Great Books of the Western World

What factors affect a returning soldier’s life after a war? Erich Maria Remarque’s book, All Quiet on the Western Front, follows a young soldier named Paul Baumer as he experiences World War One on the front lines and encapsulates how he is changed by these experiences. Often, when one thinks of soldiers’ daily lives being impaired by their wartime experiences, physical damage is what comes to mind, however soldiers can also be harmed by other factors such as psychological trauma, moral…

Phenomenon of vampires is highly incorporated in today’s popular culture with a large number of books, films, and TV-series about them emerging every year. Still, many people cannot deny that Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” is an exceptional literary creation that stood at the origins of the cult of vampires. Not only did this Victorian novel, written in 1897, become a landmark piece of gothic literature, but also it defined the contemporary form and image of vampires and paved the way for multiple…

States feels any land hunger… as regards to the other nations of the western Hemisphere save such as are for their welfare. All this country desires is to see the neighboring countries Stable, Orderly, and prosperous.” the united states just wanted to better its self along with the other nations around it that were under it, they had no means to be controlling or to take the land for themselves, they wanted to better the western hemisphere. This show that the United States were not imperialistic…

First off, millions of people were killed in World War One so when the soldiers came home there was a large possibility that the soldiers would have lost family members. Losing a family member would be very sad and costly as well for any soldier. After the war they were in no state of mind to be…

Question 1 When first looking at the title and subtitle for Ray Bradbury's book, Fahrenheit 451, as well as the illustration that is depicted on the cover of my hardcopy, I thought that this book would feature higher-than-normal temperatures, fires, and burning as story elements. The title reads like a fancy way of saying four-hundred-fifty-one degrees Fahrenheit, and when combined with the fiery subtitle, which details more specifically that this is “the degree at which paper catches fire and…

Persia. London, UK: I.B. Tauris, 1996. This book discusses the progression of Persian culture through three different reigning families. The main point of the book is to address the ways that these periods are currently taught and remembered, and to point out inaccuracies in the popular western descriptions, or to reaffirm the ideas via critical analysis and comparison to primary sources such as relics. Weisehofer accomplishes this by dividing the book into 3 main sections, each devoted to a…

and how it affected the personal accounts she interviewed. Along with descriptions of the power and force of the dust storms. With this I am going to use her description of the Dust Bowl to show how truly devastating the power of it affected mid-western farmers. I also use this article to talk about the famous writers and photographers during this time period. History.com Staff. "Dust Bowl." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 01 Jan. 2009. Web. 02 April 2016. These articles talk about the…

Mexico’s Maya area in particular, John Lloyd’s book Incidents of Travel in Yucatan is the ideal book since it does a good job of groundbreaking the region for the reader and the traveler alike. In spite of the passion and keenness with which the book is narrated and illustrated, it still manages to achieve the objective of delivering the uncontaminated message about the Central American discovery in a timeless manner. This statement is true considering the book was first published in mid 19th…

“Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance,” says politician, philanthropist and cricketing legend Imran Khan. The British approached India at the commencement of the seventeenth century. With time, The British East India Company accumulated power and began to administrate the country. Nonetheless Indians detested its policies and together they revolted against the company. This led to the downfall of the company and the…

endorses. Plato 's Republic is widely considered to be one of the first examples of a Utopia; however such a portrayal falls more in line with the modern conception of a dystopian society, such as those shown in novels such as Adolus Huxley 's Brave New World…