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    One of the best, if not the best war novels that is Erich Remarque's “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Remarque he explains the horrors of war by gives his knowledge of his days as a German soldier fighting on the western front. Remarque’s terrible war experience influenced him to write his novel to show the realistic brutality of war with graphic violence, the emotional impacts on the soldiers. This novel depicts the life as a soldier in the German Army fighting against the Central

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    All Quiet on the Western Front is a historical fiction novel written by German author Erich Maria Remarque in the late 1920s. It is narrated by Paul Baumer, a young man who joined the army voluntarily after listening a patriotic speech from his teacher, Kantorek. Paul shared his experiences and stories during the time he fought in the German army on the French front in World War I. Paul Baumer is a nineteen years old high school student. He and several of his friends from school were encouraged

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    Plagiarism: The Illegal Recycling of Information Plagiarism is defined as using others people’s ideas, writings, and quotes without giving credit to the author by citing the material in the paper. Plagiarism can come from copying many things including charts, graphs, text, and music. Even paraphrasing an author’s work without citing it can be considered plagiarism. Plagiarism certainly has been around long before the first research project was assigned. One of the most famous

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    Frank Norris’s Novel McTeague      Frank Norris’s novel McTeague explores the decay of society in the early twentieth century. Set in San Francisco, “a place where anything can happen…where fact is often stranger than fiction” (McElrath, Jr. 447), Norris explores themes of greed and naturalism, revealing the darker side of human psyche. What can be found most disturbing is the way that Norris portrays McTeague, in shocking detail, as nothing more than a brute animal at his core. Norris explores

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    Importance of Life Revealed in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front     Erich Maria Remarque's classic war novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, deals with the many ways in which World War I affected people's lives, both the lives of soldiers on the front lines and the lives of people on the homefront. One of the most profound effects the war had was the way it made the soldiers see human life. Constant killing and death became a part of a soldier's daily life, and soldiers

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    All Quiet on the Western Front is a book that describes the different struggles of World War 1 from the perspective of someone who was there but may have not necessarily experienced it all. In the book, there is a man named Paul. “…Here hang bits of uniform, and somewhere else is plastered a bloody mess that was once a human limb” (208). When Paul is at home, he is having fun with friends and thinking that going to school is so difficult and then he goes to war, and he sees a person blown into pieces

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    All Quiet on the Western Front is a fictional war novel written by Erich Maria Remarque which follows the main character Paul Baumer, a German solider in World War I. Paul, the nineteen year old protagonist, narrates the novel as he and his classmates fight on the German and French front. The young men volunteer to join the German army after being persuaded by the nationalist words of their teacher, Kantorek. After only fighting for two weeks, eighty men remain in the company of the once one hundred

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    English speech draft Good morning/afternoon the related material I have chosen is a physical journey called All quiet on the western front written in 1987 by Erich Maria Remarque. All quiet on the western front is a novel that describes the pain German soldiers went through including mentally physically and emotionally pain it also describes the attachment to many German soldiers that returned home and the way they were feeling upon return it follows the story of a 19-year-old b oy named Paul baumer

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    He explores the grim reality the soldiers' faced on a daily basis and demonstrates the tremendous toll the war took on the mental and physical condition of the soldiers. The author, Erich Remarque depicts the brutality of the front and how the war brainwashes many people into thinking that their opponents are evil. The impulse of Paul killing his opponent shows the survival and fear of death. It is not against the men that they fling

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    its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. A quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower. This quote illustrates the stupidity of war and the way to defeat stupidity is to question the unknown which is also shown in the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and the poem Beat! Beat! Drums! By Walt Whitman. All Quiet on the Western Front and Beat! Beat! Drums! Have a common theme of the need for everyone to question the motives of war. To begin, in the book, All Quiet on the Western Front

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