarcely count on being able to withstand a serious offensive . . . The success of the operation as a whole is very ... doubtful, but as a soldier I cannot help feeling that it is better to die honorably than accept a disgraceful peace." Since the Germans did not ... deal with the consequences set for them in the treaty. The point made by Hindenburg shows how many other Germans felt as w...

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... , they realized that war can be the hardest experience that any human being can experience in their lifetime, such as watching your best friends die and people. All of these countries were hoping to have gained something from this war. However, the end of the war brought many consequences ... In the story, Paul Bäumer and his other friends in the German army were talking about how they were influenced and motivated to join the war: "When we went to the district commandant to enlist, we were a class of twenty young men, many of whom proudly shaved for the first time ... quote also demons...

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... the values and norms that are questioned in the text are, nationalism, femininity, sexual morality and social standing. In the beginning of the book, we see that the women feel bonded by nationalism. This nationalism has brought them to the front line as ambulance drivers during World War I. Nellie "Smithy ... in some of the most horrible conditions ever possibly imagined. These women, being ambulance drivers, saw this on a regular basis. They saw their own friends die horrible deaths for example, when Tosh dies Smith writes, "Tosh lies in my arms dead, soaking my overcoat with blood. De...

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... based on a re-occurring nightmare that Owen says haunts him "In all my dreams". It is a dream of the young, helpless soldier Owen watches suffocate and die during a sudden attack after the men were retreating: "Flound"ring like a man in fire or lime I saw him drowning". What makes this death so alarming ... all together in the last few lines. In Latin, the phrase "Dulce et decorum est pro partria mori" means: "It is sweet and becoming to die for one's country." Owen calls this a lie by using good diction, vivid comparisons, and graphic images to have the reader feel disgusted at what war...

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... Wilfred Owen wrote to his mother from Craiglockhart, "Here is a gas poem, done yesterday .the famous Latin tag means of course it is sweet and meet to die for ones country. Sweet! And decorous!"" {1} Wilfred Owens poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" is a magnificent and stirring description of a gas attack suffered by a ... invokes the realistic visualizations for which the poem owes its impact. "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through the sludge". The image is one of exhaustion and despair. It is easy for the reader to visualize this scene an...

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... rest of it countryside slums. Nicholas had a tough time ruling over this huge country, nearly 8000km across with tens of millions of people, which stretched from Poland nearly to Alaska. We can be sympathetic towards him because of the size of his empire but some of his problems were his own fault. He was a strict autocrat - giving the people no power ... people began to lose trust in the Tsar, weakening his chances of staying on the throne. Tsar Nicholas had a son, Alexis, who suffered from haemophilia and the doctors didn't know how to help him. Then a man came past saying he could he...

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... air of a city the size of New York could be expected to kill more than 120,000 people."(Weiss) The question still remains in the mind of a lot of people, how do we protect ourselves if an attack was to occur. People can be immunized to certain diseases. However, there might be new viruses that ... we know nothing about and have no defense against. Immunizing only protects a person from one certain virus and we can never guess which virus the the enemy would fire at us. Injecting ourselves with every antidote known to man is not ... the ansewr either because a person could die from over...

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... of young men who are no longer young but who look old and dying in amongst the crud. The terrifying outlook of war automatically springs to mind when the expression, " We cursed through sludge- is used. The repeated u sound drags our concentration to the men's awareness's as they trudge their way through the gunge. A mixture of the slime ... the men of people dying as the flame of the flares brought them back to the battlefield where explosions took place and thousands of lives were taken in seconds. We imagine the soldiers as being tired and due a break from the ceaseless fighting as t...

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... encounter throughout the book. The soldiers are even sometimes wakened in the middle of the night to unexpected attacks as in the one explained by Paul, We wake up in the middle of the night. The earth booms. Heavy fire is falling on usEach man lays hold of his things and looks ... Remarque, 105). It is a constant struggle to live for these soldiers each and every day they are at war, and everyone knows that they could die at any time. One very important subtopic in the novel is the comradeship that builds throughout the War. The soldiers are often enlisted at very young ages ... above ...

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... Great Britain or Ireland, neutral or not. The German submarines in a two-year span sunk over 225 ships. On May 7, 1915, a submarine sunk the Lusitania, a British liner. Approximately 1,250 passengers die, including 128 Americans. The American people were mad because the vessel held American passengers and was unarmed. The Germans claimed that the Lusitania was carrying munitions. President Wilson sent a letter ... . From January 22, 1917 to February 11, 1918 President Woodrow Wilson addressed Congress, the Pope, and other Governments for: peace, diplomatic relations broken, armed neutral...

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... Australian identity. Actually this is absolutely different to the traditional identity where Aborigines were suppressed and not integrated in the identity at all. As we heard in the lectures and as I analysed in my second diary assignment about the film Rabbit Proof Fence from the beginning of white settlements ... culture I consider as really important point because after all these years of suffer they deserve respect and compensation. How Australians will define themselves in the future will probably shift more towards some kind of multicultural identity. Some of the traditional aspe...

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... poem is his inclusion of the theme of technology, or rather his inference that Mankind seems unable to control modern machinery. Owen shows in his poem how instead of using science in order to work for nature, man has both intensified an attack on his fellow man and corrupted the natural world ( Breen ... and nature- are united and become one, working against the soldiers. In this unique way Owen not only conveys Mankind's corruption of nature, but shows how such corruption leads to the destruction of Mankind, exemplified in the form of the cringing soldiers hiding in the salient. Expos...

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... Hitler did not give the opportunity of choice to people unless it was a choice of two evils, for example "go to the gas chamber or die on the spot. Hitler would not have wanted to be the recipient of his own form of "persuasion." HITLER AS A MILITARY COMMANDER Hitler's temperament ... , to persuade him to adopt a more realistic plan, without success. He began by accepting war against the British Empire without any clear conception of how to win it. When his initial attempts to solve that problem failed, he reacted by turning against the Soviet Union - his preferred target in any ... Furth...

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... filmmakers are basing their display of guilt in the German official. They must believe that these people were human too and had to have realized what they were doing, and how wrong it was. While the German's should feel the guilt of killing millions of innocent people, this was not shown very often. Many people believed, and still believe that they ... best way this guilt has been shown in this course is in the families of the soldiers. Even still this guilt is not easily seen. In the film In Which We Serve the wife of the captain makes a speech in which she describes feeling many thing...

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... awareness for compassion, caution, and reflection; through an improved understanding of other cultures; and through peaceful conflict resolution. Catalano begins by defending how he believes that society is promoting that engineers are playing crucial roles in defeating Iraq. "Technology developed by engineers in university research labs ... main purpose of this modification would be to develop the students in ways "to deal effectively with conflict among team members. (p. 7)" Now how can someone, like myself, ethically and logically refute Catalano, a person promoting peace and compass...

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... of what the United States portrayed as war. They said it to be a noble and honorable experience when indeed it isn't. In the introduction Dalton explains how Americans were cheering from sidewalks and having festivals while our soldiers marched through the streets. He says, "Nine million corpses later, when the bands stopped and ... think about when they think of war then it isn't an honorable experience. After returning from war many of the men wanted people to know exactly how repugnant of an experience it was. They wrote about their encountering with death and the hardships of war. ...

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