Free Essays on The Lost Generation

  1. Lost Generation of All Quiet on the Western Front

    The Lost Generation of All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque wrote All Quiet on the Western Front in 1929. Remarque’s novel chronicles a group of classmates who, at the urging of their schoolteacher, enlists in the German army during World War I, then known as The Great War. The...

  2. "Lost Generation" in the novel of E.Hemingway "The Sun also Rises"

     "Lost Generation" in the novel of E.Hemingway "The Sun also Rises" "All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.... You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death." Gertrude Stein The novel opens with an epigraph by Gertrude Stein: "You are all a...

  3. Generation Y

     Generation Y The pretense behind Gen Y is that it is a generation driven by a “me, me, me” rationale. Many would say that the “me” generation is one that is depleting the community and idealizing the individual. But, where did this state of mind originate from and who is to ‘blame’? In my opinion...

  4. Generation Gap

    vital public topic now. Lack of understanding, parents and kids cannot exchange ideas with each other freely sometimes. We called this situation generation gap. Firstly, because of the influence of individualism from western civilization, the youths do not blindly follow what the elders say, which causes...

  5. The lost one

    People Contribute Watchlist Random page Recent changes The Lost Ones (short story) 52,159articles in progress Edit Talk4 RealWorld The Lost Ones The Lost Ones Doctor: First Doctor Main enemy: Sons of the Sun Main setting:...

  6. Overview and advantages of the third generation of Sand making machine?

    is the third generation of sand, sand making machine of the third generation directly affects the performance of sand preparing production line efficiency. Fundamentally grabs, sand making machine for innovation of the third generation, increases the processing power of third generation of sand making...

  7. Voice of a Generation

    essay was not very well made, averaging like a 63%, it is about the book “Norwegian Wood” by Haruki Murakami, and how it is a voice of the current generation. Life Is Wonderful The 1960’s were...

  8. Understanding Generation Y

    Gen Y Definition The label been given to the generation of people born between 1980’s and the late 1990’s is GEN Y. Also referred to as the echo boomers, because they are the children born to parents born during the baby boom.(baby boomers) Children born during this time have had constant access...

  9. generations

    positioned at the top of the influence pyramid and are inspirational to those younger than them and inspirational to the older. Today’s young generation, known as “Generation Y,” “G,” “We,” “Globalists,” “Digital Youth,” “Millennials,” whatever….is the largest in absolute numbers on a global perspective, and...

  10. China's Lost Girls

    baby boys, lives of baby girls become corrupt and difficult. The average rate of abandoned girls in China is about 100 thousand every year. (China’s Lost Girls. 2004) All these baby girls being abandoned, aborted, and given up for adoption, it leaves the vast majority of the population to be male. When...

  11. The Beat Generation: Their Rebellion and Pursuit in Jack Kerouac's on the Road

    The Beat Generation: Their Rebellion and Pursuit in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Abstract After the Second World War,the economy of America developed fast, Americans were seriously affected by the materialism and consumerism, people’s emotions and spiritual freedom were...

  12. Three Generations Under One Roof Can Cause Economic Stress

    Three Generations Under One Roof, may Equal Increased Stress and Economic Hardship. Patricia C. Kelley Mr. Randy Baker Eng. 102, Thursday @ 6:00pm November 12, 2008 While many men provide informal care to their elders, traditionally, women have functioned as the caregivers when elderly parents or...

  13. Lost City of Shang

    06/29/11 Reflection Paper on “Lost City of Shang” Apart from the fact that I am very fond of the cheap merchandise China has been offering people around the world, I never had the interest to go into deeper understanding about their history. I am a Chinese myself, but growing up in the Philippines...

  14. Japanese Internment Camps

    not have occurred because it was racist, the Japanese lost everything, and were second generations. In the internment camps, families were separated and lost everything. The interment camps had very poor living conditions. People lost their houses, cars, shops, fishing boats and other...

  15. The True Nature of War

    the interactions between the characters of Paul and Kropp by using techniques such as simile, metaphor and imagery to explore their ideas of the lost generation. Through the interactions of the characters of Paul and Kat, Remarque explores the idea of comradeship in his novel All Quiet on the Western...

  16. Human Beings Need Love Rather Than Warfare. --Book Report

    Lost in the ending of , I realized I had finished this book. This is a book concerning with love and war—the permanent themes of novels. Ernest Hemingway, a great American novelist, was well-known for his novel. As far as I am concerned, he was a tough guy leading a hard life which shaped his personality...

  17. Paris in the 1920s

    held weekly salons throughout the 1920s. There were many different aspects to Paris during this time. It was the destination for many of the “Lost Generation” and many expatriates. Paris cafe's were a popular way to socialize and stay up on all the latest happenings. The central area where many of...

  18. Analysis of Romeo and Juliet

    hundred people. The theme shows that over time, the tradition had lost its translation. By providing an omniscient eye-level narrator perspective, the speaker emphasizes the significance of tradition and how it is passed on from generations. As time goes by, the people continue to perform the tradition...

  19. The Hero Pedro

    The Hero: Pedro Romero At the beginning of the 20th century Hemingway’s generation viewed the world as romantics (Wikipedia Romanticism, 2008). World War One changed all of this by the use of its brutal military tactics and technologies (Wikipedia WW1 Technology, 2008). What honor was there in men...

  20. Dehumanization

    future and better life LOST GENERATION- Kantorek- no longer trust elders, persistant -changed so much, a gulf of who he was and is- cannot live a normal life -generation after and before will not remember- all they know is death and despair -cut short and ruined, lost in new idenity -dreams they...

  21. Web Review

    but the state of gender relations between those attending the university has changed as well. Belkin is shocked by the ground that seems to have been lost in the area of gender relations and the treatment of women, and looks at both sides to come to better terms with the modern view that seems prevalent...

  22. Is nuclear energy reduce dependence on oil and global warming

    greenhouse gases in the atmosphere before they are lost to space. The absorption of this longwave radiant energy warms the atmosphere. These greenhouse gases act like a mirror and reflect back to the Earth some of the heat energy which would otherwise be lost to space. The reflecting back of heat energy by...

  23. A Family Supper Analysis

    an inharmonious relation between the younger generations and older generations of Japan in his short story A Family Supper. The younger generation, who is represented by the narrating son and his sister Kikuko, have strayed away from the older generation, embodied by their father, and their traditional...

  24. The Graduate

    nearly word for word the inner turmoil that the characters face, Mrs. Robinson stuck on the bridge of life between adulthood and old age, young Benjamin lost and confused between college and adulthood. The film encapsulates and portrays the feelings of self-doubt, alienation, disenchantment, and unwanted...

  25. nuclear power

    The pursuit of nuclear energy for electricity generation began soon after the discovery in the early 20th century that radioactive elements, such as radium, released immense amounts of energy, according to the principle of mass–energy equivalence. However, means of harnessing such energy was impractical...

  26. The Name I Have

    don’t really like the way my name is a very known name to the world. My name sometimes show how I would grow up like. When I was a little kid I got lost in a store and couldn’t find help because I was too short to see anyone. I ran so fast trying to find my way out and in my name there is a meaning that...

  27. The Old Man and the Sea

    after the end of World War Two and around 40 years after the end of World War One, Hemingway has cleverly catered to the problems of two generations. The “Lost Generation” of WWI are entering their 60’s and are at the end of their career, just as the old man is at the end of his. With the majority of American...

  28. Social Networking

    can be viewed as a controversial matter. Many people today use social networks to communicate, connect with lost friends, meet new people, and even to start relationships. Today’s generation uses social networks for as a phone or meeting place. Instead of calling one another they may just send a tweet...

  29. A Rose for Emily

    changed; he also tells about Emily’s character. Both have something in common such as their isolation, preciousness and representation of the Old South generation, so these are the reasons why the house is compared to Miss Emily. First, both are left in isolation. Among the many houses on the street, only...

  30. Hemingway

    economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He had published...

  31. Walimai

    Our modern society has lost many values from our ancestors that maintained a united and healthy family. Throughout the years our culture changed in many different ways by affecting the real value of the human being that God himself created us with. In Walimai, Isabel Allende shows us the values of an...

  32. ENG122: English Composition II (

    Obesity in the United States has reached epidemic proportions, creating the first generation of children in history which is predicted to have a shorter lifespan than their parents. It seems as though that our younger generation is getting bigger by the day I believe mainly because most of the fast food places...

  33. The Effects Technology has on Relationships Today

    Autumn McCollough September 24, 2015 English 112-4172 The Effects of Technology has on Relationships Today Today’s generation has lost the ability to interact with others face to face, instead of over social media, texting or via email. When people find a conversation dull or boring they begin to...

  34. Understanding the Conflicts Between

    forced to come into closer contact with the Europeans. Their lives would never be the same again as European ideals affected the aborigines for generations to follow. The invasion of Australia bought to the aboriginal people, large scale violence which in turn led to resistance and a history of massacres...

  35. Diginity

    as the personal quality of being worthy of honor.(Websters.your dictionary.com)” It seems that every generation has a different way of defining this concept within themselves. Every generation has a perception of what the fiber of dignity consists of, and it seems to be an ever changing colorful fabric...

  36. Soldier's Home

    characterized as one of the expatriot authors also called the “lost generation”. Besides Hemingway, the “lost generation also comprised F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Gertrud Stein. The whole idea that formed the “lost generation” was the ideas that the ideals of patriotism that lured young...

  37. Modern China History - the Proletarian Cultural Revolution

    productions suffered severe setbacks and the disruption in education caused the loss of a generation of trained manpower. “ In other words, due to Mao closing down schools and universities, a -whole generation of Chinese have lost their childhood for working and will have a hard time getting a job due to lack...

  38. Ielts Writing Task 2 - Subject Guide

    Subject 1. Animal Rights 2. Careers 3. Affirmative Action 4. Capital Punishment 5. Culture 6. Censorship 7. Children's Rights 8. Drunk Driving 9. Generation gap 10. Environmental Protection 11. Gender Issues 12. Genetic Engineering 13. Gun Control 14. Language 15. Parenting 16. Poverty 17. Tobacco 18...

  39. My Appreciation of the Joy Luck Club

    understand each other. The film shows us these topics: the misunderstanding of love between the mothers and the daughters, the clash between the generations and cultures, and the struggle for the women to fight for equity. Now I am going to show you my understanding of them, emphasizing on the first topic...

  40. Levi's Commercial and American Culture

    repeatedly entitled to take away the rights of others. This poem has a lot to say about American culture and the path it has taken, with people in our generation, we find ourselves facing both a crippled economy and the realization that many of us have no idea what the hell we’re supposed to do next. What...

  41. Love Is Not Blind

    puppy love go? These are some of the questions that quite often trigger my mind as I see two love birds humming the tune of love, lost in their own world. The generation today is eager to fall in to relationships, which is not completely their fault either. Blame it on the parents who have little or...

  42. Chiclets Adams Business Plan

    plan is to reintroduce CHICLETS ADAMS to the very competitive market of gum. Chiclets is an old-time classic gum brand that has been available for generations and can still be enjoyed today in its original form and flavor. Frank H. Fleer based his product idea on a confection that was popular around the...

  43. Risk mitigation plan

    to networks and have company information on them. Require a password to access the device. Install GPS on the device to locate it, if the device is lost, or stolen. Data encryption of all emails and other company information. HACTIVISM: Hacking done by large hacking organizations as a reaction to social...

  44. The Conflicts of Indecision

    The Conflicts of Indecision Bang! It hits me. I became confused and disoriented. I lost all hope for my all important decision. The battle became even worse in the war for a next generation console. I didn’t know what to spend my hard earned and well appreciated money on. The Xbox 360 or the Nintendo...

  45. Purpose of School Uniforms

    School uniform For hundreds of years it has been a British tradition to strictly maintain smart uniforms for generations of children and teenagers. This was obviously all appropriate back in the times of pre 1960’s(social revolution of expressionism) emphasis of looking prim and proper. The main...

  46. Conkers

    of his face. Despite which ending is chosen, the final summary of Fight Club is that the ‘Generation X’ males and females (as shown through the character of Marla) are dissatisfied, unhappy, confused and lost. Many people find that it is impossible to obtain a job or career where they are not part of...

  47. 1947

    Marking the end of humiliation, exploitation and annihilation. History whispered something to her. It was so feeble. Decades passed by; generations too. Ancestors lost years from their life while fighting against foreign goods; But predecessors added life to years by grabbing them. Insisting alien...

  48. Case study

    snacks &drinks. Currently, MAA customer satisfaction is low; therefore student’s turnover is high in the last 9 months. As a result the school has lost incredible amount of revenue. WA presently operate using a paper based system, whereby student information and personal records are created in a 3x6...

  49. report

    vignettes, or short sketches, that are related through the theme of mother/daughter conflict and resolution. The conflicts are not just between generations, but across cultures and languages, because the mothers and daughters have grown up in different countries with widely different traditions and values...

  50. The Non-Stop Lottery

    small town of three hundred comes together once a year to participate in a town lottery. The lottery has been an ongoing tradition that has completely lost its original meaning. The townspeople show that it has become an annual ritual that must be performed with the saying “Lottery in June, corn be heavy...

  51. The Consequences of World War Ii

    the revision of many socio-political doctrines, policies, and principles of international relations. World War II had many consequences. The USSR lost over 24 million people, both military and civilians, and over 21 million people were left homeless and in poor conditions (Fussell 745). Great Britain...

  52. Quantum Prophecy Book Review

    worlds superheroes and super villains ten years ago. It tells the tale of two boys named Danny and Colin who finds out that they are the new generation of the lost superhuman race. By being birthed by superheroes and super villains they are blasted right in the middle of an age old battle between good...

  53. Dialogue on Francis Scott Key

    him grew up with a strong determination from living with his grandmother. She was still as strong as ever even when she lost her sight due to a fire. Key said, “If a woman who lost her sight can still see the purpose in life then perhaps the power of faith is a force worth exploring.” L-Key studied...

  54. Aids Epidemic in Uganda Eassay

    devastating impact on lot of families. Thinking back, each family has lost one or more individuals to AIDS including mine. I lost my grandmother at an early age of fifty-three years, three cousins and two friends. My husband, who is a Ugandan, has lost four family members and three friends due to AIDS. ...

  55. God Can Never Die

    and project management. A quite appropriate instance will be the stuff people daily holding in hand, iPhone. Do anyone aware that for each newer generation of iPhone, it is becoming thinner, higher performance and larger production? And a more advanced proved for technology growth is the built of Large...

  56. Endangered speices

    Astonishing amounts of animals are considered critically endangered and near extinction. If we would like these animals to be around for future generations, we cannot hesitate in our efforts to help them. Rhinoceros - Sadly, the White, Black and Javan rhinoceros are all on the critically endangered...

  57. Funeral Oration of Pericles

    those that fell in the war. He acknowledges the very first citizens of Athens, the ancestors who had passed on their wisdom and knowledge from generation to generation. It is because of these first people that the city of Athens was prosperous. The current Athenians knew what they would need to provide for...

  58. Affluenza

    out is that we need more planetsto fulfill the resources to produce goods that we want. We are destroying our mother earth and also our younger generations’ future. On the other hand, authors suggested that we may have fall into individual symptons of Affluenza that we are not aware of. People...

  59. Greek Methology

    folktale to represent an event, individual or institution. These concepts of Greek Powers (Gods and Goddess) legends have been passed from generation to generation and now taught culturally. of Deity is central to the way humans see themselves and their societies; a strong father god effects one kind...

  60. Mate Guarding

    my children from danger to ensure that my genes are passed on from generation to generation. This form of violence would have been maladaptive if I had lost the fight or if any male loses in physical competition. If the fight was lost it would have shown weakness. It shows that I cannot defend myself...