"The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts."1 Paul and his classmates who enlisted into the army see the true reality of the war. ... Paul's new friend was his commander, Stanislaus Katczinsky. ... Paul and his friend Albert Kropp where injured, while trying to escape, by gunshot wounds. ... In order for Paul to stay with his friend he needed to make the nurse think he had an infection as well. ... His friend, Stanislaus Katczinsky or Kat, was the oldest of his friends. ...

• Word Count: 1542
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Although this book is not a biography, or necessarily based on a true story, the events that happen and detailed scenes are something that Erich Remarque had witnessed. ... This is a very common misconception that Remarque attempts to rid the reader of very early when in the first chapter, Pauls good friend Kemmerich has his leg amputated from a bullet and then dies a painfully slow death with Paul at his side. Remarque does not want the reader to have any doubt that this is obviously a novel made to tell of true and horrific events that described the War. ... The first one is when one of P...

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As he reached the town he remembered a friend of his that had lived across from the market. When Leo arrived his friend Jacques allowed him in and put him in hiding for the night. Not only was Leo hunted but he had now put his friend's life in jeopardy. ... Not only was it a true story, it was written by a man who lived through it. ...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Have you ever asked a friend for help in desperate measures, but they turn you away? Have you ever turned down a friend who is financially unstable because you are in the similar situation? ... Same concept holds true internationally when the U.S. use foreign affairs in their own benefits. ...

• Word Count: 1348
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Gene had a best friend, his name was Finny, they were roommates and did many activities together. ... Before they return, Finny calls Gene his "best pal" and Gene wanted to reply, but he wasn't sure about it himself and he also has a hard time expressing his true feelings. ... Gene believed that Finny was trying to wreak his studies with games, an organization they had formed-the Secret Suicide Society, going to the beach and all this "you're my best friend stuff." ... Gene knows that he has broken Finny's leg, it is all his fault, his best friend can never play sports again bec...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Gene had a best friend, his name was Finny, they were roommates and did many activities together. ... Before they return, Finny calls Gene his "best pal" and Gene wanted to reply, but he wasn't sure about it himself and he also has a hard time expressing his true feelings. ... Gene believed that Finny was trying to wreak his studies with games, an organization they had formed-the Secret Suicide Society, going to the beach and all this "you're my best friend stuff." ... Gene knows that he has broken Finny's leg, it is all his fault, his best fri...

• Word Count: 2480
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

As Tintin unravels the true nature of Dr. ... Muller outwits him by the help of an old friend, the Portuguese merchant Oliveria de Figueria and Caption Haddock who reaches with the Emir's soldiers just in time to recover the prince. ... In other words, the author might have been stating his own true sentiments through Tintin and is attempting to tell the readers imperceptibly how gruesome a war can be, since he himself have been through it first-hand. ... It is Tintin who enters Müller's palace with the help of Oliveria, an old friend and successfully retrieves the prince and comes...

• Word Count: 1962
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

John Berger, who wrote Hiroshima, writes about the accounts of Hiroshima through a book he received through a friend. ... To begin, Berger states in the beginning of his essay about how he was looking through the book of the survivors accounts that a friend had sent him. ... Then though, they distance themselves from it, because they didn't have to deal with the true consequences of what we did, and ignored the reality of it. ...

• Word Count: 1551
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In the book " A Separate Peace" it exemplifies true feelings and characteristics of ordinary people. It takes place in 1942 during the dark days of World War II. The book is based on a flashback by main character and narrator Gene Forrester. Based at a highly regarded prep school, by the name of ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Why, a friend of mine went over on this new liner last week - the Titanic - she sails next week - forty- thousand eight hundred tons - New York in five days - and every luxury - and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable." ... An example of this is in act 3 when Sheila confesses "But don't you see, if all that's come out tonight is true, then it doesn't much matter who it was that made us confess." ...

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Helicopters became America's best friend as they were a brand new invention that had not previously seen much use. ... This is not true, 91% of all living Vietnam veterans say that they are proud that they served their country, 74% would serve again knowing that there would be the same outcome, and 97% of them were discharged under honorable conditions (Westmoreland, VHFCN). ...

• Word Count: 1625
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In 1903 he married Mileva Meric, a mathematician friend. ... There is no doubt that he was dissatisfied that he never was able to find the true meaning of existence that he strove for all his life....

• Word Count: 1542
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Well after the establishment of the United States a feeling of disgust towards this rebellious daughter nation still held true after such a an extended period of time. ... England saw this as an opportunity to coattail a riding power as well as becoming more recently the best friend the US has today. ...

• Word Count: 1715
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Tanimoto) writes a letter to an American friend saying that everything that has happened was just a great sacrifice by the Japanese people, towards the goal of World Peace. ... Also if the story is related to something true, it catches me completely. ...

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People were constantly fed propaganda about what war is like and how it will affect a person, while the true effects were only discovered on the battlefield by soldiers who never came back. ... Through this the primitive point in this poem is echoed; psychological trauma has a much more haunting and torturing effect on one's well being than the physical trauma that he goes through during and after the war: "He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning If you could hear My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory- The poem ties it a...

• Word Count: 2203
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Over time maintaining a trading relationship with only one of the belligerents made it virtually impossible to maintain true neutrality. ... On April 2, 1917 when Wilson went before Congress and asked for a declaration of war against Germany, he stated: One of the things that has served to convince us that the Prussian autocracy was not and could never be our friend is that from the very outset of the present war it has filled our unsuspecting communities and even our offices of government with spies and set criminal intrigues everywhere afoot against our national unity of counsel, our peace...

• Word Count: 1910
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Rickenbacker's chance came when he ran into an old friend, Captain James Ely Miller, who was assigned to supervise the construction of a flight-training center for American aviation cadets at Issoudun. ... He was grounded for weeks at a time and often in the hospital, but like a true warrior he would fly whenever he could drag himself to an airplane. ...

• Word Count: 2088
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School