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Japan was stuck in it’s traditional roots. During the time period western countries and the rest of the world were passing Japan by with new innovations and knowledge. The solution he proposed to solve this issue was education on Western society to create a national independence through personal independence for Japan and it’s citizens (Wikipedia). Fukuzawa wanted Japan to be great alongside those countries, so he sought after western knowledge. Fukuzawa started his personal independence by…

Cultural Imperialism Cultural Imperialism is a term which used to describe the phenomena of dominance of western culture by media. In this process third world countries are bound to adopt the culture of dominant nations. Thus local or national culture of a country starts vanishing of disappearing. Cultural imperialism is best defined by Herbert Schiller. He gave this theory in 1973 and states that “the concept of cultural imperialism today best describes the sum of the processes by which a…

In “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Erich Maria Remarque tells a story about a young soldier, Paul Baumer and his journey in World War I and the traumatic events he and other soldiers faced. Paul and his friends willing joined the army because of the persuasion of a teacher they looked up to, and trusted. They went from boys, to men, in this war. Paul and his friends face many brutalities throughout the war; they struggled and they learned to survive. Many struggles were caused by a…

Do you think that Paul can justly claim to speak for the younger generation when he talks about the effects of the war? Personally, I think that he can speak justly for his entire generation about the effects of the war. I think this because of how large of an impact World War I had on the world. So many people were displaced, suffered losses, and died in general. The land where the battles were fought were ravaged and littered with hastily buried men and massive craters. The soldiers were under…

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel, and Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s own graphic memoir, Paul Baumer and Marji live in unfavorable environments, permanently shaping their beliefs and identities. During World War I, Paul fights on the Western Front where the war dehumanizes him. Before Baumer serves in the cruel war, he is blinded by the glory he is told he will receive by entering Germany’s army. However, after months of witnessing inhumanely killed…

decline in the Western Roman Empire. Territory was being divided and failure to enforce rules was causing the Roman Empire to lose the strengths that were set for it. The empire fell due to political, economic, military, and changes in roman citizens. Constantine and Diocletian split the empire up by the referring to them as the western and eastern empires. Constantine controlled the eastern empire and is where he built Constantinople and saw the wealthy rise of economy with it as the western…

All Quiet on the Western Front and A Long Way Gone: A Psychological and Emotional Comparison Imagine yourself in the middle of a field, your comrades dying around you, people crying out for their mothers. This is the dreadful reality of war. The novels All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah follow the stories of Paul Baumer and Ishmael Beah, two young soldiers experiencing these things every day. The psychological and emotional journey of these…

The Fall of the Western Roman Empire Rome was a powerhouse Empire but the clock was ticking on their supremacy. The Western Roman Empire had countless problems yet only four ones stand out in a significant way. These included pitiful political issues, dreadful economic drawbacks, deathly viruses and diseases, and ruthless foreign invaders. Western Rome was hardly prepared for all of these difficulties and it soon would prove itself by causing the slow painful death for Western Rome. The…

All Quiet on the Western Front focuses on a generation of bright young men, who for a while survived the war physically, but were destroyed psychologically due to the extreme conditions they were forced to live in. Although soldiers and war are portrayed as glorious and heroic by many different sources in those times, war was infact a vicious and horrific time where innocent lives are lost and destroyed. A whole generation lost their lives without anyone stopping to mourn or remember them, but…

Throughout history conflicts between countries has been solved by war. One of the most famous wars in history, World War I, was a disastrous, life-changing event for millions of people. All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, tells what war is like through the eyes of Paul Baumer. He experiences the hardship of war at the young age of nineteen. Him and his school friends, persuaded to go to battle by their school teacher, undergo stressful events no man of their age should have…