Maria: or Essays

Did you know that Maria Sibylla Merian was an accomplished artist, an excellent naturalist, and a bold explorer? Well, she was because she was born a naturalist and she became a scientist. When she started learning about insects and plants she went to different places and discovered new things. She also experimented new things too so she could see how she could do her experiments. Maria Sibylla Merian was a naturalist (a naturalist someone who studies and knows a lot about history.) and a scientific

Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina was born on May 13, 1717 in Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria, Holy Roman Empire. She was daughter to Charles VI and assumed the throne after his death on October 20 1740. Officially, she was Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. She sought to improve the conditions of her people through absolute rule without tyranny. Upon her father’s death Prussia continued to invade the Habsburg province of Silesia which sparked a nine-year conflict knows

her portrayal of Maria von Trapp in the 1965 classic film, "The Sound of Music." Following her breakout role as Mary Poppins, Andrews faced several setbacks in her career, including a throat operation that threatened her singing voice. However, she made a triumphant return with "The Sound of Music," which became one of the biggest box office hits of all time and solidified her status as one of the most beloved actresses of her generation. "The Sound of Music" tells the story of Maria, a governess who

would become a hero if they had became a soldier themselves but according to Erich Maria Remarque and his experience this is false. In the novel All Quiet on the Western front by Erich Maria Remarque talks about his WW1 experience as Paul Baumer who is the main character in this novel. Readers will be advised with Erich Maria Remarque personal background. The main purpose is to inform readers about the life of Erich Maria Remarque and his experience in WW1 as a German soldier. Erich has experienced many

After reading this great antiwar novel “All quiet on the western front” by Erich Maria Remarque I have felt such deep emotions towards the life of these soldiers who fought during WW1. The writer Erich Maria Remarque was ultimately trying to tell the story of how this young generation fought for their lives and for the fatherland. A generation that was lost because of the true horrors of the war. Paul and his friend were just teenagers at the time, the iron youth of Germany from what they called

Propaganda – A True Reflection? In the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, propaganda wounded everyone, including the young teenage boys and the adults distanced from the war, physically, emotionally, and mentally; by filtering out the horrific aspects of war which weren’t recognized until it was too late to back out. Those involved in the actual feud were sitting the farthest away from the harshness of war and through means of propaganda, they got others to fight for

Erich Maria Remarque’s novel shows the horrors of WW1, in All Quiet on the Western Front. In his novel, Remarque describes the change the war makes on the soldiers as a consistent theme through the story. Every second in the fronts a soldier must fight against the physical threats that floats among everywhere to take a life. Remarque writes on the post-war called “ new objectively” which points out a highly perspective on realistic type of narration. Throughout the story his short journey in the

In the book All Quiet on the Western Front, the author Erich Maria Remarque uses sensory images to help the reader get a feel of his novel. His writing is especially detailed in the scene with the wounded horses, when the men were fighting in the distance they spotted wounded horses running, some of them even being slaughtered. Remarque does not leave out a single image, when fighting in the war it takes a lot of physical and mental mindset. If a man goes down they would want to keep fighting for

In the novel All Quiet on The Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, the constant exposure to war results in devastation. The protagonist Paul Baumer, is amongst soldiers fighting in WWI along the front. A main focus in the novel is the devastating effects that war has on the soldiers who fight in it. Many soldiers are susceptible to constant physical and emotional danger, as they can be obliterated at any given moment. Throughout the story, the soldiers are living on the edge, and uncertainty

All Quiet on the Western Front was written to show the horrors and intensity war has and that it is inevitably hell. Author Erich Maria Remarque was an intryman during the first World War and that was his inspiration for writing this novel. The book is written in a way to impact the reader with intense emotions and confused thoughts to really understand what the soldiers were experiencing on the war field. Remarque mentions many war technologies in the novel such as explosives, rifles, and toxic

“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” is the old lie of glory told to sacrifices of war. Erich Maria Remarque, author of the historical fiction All Quiet on the Western Front, tells the tale of Paul Baumer, a German soldier fighting on the western front in World War I. Baumer struggles to realize the purpose he is fighting for, and the justice behind it. Remarque demonstrates how the promised glory presented to soldiers is not worth the sufferings of war in All Quiet on the Western Front. Soldiers

All Quiet on the Western Front is a World War I novel written by Eric Maria Remarque. Some believe it has become known as the greatest war novel of all time. Remarque himself fought in World War I, so it is based off of events that he experienced first-hand. He endured five injuries during this war, and never forgot about his experiences. The reader is taken on a journey through the war experience of nineteen-year-old Paul Bäumer. Throughout the novel, Paul tells the reader about his life, both in

The Struggles of a Soldier The brutalities of war are shown through a soldiers experience through a war. In the book All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque tells the story of a group of friends in World War 1. Remarque uses the protagonist, Paul, to display the brutalities of war by experiencing some of them himself. Brutalities of war are expressed through Paul’s experience of the war harming soldiers by negatively impacting their physical bodies, making it hard for soldiers to reintegrate

help relieve the pain forever. One of the most reoccuring themes throughout the novel is the horrors or brutality of war. As we see for the duration of novel, the horrors of war present themselves in many different shapes and forms. The author Erich Maria Remarque is totally blunt with how he describes war, this brutal honesty also comes from his experience on the Western Front at the age of 18. Other novelists of his time tend to sugar coat and romanticize war, Remarque does the diametrically opposed

The war novel “All quiet on the Western Front”, written by the author Erich Maria Remarque, describes the history about the irretrievable damages done to the soldiers that fought World War 1. The story is told trough a narrative way, by Paul Bäumer a soldier himself, accompanied with his group from the same class that volunteered for the war. The novel demonstrates the somber truth of living on the battlefield. The book reveals how the individuals that have to live and fight this war and have the

In All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, Paul Bäumer enlists in the army as an enthusiastic soldier, but while in the trenches he displays the horrors of war. Before World War I, battle was glorified, but after the Great War there was a shift between emphasizing war to portraying the dangers of it. This book displays the terror within the western trenches and how it affects the soldiers in a realistic, non-heroic way. The new modern shift is caused by the intense amount

Germany was one of the Central Powers during the war. In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front follows the story of how German soldiers braved complications during World War I. It tells the experience of a young soldier named Paul Bäumer. Since the book is based off of true events it can be compared with factual events from history. Although the book is fiction it tells a great details about World War I. Erich Maria Remarque’s novel shows the struggles of German soldiers by explaining

Ashley Dumas Ms. Christine Gmitro Sophomores Honors English 16 May 2018 The Mental State of Paul Baumer In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the narrator Paul Baumer is left a broken and destroyed human being after his time in the senseless absurdity of war. The war takes a huge toll on all who witnessed or were apart of it. The soldiers went in as young men and came out feeling old, hardened, and incomplete. In order to survive such a gruesome war, the men must

The text “All Quiet On The Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque undoubtedly destroys the pre 1914 ‘Romanticized’ assumptions and perceptions of war where fighting was considered as Heroic and Noble. The composer effectively emphasizes, and reinforces the effects of the front on a typical soldier throughout the text who was ultimately encouraged to enlist without having any knowledge of the effects that the battlefield would have on him and his fellow peers. In Juxtaposition to this, “The Soldier”

The quotations “We are old folk” (Remarque 18) “The war has ruined us for everything” (Remarque 87) and “Young innocents” (Remarque 73) in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque profoundly expresses not only how the writer feels about the war, but a major theme communicated to us throughout the entire book. Remarque repetitively describes the effect of the war on the soldiers using words like “ruined” and “old”, showing the emotional, physical and psychological damage