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    Ww1 Friendship Quotes

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    It’s a closeness you never had before. It’s closer than your mother and father, closest [sic] than your brother or your sister, or whoever you’re closest with in your family. It was . . . y’know, you’d take a shit, and he’d be right there covering you. And if I take a shit, he’d be covering me. . . . We needed each other to surivive. This quote by a Veteran shows the kind of relationship there was between soldiers in the war. The often still very young soldiers were thrown into the war and then

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    WAR…DELIGHTFUL OR DEVASTATING? As the scholar Desiderius Erasmus stated, “War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.” John Marsden’s Tomorrow, When the War Began (1993) and John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006) construct their characters with this in mind. Ellie, the protagonist of Tomorrow, When the War Began, returns from a camping trip to find Wirrawee at war. In contrast, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas tells the story of Bruno, a 9-year-old Nazi during World War

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    their thoughts and feelings into a published work. With everyone still talking about the war years afterwards these books became incredibly popular. One of the most popular ones was titled All Quiet on the Western Front written by a German veteran Erich Maria Remarque. He told the fictional tale of Paul Bäumer a German soldier who senseless death made you realize how horrible the war actually was, and stuck a cord to many of the survivors. This book took hold of Western culture as they realize Paul

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    All quiet on the Western Front is a book written by Erich Maria Remarque about the frontlines of Germany during WWI, while Omissi’s Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers’ Letters is a series of letters written by soldiers and their loved ones describing what they went through on the front lines for the allies as well as at home. Both of these sources describe what it was like to live and fight during the war both from the side of the allies and the Germans. While these sources share a common topic

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    main problem in the novel by civilians in this society need to sacrifice themselves, situations in the economic economic systems, and destruction of the environment which is seen throughout the novel " Al Quiet On The Western Front" the author is Erich Maria Remarque. During war civilians have to sacrifice themselves by rushing the goods they purchased. Some examples of goods are butter, canned foods,

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    The complainant, Matthew D. Handley, SSG , Active duty assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, Field Artillery Squadron, 2d Cavalry Regiment (HHB, FA SQDN, 2CR) located on Vilseck, Germany submitted a DA 1559 via email to the United States Army Europe USAREUR Office of the Inspector General (OIG). The complainant requested assistance to get the Claims Office/DPW to respond the claims for damages to personal property in Building 233, located at the Rose Barracks in Vilseck. 6/28/2017

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    called All Quiet on the Western Front. The author of this book is named Erich Maria Remarque. The book has twelve chapters and 296 pages. The book tells the story of Paul Bäumer, a German soldier who—urged on by his school teacher—joins the German Army shortly after the start of World War 1. His class was scattered over the platoons amongst Frisian fishermen, peasants, and labourers. At the very beginning of the book, Erich Maria Remarque says "This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession

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    Ender's Game Theme

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    Introduction: The novel Ender's game has lots of different topics the author is trying to address. I have chosen three different topics that the author has addressed in the book. My first topic i have chosen is people dislike people who excel.My second topic is the enemy is the only real teacher.My third and final topic is Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. I think those topics are a very important part of this novel Paragraph 1 Topic people dislike people who excel: The first point

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    Western Front

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    Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front brings the reader directly into the harrowing battlefields of World War I, where the young German soldier Paul witnesses frequent bloodshed and attempts to keep himself alive. The author, a veteran himself, chooses to leave a political overview of the war from his book in order to truly reveal the anguish of those serving at the front. He criticizes the brainwashing of young men into joining the army, using the narrator’s story to convey the ways

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    In war, as in every situation, people are going to have their own opinions and their own sides of the story. In Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, the reader is provided with the perspective of the narrator, Paul Baum, a German soldier in the First World War. Also as in every situation, every person has their own unique experiences and feelings. That being said, some events can cause an overwhelming communal feeling among those in participation, and WWI did just that. Paul Baum

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