10A: sample introduction

Here's a PDF of the introductions handout.

Here's the sample introduction we wrote together in class today:

As students walk around the halls of The International School of Helsinki, they see the motto, ‘Each one is unique.’ But are we all really unique? Can we claim that every individual is essentially different, or are our apparent differences the result of the situations in which we have found ourselves? For Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front, he sees the limitations of individuality because of war. In the opening chapters of the novel, individuality is seen as vulnerable and flexible in the face of circumstance.