...In John Knowles novel, A Separate Peace, he reveals that conflict and jealousy causes immoral behavior through Gene’s actions towards Phineas and in they’re relationship. Gene’s innocence and Phineas’s experience create conflict and competition throughout the novel because following and breaking rules has its rewards and consequences. The internal war and jealousy that Gene has towards Phineas causes Gene to behave wrongly and and results in Phineas’s injury. “..My knees bent and I jounced the limb.” [60] The previous quote proves jealous causes immoral behavior. Gene is the type to follow rules and excel in academics, Gene only behaved the way he did because of the internal feeling he had towards Phineas.The incident in which Gene purposely...
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...fight and dies." -Herbert Hoover. War changes a soldier, a citizen, and a family. If there was no war there would be less to worry about. There would be no more "what if" statements, no more worry about where someone will see themselves in the near future. The plot of a A Separate Peace would be affected because boys would never go to war, the boys would not be comparing their lives to the military, and other conflicts would not have happened. During A Separate Peace, the setting takes place during World War II. Typically men are drafted to enter the battlefield. So, the boys at Devon or any other school could be drafted into the war. If the war had not of happened, the boys would never go to war. One example is when Gene wants to be drafted because of Finny. Gene is a follower, so he is going to want to be like Finny. Also, Finny would have never broken his leg the first or the second time. The second time Finny broke his leg, it happened because he falls down the stairs because he was trying to prove he could fight in the war. "the quick rapping of his cane,"(Knowles 97). Lastly, Leper would have never been drafted in the war, when Leper was drafted, it freaked Gene...
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...Troy 1 Eric Troy Mrs. Gehrke English 10b 21 March 2017 Conscience and Guilt Have you ever had a love-hate relationship with somebody? Well that is kind what the story A Separate Peace by John Knowles is like. The story presents deep and hidden meanings in it. The themes in the story are like life lessons. In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the author uses conflict, imagery, tragedy to illustrate conscience and guilt, and shows how it is illustrated in real life situations. In the novel, internal conflict is shown by how Gene feels after breaking Finny’s leg. Gene broke Finny’s leg, but Finny doesn’t know that. The conflict is Gene trying to build up the courage to tell Finny. A lesson about life can be taught by this, everyone has...
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...A doppelganger is defined as “the split personality of the protagonist” who “poses a threat to his existence” (Faurholt). Gene Forrester is a studious, competitive and untrusting young man while Phineas is his complete opposite, being an athletic prodigy with no care in the world but to have fun and enjoy life. Throughout A Separate Peace, Knowles presents Finny as a double to Gene to highlight not only Gene’s internal and external conflicts, but also his eventual attainment of peace. In this novel, Gene fights many of his own internal battles, yet Finny helps him through each of them. In the words of Harold Bloom, “it is Finny in fact through whom Gene comes to define and understand himself” (Bloom 110). The internal conflict Gene faced...
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...has been affected by colonialism, when the land was governed by another entity. The importance of colonial history was evident in Sudan in January, 2011 when a referendum asked voters of southern Sudan to decide between separating from Sudan and maintaining a unified Sudan. Nearly 99 percent of eligible voters cast their ballot for independence thereby ending the 55 year existence of the largest nation in African (Hanzich, 2011). An extremely diverse country in which governmental decisions have favored the Arab population of the North, Sudan’s existence has been marked by strife. For all but 12 years, Sudan has been torn apart by civil wars. Since the colonial period ended, Sudan’s central government could not use violence, oppression, or peace agreements to minimize colonialism’s impact and establish a sense of unity in the country. Thus, the creation of South Sudan stems from colonization which confined opposing factions within one political boundary and created a history of civil war. The artificial political boundaries established by Sudan’s colonial powers—Egypt and Great Britain—brought together diversity for which Sudan’s central government could not build unity. Building cohesion has been difficult because colonial powers determined a country’s borders “according to colonial territorial holdings not along ethnic communities, and tended to practice the strategy of divide and rule to minimize local challenges against the colonial authority” (Ylonen, 2009, p. 39). In...
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...India’s first experience with the phenomenon of separatist insurgency, they were among the most severe. They required an untested government and military to adapt to a form of political warfare with which they had little experience. Through a process of trial and error, India developed an approach to political violence in the Northeast that would guide its response to future insurgencies. The Mizo case is also significant because it was India’s first successfully concluded counterinsurgency campaign, while in Nagaland, political violence was largely contained by the mid-1970s, yet it still continues at a low-level today. The Indian government’s approach was characterized by the use of military force to smother the insurgents and physically separate them from their supporters, while simultaneously making political...
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...The problems within society often roots from the internal conflict of one person. In the novel, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, the antagonist has the greatest impact on the story. The main character named Gene creates the plot of the story. As an insecure tennager in high school, Gene has problems with self-identity. This leads him to have internal conflict with his best friend, Finny. Gene has fun and exciting times with Finny, but he feels that there are also times when they compete like rivals. Gene is the antagonist of the story because he represents the ignorance within humanity. Gene Forrester who is both protagonist and antagonist has conflict within himself which impacts his friendship and the theme, the danger of codependency to identity. Through the majority of the story, Gene has internal conflicts pertaining to his resentment but also his appreciation towards his best friend, Finny. Gene and Finny were friends who always hung out and had fun with each other. One day, Finny confesses to Gene that he is his best friend. Gene had conflicting thoughts in his mind, that contained the truth, which stopped him from...
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...Provider ID_peterjharvey There are multiple threats to security in Southwest Asia today. Which threat in your opinion poses the greatest danger to regional and international peace and why? There are many documented reasons why Southwest Asia poses a danger to regional and international peace, and this essay is designed to touch on some of the myriad of problems confronting Southwest Asia at the present time and explain why. If we look at internationally, Southwest Asia presents U.S. policymakers with some of their most difficult and seemingly intractable foreign policy problems. Regionally, where do you start, some of the region’s problems, for example, the former Maoist insurgency in Nepal and the protracted civil war that raged for decades in Sri Lanka have finally been resolved ( I believe that it must be remembered that although, in the case of the latter, Tamil aspirations for independence could eventually reignite that conflict at any time), the region’s most dangerous problems remain unresolved, when we look at the two major powers of the region India and Pakistan which remain in a state of perpetual conflict, although their current governments have kept nationalistic/religious fervour in their respective countries to a minimum – a situation that could change soon with the election of a Hindu nationalist to be prime minister of India( Narendra Modi). With both countries possessing nuclear weapons and both countries harbouring considerable numbers of extremists...
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...in a land of diverse culture and ethnicity. Sheer geopolitics combined with the land and mass of the country places India in an advantageous position in the comity of nations. However, the short history of India, as a republic has exposed her “Cloak of Secularism”. The secular political philosophy of India, which sought to achieve unity through diversity, is now faced with challenges of rising communalism and caste-ism heralded by Hindu fundamentalism and socio-economic discrimination of the socially backward sections of society. There are strong movements and simmering aspirations seeking for greater autonomy and even independence. Analyze the socio-ethnic mosaic of India with a view to determine the causes of ethnic sub-nationalism/ conflicts and ascertain the future of these fissiparous tendencies and their impact on the national integration of India. SUB THEME – SEPARATIST MOVEMENTS IN INDIA India has a host of separatist movements fermenting on its outer fringes; from the freedom struggle of Kashmiris in the North West to the Naxal, Naga, Mizoram and Manipur Movements in the North and North eastern parts particularly the ‘Siliguri Corridor’. From the 1980’s onwards, virtually the entire North has been plagued by such activities with a large proportion of religious and ethnic groups in the region forming movements of their own. Analyze the various implications of these separatist movements and fissiparous tendencies on India’s national integration and security. ...
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...security council of the United Nations has the primary responsibility under the United Nations Charter for the maintenance of international peace and security Preston, (2006). Under the Charter, all Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council. While other parts of the United Nations make recommendations to various States, the Council has the power to make decisions that Member States are obliged to obey. This gives the Security Council a very important and powerful position in the United Nations and in the world. Some of the challenges to effective peacekeeping are considered largely conceptual. In the past, peacekeepers were merely expected to separate hostile forces and observe cease-fires or truces President's Homeland Security Advisory Council, (2008). According to Luck, (2006), for the operation to be successful, it is essential that the parties to the conflict offer their collaboration and support. However, in recent conflicts, involving ethnic-based disputes, internal political struggle or the collapse of state institutions, the UN Security Council has been acting without the clear consent of the parties to the conflict Moravcsik, (1998. The result is that the environment for peacekeeping is no longer benign. Peacekeepers increasingly work in a climate of continuing armed conflict, sometimes in places where there are poorly defined borders or cease-fire lines and no guarantees of respect for their safety or role. Greenwood...
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...governmental or gender separation from the larger group, in which occurs in many society’s today and often results in issues and conflicts, in which are difficult to overcome. The reasons for separatism are often not simple and may not even benefit the separatists in the long term. The causes for separatism conflicts usually involves a nationalistic reason, when one community no longer wants to be controlled and governed by a different body but instead wants to govern itself. An example of this is the Basque area as well as Catalonia. As they had their own history and culture, the autonomy was split from Spain and they are now able to decide their own affairs. Catalonia has now been able to maintain their Catalan language which has been taught in all schools in the region since 1983 and has become the official language in education. This shows that separatism can be caused by differences in social aspects and that communities like to be recognised as their own state. The idea of separatism in many cases can also arise when there is a perception that exploitation of local resources by national government produces little economic gain for the region. This was the case in Scotland recently and was one of the main arguments for Scotland leaving the UK. Before its union with England, Scotland was a separate kingdom, with its own national church, separate education and legal systems and its own language called Gaelic which is spoken in parts of the country. One of the main problems...
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...The Arab – Israeli Conflict: Peace Building Learning Institution Student Name Introduction The Arab-Israeli conflict is not a single conflict especially when analyzing and evaluating movements towards new forms of behavior in a given conflict system (Bar-Siman-Tov, 2013: 1). The United States played in a key role in the encouragement of a creation of a conflict management framework that could be applied. It was realized that there would be a need for a further and deeper learning process to enable conflict resolution (Bar-Siman-Tov, 2013: 1). As an intrastate conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict should be seen above all as a major human problem involving approximately 3 million people who have been systematically deprived of their individual freedoms and right of self-determination through nearly three decades of military occupation (Kaufman, 2012: par 5). The decision to form a truth and reconciliation commission can drastically affect the future of a society recovering from a traumatic past (Coleman, 2013: par 7). He specific conditions of the nation, culture and peoples involved must be considered carefully before deciding to form a truth and reconciliation commission (Coleman, 2013: par 3). Societies emerging from violent conflict or oppressive regime often find it difficult t recover, build a future, and prevent themselves from falling into the conflict trap (Committee, 2011: par 4).The core pillars of transitional justice are truth seeking...
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...Throughout history the world has been shocked by major wars that have taken place between one country and another. The resolution of these wars has been hard to find and at the end the aftermath of most of the wars has been devastating in economical and social perspective. In the recent years however, most of the wars are internal meaning within the countries rather than against one another. To help promote peace and bring the world together the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created. NATO was established on April 4th 1949 and its headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium. When NATO was first founded it was shaped as a political association but that changed during the years. The entire idea of NATO was to protect all the Western European countries and the United States from a possible attack from the Soviet Union. On March 17, 1948 the Treaty of Brussels was signed by Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, and the United Kingdom. These are the first member states of the NATO that remain still very active in this organization. However, all these European countries needed the support and military supply of the United States thus immediate talks on its joining the organization started. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed on April 4, 1949 in Washington D.C. and despite the five mentioned state members and the United States, Canada, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland also joined the organization. So, at the beginning NATO was created to bring a few countries together...
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...Nations The Charter of the United Nations was signed, in San Francisco, on 26 June 1945 and is the foundation document for all the United Nations work. The United Nations was established to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” and one of its main purposes is to maintain international peace and security. Peacekeeping, although not explicitly provided for in the Charter, has evolved into one of the main tools used by the United Nations to achieve this purpose. The Charter gives the United Nations Security Council primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. In fulfilling this responsibility, the Security Council may adopt a range of measures, including the establishment of a United Nations peacekeeping operation. The legal basis for such action is found in Chapters VI, VII and VIII of the Charter. While Chapter VI deals with the “Specific Settlement of Disputes”, Chapter VII contains provisions related to “Action with Respect to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace and Acts of Aggression”. Chapter VIII of the Charter also provides for the involvement of regional arrangements and agencies in the maintenance of international peace and security provided such activities are consistent with the purposes and principles outlined in Chapter I of the Charter. United Nations peacekeeping operations have traditionally been associated with Chapter VI of the Charter. However, the Security Council need not refer to a specific Chapter of the Charter...
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...Rappuhn 1 Allie Rappuhn Jeanne Foust 12 Honors English December 12, 2014 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is an ongoing struggle between Israelis and Palestinians that began in the mid-20th century. If these two groups compromise and become two states, peace will hopefully come to this part of the world eventually (“Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”). The Israeli–Palestinian conflict has its roots in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with the birth of major nationalist movements among the Jews and among the Arabs. Both groups headed towards attaining sovereignty for their own people in the Middle East. The collision between those two forces in southern Levant and the emergence of Palestinian nationalism in the 1920s eventually escalated into the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 1947, and expanded into the wider Arab-Israeli conflict later on (“A Synopsis of the Israel/Palestine Conflict”). The on-going debate is if the state of Palestine should become one state, or two states. There are people on both sides, of course, but which is really the best solution? Many people believe that dividing the state is the only solution. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, in a June 14, 2009 transcript titled "Address by PM Netanyahu at Bar-Ilan University” takes the side of a two-state solution. He states, “In my vision of peace, in this small land of ours, two peoples live freely, side-by-side, in amity and mutual respect. Each...
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