...The Enduring Traumas of Sept. 11 Summary In the essay “The Enduring Traumas of Sept. 11” written by Damon Linker, he addresses the attack that occurred on September 11th of 2001 with what he went through that day of the attack and how he feels about the United states war that has been occurring throughout the years of America history. On the morning of Sept.11, 2001 it was like any other day for Linker going to work from Fairfield, Connecticut to the street of 5th Avenue. At his cross-town stroll to the office of First Thing magazine where he heard a very loud roar out of nowhere and glammed upward to see a passenger jet which was alarming to him and it was before Sept, 11. Linker mostly spent his entire life in New York City which made him have the memories of the Twin Tower always being there but this time he witnessed a huge horizontal gash of the right-hand tower and a massive amount of smoke floating in the sky above it. He immediately call his wife to turn on the TV for the news about the freak accident he nearly witnessed. He then returned to the street and gaze in shock at the horrifying scene unfolding two miles away for him. He called his father which immediately reminds him of his younger brother whom was attending a conference on Wall street that morning. He talked to his father on the phone to about burying his youngest son later that week, Linker's brother. The crushing of the Twin Towers being worse than it could have been at least for him. Linker's other brother...
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...your response to the presentation of the horrors of war. In the novel ‘Regeneration’, Pat Barker uses language, form and structure to present the horrors of war using the characters in the novel; who represent the soldiers in the front line, during World War One. The novel is two hundred and fifty pages, distributed between twenty three chapters and split into four parts which could be used to show four months at Craiglockhart hospital, where the novel is based. The novel is based in World War One and the horrors of war presented in the book represent what life was like for the soldiers on the frontline. The unmentionable trauma they witnessed: watching comrades die, the pile of dead bodies consuming the space around them, the stench coming from the trench (such as rats, rotting flesh and gas from on enemies attacks). In chapter two, Barker presents a horror of war through the character Burns. Before the reader is even shown the trauma that Burns went through, his mouth being filled with decaying human flesh, Barker suggests how terrible his experience was. “Rivers had become adept at finding bearable aspects to unbearable experiences, but Burns defeated him.” This suggests to the reader that Burns personal experience must be so vile that even a doctor was unable to fully tolerate it. The fact Rivers has been able to endure horrid experiences of patients at the hospital and manage to deal with them amplifies the horror Burns went through. This has changed my response to the...
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...following essay will examine ethical issues addressed through the movie “Blood Diamond”. The two main issues identified and discussed are; child soldiers and conflict diamonds. My main lens of ethical theories will consist of the four western theories, this includes, egoism, utilitarianism, ethics of duties and ethics of rights. Even though these theories are based on ethical absolutism, I will still try to apply a pluralistic view. Additionally, some of these theories will be expanded and other theories that do not tend so much towards ethical absolutism will be added. The following section will concentrate more on how these issues occurred and try to give some potential answer to the problems. In order to do so descriptive ethical theories will be tools in the examination. Finally the conclusion will be presented by a combination of a film review and a short summary of the findings in the text. 1.1 Children with guns The first of the two ethical issues that will be examined is the use of kids as soldiers. In order to do so I believe I have to take a subjective role on the subject, looking from a rebel soldier. The reasons for this is because I believe objective or western views on this topic will in the end state that this is neither moral or ethical. In order to get a more interesting view on the matter, I will use an alternative approach and try to look out of the eyes of a soldier taking the use of kid soldiers. The question is; how can the use of kids as soldiers be justified...
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...Rules of Entanglement Edward Higgins DeVry University Rules of Entanglement There are certain things you can do some places that you can’t do at others. You cannot smoke in Orange County, California inside or outside a residence because it is illegal. However, you can smoke inside and outside a residence in Riverside County, California. These are just laws in California. In war, these are called Rules of Engagement (ROE). These rules were designed to “control the response of troops in combat and to protect friendly, civilian, and sometimes enemy troops from harm and danger.” ("Soldiers Perspective - The Purpose of Military Rules of Engagement (ROE)," n.d.) There are two basic reasons ROE was developed. The first main reason was to prevent killing and injuring innocent people. The second is to allow troops to defend themselves from real threats and to prevent friendly fire. ROE also focused on mission accomplishments and obedience of law and policy. The ROE for the individual soldiers left them with their hands tied. They were unable to defend themselves at some times by commands far above them. Their largest worry was their primary job properly while maintaining a heightened level of alertness, which borderlines paranoia (E. Higgins, personal communication, March 30, 2015). Within the ROE for the Vietnam War, the troops were not allowed to use indirect fire, as well as constrained air support. Logically, this furthered the stresses of war and paranoia. Battalion commanders...
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...‘Futility’, we see the ways that the poets portray their feelings about death. In Simon Armitage’s ‘Out of the Blue’ the death has not occurred yet however it shows how the poet portrays feelings of oncoming death. In ‘Futility’ the poet shows the futile nature of war in the useless loss of life as a young soldier loses his life. Owen uses imagery to evoke an emotive response from the reader. The poet uses natural imagery to remind the reader of the pointlessness of life. The sun, a powerful and evocative image of life, has no power in the revival of the young soldier in the poem. This image is contrasted with the image of the soldier being in the ‘snow’ which is often equated with death as it is cold and pale. This is effective because it shows that due to the effects of war, even a powerful archetype such as the sun, worshipped in many cultures for having powers, has no use as a young life is wasted and left to lie in the snow. The image of ‘fields half sown’ is also used to evoke an emotive response as it implies that the war had taken half of the population with it, devastating ‘home’, a place most think of as being untouchable and a haven. This quote also relates to the dead soldier being young as half sown could refer to the fighting youth’s lives being cut short. In contrast, in ‘Out of the Blue’, the death has not happened yet. The poem is told from the perspective of a man contemplating suicide as he stands at a window of the World Trade Centre during the 9/11 attacks. Armitage...
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...should quit or if I should re-enlist. After a long, hard thought, my decision to whether re-enlist or quit comes to a conclusion. I will re-enlist for three reasons: the need for healthy men, support from Congress and out of all things, I’m not a summer soldier. The first reason I will re-enlist is healthy men are needed. In Document A, Winter Quarters, the statistics claim that in December 1777 nearly 3,000 men suffered from illness at Valley Forge. Within a few...
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...100-Professor Dana J Kerrigan Essay #3: The Expository Essay 31 July 2012 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD- Post-traumatic stress disorder is a mental health problem that can occur after one goes through a traumatic event in their life. Today, military people or people who struggled with challenges, such as injuries caused by the attack on September eleven, could have been experiencing the PTSD. Doctors, families, Psychologists, and scientists are very concerned about this disorder and are finding right ways to resolve this problem. Some scientific studies have been completed over the past few years. The studies were regarding the impacts of combat deployments and their relation to spouse abuse. Research in the article “Psychology of Violence” shows that numerous psychological and behavioral outcomes are related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The most common symptoms were depression, alcohol intoxication, and spouse abuse. The September eleven, terrorist attack, serving in military, and being deployed into a war has a direct impact on soldiers and their families. The article gives us three studies that examined the effects of deployment on spouse abuse. The first study discovered that returning Army soldiers report abuse rates that lasted longer than six months (McCarroll et. al.,2000). The second and third study found no association between deployment and self-reported spouse abuse during a post deployment period neither wives nor soldiers reported it (McCarroll...
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...Media and Socio-Cultural Change The 2003 Iraq War Did Not Take Place Did the 2003 Iraq War take place? This question derived from Jean Baudrillard’s essay with the title ‘The Gulf War did not take place’ written in 1991 in response to the Gulf War (August 2, 1990 - February 28, 1991). Baudrillard began his essay with a provocative statement “Since this war was won in advance, we will never know what it would have been like had it existed. We will never know what an Iraqi taking part with a chance of fighting would have been like. We will never know what an American taking part with a chance of being beaten would have been like” (Baudrillard, 2004). This bold paragraph prompts us re-think whether the war actually occurred as what we saw, read or heard from the news and the media, however we are not supposed to consider this literary. Baudrillard’s argument was to demonstrate the war perceived by the world was not the “actual” war rather it was a media spectacle. According to Kellner, “Media Spectacles are those phenomena of media culture which embody contemporary society's basic values, serve to enculturate individuals into its way of life, and dramatize it's controversies and struggles, as well as its modes of conflict resolution." (Kellner, 2005) In Kellner’s essay ‘September 11, Spectacles of Terror, and Media Manipulation: A Critique of Jihadist and Bush Media Politics’, he implied how media spectacles have been used by terrorists and the Bush government to promote...
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...In this essay I will argue that the ‘war on terror’ declared by the Bush administration and so assessed for the US; is not a just war. It fails in the central interrelated criteria of just cause and last resort for jus ad bellum, which I detail first through assessment of the Bush administration’s self-proclaimed just reasoning behind resorting to war against a concept, and the alternatives available to it, I will then detail its failure in the jus in bello criteria of discrimination and proportionality, reasoning through the case of drone warfare. Jus ad bellum I shall firstly focus on the crucial jus ad bellum principle of just cause, holding the only just cause for war to be self-defence . The USA and its allies suffered unjust, unprovoked terror attacks, notably to embassies and battleships, as well as ultimately the 9/11 disaster, and further possessed reputable evidence of other failed attacks. Thus this essay acknowledges that they were under-attack from a powerful and effective enemy, which could be reliably pinpointed as Al Qaeda. These attacks were focused on non-combatants in landmark locations; deliberate targeting for maximum terror spreading effect, which further represented an attack on western freedoms. Hence the assailant satisfied neither jus ad bellum, nor jus in bello, and without immediate and effective action there existed great potential for further unjust attacks. This was the Bush administration’s argument for sufficient reason to declare war in self-defence...
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...Logbog Britains response to WWI Brittany made a poster with the quotation “I want YOU for the army”. The British people got dragged by the poster and they saw the war as an opportunity to become war-heroes. Under the war Poems We have been working with two poems in the last module. “The soldier” by Rubert Brooke and “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen The Soldier This poem by Rubert Brooke is as you very easily can see, putting England in a very god light. England is being praised to the sky, and Rubert Brooke can look a little bit self-laudatory since he is saying that if he dies, England will just become some corner of a foreign field. But I think that he wrote this poem, to give the English people a picture of how all English soldiers thinks about their country and them self and how valuable they are for their country. Dulce et Decorum est This poem is quite the same as “The Soldier”. The message is just completely different than the message “the Soldier” have. Both poems is showing how soldiers think doing a soldiers job, but in “Dulce et Decorum est” it is a more negative way the picture of how a soldier thinks, there is being explained by Wilfred Owen. The battle of Hiroshima The battle of Hiroshima took place 19 February– 26 March 1945 and it was the first American attack on Japanese soil. It was America who attacked the Japanese property. The reason why they wanted that island was because they needed airstrips close to Japan. The Japanese would of cause...
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...Essay – Remembering a War We Want to Forget Many US. Soldiers who took part in the Vietnam War experienced that the conflict divided The United States of America. There were two groups, those who went to Vietnam and those who didn’t. It all depended on social class, many men who travelled to Vietnam to fight were the majority of working-class America. Their average age was less than twenty and most of them didn’t even graduate. These young men were not soldiers, but ordinary people. Because they were less privileged than the educated kids, they fought and died in Vietnam, opposite the well educated. For many stationed the war was without any purpose; “ There were no dramatic pushes to the Rhine, no larger missions, nothing to feel a part of” – William Broyles, Veteran from the Vietnam War. Broyles describe how the war seemed meaningless for the soldiers, how 365 days passed with a lot of suffering and lost, how you were leaving when your days were up, but the war went on. The frustrated feeling of powerlessness when new soldiers arrived and were forced to go through the same destructive experience. In this living hell the only thing the soldiers could count on was each other. The Vietnam combat veterans drew this lesson “You are alone, no one else shares your experience or cares about it – no one except your ‘buddies’. Only they matter”. These men’s identities were taking from them when they joined the army, they were putted in a uniform, ordered to remove their hair and...
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...what they believed and subsequently changed what they wrote. The abolitionists Thomas Wentworth Higginson studied Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose essays he explained as “starry with statements of absolute truth.” Emerson’s antislavery ideals helped influence positive war ideals. Emerson had spent decades writing about moral and cultural change and he viewed the war as necessary. However, not every writer was confident about the war like Emerson. For example, Nathaniel Hawthorne admitted in a letter the month after Fort Sumter that “I don’t quite understand what we are fighting for, or what definite result can be expected” (Eiselein 30). This uncertainty about the war was transferred into his writing. He traveled to Washington to write an article for The Atlantic and eventually published the essay “Chiefly about War-Matters,” in which he critiqued everything while also satirizing The Atlantic’s pro-war views (Eiselein 33). Besides Hawthorne, most of the northern writers of the nineteenth century supported the war at the beginning. However, the writer’s attitude towards the war began to shift after the battle of Shiloh and the succeeding horrific battles. The harsh realities of the war began to trouble the writers. For example, while reading Emerson’s essay “The Poet” writer Herman Melville wrote skeptical notes within the margin. In response to Emerson’s belief, “the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye,” Melville responded “What does the man mean?” The horrors of the war...
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...CCGL 9018 Final Essay Name: CHAN YIK UID 3035036503 Case study of Wal-Mart Introduction In this essay, the case of Wal-Mart will be discussed by applying the Milton Friedman’s argument on CSR and utilitarianism. Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the world, however, it is also known for ruthless exploitation of employee, squeezing suppliers, and crushing communities. It has been the Public Enemy No. 1 for a generation of activists and reformers. To cope with these oppositions, Wal-Mart responded vigorously and, instead, announced plans to preserving the environment, fighting hunger, empowering women and providing access to healthy, affordable food. The essay will try to argue the problems of Wal-Mart dominating the world in the retail business to create great profit by giving low wages to the employee according to Milton Friedman and utilitarianism. Also, it will discuss how the plans announced by Wal-Mart deal with the global responsibility. Moreover, how should government involve in this situation. Problem: Low-wages for the Employee 1. Milton Friedman According to Milton Friedman, an American economist and philosopher, the most important social responsibility of a corporation is to maximize profit for its owner- stockholder (Friedman, 1970). He suggested that if a corporation put the focus on being socially responsible, it would make the corporation less competitive with those competitors who did not put much focus on social responsibility. For the...
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...Resilience Today, everyone have a strongly willing to be a successful person no matter in which area such as business, communities, study and family life. Although people can find lots of method to achieve the goal, there still are some characters should be aware and conscious cultivation if people want to better integrate with varied of fields. Resilience as a vital role to play in our life and it consist with different kinds of factors. In this essay, it will divide into three parts to discuss four important characters of resilience, including hardiness, adaptability, recovery and flexibility. Besides, in these four parts, it will also present these components how positive connect with communities, organizations, business or individual life. Hardiness Winston Churchill said that “success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” It is a good explain and describe for the word, hardiness. Maddi (2013, p. 7) states hardiness can be as a channel to resilience when face the stress and resilience always as a component to keep individual performance and health no matter in psychological or physiological when they under the pressure environment. It is clear that hardiness has strongly connection with resilience and it is an important factor in our life. White, Absher & Huggins point out hardiness can help people to deal with the transforms from circumstance with high stressful level into less-stressful life events like activity of organization and business...
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...Michael Dalton Humphries Professor Breedlove English 2131 28 September 2011 The Fight against Social Injustices Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther king both stood up and fought against social injustices. Thoreau wrote his essay “Civil Disobedience” to express his views on the role of government. Thoreau also expressed his ideas about what men should do to stand up to a government that sought to suppress its citizens. King started reading Thoreau during his school years and adopted his non-violent ways of protest. He molded his actions around Thoreau’s essay and fought for equal rights for the African American community. Both authors sought peaceful means to protest against things they deemed social injustices. In Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” and King’s “Letters from a Birmingham Jail” they present the problems with current societies and a peaceful way to bring those problems to the forefront. Thoreau and King both show their selflessness when they sacrificed their personal freedom for an issue. Thoreau was thrown in jail for not paying a poll tax. He refused to pay the tax because; he did not support slavery and the Mexican America war. Although Thoreau’s views in “Civil Disobedience” were his own and he was not trying to push them on anyone, they obviously had a profound impact on Martin Luther King. Writer Michael Mink of Investors Business Daily said this about King, “He was fascinated by the idea of refusing to cooperate with...
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