...Paul’s Case is the story of a young man who struggles with his identity. Paul feels that he knows where he belongs, but his family and teachers refuse to support his choices. In the middle of Paul's Case, there is a switch in narration. At this point, the reader can identify with Paul and his problems. Paul struggled with both internal and external problems. His parents and teachers thought he was odd. How Paul felt, was miss understood. In the beginning of the story, Paul seems to be a typical teenage boy, who caused problems in the classroom. As the story progresses, the reader can infer that Paul is rather withdrawn. He would rather live in his fantasy world than face reality. Paul dreaded returning home after the Carnegie Hall performances. He loathed his "ugly sleeping chamber with the yellow walls," but most of all, he feared his father. This is the first sign that he has a troubled home life. Next, the reader learns that Paul has no mother, and that his father holds a neighbor boy up to Paul as "a model". The lack of affection that Paul received at home caused him to look elsewhere for the attention that he craved. Which I am sure many of us can relate to. The theater and Carnegie Hall was where Paul "really lived". To him, the rest of his life was but "a sleep and a forgetting". The moment Paul stepped into either one of those places; he felt he was in his element. He "breathed like a prisoner set free". Paul's life was so dull in comparison to his theater life, which...
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..."The rocking horse winner" by D.H. Lawrence is a striking story about a 1. little boy, Paul who secretly rides his rocking horse to pick the winning horse in the various horse races that took place. After the beginning of the story, there is a short conversation between Paul and his mother about luck, and it was the conversation that started the whole dramatic episode which lead to Paul's death. The conversation between Paul and his mother, the phrase that is constantly heard in the house and the rocking horse itself are the main ideas covered in the scope of this paper. The dialogue between Paul and his mother is mainly about luck and how a person can get money if such a person is lucky. From the story, the reader should be aware of Hester's crave for money and her expensive taste, therefore, it is not surprising when she talks her son into believing that luck brings money. We could also establish at this point that the family is at least living comfortably, meaning they were not very poor; "They lived in a pleasant house, with a garden, and they had discreet servants." Paul's mother tells him that his father is not lucky and because of this, she is no longer a lucky woman. The conversation ends with Paul believing that he is a lucky boy, and the action he takes in finding this luck is what brings his demise in the end. The phrase "there must be more money" was mentioned in the story over ten times. The phrase symbolizes the insatiable desire the family has for money...
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...Person Response: Paul’s Case Paul’s Case is the story of a young man who struggles with his identity. Paul feels that he knows where he belongs, but his family and teachers refuse to support his choices. In the middle of Paul's Case, there is a switch in narration. At this point, the reader can identify with Paul and his problems. Paul struggled with both internal and external problems. His parents and teachers thought he was odd. How Paul felt, was miss understood. In the beginning of the story, Paul seems to be a typical teenage boy, who caused problems in the classroom. As the story progresses, the reader can infer that Paul is rather withdrawn. He would rather live in his fantasy world than face reality. Paul dreaded returning home after the Carnegie Hall performances. He loathed his "ugly sleeping chamber with the yellow walls," but most of all, he feared his father. This is the first sign that he has a troubled home life. Next, the reader learns that Paul has no mother, and that his father holds a neighbor boy up to Paul as "a model". The lack of affection that Paul received at home caused him to look elsewhere for the attention that he craved. Which I am sure many of us can relate to. The theater and Carnegie Hall was where Paul "really lived". To him, the rest of his life was but "a sleep and a forgetting". The moment Paul stepped into either one of those places; he felt he was in his element. He "breathed like a prisoner set free". Paul's life was so dull in comparison...
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...potent sense of paranoia spilts up the family with the unspoken phrase "There must be more money! There must be more money!" (255). The house begins to scream when Hester spends the five thousand dollars her son secretly wins for her. She spends this sum of money quickly without regret, and without putting any amount aside to save. This frightens Paul, and he becomes "wild-eyed and strange, as if something were going to explode in him" (264). The house begins to scream as the growing need of money becomes stronger. The change fo the house's whispering to screaming because of Hester's craving to spend money on worthless things shows that the pursuit of happiness through wealth is futile. Paul's mother often values the material things in life. However, what she values most in luck. Hester interjects inot her son that "If you're lucky, you have money. That's why it's better to be born lucky than rich"(256). After talking with his mother, Paul wants luck, only so he can gain his mother's happiness and love. Paul "Wanted it, he wanted it". Brainwashed with the idea that having luck leads to having money, Paul spends most of his time trying to win money. He hopes that his wealth will prove to his mother that he is lucky, and therefore make her happy. Unfortunately, Paul's journey slowly drives him insane, resulting in his death. The need...
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...Over the course of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul Bäumer struggles to find the purpose that the war has taken away from him. Before enlisting, Paul was a dedicated author who knew what he was meant to do in life: to finish his book. However, the war took that part of his life away from him. He eventually finds what he must do; Paul feels that it is important for him to try to stop war. This comes to a head after he kills a French soldier and realizes that the French “are poor devils like [Paul and his friends]”, and that they are really quite similar. Throughout this entire process, nature is used to advance these realizations and everything that Paul must go through in order to come to them. When Paul is going out to the front with his regiment, he begins to ponder over his life in the war. To him, “the front is a mysterious whirlpool… [which pulls him] slowly, irresistibly,...
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...functioned as a very important trade city, as it was located on the Via Egnatia trade route (the major east-west highway from Asia Minor to Rome). On hearing the gospel, many Thessalonians were persuaded and the church grew quickly under the supervision of Paul. Many amongst the Jewish community, however, were not persuaded and instigated a riot in the city, hoping to trap Paul and his companions (Acts 17:1-9). Due to this, Paul was forced to leave the city of Thessalonica earlier than expected. As a result, two important factors were at play: * There was dissent amongst some of the Thessalonian believers, who queried whether Paul may have been motivated by money or power (hence his defense of his ministry in 1 Thessalonians 2). * The Thessalonian believers still had many lingering questions about the faith, that Paul had been unable to answer during his brief stay. Paul, accompanied by Timothy and Silas on his second missionary journey (circa 50 A.D.), wrote this first letter from Corinth to the Thessalonians as a result of his visit to their city. The letter is dated by the majority of scholars at or around 51 A.D. This date is based on an inscription found in Delphi that mentions the same proconsul Gallio, whom Paul encountered in Corinth (see...
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...when are your surroundings observing you? The question “Why do you say people-watching, rather than watching people?” is broached in the short story written by Julia Gray. The two prime characters in the story is Kasja, and Paul. Kasja and Paul are two very different people, but have the one thing in common that they are both attending the art school of University College London, and that is how they met. Kasja is a small petite girl, with a glowy attitude, and gives an artistic impression towards her surroundings with her mermaid green, dip dyed hair, and her open-minded energy. “Her fringe is dip dyed in mermaid green; her chipped front tooth gives her the look of an inquisitive child.” Paul however gives you an impression of being a slighter darker person. He has been through some family disasters such as his sister dying in Thailand. He at one point mentions that he sees every people as dead bodies. That he imagines them in an open coffin, and only sees the mortality in them. “I see dead people. […] When he looks at people closely – really studies them – he becomes aware of their mortality. He pictures them dead, stretched out in some cool mortuary or angular open coffin.” This creates a clear image of how the author wants us to see Paul. He has a vague hint of a disturbed mind, without it getting out of hand. A comparison on their looks and their personalities might be reflected in the chairs they‘re bringing to sit on. The author uses this as some kind of...
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...soldiers find mattresses, eiderdowns, a mahogany bed, pigs, a nice kitchen, and vegetables. What does the ambulance driver do for Kropp and Paul that gives them a chance to survive? Why does Kropp consider suicide? The ambulance driver sticks an anti-tetanus needle into Kropp and Paul's chest to make sure that they survive. Kropp considers suicide because he does not want to live the rest of his life cripple. Why does Paul refuse to be chloroformed? How does Paul manage to get Kropp and himself shipped out on the same train? Paul does not want to be chloroformed because he does not want them to amputate his leg. Paul manages to...
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...Quiet on the Western Front’, by Erich Remarque tells the story of life for a soldier on and off of the battlefield. This novel has left many people rethinking war and how it has impacted on people today. The close bonds with the dead comrades, the lost generation and the realisation of who they are fighting are all things impacting the soldiers emotionally and physically. The way Remarque writes this novel shows that it is a powerful anti-war novel filled with physical horrors, blood, sweat and tears. In this novel, Remarque describes the war as horrific as it affects many soldiers physically due to the constant fighting against the enemy. For Paul and his friends, it is extremely common to walk by dead soldiers and have the scent of blood fill...
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...HERE). Much focus was on the biblical concept of “spiritual deadness” and the unfounded presumption by the Calvinists that it means mankind is born completely unable to respond willingly to God Himself. The analogy of being “dead” is seen throughout the scriptures, but can it be demonstrated to mean that mankind is born completely and totally unable to willingly respond to God Himself, as the Calvinists presume? Are we born dead like Lazarus, a corpse rotting in the tomb (a link scripture never draws), or are we dead like the...
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...minds, and morals. Facing the all too personal horrors of war, Erich Maria Remarque places his protagonist, Paul, and his comrades into situations where detachment is one of the few ways out, leading to their eventual regression. They begin to lose themselves into an abyss of shockingly unaffected and detached behaviour in order to cope with the war and the loss of their comrades. Through the use of the first person point of view, recurring motifs, and strong characterisation, Remarque explores the isolation brought about by this dehumanization on the front lines of the First World War in All Quiet on the Western Front. In choosing to use the first person point of view, Remarque allows the reader to identify more closely with, as well as understand more clearly, Paul’s evolving detachment from the world around him. From the novel’s opening it is Paul’s thoughts which set the tone. Paul first appears to be an optimist who does not dwell on the deaths of those whom he does not know. Despite the fact they left one hundred and fifty men strong and returned with only eighty, Paul describes the day as “wonderfully good”, after all “the mail has come, and almost every man has a few letters and papers” (Remarque, 3) to read. It is almost as if he has no regard for the magnitude and true meaning of the loss. This changes with the introduction of Kemmerich. In contrast to the Paul first introduced, he is profoundly affected by his friend’s death. Had Remarque not used the first person...
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...level of creativity. As trendsetters and role models this use of drugs was emulated by audiences across the United States and Great Britain. To such a point as references to mind altering drugs were appearing in Beats poems and essays and even protest songs of the middle 1950s. As music progressed through the year’s drug use (by artists and fans) and references became more mainstream. This paper will look at two specific band, The Beatles and the Grateful Dead. Rock and Roll on Drugs Drug use and music have been intertwined for many years. This use whether illegal or legal has had both positive and negative impacts on the artists and their success. While the creative juices may be flowing while under the influence of drugs the final outcome (maybe years down the road) almost always ends on a negative note. Even dating back to 1830 when Hector Berlioz wrote his most famous work “Symphonie Fantastique” he detailed the effects of an opium induced dream, specifically in the fourth movement. In an interview on June 16, 1967, Paul McCartney was asked if he ever took drugs, he said “After I took it (LSD), it opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part. It would mean a whole new world." (Spangler, 1967) During the late 1960s there was a counterculture, teens of the day were disillusioned with society, the Vietnam War and the assassinations of John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert F Kennedy. To...
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...and tortured. At first, killing Jews was not the plan; they just used them as a scapegoat and wanted to lock them up to put them to work. Later they made concentration camps and one of these was named Dachau. At the time of the Liberation, soldier of America had to witness unbearable, awful conditions. Piles of dead bodies lay on the ground. Many survivors had nowhere to go and couldn’t look past the Holocaust. In Dachau, the conditions seem to be the most inhabitable, disgusting, and insanitary of the camps. In Dachau there were hundreds of dead bodies decomposing beneath your feet. This was a common sight around the camp. Some of the bodies had only been dead for less than a day. The camp was also infested with disease. Multiple reports of typhus, lice, and other diseases were reported on camp grounds. The barracks generally had no floor and were commonly were very cold. People were forced to lie on the floor....
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...There is no escape from it: the changes happen to everybody no matter how hard people try. And Paul Baumer is no different. In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Paul Baumer enlists into the war and is transformed from a young man to a hardened veteran. Throughout the war, Paul Baumer changes in a variety of ways: physically, emotionally, and mentally. One way Paul Baumer changes in the war is through a physical way. While evacuating a village, Paul and Kropp get injured, with Kropp’s injury being dangerously close to his knee. They go to get medical help, and Paul refuses to get chloroform for fear that he will wake up with something amputated. Paul thinks to himself, “I am frightened and think quickly what I ought to do; for everyone knows that the surgeons in the dressing stations amputate on the slightest provocation” (242). Paul’s injuries are hurting him very, very badly. His physical pain is so much, he fears of amputation. But, he absolutely refuses to receive chloroform in order to see what is going on and to make certain he leaves the same he came. This is a physical change because Paul has never had injuries as bad as he did in the war, and has never felt that much pain. Another way Paul makes a physical change is on October 1918. It is a rather peaceful day with little to no fighting going on at all. It was quiet on the western front. On this day, Paul Baumer dies. “Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an...
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...paper is to show you how I fell about the passage. This is my thought in the exegetical view of James in his thought of faith and works.With this paper I will show how James instructs us to be “doers” of the Word and not just “hearers.” It is all too easy to forget what we have read in the Bible if we do not put it into practice: Authorship Verses 14-26 are about the relationship between faith and works sing his work to the “Twelve Tribes dispersed throughout the World” (Presumably “Spiritual Israel,” the International Church), the author calls himself” James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ. He does not claim apostolic rank or mention a kinship with James, but church tradition Identifies him as the person whom the apostle Paul calls” “James the Lord’s brother” (Galatians 1:19) the principal leader of Palestine Jewish Christianity between about 20 and 62 C.E. He was devout respecter of the Mosaic Torah and was known to his fellow Israelites as “James the righteous”. Despite his high reputation among both Jews and Christians, however, a violent mob killed him about 62 C.E. Two qualities of the Epistle of James give general clues about background. Besides being written in excellent Greek (not something a Galilean nature would likely be capable of), it repeatedly echoes Greek editions of the Hebrew Bible, especially the Book of Proverbs and later Hellenistic wisdom books like Ecclesiastics and the wisdom of Solomon. Forms and Organization Except for the brief opening...
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