Essays Tagged: "Corporal"

All Quite on the Western Front

changing. When the boys go to the training camp they are still innocent. They meet CorporalHimmelstoss. Corporal Himmelstoss is very mean to the boys and is very strict. Aftercompleti ...

(2 pages) 98 0 3.1 Feb/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Essay on Thought Contagion. Explains Thought Contagion and examples of how MEMES effect the mind. Teacher of class was very impressed.

sms' nervous systems.Everyone is familiar with genes: the biological code-carriers that program our corporal body by amino acid sequences in our DNA. Genes are the element of heredity that forms the b ...

(14 pages) 171 1 4.9 May/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Prison and the Alternatives: Is Incarceration the Answer to Crime?

isons were first introduced to our society in 1790, the idea of rehabilitation as an alternative to corporal or spiritual punishment was adopted and the belief that if inmates were forced to examine t ...

(8 pages) 377 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Corporal Harold Krebs, US Marines, A Good Soldier Adjusts to Home

tten in 1925 as a part of his book of short stories, In Our Time (Meyer 152). The story talks about Corporal Harold Krebs, who, like Hemingway, volunteers for instead of being drafted into World War I ... y his last name in the story, just like soldiers are called in the military. The author makes him a Corporal, which makes us believe that he is smart and worthy of respect.An idea of what a World War ...

(10 pages) 51 0 3.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Paul Baumer

iotic speeches of their teacher, Kantorek. But after experiencing ten weeks of brutal training from Corporal Himmelstoss. Paul and his friends have realized that the ideals of nationalism and patrioti ... erful and arrogant during war, and Tjaden, a member of the Paul's company, announces that the cruel Corporal Himmelstoss has come to fight at the front.At night, the men go on a harrowing mission to l ...

(5 pages) 31 1 4.3 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Wher the Uss Cole name comes from

resubmitted his request for a change of rating. This time his request was approved. He was promoted Corporal and was subsequently promoted to Sergeant in November 1944.On February 19, 1945, Sergeant C ...

(1 pages) 14 0 5.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

Visions of Prisons in the Future

eople who were awaiting trial or punishment whereupon they would receive the more common capital or corporal types of punishment. Common punishments at that time included branding, imposing fines, whi ...

(10 pages) 213 0 5.0 May/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights

What causes parents to physically punish their children and what effects can it have on the child's development?

en trying to figure out the details of family life and the effects it may have. The question is how corporal and physical punishments link to the internal and external influences that a child may be e ... d physical punishments link to the internal and external influences that a child may be exposed to. Corporal and physical punishment can be defined as the striking of somebody's body as a form of puni ...

(4 pages) 50 0 0.0 Jul/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters > Child Abuse

Essay over the book "All Quiet on the Western Front"

y was quite astonishing as the author points out. One of the main authority figures in the novel is Corporal Himmelstoss. He trained the newly enlisted soldiers in the ways of war. He is described as ...

(4 pages) 20 0 0.0 Jul/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Learning Tips

ds from other languages. Among the hundreds of examples are designations of military rank: private, corporal, sergeant, lieutenant, captain, major, colonel, and general -- all French words.The names o ...

(2 pages) 38 1 5.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies

Draft Women Into the Military

n are not included in the draft is that they are not equal to men. Women are only soldiers at home- Corporal Mom. Women only recently acquired the ballot (relative to the nation's founding). However, ...

(2 pages) 44 0 3.5 Nov/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

This essay is about the European Industrial Revolution.

oms, unexpectedly, and often alone, at different times of day, and I never saw a single instance of corporal chastisement inflicted on a child, nor indeed did I ever see children in ill-humor.” ( ...

(2 pages) 23 0 5.0 Apr/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

All Quiet On The Western Front

army by his schoolmaster, Kantorek. Along with many of his friends from school, he is trained under Corporal Himmelstoss, a strictly disciplined commander who dislikes Paul. When Paul and his f ...

(3 pages) 17 1 3.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

All Quiet On The Western Front

s, through character, "that the unhappiness of the world is often brought by small men."(p13) Corporal Himmelstoss and Kantorek were an example of this accusation of being bullies. They were bot ...

(4 pages) 25 0 5.0 May/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

King Rat

ep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons were human courage, unbl ...

(3 pages) 1035 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Company K

t hesitate when he was ordered to open fire. When Private Drury was given the order to open fire by Corporal Foster he hesitated. "No, no.----I won't do it"¦." (March 129). He hesitated s ...

(2 pages) 7 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"Defying Hitler: A Memoir" by Sebastian Haffner

nt or feeling the drizzle gradually drenching him. I certainly do not think it was a great shock to Corporal Hitler, who at about the same time could not bear to listen to the announcement of the defe ...

(9 pages) 25 1 4.6 Jul/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History

"The Catcher and The Rye"- An Insightful Plot Analysis

ceedingly portrayed as an insecure and almost completely misplaced person. His disarray is not only corporal but also pertains to his state of mind; one that is constantly judgmental and always consid ...

(5 pages) 23 0 5.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Rhetorical analysis

hers increase their scholastic performance standards to avoid punishment.An educator's right to use corporal or physical punishment has usually been attributed to the notion that when the child is in ... ain most likely directed at parents and teachers. According to Haeuser, some of the side effects of corporal punishment include ?loss of self-esteem, repressed anger and resentment, anti-social aggres ...

(5 pages) 43 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Task: In “The Long and The Short and The Tall”

e a Japanese soldier stumbles upon the hut. He enters and they capture him. Johnstone, the patrol's Corporal, grabs the Japanese soldier and then tells the men to kill him. All the men refuse except B ...

(8 pages) 2080 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists