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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Her inspiration for Gregor the Overlander, came from Alice and Wonderland, when she was thinking about how one was more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole, and would most likely find something other than a tea party. ...
"World War II, the most mechanized war in history, was fought with a profusion of complex, formidable weapons which radically affected the course of events in our century. It is nearly impossible to understand the war-to read its history or the memoirs of it participants, or even to watch documenta...
Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov was born 1896 in a small village of Strelkova south of Moscow, Kaluga Province, and like an immense majority of the peasant population his family were desperately poor. He lived in an old house, in the middle of the village, with one room and two windows, he also was able to attend a nearby school. At aged 10 young Georgi was sent to Moscow to find work with his uncle as an apprentice furrier and found the working conditions severely harsh under the Czarist autocracy. His childhood was ended working twelve-hour days and sleeping on the factory floor. The Great ...
The Battle of the Bulge The Battle of the Ardennes, known to the United States as the Battle of the Bulge, was the greatest battle this country had or would participate in. At its height more than 500,000 American forces were engaged with nearly 600,000 German soldiers. The Americans were at tim...
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...
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. ...
During the 1940's, Americans were beginning to recover from the Great Depression. People were beginning to go back to work and make more substantial incomes so they could provide for their families. It was also a time of intense hostility due to the political and global upheaval of World War II. On ...
The 1930s were turbulent times in Germany's history. World War I had left the country in shambles and, as if that weren't enough, the people of Germany had been humiliated and stripped of their pride and dignity by the Allies. Germany's dream of becoming one of the strongest nations in the world no ...
