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My war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.? This quote by Gene Forrester, a character in John Knowle's novel A Separate Peace, depicts Gene's personal turmoil during his high school years. Throughout the entire novel Gene had ...
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...
In 1868 the Tokygwa era found an end due to the Meiji Restoration. The Emperor Meiji became the head and his imperial power was restored. During this era, Meiji's political and military power was close to being absolute. At this time, much like other Asian nations, the Japanese were forced to sig...
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...
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...
Before we can assess the effectiveness of blitzkrieg we must understand how it works. Once that is explained, we can begin to see how it was effective in Poland and other countries such as France. Then, we can examine why it was not successful in the USSR. Blitzkrieg is a strategy that utilizes s...
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...
The Allied wars debt being cancelled is considered theoretically desirable due to the U.S. being considered to be repaid already with the borrowed money being spent in America for war materials boosting the U.S. economy, and the war being a common cause giving no one power prosperity from retributio...
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...
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...
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...
David Novak, a Jewish theologian, once said "The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it." The Holocaust has been described as the largest, most inhumane genocide of all-time. Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933 and the rise of the Nazi party ...
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...
The Escape of the Horrors of War as shown through the novel A Farewell to Arms At a time of war one must be able to distract their mind from the unjustified horrors that one may encounter at a time of war. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway displays one specific character, Frederic Henery, ...
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...
During World War II many social changes took place in the United States. One of the most important changes was the advancement of women's rights. The war was a time when many men were called to serve in the military at home and abroad. With a large percent of the working population gone there was...
My first recolection of terrorism on U.S. soil was the first Wolrd Trade Center bombing in 1993. Second, the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Now that we are still dealing with the latest attacks on the World Trade Centers, I find myself almost indifferent. Even though it was a s...
Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill both rose to greatness in spite of sad and unfortunate childhood experiences. However, the differences in the beginning of their lives led them down very separate roads to their positions of power. For Adolf Hitler, violence from his father spurned hate, which w...
D-Day, June 6 1944. Air-Power: Significant or not? A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling: I experienced an interesting psychological change in the few minutes before and immediately after take off. As I had climbed aboard and strapped myself in...
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...
The book that I read for my quarter project was Fireweed by Jill Paton Walsh. This Story took place in the 1940's during World War II in London.The author discuses the life of a young man named Bill and a young women name Julie who lived on the streets and managed to make it on their own. The bo...
Andrew Jackson Higgins" and the Boats that Won World War II President Dwight D. Eisenhower said Andrew Jackson Higgins was "the man that won the war for us." Although Higgins" design for a shallow draft water craft was unintended for use during World War II, he became responsible for producin...
The Swiss Neutral or Not Since its conception, Switzerland has been officially neutral when referring to any military action. Their reasoning behind this is because they thought that there needed to be a country in the middle of Europe that was neutral and never entered any wars. The governmen...