In a second study, the staff was informed that a pseudopatient would be admitted in their hospital and asked to rate each patient as to the likelihood of them being one. Many patients of the hospitals regular intake were judged to be pseudopatients when none was present, illustrating failure to detect insanity. A psychiatric label colors others’ perceptions of him and behavior. There is an enormous overlap in behaviors of the sane and insane but in the context of a psychiatric hospital, everyday human experiences and behaviors were interpreted as pathological. For example, nursing records showed pseudopatients writing as an aspect of pathological behavior.
A common theme used throughout the novel was dehumanisation in which the soldiers were deprived of their basic human qualities and personality due to the numerous horrors of war they faced each day. Remarque manages to introduce and develop the theme of dehumanisation through such techniques as symbolism, imagery and first person perspective which therefore effectively engages the reader’s interest in the novel. In the epigraph Remarque says that he “simply try to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by war.” Ironically Paul and his comrades represent a whole generation of men known to history as “the lost generation” in which eight million men were died in battle, twenty one million were injured and over six and a half million civilians were killed. This also reveals Remarque’s hatred towards the war and how affective it can be although soldiers may escape its physical injuries. The novel is continuously in first person from Paul point of view which makes it seem more real and dramatic as we can see exactly how he feels at a specific time.
HOA Summer Assignment The Long Fuse by Laurence Lafore Outline Truth and the Historian Major Ideas Lafore begins the essay by writing about the influence World War I had on the world. Once called The Great War but now has turned into just another war in the history books. Events after 1945 have shed new light on the events leading up to 1914. The introduction briefly describes the causes of the war and the events leading up to them. While some historians look for one cause to the war, Lafore believes that each conflict is equally responsible for the war.
Reading this you can see how entering the war was more than just a peace keeping mission as expressed by Wilson in his message to Congress. Although these two pieces differ in the reasoning for America's intervention, they both express the intensity of the situation. Germany was on a rampage, killing anyone who tried to trade with their enemies. Something needed to be done and America was the country that had to do it. These two pieces both have great value with the message to Congress having the most.
Van Evera focused on how there were numerous factors, such as structural, political/environmental, and perceptual factors in which nationalism was a main cause of war. I believe that this article is the more accurate of the two articles, and this is because he is able to take the constructivist/ideological views that Suny uses, and incorporate them into his article, and rather than only explaining to the reader the political and historical ideologies that a nation may have. Van Evera also explicates his hypotheses by explaining that although there are constructivist ideologies such as: mythical beliefs, like self-glorification,
The quote“He doesn’t need it anymore.” clearly describes this case. To conclude,the horror of war is a vital theme and is characterized through many challenges the narrator encounters in the novel.The horror of war is portrayed throughout the novel through things such as having a perpetual fear of the unknown, the psychological effects of war, and conclusively: death.In this way,Harrison successfully shows an unheroic image of soldiers to the readers and makes the readers review what they used to think about the
This was as Hall rightly says in C, a “Rude awakening to the realities of the war that prompted a re-evaluation of the nation’s commitment.” This is similar to Source A in the way that it refuses to focus on the statistics of the offensive, but look at the consequences of the assault, with the privilege of hindsight. This is what defines this source, what makes it right, that it does not take into account solitary and meaningless numbers but looks at the opinion of the people affected, be it in the public or government officials. It clearly presents the Tet for what it was, a larger reverse for the USA. It contradicts D as well, but C is right, the Americans had been exposed and this decreased the credibility of themselves, the South Vietnamese government and made people question the capitalist system. General Giap sums it up best when he states
Differences in warfare became inevitable, and made thinking and ideas very important. The nations were introduced to new weapons such as poison gas, machine guns, submarines, airplanes, more advanced artillery, and tanks ( Prior, Wilson 129). Each of these weapons changed a certain part of warfare and how the armies of the war would defeat their enemy. World War I had been sparked by many reasons, long term and short term. The ultimate long term reason for the war was the unification of Germany in 1871.
In the second paragraph the words form an answer to the unasked question in the first paragraph, what will the country have to face? Churchill tells his audience what they have to face and what they shall do to win the war. "Wage war against a monstrous tyranny" by using the word "monstrous" which he has used to hyperbolise the fight against the Germans, calling Hitler monstrous and calling his ruling a "tyranny" both words are very emotive, trying to arouse
In modern day society, there is a large, ever-increasing social gap between the government and its people. This is evident through the high class representatives ruling as a minority over the majority of the population. This increases the importance of your social stature in determining your power and influence. Moreover, the ruling dominant class often uses the majority of the population’s fear as a base to unify the people under their rule. The social gap