Great Books of the Western World

down on a paper, and also the constant advancement of technology. McLuhan proposed that writing words on a paper led to inventions such as book, roads and more. At the same time, writing caused Western society to live in a world of invisible lines. He emphasized that alphabet had no true meaning until lines were added to it. Also that before writing the world had no restrictions. McLuhan hypothesized that this shift in technology improved Western’s society as well as limited it. His passage was…

in the leading field of religious studies. Jenkins, in his book The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade, focused on a different aspect of the Great War from 1914 to 1918, which took away millions of lives. Other than the usual aspects of the Great War, Jenkins took a deep look into the religious perspective of the war. Namely, Christianity, Judaism and Islam played their respective roles in the areas of Western Europe, Africa, Middle East and some parts of South and…

The World War One era brought about an atmosphere of war in Nazi Germany. The “superior race” of the Nazi Germans were ready to kill and were excited at the thought of war; they did not make friends with their enemies. Many young German men were enthusiastic to leave their school, family, and hometowns because they were honored to fight for their country and felt like they were no longer young boys. The true horror of war is portrayed in All Quiet on the Western Front, where the hospital…

Introduction Throughout the course of this class, we have learned about numerous individuals and topics, which have had an immense influence on molding western civilization. It has been built upon the achievements of history’s greatest leaders, ideas and documents. The most important, however, was that of Greek mythology, the philosophies of Socrates, and Augustine’s, Confessions. From the beginning of the belief in higher powers, to the philosophical advances and growth of religion, it is…

All Quiet On the Western Front In the book All Quiet On the Western front which is set behind the German Front Lines During World War l. We hear a story of six young soldiers who all went to school together and volunteered to fight in the great war due to nationalism and the thought of heroism of fighting for Germany their homeland. We are told the horrors of fighting in trench warfare on the western front and how it is to live their day by day. All Quiet On the Western Front shows the true…

write characters whom they associate themselves with. The practice of doing this is extremely evident in the stories All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. Both men have experience in which they write these novels from. From the age of eighteen Remarque was conscripted into the German Army to fight in World War I, while Ernest Hemingway spent months in Spain during the Spanish Civil War as a war correspondent. The characters of…

followed the Western diet (filled with fatty, empty calories) while believing the guidelines set by nutritionists and the FDA to be the right diet. This is the ignorance that…

deity: the Christian God being the loving, redeeming, and just Creator of the Earth, and Islam’s Allah, the just, judgmental, and inspiring god which required His love to be earned by His followers. Both these religions entail prophets, great religious wars, and holy books. Both have spread far across the earth and both have experienced major persecution for their beliefs. However, as similar as they might be, Christianity and Islam are very different religions. While Muslims believe their…

The Age of American Imperialism During the 1890s the United States saw potential in the distant lands of the Western Hemisphere they saw an enormous possibility for trade and new markets. The United States foreign policy during the 1890s focused their ideas by expanding toward the Western Hemisphere and their goal was to remove Great Britain as the dominant power, and in turn become the leading power. The US also saw that European countries were expanding and having colonies in Asia and Africa,…

Before opening the book and having only read the brief, I was under the impression that the lack of understanding that would occur between Lia’s parents and her doctors would largely be due to language barriers. In my parents’ case, the early stages of transitioning from…