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    Cold and Warm Fronts

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    Cold and Warm fronts Often times when we experience a drastic change in weather, these changes occur from fronts. Both warm and cold fronts create sudden changes. These fronts are different air masses that separate at different densities. Zones are what separate the difference between warm and cold fronts. Often times between warm and cold front there are narrow lines and they`re typically shown by lines on a weather map. Usually, an air mass advance into the region occupied by another air mass

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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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    All Quite on the Western Front and Storm of Steel are two of many influential pieces of literature that reflect World War one from a German point of view. It is important to note that All Quite on the Western Front is a work of fiction that is based on the events of the war, Were as Storm of Steel is memoir that is based on the events of Ernst Junger on the western front. Junger is criticized that he takes a positive stance on the war, were as Erich Remarque’s novel tries to show the reality behind

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    There is not as much symbolism shown throughout the text “All quiet on the western front” to show the effects of war too. However, Kermerich’s boots provide a symbol for the certain attitude a soldier would require – detaching their emotions only to act as an emotionless object that follows orders to reduce the effects of war inflicted on the soldiers. Each Solider (including Kemmerich) who took them from dead air pilot) dies when owning these boots. Therefore, it could be argued that the boots are

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    Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, chronicles the horrors of World War One, through the eyes of a fictitious nineteen year old character by the name of Paul Baumer. Though told through the matured mind of Paul, All Quiet on the Western front, isn’t meant to be the story of a single soldier, but the shared experience of all who served and died during the war. As the novel opens, we find that all Paul has known since his arrival at the front is fear, despair, and death. As the story

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    unexperienced British army, against a professional German one. It was also, however significant in many ways. Two of the main areas where the battle of the Somme was significant were in its military value, and the reactions it caused, on the home front. The battle of the Somme, intended to end the war that year, had ambitious objectives, it was significant for failing to achieve almost all of these. One of these was Beaumont Hamel, a fortified village behind the German lines. The Battle plan called

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    All Quiet on the Western Front is a deep, multi-faceted story that, on its face, is nothing more than a tale of war. Examining it closer, however, reveals an in-depth insight into the mind of a soldier, manifested in the character of Paul Baumer. Over the course of the story, Baumer struggles to find himself as his views on the war evolve and mature. He comes to understand that what he once was and could have been, has been crushed by drill and combat. Baumer's change in outlook on the war that it

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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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    The loss of innocence is an evident yet bitter theme in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front. The group of young men, introduced at the beginning of the book, had no idea of the hardships and brutalities of war that come. Following their disclosure to battle and the front, the boys instantaneously become men. They are no longer naive and innocent. The theme is also shown with the protagonist, Krebs, in the short story “Soldier’s Home.” Krebs is home on leave, and does not have passion for life

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    All Quiet on the Western Front is an enthralling story about WWI, which, unlike other war stories at the time, vocalized the negative aspects of the war specifically the psychological effect. You can see throughout the book, the psychological horrors which Paul experiences. This psychological aspect of stories is generally not as conspicuous or as horrifying as shown in All Quiet on the Western Front. I have always been intrigued by the psychological affect that war has on you, and this book was

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