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Ernest Hemingways In Another Country Literature Book Report/Review
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It’s no surprise that many of his story protagonists had a close resemblance to actual characters he met during those real-life experiences in which he gathered content for his plot development. In the case of Nick Adams, the main character of Hemingway’s short story, In Another Country, this real-life resemblance grew incidentally, out of his own identity.
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The New Deal by Paul K.Conkin Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Conkin is not very fond of Roosevelt and throughout the whole book echoes failures of his administration to address the various problems that plagued pre-World War II America. The first chapter of the book is dedicated to Roosevelt and his personality, as the foremost character shaping the events during the Depression years.
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A&P by John Updike Literature Essay
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The setting is the real key to understanding what is actually going on. The theme of “A&P” has to do with how Americans make choices that affect their entire lives based on false promises made to them by an economic system that is based upon turning every idea, object, and person into a commodity that can be bought and transformed into a status symbol.
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Responsibility for Tragic Results in Romeo and Juliet to the Nurse and Fate Literature Essay
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These protagonists of the tragedy are very ambiguous in their attempts to help Romeo and Juliet to be together. Could their support result in another result than tragedy? What kind of persons were Friar Lawrence and the Nurse and what role did they play at such a tragic end of the play? The Nurse loved Juliet and was truly devoted to her.
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Desiree Baby by Kate Chopin Literature Essay
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In spite of their southern locale, Chopin’s stories rarely deal with racial relations between whites and blacks. One important exception is “Desiree’s Baby” (1892). Desiree Valmonde, who was originally a founding, marries Armand Aubigny, a plantation owner who is proud of his aristocratic heritage but very much in love with Desiree.
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Oedipus and the Tragedy of a Common Man Literature Essay
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The conventional wisdom regarding tragedy is that it is a so-called tragic flaw in the hero that brings about his downfall, but when looked at more closely, every bad decision that Oedipus makes, including murdering his father and marrying his mother, can really be traced back to the act of a lowly shepherd.
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The Sky Is Gray Literature Book Report/Review
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Some other themes that are strongly shown are images of strong mothers, mysteriously absent fathers, and families in which love is expressed. On the contrary, that kind of love is more often expressed in harsh words or silence than in overt praise or affection ("Notes on Short Stories," n.d.).
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The Magic and Mystique of Art as Portrayed by Pierro and Peacock Literature Book Report/Review
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Man cannot be divorced from his art because he is an aesthetic being. It has lived on through the times, right from the Stone Age, and furnishes us with a sense of history and roots. Art is the source of culture. To be an artist is to grasp for immortality for like those artists mentioned by Pierro and Peacock, one’s name is passed down through the ages and remains indelible through the times.
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A Rose for Emily by William Faulker Literature Book Report/Review
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Emily never had any relationship with anyone as her life revolved around this only concept of status. She considered her father as her world. Emily’s father was of the opinion that that none of the boys living in the town were of her match. This is about a young lady who considered her father as everything in her life. It tells about the feelings of the town’s people towards her and her father.
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Whispers outside the Room - The Haunted Fiction of Jean Rhys Literature Essay
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The paper discusses this issue in terms of appropriation and originality, first putting forward a thesis, which is then defended/attacked with reference to examples from the text. It will be argued that the novella Wide Sargasso Sea does stand up as an independent, legitimate, work of art, despite having its basis in Bronte’s Jane Eyre. 
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Un Seor Muy Viejo Con Alas Enormes by Gabriel Marquez Literature Essay
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This is the story of what happens when an angel comes to town. But while it is subtitled ''A Tale for Children,'' it is by no means a simple story. The setting is no ordinary town, and its visitor is no ordinary angel—indeed, he seems very ordinary and human, despite his extraordinary appearance.
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Symbolism in David Leavitts Gravity Literature Book Report/Review
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The precision of the analogy of the objects and their meanings makes reading the story a worthwhile experience. When Theo chose his eyesight over his life, he must have thought and considered it a million times before coming up with a decision. Prolonging one's life without seeing a thing may sound more depressing than seeing and yet knowing that it will not be long before you are gone forever.
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Early Modern English Literature Literature Book Report/Review
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In the Renaissance period, Shakespeare and other author’s literary pieces were written. Among these is The Cruell Show by Arthur Hilliard which was published in 1673. It is among the Roxburghe Ballads and one of the admired anti-marriage literary pieces. However, nothing much has been written about Hilliard.
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Fat and happy: in defense of fat acceptance by Mary Ray Worley Literature Essay
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The researcher states that the combination of the words “fat” and “happy” arouses interest in the reader and exposes, with the use of irony and cause and effect arguments, a glaring logical fallacy that the author goes on to demolish: fat people give the impression they are happy but they are not, because they believe the wrong notions people have about being fat.
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Creon and the Concepts of Arete, Hubris, Ate, and Nemesis in Antigone Literature Essay
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The character of Creon in Antigone can be analyzed in relation to the classical concepts of arete, hubris, ate, and nemesis. Creon pretends to be a man of arête (one who has reached the pinnacle of human virtue), but he only reveals his extreme hubris (excessive pride or arrogance expressed in acts and words).
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A Chance at Immortality Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the Epic of Gilgamesh is considered the oldest story recorded in humanity; it narrates the adventure of King Gilgamesh of Uruk and his friend Enkidu. After his friend’s death, punished by the gods, Gilgamesh scared and concerned about his own mortality, begins a second journey alone in search of Utanapishtim, The Faraway.
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Leaving Earth by Helen Humphreys Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the idea of gender reversal deals directly with the feminine concept of subjectivity. The role reversals between Jack and Grace challenges redefines and illustrates subjectivity, by taking two gender-specific stereotypes and reversing them to empower the female character, thereby dispelling female gender biases.
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Autobiographies Literature Book Report/Review
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According to this book review findings, an autobiography of one's life stands as a legacy of one's being. This is especially true on the part of classical authors who decided put their autobiographies in forms of artistically written creations. Hugh McLennan and Margaret Atwood were both classical authors of the English literature. Hugh McLennan and Margaret Atwood were both classical authors of the English literature.
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How the Garca Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the protagonists, Sofia, Sandra, Yolanda and Carla continuously face challenges that bring to light the main themes of memory, the search for identity and reconciliation. Julia Alvarez employs a mix of first-person and third-person narration in reverse chronological order.
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The Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Gregor is the sole earning member of his family and when he transforms into a giant bug, the whole situation turns upside down and starts transforming slowly. His family is initially shell-shocked but later accepts it as a part of life. Gregor’s room is slowly turned into a go-down of unwanted items.
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The symbolism of Amy Lowell's poem patterns Literature Essay
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As far as I have understood "patterns" refer to the way of living with the harmonization of mind and soul. Patterns actually represent all those circumstances to which we are adhering to survive. "Symbols" represents different characters which Lowell's wants us to realize as each symbol has its own pace in this world of pattern.
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The Revolt of Oppressed People Literature Essay
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Often, a combination of factors becomes a growing problem leading to widespread dissatisfaction boiling under the surface. A precipitous incident or incidents can then catapult the people into revolt. Usually, it is not the upper classes, ensconced in their authoritative societal position, who revolt. Most often, it is the masses, the commoners.
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The History Teacher by Billie Collins Literature Book Report/Review
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The author of the paper states that the ‘history teacher’ represents all those adult sections of the contemporary society who pathetically and often unsuccessfully try to protect the innocence of the young minds by misinterpreting or glossing over the bitter and nasty parts of life.
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The Significance of Hamlet Hecubas Speech Literature Essay
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The author states that Hamlet speaks to himself, but seems to be heard by everyone, and he supposes that the theater might become a revelation for the King: ‘I have heard That guilty creature sitting at a play Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have to proclaim their malefactions’.  
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Shakespeares Hamlet: An Optimistic Play Literature Essay
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The author states that the play deals with a period “when something is rotten with the state of Denmark”. However, in its last scene, even with so many dead bodies strewn around, there is a dawn of hope. Death and destruction are inevitable to a process of rebirth and awakening. All the schemers and morally corrupt persons are dead.
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The Stealing of America: The Bush White House Literature Book Report/Review
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In his book Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. details how the Bush administration dismantled the environmental laws, made a mockery of the government, and ruled with contempt for our constitutional form of government.
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Parental Perception During Periods of Transition by Sean Newsome Literature Book Report/Review
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It is a good piece of work in the sense that it has brought about relevant issues related to a very important subject – autism, and has presented the quantitative measures of relevant variables like the degree of stress the families with kids having autism suffer and also what they perceive about the kind of services they receive.
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Deconstructing Issues of Developments and Developers Literature Essay
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Evolution in the supply of commercial real estate: the emergence of a new relationship between suppliers and occupiers of real estate; Global players and the reshaping of local property markets: global pressures and local reactions; Developing interests: environmental innovation and the social organisation of the property business;
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What Happens in Hamlet: Macmillan Literature Essay
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The author states that the entire play is full of such lines showing her beauty and innocence. However, Hamlet’s later attitude towards her mixed with the death of her father and her own tragic end creates dissatisfaction among the audience. Secondly Hamlet’s tragic end creates unrest in the minds of the audience.
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The Evolution of the Grail Myth throughout Arthurian Romances Literature Book Report/Review
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The role of Chretien de Troyes, Malory, the Mabinogion, and others in the evolution of the Grail Myth through the Arthurian Romances is of paramount consideration. Cultural historians from time to time have dealt with the evolution of the Grail legend which came mostly through the written romances and these romances derived mainly from the pre-Christian folklore suggestions.
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Turners Come and Gone by August Wilson Literature Essay
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The play “Joy Turner’s Come and Gone” was written by August Wilson. The detailed analyses of the play and Loomis’s character makes it possible to say that the play reflects all those changes faced by American society at the beginning of the XX century: migration, industrialization, and national and racial identity.
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Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway Literature Book Report/Review
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  Pitting the world of the sane and the insane side by side, and assessing the futility of conventionality in addressing life’s choices in a world that has no meaning, Woolf’s “modernist” novel imaginatively examines the superficial conventionality of post-War English society, exploring the ordinary mind on an ordinary day. 
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A Little Cloud by James Joyce Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that while it may seem that Little Chandler has a perfect life, the narrator expresses feelings and frustrations that the reader would be otherwise unaware of. This inner struggle seems to describe what all everyday men must go through at some time during their life. Little Chandler is still young and has his entire life before him.
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Testimony and Trope in Frankenstein Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Victor started his story when he had this intense idea to create something that no one can imagine. An ambition that no scientist can ever think of, and worst, will challenge the capability of God and his greatest creation in all time, the humans. Ultimately, Frankenstein tried to be God in his own mysterious world.
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Shakespeares King Lear Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that our only solace, as a reader, comes from the knowledge that his lonely and painful journey from tyranny to compassion is complete. The play is about division at many levels and the quest for union. The kingdom, the family, Lear’s soul, and sight and his reasoning are all divided and separated from their natural states.
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Alices Adventures in Wonderland Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the major themes of the novel such as the growth into adulthood and finding one’s identity reflect the situation in Victorian England. “Throughout her adventures, Alice is confronted with the problem of her shifting identity, a problem aggravated and in large part caused by the inconsistencies of Wonderland.
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Love and Conflict between Dominique Francon and Howard Roark Literature Book Report/Review
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The accidental encounter of Dominique Francon, a news reporter, with Howard Roark, the red-headed quarry worker, is intrinsically woven into the web of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand with the thread of love and hatred. The storyline revolves around Roark’s main adversary Ellsworth Toohey, an architectural critic, and Dominique Francon
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Susan Glaspells A Jury of Her Peers Literature Essay
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The author states that while conducting the investigation in the Wright’s abode, the county attorney asked Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife, to keep an eye for anything that may be helpful in revealing the real motive for Mr. Wright’s brutal murder. To this, Mr. Hale quickly asserts, “…would the women know a clue if they did, come upon it?”
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The Portrayal of Asian Males in D. W. Griffiths Broken Blossoms Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that images from the media such as film, magazines, and fiction to name a few, serve to perpetuate the status quo by continually providing the public with stereotypical images of the inferior races. Shaw writes about the Asian stereotype, “These images can be understood as “controlling images”.
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How Does Homer Reveal the Importance of Pity and Caring Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the interference of the gods with the affairs of mortals influenced greatly the outcome of the war. And it even determined the fates of the characters. These interferences may either arise from the intensive prayers of the mortals to the gods or from the relationship of the gods with a particular mortal.
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I Sit and Sew by Alice Dunbar-Nelson Literature Essay
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A poem that depicts a ‘typical’ woman’s act of sitting and sewing, the text indicates the forced passivity and frustration of a woman in war-time, who is unable to do anything to alleviate her desire to do something constructive instead of being made to sit passively. The most striking aspect of the structure of the poem is the refrain which is outside the otherwise constant rhyme scheme.
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Poetry Slam as an Emerging New Social Art Trend Literature Essay
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The purpose of the emergence is best to quote Bob Beagrie, a founding member of experimental art, saying “. . . it gives people a sense of ownership over the spoken and written words." (BBC Tees 2007). This could only mean that Poetry Slam is the evolved form of traditional poetry, in the same manner as its receptivity from the demographical audience.
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Analysis of Honey from the Rock by Kushner Literature Book Report/Review
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Kushner proceeds to expound on the idea that people do not need to be driven out from their homeland and enslaved before going back to God’s ways. In his own words, he said that people’s personal miseries are the wildernesses in their lives, their weaknesses in morality are their enslavement, and their lack of faith is their exile
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Free Will & Fate in Sartres No Exit Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the ancient Greeks believed that fate was the underlying force behind all events therefore they were basically powerless when it came to their futures. Although they conceded that man had the power to choose and make decisions for himself, they felt that these decisions inevitably ended up playing into the hands of fate.
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The Lord of The Rings Literature Essay
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Though definitely a drama, The Lord of the Rings ensures that it develops characters that allow for comedic moments, and its protagonist, Frodo, walks the line between heroic and normal in a way that makes him incredibly approachable and respectable simultaneously.
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Summary of The Yellow Wallpaper Literature Essay
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The place is in American countryside, where a couple decides to spend their summer in a large colonial mansion. The story is written in a journal form of the narrations of the wife. John, her husband, is a physician. Her brother is also a physician.
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Flannery O'Conner Theme Literature Essay
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According to the author, she states that the church will make the future world be endurable. The two stories show Christian signs of the times. " A Good Man is Hard to Find" is about a vacationing family from Georgian that is murdered by Misfit. Misfit was an escaped Criminal. In revelation, at a doctor's office a woman is assaulted and the woman's faith is questioned.
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Training and Management Policy Literature Essay
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In fact, some organizations have even claimed that validation is a costly affair and that the point that it proves cannot be relied on completely. The applicability of the program has been questioned on grounds that training effectiveness is not measurable in financial terms. Validation is perceived as having two different components.
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The Effects of War Literature Essay
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All Quiet on the Western Front is based on Remarque's 1929 novel of the same name about the gruesome conditions faced by a company of German soldiers stationed in France during the First World War. It comes from the last few lines of the novel, which state that Paul dies on a day when the only report filed said ''All quiet on the Western Front. ''. There is still fighting, and men are still dying on both sides.  
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The Epic of Gilgamesh and Modern Age Leader Literature Essay
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The current era brought the fear of wars and innocent lives have been sacrificed to gain material means. The kings used to crush nations and subjects under them to prove their power. Nowadays democrats play the same role but in a decent manner. Attaining material gains, a logical solution for one nation to impose war against the other.
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