... the line so we turn into wags and loafers when we are resting . We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they may be ornamental enough in peacetime, would be out of place here. Kemmerich is dead, Haie Westhus is dying Martens has no legs anymore, Meyer is dead, Max is dead, Beyer is dead, Hammerling is dead ... it is a damnable business, but what has it to do with us now "we live."" Casting only could destroy this and many other powerful scenes of Paul's struggles, and flashbacks into the trench warfare to his mother serving him dinner at h...

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... . This would seem to parallel an overall view of World War I (also called the Great War). European countries and the US united under one banner to push back and ultimately defeat Germany. As Priscilla Tolkein has also pointed out, the journey through the Dead Marshes in The Two Towers looks very much like a description of the marshy and swampy battlefields in Northern France and in Flanders. During ... the war, these areas transformed into muddy swamps with slippery clay and shell craters filled with water and corpses. Innumerable ... with grimy glass, through which he was peering. Wren...

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... begin to take a toll on person both mind and body. In All Quiet on the Western Front they refer to themselves as animals, partly because of the way they act in battle and partly because of the way in which they live. Rat infested trenches, constant mud, always wet, and dead bodies are a common sight. All of these physical conditions will inevitably have an ... effect psychologically. With each person losing a friend each day the men's priorities turn from winning the war to simply surviving the war: Just as we turn into animals when ... Westhus is dying Martens has no legs anymore, Mey...

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... , those boots might save his feet from rotting in the trenches. The most touching scene in the movie was when Paul killed a man in the field. Unable to get back to his side until nightfall, Paul was forced to sit next to the dead body for the full day. He looked into his wallet and saw pictures of the man and his family. Paul then realized that this ... him. He swears that he would not have killed him if given the chance again, but the man was trying to kill Paul, so he acted out of self-defense. This is the first point where anyone has been able to see the dead up close like this, and i...

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... quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the colored backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back ... again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait (151 ... older soldiers had their homes and families to help keep them focused, younger soldiers had nothing to focus thoughts of the future. This lack of focu...

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... anyone of any age, so I"ll tell you. You sit in a trench most of the time trusting people around you to cover you while you sit there to catch a breath from the day before. People on the battlefield lay dead with cold bloody bodies around them. Your tired to the point of death, but you can"t stop for one second knowing that at one moment ... the enemy will come flooding over the trench trying to kill as many Germans as they can. My name is ... told me one time shortly before he died that, "there is no escape anywhere." I figured out what he meant when I first encountered war. Machine g...

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... vicious than himself. Because he lost his revolver when he fell into the trench, Paul is forced to listen to this soldier gasping for breath. He spends the final minutes of this French soldiers' life consoling him and apologizing for his actions. In the after death of the French soldier, Paul swears to the dead man that it will never happen again. He understands that he ... is not much different from the man he just killed except that this man had a wife ... and family. He realizes that those on the opposite side have the same people waiting for them at home ... ...

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... has been balanced by other writers who have made use of popular forms in order to communicate with a wider audience. A tension in writing between the popular and the esoteric, and the popular and specialized, the commercial and the avant-garde, became a feature of twentieth-century literature. Isolation and alienation, together with experimental forms of expression, came to characterise serious literature, while ... Lenin (1932) are highly significant as examples of the earliest left-wing poems, establishing what was to become a major trend in the 1930s. Edwin Muir, while less politicall...

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... are patriotic and refer top the antics of East Surrey Captain Neville, who, at 7.30 on 1st July 1916, kicked four footballs "over the top". Source F showing the bobbling footballs as the men move forward, shells landing all around the Surries, together with the dead, shown, perhaps as this could not be concealed from the public for long. The heroism of the East Surries is conveyed by ... their poses, arms positioned across the face, all wounds having been taken by presenting ones" ... front to the opposition, backed up by source, G proclaiming that every man from the East Surrey regime...

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... he used to work for the government. His letter was about the seriousness of the casualties in the Somme. "We are slowly but surely killing off the best of the male population of these islands-. Around 620,000 troops were killed, this figure was only the British, there are many more people dead if we include the Germans. For this extreme large total of dead only a few square miles were ... gained in this whole battle (around 8 km). Duff Cooper was hired by the Haig family to write Sir Douglas Haig's official biography. We cannot trust his ... opinion as the Haig family paid him, so he w...

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... action. He thinks, "This is the first time I have killed with my hands, whom I can see close at hand, whose death is my doing" (193). The war and his part have become much more personalized because he actually sees the face of the enemy, the man he has killed, right in front of him. In his grief, Paul checks the dead man's for identification so that he ... can find out the deceased's name. He realizes that the man he killed is no real enemy, that, in fact, he had a family, and is clearly very ... much like Paul himself. All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel that greatly helps in th...

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... who they had been friends with forever. The book uses a lot of symbolism but the three main ones are Kemmerich's boots, butterflies, and horses. The boots show the insignificance of a lost life. Throughout the story the boots are passed along from man to man, after one dies another person inherits the boots. They do not pay attention to the person dead in the boots all they want is a nice pair ... he out lasted everyone he went to the war with Paul died. The title "All Quiet on the Western Front" Intel's that the Western front is quiet. There is no report on the front because Paul along...

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... shortage of artillery shells. Transport could not cope - Russia's roads and railways were too poor. Casualties after first year - approaching 4mil soldiers dead, captured, missing Casualties at the end of war - 2.8mil wounded, 1.8mil dead, 2.4mil captured. Russia's Generals had been promoted on seniority and loyalty to the Tsar, and not by understanding of modern War Fare. Many were old and had not learnt ... the lesson of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5. Tsar decision to taking control of the army in 1915 weakened the army, as his leadership was incompetent. It was a bad ... Rasputin...

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... have become so desensitized by a war that they are forced to fight in , that the dead seemingly become unimportant. This is evident in the phrase 'but nothing happens'; which suggests that the burying of the dead has become a non-event. The high summer of Modernism was an age of bold experiments and broken taboos, of new techniques, new sensibilities, new bearings, new directions' (Gross xii). ... Owen's allusions both to the poetry of the Romantic period and to the Modernist era, and his effective ... combination of the two is a true product of ... ...

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... themes are expressed that of which all sum up to the major themes of the senselessness of war. Comradeship, wars brutality, and the lost generation, these themes express the book in its purest form, showing it from a soldier's perspective. "We are at rest five miles behind the front." The importance of this line, the opening line of the book, is to notice that Paul is a first-person narrator ... ." This was said after Paul killed Gerald Duval and realized he had a family and friends just like Paul. In Remarque's epigraph he states that it's dedicated to men destroyed by the war, this ha...

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... . Dr. Joseph Mengele, who was in charge of the twin experiments, was known as the " Angel of Death." Mengele examined the twins from head to toe. After all of the information was obtained they were given an injection of chloroform in the heart killing them. Their dead bodies were dissected and the organs were sent in for research. After the war, trials were held for those guilty of ... any act during the war. The trials were known as the Nuremberg Trials. Twenty-three doctors each ... of whom participated in the Nazi program to kill those "unworthy of life" or ... ...

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... chance of any future attacks. Clemenceau also wanted Germany to pay war reparations for the land damage in the north-east of France caused by the trench warfare. The French public were also putting enormous pressure on Clemenceau to get revenge. During WWI over two thirds of the French army were either dead or injured and they felt Germany had a lot to answer for. David Lloyd ... George was the British Prime Minister at the time, and he represented Britain at the conference. Lloyd George knew that the British empire was mainly threatened by Germany's navy and overseas colonies. So his ....

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Describe the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and explain why the Germans disliked it so much. The First World War displays the disastrous effects caused by conflicts between countries. Millions of people were dead or injured and countries such as France and Belgium were devastated. The great powers had lost significant amount of people and had spent too much money on the war. Many people wanted Germany ... to take all the blame, mainly ... Britain and especially France because out of the three winners they suffered the most during the war. So all countries agreed ... ...

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... had moved behind the German front lines for a short rest at the beginning of the novel. After Behm became Paul's first dead schoolmate, Paul viewed the older generation bitterly, particularly Kantorek, the teacher who convinced Paul and his classmates to join the military, feeling alone and betrayed in the world that they had left for him. Paul's generation felt empty and isolated from the rest of the world due to ... the fact that they had never ... of a close friend and recruit whom he had comforted earlier, Paul went home finding that war had isolated him from his family and his chi...

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... men incite trouble. "Mommies didn't either; sisters, aunts, grannies neither Cause they were quiet, and sweet, and pretty in those wondrous days of Yore. Well very much the same as now, and not the ones to blame somehow for opening up that deadly box of war- (Poetry Library, 1-2) Abercrombie chose to write this poem using third person. He also chose to utilize ... -. An auditory image is conceived as the author addresses the warning upon the box. Abercrombie also gives a visual picture of war bouncing about the children. This excerpt describes the image prevailed, "It bumped the children...

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... Hitler to overtake an entire country and enact the world's greatest genocide. It certainly was a surprise that Japan would launch an attack on Pearl Harbor and at that time no one expected a nuclear bomb would end the war. Both wars had similar consequences. After the wars it left Germany in a bind, it left millions of people dead, and it still left tension among participating ... countries. World War one originated through the Serbian assassination of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand in 1914. What made this war so unusual is ... the domino effect it had after the assassination. Because Rus...

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... Hitler to overtake an entire country and enact the world's greatest genocide. It certainly was a surprise that Japan would launch an attack on Pearl Harbor and at that time no one expected a nuclear bomb would end the war. Both wars had similar consequences. After the wars it left Germany in a bind, it left millions of people dead, and it still left tension among participating ... countries. World War one originated through the Serbian assassination of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand in 1914. What made this war so unusual is ... the domino effect it had after the assassination. Because Rus...

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... Kat. As Kat and Paul are walking down the road artillery is raining down around them. One of the shots lands near enough to Kat to cause shrapnel damage to his shin. Paul then carries him to the hospital nearby. When he arrives and the doctor tells him that Kat is dead Paul refuses to believe him. It is not until Paul lifts Kats head ... to give him a drink that he discovers blood from another shrapnel wound on the back of Kat's head. After almost four years in ... the war, Kat has finally died. Paul changes, like so many other soldiers did, from ... ...

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... young age would confuse and scar her. Robert is a private person and is generally lonely, he would have wanted Barbara's company to take away from the loneliness that he felt and Barbara was used to being with a man then him leaving. Barbara never actually developed real feelings for any man since they always ... , here underneath this lime, we would have broke the pattern. He for me, and I for him. He as Colonel, I as Lady, on this shady seat. He had a whim that sunlight carried blessing and I answered. 'It shall be as you have said.' Now he is dead," (Lowell 64-67, 82-91). Lowell ...

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... was to provide material assistance to the Allies. The United States remained neutral following the May 1915 sinking of the British ocean liner Lusitania killing 128 citizens of the United States, although the American public was in an uproar. In 1916 President Wilson was re-elected having campaigned on an antiwar and pro-neutrality platform, the war in Europe had left millions dead with neither side poised to ... achieve victory. By the spring of 1917 neutrality did not seem to be feasible any longer. The unrestricted submarine warfare committed by Germany was sinking American cargo and...

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