TOW #11 All Quiet on the Western Front By Erich Maria Remarque

In the second part of the book the author Erich Maria Remarque is now a seasoned veteran and has seen death and has now become jaded to it all.  The author is now changing from writing about what is happening in the physical world, but is now talking about what is going on in his mind. The author explains how he is slowly losing his mind to the tragedies of war. The author continues write directly to the public. He wants the idea of how warfare is terrible to be implanted into the minds of his readers. The author writes all the way until the end of the war when the armistice was declared in Europe. That is when the author looks down at his fellow soldiers and does not see the bubbly happiness one would expect at the end of the war. The author only sees empty shells crying to come back home. The author also uses an event that occurred to him in the war to show desperation. During the war there was a town that his unit had to capture. Inside that town some people had not left the place. So when his unit when they were shocked to find people still living there. They let the civilians leave, but some of them did not want to leave. Some of them had family members who were injured and could not move because of a stray bullet or projectile. The author explains how a little girl was shot in her leg and could not move and her family would not leave her. He write that the stood by her and even though he called for a medic to come and help them, he would not come help a civilian. They left the town because they were pushed back, and the fate of the little girl is unknown. I believe that the author did an excellent job at portraying the psychological problems that come to soldiers due to war.

TOW #10 All Quiet on the Western Front By Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front By Erich Maria Remarque is a very real and sad book about World War I. This book is a re-telling of the events that the author experienced while fighting with the Germans during World War I. The author explains many of the events through a first person view, and with excruciating detail. The author wrote this book for everyone to read. He did not add in any military jargon in his book, it is easily understandable diction. The author wanted everyone to read his book because he wanted them to know the horrors of war. before this point people did not know what the horrors of modern war could bring. With this book printed after World War I it sent waves of anti-war sentiment running through the people. It was unheard of for the time for people to dread war and for it to have been as brutal as described in the book. I only read up to chapter 7, however during the first section of the book it has already established itself as a sad and emotionally taxing book. In the second chapter of the book the author explains the death of one of his comrades when they were sent up to the front lines of the trench. They were bombarded by many of the French machine guns and soldiers. However Remarque's friend was severely injured on his leg. He explains that he had to take his friend to the medical bay and have see his friend get his leg amputated. The description and imagery the author uses in this part in particular is not censored in the slightest. Since the pain of amputation is too much Remarque's friend dies in the hospital bed and then is moved out onto the floor for the next patient to be accommodated. The doctor in this chapter is also not helpful because he brushes off Remarque's plea for the doctor to come over and help his friend. He just says that it is another death of the many that will come during the war.  I believe that the author was able to, in the first section clearly describe the problems that he had to face during the war.

IRB Intro Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front

This book is written by Erich Maria Remarque a solder who fought for the German army during World War I. This book is a narrative of the war from the viewpoint of  Erich Maria Remarque. Since he was a soldier in the German army Remarque chose this topic to explain the horrors of war. The author wrote this book after the war when people who had not been in the war can read and understand what war actually means. I wanted to read this book for the longest time but never got around to reading it. I have always hated war and thought it was silly and should never happen. The book is supposed to be a very emotional and raw book and I normally do not read books like that, however I would like to change that with this book.

Tow #9 Out of Fuel GOEC Satellite to crash land on Earth Sunday Afternoon By: FoxNews

Written by many un-named authors this article goes into detail on the re-entry of a European satellite. The satellite has been in space since 2009 mapping the earth gravitational field. With these images from the satellite scientists have been able to create an interactive image of Earth's gravitational pull allowing other scientists to see the Earth's gravitational pull. The satellite lost fuel around a month ago and is expected to crash land some time on Sunday November 10, 2013. There is no expected crash landing site but European scientists are sure that the satellite should land either off the western coast of Australia or in the uninhabited parts of Australia. The author's also go into detail on whether or not if the satellite were to fall in your backyard. The authors say you could go straight to your government and then have them complain to the scientists who had this accident occur. The authors in this article are writing to a large audience. They achieve this by not using over-complicated words to describe the satellite and instead use words and examples that the average person can understand. The authors wanted to tell as many people as possible because they could get people interested in the world of science. They want people who have never heard of this satellite get interested about it now and see hat it has done during its journey. The authors in this article use quotes from the scientists who are working on the satellite. They do this in order to back up their claim about the satellite falling to Earth. By referencing the people who are working on the satellite it shows that these author's did their research and are credible in this topic. I believe that the authors that worked on this article did an exceptional job in telling the audience about the crash landing of the European satellite.

TOW #8 FYI: Can You Overdose On Halloween Candy? By Shaunacy Ferro

In this article Shaunacy Ferro she was able to clearly explain what happens if someone were to eat only candy for a month straight. The author of the article has written many for Popular Science before and also writes about interesting findings in science on her own blog. The article is created for the masses to read. There are no large medical terms used to describe the state of the subject who is eating only candy for a month. Ferro wants to educate people on this extreme subject. She wants them to understand that the initial idea of eating only candy for a month is crazy, but also makes the reader think about what they eat during the holidays. The author wants the people who are reading this article to become cautious about what they eat this holiday season. Ferro uses jokes in her article to create a light feeling to her subject. At the end of the article she says that she has a back of candy corn in her lap while writing this article. This is stated in order for the article to not be taken too seriously. The author's intention is not for the reader to stop eating candy, or to test out whether or not eating candy for a month would make you sick. The author also uses the example that if one were to eat real black licorice, the one that comes from the root, they would become deathly sick and would actually need to be moved to the hospital to receive actual medical attention. This is used as a reminder to the reader that that even with a silly subject as candy there are real life problems that need to be addressed if one were to eat only candy for a week straight. I believe that the author was able to successfully explain to her audience that eating candy for entire month is a crazy idea that should only be thought about and not put into practice. Through the use of jokes and real life examples the author is able to explain to the reader something they might have never considered.