He refers to the battle of Verdun as a place of "unspeakable suffering no longer life at all lonely man in a shell hole"- weapons from continuous artillery bombardment destroyed the landscape, much of the suffering endured was a result of weapons from heavy artillery fire. The shells were upgraded, new high explosive shells were able to blow holes in the ground which made hiding difficult and severely destroy the landscape. ... The soldiers experienced harsh conditions: "bodies of men .horror of the shell-hole area ..dragged themselves slowly hail of fire" Source B, shows how technology affe...

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They slept, ate, fought, and even entertained themselves in these narrow holes in the ground. ... In many of the trenches the soldiers would look over the top with a periscope; they would sleep in holes dug into the sides of the trench called dugouts. ...

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The irony of his birth; two brothers before Adolf Hitler had died prematurely shortly after birth. When Adolf was born healthily, the mother praised that he was a "gift from God." Ironical that out of the three, only the one who would grow to wreck havoc in the world lived. Hilter's hatred for J...

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All quiet on the Western Front is a book by Erick Maria Remarque. It takes place during World War I on the French Front. Paul Baumer is a boy of 19 years, who voluntarily joined the Army with several of his friends after hearing a patriotic speech given at his school. Paul and his friends realize...

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Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel that gives many accounts of dehumanization and changes the popular belief that war is an idealistic and romantic character. It is a story, not of Germans, but of men, who even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the w...

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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. Remarques aim is to illustrate the horror and senselessness of war. Remarque achieves his aim by explor...

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In the year 1914, almost all of Europe broke out in the First World War that the world had ever seen. This was a war between the major alliances of Europe that included Britain, Russia, Germany, France, and Austria-Hungry. But where did America fall into this big picture of destruction and despair...

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All Quiet on the Western Front I chose the book entitled All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque. This book appealed to me because I am very interested in World War One. I wanted to learn more about the experiences of a German soldier who fought during that particular time period...

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Writer Sefton Delmer believed "the republic was born with a hole in its heart" which suggests, as the army would have power in determining the future of the country, it would create an imbalance in power directly undermining the notion of democracy. ...

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All Quiet on the Western Front Evan Morse Whenever one reads or hears about World War I or World War II, you hear of the struggles and triumphs of the British, Americans or any of the other Allies. And they always speak of the evil and menacing German army. However, All Quiet on the Western Fron...

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All quiet on the Western Front, a novel was written by Erich Maria Remarque, is a great novel that about the World War I. Paul Bãumer was a young man at 19 years old, his high school teacher placed intense pressure on Paul and his classmates to fulfill their "patriotic duty" by enlisting in the arm...

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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. Remarque is accurately able to portray the many stresses soldiers go through because he was actually a soldier himself, a...

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In America, we are privileged to live in such a place where our religion is not put on trial and who or what one believes in is not reason to ignite violence on such an extreme stage. In the movie Gandhi, India is revealed much like the United States was during the Civil Rights Movements, a country...

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As thick clouds of yellow-green chlorine drifted over their trenches the French defences crumbled, and the troops, unprotected, their lungs seared, died or broke and fled, leaving a gaping four-mile hole in the Allied line. ...

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The All Purpose ANZAC Legend - Museums Australia Conference 1 What I would like to talk about this afternoon is how our education programs introduce the ANZAC Legend and how it lends itself to learning about different things for different age groups. All museums and cultural institutions have to address certain legends, myths and symbolism. At the Australian War Memorial it is the ANZAC Legend. The ANZAC Legend has been in the spotlight yesterday and all this week however more than ever this concept has captured public attention on an ongoing basis. Expressed as its simplest the ANZAC Le...

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He uses the active voice in the line "Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry" to illustrate how the loss of his life was his own fault, as he "threw away his knees", that is, signed up willingly for the Army, falling for propaganda claims, and not every knowing who his enemy was. ...

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The war suddenly seeming ironically similar to the soldier in Disabled, (who) liked "a smear of blood down his leg to please his Meg" the poem showing at a stroke how effective the recruiting offices were in their quest for blood that would be "poured down shell-holes." 4) The postcard in source E, is atypical of the type of censorship that existed at the front to maintain morale later in the war, as propaganda was used more extensively in order to bolster morale on the home front. ...

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Introduction The genesis of World War One was controversial and was shrouded on confusion. Pinpointing exactly the political origins of the war is a still discordant issue even after all these years, however no one can deny that the facts are still there. While going into the background, history, a...

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