Do not be mislead by the deceptive title - the front was anything but quiet. And though All Quiet on the Western Front may appear, at first glance, as a novel committed to revealing the senseless horrors of modern warfare with an extraordinary fierceness - indeed, it partly was - beneath the graphic prose resides a perception of World War I unprecedented for its time. ... This combination of awareness and honesty would render Remarque both praised by many for his literary genius and despised by the ultra-Nationalist Nazi regime - the latter held book burnings of All Quiet on the Western Fr...

• Word Count: 1278
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As a result, western cultures and ideas were immerged in the country. ... As people in the society carry a hybridized identity and believe that western ideas are superior, the lorry driver thinks that being recognized by the upper class who enjoys western values means everything to him. Beatrice sees the poor tried to drink and act big in front of the big' (Ngugi, p.1447, line 41-42) in the bar; this is another example of how the lower class tries to gain their self-confidence and self-recognition by the recognition from the upper class. ... Since people adore western values and ideas, ...

• Word Count: 1952
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• Grade Level: High School

Life on the frontline was said best by this passage from "All Quiet on the Western Front" shells, gas clouds and flotillas of tanks-shattering, starvation, death. ... Women may not have been fighting in the battles but their emergence at the home front was essential to the war effort. ... Many women also contributed to the war effort serving as nurses at the fronts helping save countless numbers of lives. ... Women rose up and became the backbone of the home front. ... Women gained more respect during the WW1 filling in for men at the home front this was one of the few positives that came o...

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By the end of the war the Doughboys had controlled and commanded 83 miles of the 392 mile long western front while Belgian Army controlled 25 miles, the British controlled 70 miles and the French were in control of 214 miles worth. ... The average soldier on the front line had to deal with lack of food and water, deadly gases, and the constant annoyance of lice and rats. ... Initially the American troops take over the less violent areas of the front as to give the French and British troops time to rest and to regroup on positions that were in need of reinforcements. ... But if it were ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Log houses were common among Western and Southern Americans being that these houses were quickest and least laborious to build. ... Yet, despite the difference in size and value, the homes all shared a distasteful and bland front yard. The unfenced spaces in front of many dwellings were often times trampled on and bare, littered with uncut weeds. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Proclaiming the majesty and power of Christ, these sculptures was destroyed from the western fazade during the French Revolution. ... Small chapels were on the eastern sides of the trancepts or placed within the body of the church; and west fronts were designed as screens, the first phase of English Gothic is often referred to as springtime of the style with a fresh almost severely classical approach in its simplicity. ... The miniature pinnacles take the place of the large northern European west front towers. ...

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