Erich Maria Remarque is perhaps one of the greatest German novelists in the early twentieth century. He was born on June 22, 1898, in Osnabruck, Germany. He received U.S. citizenship in 1947, but preferred to live in Europe until he died on September 25, 1970, in Locarno, Switzerland at the age of seventy-two. His famous novel All Quiet on the Western Front was first published in 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and published in a book form later in 1929. Because of the nature of the novel, “it was banned and burned in Nazi Germany for promoting anti-war sentiment” (Tighe 48).…
The Credibility of Eric Schlosser’s Ethos Ethos is the credibility or ethical appeal that involves persuasion by the character of the author. Authors use ethos to become trustworthy in the eyes of his or her readers. In the afterword, Schlosser provides supplementary information after the initial publication of the book. In nonfiction expose, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Eric Schlosser explores the dark side of the fast food industry.…
The mountains of West Virginia are filled with tons of coal which were needed to fuel the industrialization of the United States. The removal of the coal required a huge workforce as coal miners were forced to dig deeper and deeper into the ground to access the coal. Diane Gilliam Fisher’s poem, “Explosion at Winco No. 9”, showcases the emotional toll on a miner’s family. The families of the West Virginia coal miners lived with the knowledge that each morning might be the last time a wife kissed her husband goodbye, the last time a father held his children or the last time the family had a chance to express their love for each other. The emotional strain on the miners’ wives is illustrated when Diane Gilliam Fisher writes “It is true that it…
The main idea of “The Puritans and Sex” article is to explain how the Puritans were a religious group, who created sex laws based on their views of marriage and human behavior. It explains in depth how the Puritans seek out different attempts to prevent the people of New World from committing adultery, fornication, and/or rape. The author Edmund S. Morgan uses a few facts to support the main idea of the article. He uses stories written by ministers to inform the reader of sexual events that took place at the time.…
Hardy and Remarque utilize ambiguity in very different ways to convey a similar idea that war creates unlikely enemies. This idea is supported by the double-meanings of the ambiguous words, which hold two different definitions but still relate to the same topic. Specifically in the last stanza of “The Man He Killed”, Hardy arrives at a thoughtful conclusion about war, writing, “Yes; quaint and curious war is!” (17). The ambiguity in his assertion lies in the word “quaint”, which has a double meaning of both ‘unusual’ and ‘old-fashioned’.…
Lewis vs Ridley In “Human Nature,” Matt Ridley argues that our entire purpose in life as human beings is reproduction. In From Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis argues that we should strive for closeness with God over all else. I agree with Mr. Lewis. Though the Bible gives us the instruction to “Be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28), there is more to life than sex.…
Within the article “No books please; we’re students” By John Leo; he takes the time to explain how Generation X has been becoming less likely to put initiative into their studies in college compared to the generation 10 years before them: the baby boomers. Leo started off with introducing the idea to his audience with information pulled form a 1995 Study put out by the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute while explaining that Generation X is much less engaged, bored and are less willing to work from the study of college freshman. Leo supports his idea by pulling information from multiple sources and not just sticking with the one study. He goes on to review percentiles of an 8.7% decrease of students who spend six or more hours a week…
The Years of the Great War and the Great Communist Takeover The four year span of World War I caused the death of nearly 8 million civilians alone, and left many more handicapped or injured. The Russian Bolshevik takeover started a revolution that Russia is still feeling to this day. Russia’s descending into the communist lifestyle and the overall devastation that came along with World War I jolted the world out of its comfort zone and propelled us into the modern age, whether we were ready for it, or not.…
The Beautiful Struggle, written by Tanashi Coates is a memoir published May 6, 2008. Coates’s memoir gives you some insight of the upbringing and maturation of his life. In general the memoir gives you an outlook of how Coates and his siblings were raised including the struggles Coates went through that ultimately created a beautiful future for himself. This memoir also portrays the life of a conscious black family growing up in the 80s. Coates’s blunt style of writing expresses the authenticity of the narrative being told.…
Everyone speaks a language, but some people speak more than one language. To learn and understand a new language can be troublesome when first starting to learn said language. Both Amy Tan and Barbara Mellix experience these struggles. Tan’s multicultural Chinese- American life explains why Tan worries about the misunderstanding and stereotypes about the Chinese language.…
Martin Luther is most publically known for starting the Protestant Reformation. His written document, “The Ninety-Five Theses,” justified his disagreement with the Catholic Church. Luther was justified in attacking the Catholic Church because it was “corrupt” with indulgence at the time, Christians were being led astray by paid Christian attractions, and began to corrupt those within the Church as well.…
A clear example of this is “The red crashing game of a fight?”. In this instance, the poet is comparing the war to an ordinary sports contest about fighting competed in a stadium, which is for enjoyment, not violent, as well as not causing people to be injured. Moreover, in the poem, Pope also regards people who do not get involved in the war to the audiences that sit in “a seat in the stand”, who do not compete in the competition. The poet may create this comparison in order to cause the reader, mainly the readers who enjoy the sport, to consider the war as lively and non-dangerous as a sports competition, therefore, they attend…
The black experience is a factor of life that every African-American person has to endure. Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle, is one of those African-Americans. As a child, he mentions the moments in his life where the black experience was prominent. As long as an individual is black, they will encounter parts of the black experience.…
War is a word that usually has a negative connotation associated with it. When people think of war, most will think of death and destruction. However, some people also associate war with self-sacrifice and honour. “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson are the two poems that can show these two different point of views on war. These two poems share the same topic which is war but each view the topic in its own different way.…
What does the word nigger mean? A question that no one would expect a nine year old to ask another person. A phrase that could cause anyone, not just a nine year old, a whole world of trouble. What led me to ask not only my childhood best friend, but also his mom, what the word “nigger” meant, was when we were in his front yard while a black mailman delivered mail in our neighborhood.…