...English 111 Eric Steineger, Instructor January 18, 2013 The Love Affair between Humans and War Mankind has the habit of glorifying war. Rather than a bloody, violent field of youth wasted, war is elevated to a divine status where the reason to fight erases the evil deeds man commit to survive. Despite the amazing honors and inspirational films, it is not only unavoidable but imperative that humans remember that “war is hell.” As Robert E. Lee allegedly inferred, if man were to forget the grueling aspects of war and “grow too fond of it” then mankind would partake in non-stop trivial violence. Drew Faust has developed her article based upon Robert E. Lee’s eloquent observation of human nature and expanded the topic to the general population’s increasing interest in war. Although war has not constantly been displayed to be a hobby of mankind, the population’s interest on the subject has never wavered. Publically, war has experienced many ups and downs in popularity such as when war became “back in fashion in Reagan-Bush America.” Privately, people have continually researched the dynamics of war. Civil War based literature grew exponentially and by the end of the twentieth century “more than 60,000 volumes of civil war history had appeared.” The Civil War became so apparent to mankind that it transgressed from factual to experiential interest with Ken Burns’s production of The Civil War in 1993. The debut of this series “attracted an audience of 14 million” and “by the end...
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...War and Capitalism violation of Human Rights Capitalism is a form of government that promotes globalization, in it thoughts is Support the Military Industrial Complex, this term is related with government, Economy, army and war; most of the people think that this ideal develop peace And make all the countries that are in way of development or just not develop Better, but no, none of the thing is how they tell, sell or advertise. There are so Many Cases that shows all the madness and contradictory purposes that Powerful Countries are doing just for their country profit and government Interest. One example of the advantage that some countries take in military army is the Human shield, in most of the cases they use child to carry out target purposes, They use civilians to avoid combats attacks; this is a clear representation of Violation of human rights, this technique was start to be used in the II world War, but nowadays is also used in some conflicts like in Afghanistan, Israel- Palestinian, Iran, Syrian, Libyan and other countries on war, they use children as A shield, these children are considering soldier children. There are a lot of Civilians dyeing in this conflicts because of the arms and weapons that the Military industrial complex provides, and this king of deal between countries is Costing human lives and most of them are children. Another issue related to this topic, is the ideal of capitalism...
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...The War on Terror and its Threat to the Preservation of Human Rights Luis Gierbolini GE 217 The US government has taken extra measures to keep the American people safe from terrorism. However in the past decade certain government policies such as; wiretapping, airport security, and background checks have manifested into what some might consider extreme measures. These extreme measures have actually kept the US from other terrorist attacks. Airport security has become one of the main focus on improving the security, and it has changed a lot since the 9/11 attacks. I know that some people complaint about the long lines and all the procedures they have to go through to fly. These procedures have helped the US from other major attacks, for example in 2009 Christmas day attempt by a Nigerian man to set off explosives sewn in his underwear aboard a Detroit bound plane. If the US never change the airport security to be more strict then who knows if that Nigerian man would have gotten caught, right now we would had been talking about another incident. I don’t mind waiting in line if it’s going to be for my safety why get mad, just get to the airport early so you don’t have to worry about missing your flight. In November 2010 the TSA introduced the body scanners in a lot of airports around the country. So far the TSA has deployed 385 machines to 68 airports around the country. I know there is some people that will refused to go through this scanners and if you refuse the TSA will...
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...Human Intervention: War and Government Causes: The English famine of 1509 troubles started as the population was starting to grow from around 2 million to 2.8 million in 1509. The economy was growing faster than employment opportunities could be provided. After the Duke of Somerset’s Act of 1547 was passed, the parliament passed a new Act in 1552, which focused on using the churches as a source of funds to combat the increasing poverty epidemic. Eventually acts were passed to invoke a local tax to help out, because people who attended church wouldn’t donate. But still even after another act was passed in 1572, there were areas in the act that were not dealt with. For instance, people whose master had died, or released servants, or discharged from the military weren’t punished, but didn’t get any help. Officially, the famine at its height during this time occurred in 1586, there wasn’t a huge death toll, but the significance of what came out of all this would be known as The Poor Law System....
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...World War II “The largest armed conflict in human history.” The largest armed conflict in human history is World War II. World War II was a world war with many countries taking part in it but the main countries who fought in the war were the United States, Germany, Japan, Italy, France, and Great Britain. The main six countries who fought in the war did not all enter the war at the same time. All the countries suffered many losses during and after the war. And finally, World War II was a terrible war that led to many deaths. Germany started World War II in 1939 when they had invaded Poland. Great Britain had earlier said they would support Poland if Germany attacked them.(World War II History Info) Germany ignored them, so Great Britain declared war on Germany. On September of 1940,...
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...Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor Paul Farmer Misty Winters University of California, Santa Barbara In the novel, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, the author, Paul Farmer combines his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in the Third World to bring about evidence and further analysis of poverty. While primarily focusing on health problems, and describing the effects of Tuberculosis, AIDS and other diseases, his experience in treating patients beaten by members of military dictatorships and those who experience malnourishment expose the severity of the social health problems. To me, the first part of this novel is the most painful. It discusses Paul’s medical work in the poorest country in the world, Haiti. He details the many misfortunes of a few of his patients. After observing a growing number of AIDS patients who had no access to medical care, the countless civilians tortured and killed by the military, Paul gets to the root of the problem, which ends up to be a political issue. Haiti is a country that has been under the boot of the United States. Paul further states that the Haitian military was created by an act of US congress, and the US has supported the homicidal regime of President Duvalier, as well as the brutalities of paramilitary organizations. Even the Haitian leaders who give the orders to imprison, torture and kill civilians were trained in Fort Benning, GA...
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...King, Honour, Human Dignity, Etcetera Weeping rain cascaded from the unforgiving, steely sky. We waited, khaki figures in a stinking, sepia trench. Every face expressionless, fear, regret, sorrow, all hidden behind stiff upper lips. King, honour, human dignity, we had been sold a lie. “One minute!” called the captain, breaking the silence. I glanced nervously around. I could hear the hurried, heavy breathing of the other soldiers, grasping at every breath as if it would be their last. “Fix bayonets!” I reached down wrenching the rigid blade from my worn leather belt. My frozen hands trembled violently as the weapon clicked into place. The sound of grating metal filled the trench. “Oh my God, I can’t do it, my fingers won’t work!” the lilting Irish tones of Paddy sounded desperate. The captain, without changing expression, marched to Paddy’s side, the cloying mud swallowing his feet at every step. Bending over the rifle he secured it within a second. He marched away in disgust. “Thank you, sir,” stammered the now humiliated Paddy. We all looked away to spare his dignity. I gazed down at my ruthless rifle with remorse and shame. How many fellow men would I kill today? What if I myself might die? The feeling was sickening. I swallowed my thoughts of murder and death, bitter like the vomit that stuck in my throat. My exhausted eyes stared along the line of pale faces drained of life. Walt gazed up the ladder in resignation, Taffy’s eyes widened with fear, and Albert’s...
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...Vietnam War. The human and financial costs of the war were becoming increasingly high, it is suggestable that this was a main factor in the withdrawal of US troops from the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War imposed a large human cost for the US. In the Tet Offensive of 1968, 10,000 US and South Vietnamese troops were killed and, despite the fact that the death toll was exponentially increasing, there were half a million US soldiers in Vietnam by the end of Johnson’s presidency. Also, the average age of a US soldier in the Vietnam War was only 19 years, the straining impact that the War took upon the youth of the country only gave US citizens more reasons to dislike the war. With there being extensive media coverage following the War, it did not take long before the news of the large number of people being killed reached home- this led to a lack of support back home. A prime example of this lack of support is the events that took place at the Kent State Shooting of 1974 where 4 university students were killed by federal officers in an anti-war protest. Further evidence of anti-war attitudes is the high number of seminars, rallies and speeches held at Universities questioning the US’s reasons for being involved within the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. These events highlighted the lack of support being gained at home to the US government; it was made clear that they were having to tackle a war at home as well as in Vietnam. Therefore, the initial human cost of the Vietnam War impacted...
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...English Essay: Anh Do’s story is a timely reminder of the plight of refugee in our country. Discuss the Happiest Refugee in the light of Do’s universal message about the suffering of human beings during times of war and the struggle to make a better life in a foreign country. The Happiest Refugee is a memoir written by Anh Do which was first published on the 1st of August in 2010. It is regarded as one of the most influential and well-received novels in the world of literature for its great insight on the life of refugees. The book provides a universal message to its readers about the suffering of human beings during wars and their struggle to make a better life in a foreign country. The Happiest Refugee is about Anh Do and his family’s journey for Vietnam to Australia during the Vietnam War in 1962; which was the longest war the Australia had been involved in. Due to the war Anh’s family and friends were forced to leave their country and come to Australia in search for a better life. Refugees often have to risk their lives on dangerously crude and overcrowded boats to escape life threatening circumstances and poverty and war in their nation. The Happiest Refugee provides reader with a n insight to a refugee’s life and demonstrates the circumstances and situation they must get through in order to start a new life. The Happiest Refugee is a memoir written by Anh Do in August 2010. It’s a story about the Anh and his family being forced to flee from Vietnam and come to Australia...
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...HST202A: Modern World Studies | Unit 4 | Lesson 13: War’s End Lesson Answer Key War’s End Read: Reading Guide 1. Complete the following chart to show the human cost to the Great War. Group Estimated Number total number of combatants killed 9 million total number of soldiers wounded 21 million civilians dead from disease, hunger, and other war-related causes possibly 9 million Germany and Russia (casualties) 3.4 million French males between 25 and 35 dead or wounded nearly half Britain and its empire (casualties) 1 million Austria-Hungary (casualties) more than a million Italy (casualties) more than a half a million Ottoman Turks (casualties) possibly 325,000 United States (casualties) almost 120,000 2. Today, the British celebrate November 11 as Remembrance Day. In the United States, November 11 is called Veterans Day. 3. What was the effect of the Great War on the infrastructure of France and Belgium? (Infrastructure refers to a country’s facilities and structures that are required to build industries and move goods in and out of the country. It includes roads, bridges, utilities, water, sewage, etc. An infrastructure is necessary for a productive economy.) The infrastructure in France and Belgium was devastated. Farms, villages, and towns were wrecked. Artillery fire destroyed bridges, railroad tracks, roads, factories, and homes. Many villages were completely wiped out. Whole stretches of land...
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...Battle The definition of war is an organized, prolonged conflict between states and non-state actor. War is generally characterized with extreme violence, destructions and often-social disruption. In society and politics, war is understood to be a form of political violence because it is the widespread and intentional forced of conflict between political communities. As a nation, War has been hot topic for debate since the establishment of our country. When the Mayflower landed on Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims started the creation of what the nation of United States is today, war had to be taken place. The United States has utilized war in order to resolve and face political issues that were burdening the county, whether is over was over taxation over representation, the issue on slavery, and now societies current issue, the war on Terror. Whether citizens support it or not, War has become a major aspect of this country due to the fact of the patriotism surrounding the subject and the purpose of serving and defending your country doctrine. In recent years, superior nations such as the Untied States have produced new technological ways of how to conduct warfare without the responsibility of any casualties. In retrospect, these innovative weapons are great because it protects the defense team from casualties and mishaps within war and it “gets the job done”. But with all these positive aspects of these new technologies, are we loosing the concept of war? With the use of these autonomous...
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...Everyone is familiar with the state of armed conflict that is war, and for as long as there has been civilization there has been war. Upon first glance, Henry David Thoreau’s “The Battle of the Ants” seems like a simple descriptive story of a battle between two different species of ants, one red and one black, but if one were to further inspect the text, they could see that Thoreau uses the ants and their battle as a satirical allegory for human conflict. Thoreau chooses to use ants as a metaphor to make it clear to the reader that war is futile, pointless, and a waste of life. “The Battle of the Ants” begins with Thoreau casually walking out to his wood-pile as he stumbles upon the battle between the red ants and the black ants. After this, he compares these ants to humans, making the allegory apparent from the start. “It was the only battle which I have ever witnessed… On every side they were engaged in deadly combat, yet without any noise that I could hear, and human soldiers never fought so resolutely” (575). Thoreau uses hyperbole early in his essay to reinforce its anti-war theme as he describes the fighting ants to be in the middle of war. However, he implies that this war is miniscule by reminding the reader of its setting: a wood-yard. Thoreau goes on to describe an even smaller battle he witnesses between two ants, again, amid the chips, giving more scope to the idea that war is irrelevant compared to the broader schemes of the world. “I watched a couple that were...
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...Navi, a blue-skinned species of natives. Physically, they are stronger and taller than humans and they live in harmony with the nature. Humans intend to exploit Pandora’s reserves of a precious mineral, but that threatens the existence of the Navi and the Pandora ecosystem. Humans have two solutions to achieve their goal: the first one is to improve relations with the natives to convince them to leave their forest and the second one is the war. Thus, scientists grow Navi bodies modified with human DNA, called Avatars, that are controlled by mentally-linked human operators in order to get in touch with the Navi. Jake Sully is one of these avatar operators and succeeds to be a member of the natives and consequently he becomes to be a spy. Indeed, he delivers key strategic information to the human militaries and moreover he discovers that the Navi will never leave their forest owing to their way of living in harmony with the nature. While humans decide to begin the war against the natives, Jake Sully develops strong attachments to Pandora and its inhabitants so he decides to change ends and to fight against the human attack. After a short summary of this film, I am doing some commentaries of it. This science fiction film isn’t so unreal to the contemporary world. In the film, the war begins owing to a precious mineral, which is very expensive. Indeed, nowadays humans are able to make war in order to get petrol, land or money and they don’t realize that some men and women die...
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...Is War Primarily the Product of ‘Human Nature’? It is too great a task to identify a common cause of all wars, past and present, then attribute it responsibility for their commencing. However, what can be done is to identify certain foundations common in all “war”, and pay heed to how “states [or other structures] actually behave, behind the façade of their values-based rhetoric” (Kaplan, 2012, p.1). It will be this essay’s goal to determine first, what needs be included in the definition of “human nature”, and what constitutes “war”, and second, stake the claim that all political action, including that of states, is derived primarily from this definition of human nature. The first task is to define what is meant by “war”, and while definitions abound, it is possible to order them into one of two categories supplied by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. The first is the modern conventional view, that war is “the state of armed conflict between nations or states” (Oxford, 2007, p.3573), and the second, considerably broader, of “any active hostility or struggle between living beings” (Oxford, 2007, p.3573). The former accounts well for conflicts that were overwhelmingly state-centric, such as the First World War, and marks a clear distinction between war and individual political violence: war is the business of states. However, is the Vietnam War to be understood—like the Korean—as a simple north versus south conflict, despite the northern state only assuming active involvementnine...
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...people have a tendency to speak of torture and cruelty as the most common types of humanity but they forget that the two attributes are human. Glover condemns the manner at which individuals participate in inflicting dreadful torment to the ‘enemies in the war, claiming that enmity is unnecessary. In an experiment conducted by Phillip Zimbardo, College students were subjected to playing roles of guards and prisoners. Surprisingly, the psychologist had to halt the experiment since the guards treated the prisoners ruthlessly and so cruel. The author claimed that human beings are thrilled when pain is inflicted to their counterparts, a very unattractive behavior. The paper will provide insight into the theory of moral resources as conversed in chapter one and apply it in explaining the moral psychology of the waging war, war as a trap and tribalism and nationalism. Human nature illustrates how cruelty excites the dark side of human nature. The author uses the theory of human resources to indicate how moral resources assist individuals in restraining their cruelty. The acts of cruelty activate the urge to respond since human beings have idiosyncratic psychological responses. According to Glover, “acts of cruelty may arouse our repulsion; we may respond to some mean fraud with contempt; courage or generosity may win our respect or admiration” (p.39). Human beings respond in two ways, with respect or sympathy. In most instances, people can feel the ones that are tortured and sympathize...
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