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- 5671: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... movie. At first, I didn’t really enjoy it, because the editing job was so terrible, but it was made in 1930. In the movie, the boys who enlisted in war were fresh out of school. They thought that was a big game, and by enrolling in the German army, they would become instant heroes, and win medals. They soon found out that it was the total opposite. Many people were ...
- 5672: Amazing Grace
- ... and do not have access to the kinds of materials or equipment that would enhance the learning experience and/or create the opportunity to explore subjects such as science. As for the physical attributes, these school buildings are in horrible condition with “barrels…filling up with rain in several rooms… Green fungus molds... growing in the corners of the room in which the guidance counselor met kids who were depressed.” (p ...
- 5673: A Rose For Emily 5
- ... and the story, her position in regard to the specific problem of time is suggested in the scene where the old soldiers appear at her funeral. "The very old me-some in their brushed Confederate uniforms-on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as is she had been a contemporary of their, believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical ...
- 5674: A Rose For Emily
- ... to the scene of the funeral. The two female cousins came to town and held the funeral on the second day. The ladies were "sibilant and macabre" and the old men were wearing their confederate uniforms. They waited until they buried her before they decided to enter her bridal room that has not been seen in forty years. The door had to be forced open, "A thin, acrid pall as of ...
- 5675: Analysis Of Poem Woman To Man
- ... I have never experienced pregnancy. The context of my reading of the poem cannot include first-hand knowledge of pregnancy: my reading of this text is shaped by the knowledge I have gleaned from textbooks, school lectures and conversations with pregnant friends. The closest I have been to experiencing the intense emotions expressed by Wright is through my experience of my mother's pregnancy with my younger sister. However, I believe ...
- 5676: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... The soldiers are compared to coins of different provinces that are melted down‚ and now they bear the same stamp(236). Remarque thinks that the soldiers mind state has been changed from when they were school boys‚ the stamp being the mark of a soldier‚ changing them forever. Also soldiers are compared with "automatons" or more commonly referred to as robots(105). Remarque uses this analogy to give the impression that ...
- 5677: A Prayer For Owen Meany
- ... Knowles and A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving are two novels that deal with similar themes. A Separate Peace deals with the events that alter the lives of two boys in a boarding school, while A Prayer for Owen Meany is the journey of two people from childhood to adulthood. Both works clearly define the true meaning of friendship and the obstacles it faces throughout the life. Due to ...
- 5678: Analysis Of Exiles By Carolyn
- ... Steedman goes out of her way to describe in detail how her mother lied to her about her past: As a teenage worker my mother had broken with a recently established tradition and on leaving school in 1927 didn't go into the sheds. She lied to me though when, at about the age of eight, I asked her what she'd done, and she said she'd worked in an ...
- 5679: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... Great War for what it was. They don't understand the suffering and misery that went witgh wars, and especially trench warfare like that in the Great War. paul disassociates himself from his parents, old school firends, and even religions because they remind him of his pre-enlistmentdays, when he was one of the innocents who iddn't realize what the Great War was. His only friends seem to be his ...
- 5680: A Scientific Comparison Betwee
- ... having power To be such as it is[ ] The soul[,] is a pure spirit Or intelligence, which has received before birth all the Metaphysical ideas; but after that event it is obliged To go to school and learn anew the knowledge It hath lost (RABKIN, 68). This anti-clerical concept could be found by many to be offensive, but by using alienation to create an alter-reality, its not a direct ...
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