...Within cooperation, there will always be conflicts and vice versa. In this essay, I will be looking at how conflict plays a more significant role and more is impactful in South East Asia (SEA) compared to cooperation. Conflict is a state of disharmony between two or more parties of ideas or interests. In the context of this essay, conflict occurs when there is a disagreement such as different views, clashes of interest and different views on ideology between the countries. While there is an inevitable fact that cooperation exists within SEA, the impacts that conflicts leave on the history of the region is far more significant than those of cooperation. In the next few paragraphs, I will be going in depth into how conflict has left a deeper indentation on the history as well as more current affairs of SEA. Some countries have conflicts with other in their history, before they learn from their mistakes and work together to reach the level of agreement they have now, such as Indonesia and Malaysia. One major conflict between them is the Konfrontasi, where Indonesia had carried out attacks on Malaysia and there was high tension between these two countries. In December 1962, a revolt had broken out in Brunei to oppose Brunei from joining the Federation, and instead proposed a separate union of Brunei, Sarawak and Sabah (Borneo territories). This revolt had fitted Sukarno’s (former Indonesia’s president) beliefs that independence should only be gained through revolutionary struggle...
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...The concepts of total and limited war provide historians with an opportunity to evaluate and categorize wars by scope, intensity, and impact. By analyzing wars through the total vs. limited dichotomy historians can further examine the benefits, constraints, and deficiencies of these popular terms to better understand when they can best be applied. Total war, as a concept, is pervasive but unsatisfactorily defined. As Robert Chickering noted, one of the defining characteristics of total war is its unprecedented intensity, but the idea of what heightened intensity is can be ambiguous. Without a way to determine when or how the intensity of a war reached the realm of total war, for example, the phrase becomes somewhat less useful academically....
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...under the subfields of psychology. Posttraumatic stress disorder occurs after you have been gone through a trauma. Trauma is a shock, it can be a horrible scary thing which you see or that happens to you. It can be Experience or witnessing of life-threatening events such as military combat, natural disasters, terrorist incidents, paranormal visions, or physical or sexual assault in adult or childhood. These life changing situations may lead to this horrible psychiatric Disorder. The interesting fact here is most survivors of these traumas return to their normal lives with the time but some will carry the flashbacks, memories which cause side reactions and even their lives will be miserable with the time these are the people who develop PTSD. Some traumatic events that can trigger PTSD 1) Traumatic experiences following military combat 2) violent personal assaults such as sexual assault, physical attacks 3) torture 4) terrorist attacks 5) severe road accidents 6) being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness such as cancer 7) observing the serious injury or unnatural death of another person due to violent assault, accident, war, or disaster 8) unexpectedly witnessing a dead body or body parts 9) exposure to natural disasters such as earth quakes, Tsunamis After getting a general idea on PTSD, It is important to discuss in this topic Military and PTSD. when military soldiers encounter shocking incidents such as missions that...
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...times? There are different explanations from sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists; each of which have varying ideas on why war occurs. The sociology of war is a subfield of sociology and deals with how societies behave in war, what...
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...The setting of A Separate Peace is portrayed as a boarding school known as Devon full of students training for war in New England during the early years of World War 2. The time of this particular setting is crucial to the development of the story’s plot due to its contribution to critical events such as Finny not being able to enlist in the army due to his broken leg, the illegal desertion committed by Elwin Leper Lepellier, and the confliction of Gene enlisting and abandoning Finny. The setting of A Separate Peace contributes to critical events in the story’s plot such as when Finny is not able to serve in the army due to his broken leg: “‘I’ve been writing to the Army and the Navy and the Marines and the Canadians and everybody else all...
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...and proactive and retroactive interference and how one counteract their effects; while studying in order to facilitate maximum retention via long-term memory. Finally, explanations of other kinds of forgetting and a discussion of strategies that can improve memory consolidation and retrieval will be discussed. A theory of human memory should not only identify a set of processes and stores, but also be able to help answer questions such as how long it will take to retrieve accessible information and when information will be forgotten or inaccessible. To do this, the theory must specify properties of the processes and stores. The basic memory processes are encoding, which is information that is coded or transformed so it can enter your memory. The second is storage. This stores and consolidates the information over time. And there’s retrieval, which allows you to get the information when needed. It’s important to know that when talking about encoding, there are three types: Acoustic meaning sounds, visuals meaning images and pictures, and semantic which gives meaning. The process of the memory model is Sensory Memory, Short Term Memory, and Long Term Memory. Sensory memory holds the sensation of a sensory stimulus for a brief period of time after the stimulus ends (Valdosta, 2011). There are two types of sensory models: iconic and echoic. Iconic holds visual trace for about one second, for instance, the blink of an eye. Echoic holds memory trace for...
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...In Dr. Seuss’ allegory, The Butter Battle Book he uses external conflict to guide the reader to make a connection between the novel and the Cold War. The external conflict that occurs is revealed when Grandpa says “…the wall wasn’t so high and I could look any Zook square in the eye. If he dared to come close I could give him a twitch.” This allows the reader to understand that Grandpa could be an allegory in himself because he could represent a military figure during a war. The dialect also helps the reader to understand that the wall separating the Yook’s, who ate with their butter side up, and the Zook’s, who ate with their butter side down, grew as tension became greater between the two. This is an allegory because it represents...
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...Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder March 1, 2015 Abstract PTSD is an anxiety disorder that usually occurs after being exposed to a terrifying event. PTSD is called post-traumatic stress disorder. This anxiety disorder can occur at any point in your life even your childhood. Most people who are enlisted in the military usually suffer from this disorder after being deployed to another country. The symptoms vary from person to person. The symptoms could include flashbacks, emotional feeling and avoidance of the traumatic event. PTSD cause is unknown as of now but it is a psychological, genetic, physical, and social factors that are involved. There are risk factors that may help a person to get PTSD. There are different treatments for PSTD. The treatments that are used for PTSD are using different strategies, medications and or psychotherapy. Medication could cause different side effects such as headaches or sexual problems. Group therapy is the most effective because people can relate to what you are going through. Post-traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety disorder that occurs after being exposed to a terrifying event or when severe harm or after being threatened. Post-traumatic stress disorder is also known PTSD. Events that may trigger this disorder may come from violent personal assaults, natural or unnatural disasters, accidents, or military combat. Most that's in the military that serve time in another country, usually, suffer from this disorder. Psychology today states...
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...No Rules in War In the years of the Irish civil war, those who agreed with the treaty between the Irish and the British, the Free State, were fighting with those who were against it, the Irish Republican Army. The treaty gave the Irish Free State more independence from Britain, but its opposers, or the Irish Republican Army (IRA) did not see the document as a freedom, but rather as a drawback on irish life. In 1921, ten days after the treaty was signed, tensions between the Free State and the IRA rose to the point of war. The people of Ireland were split into the two sides because of their beliefs on the treaty. A man by the name of Liam O’Flaherty abandoned his quest for the priesthood to contribute to the war. He became a...
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...Genocide started. Genocides can occur during any time period and the definition of genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Through time six main genocides have occurred and one to this date. Genocides occur due to a weak government or a senile ruler. Many movements occur to start a genocide for example the Nazi political group movement caused the Holocaust. The Rwandan Genocide started after the civil...
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...The bloodiest battle of the civil war was the Battle at Shiloh. The Battle lead to 11,000 casualties for the confederates and 13,000 for the Union. The Confederates on night one stole the Unions items from an abandoned camp near the church of Shiloh. This battle occurred in the early part of April. The Battle at Shiloh was written about and was expressed by symbolism the battle had a specific purpose and three leaders,the battle only lasted so long, the main battlefields were far and wide, the battle had a not so clear victory until the end, it played a major effect on the army,and the battle played a big part in the civil war. The story “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” is based off the bloodiest battle in the Civil war named the Battle of shiloh....
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...“Clash not Culture” Cultural differences in a post-Cold War era will not empirically lead to more frequent and violent conflicts between civilizations, regardless of their relationship or proximity to each other. As proven through history, conflict is inevitable and today theorists continue to debate where and why the next war will occur. Our world is a mist a diverging global society with non-state actors competing for new world order. Many states are suffering great turmoil, while others are gaining economic strength and power. Although the world has reached a point that we are poised for conflict, there has actually been a decline in conflict among civilizations. Among those that are geographically positioned for a border dispute, there has been no significant increase in conflict. Many would argue that clashes between western civilizations and non-western civilizations should be at the top of the list, but this has not been the case either. Conflict and war has occurred since the beginning of man and has been recorded right along religious strife. Conflict occurs for several basic reasons including: an attempt to increase a standard of living, to prevent a decrease in a standard of living, greed-more power and territory, religious idealism, and corrupt governments. When developing an analysis to determine the next confrontation, there are several points that must be considered: relative power of non-state ...
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... In economics, hyperinflation occurs when a country experiences very high and usually accelerating rates of monetary and price inflation, causing the population to minimize their holdings of money. Under such conditions, the general price level within an economy increases rapidly as the official currency quickly loses real value. Meanwhile, the real value of economic items generally stays the same with respect to one another, and remains relatively stable in terms of foreign currencies. This includes the economic items that generally constitute the government's expenses. There is no precise numerical definition to hyperinflation. Hyperinflation is a situation where the price increases are so out of control that the concept of inflation is meaningless. Hyperinflation is often associated with wars, their aftermath, socio-political upheavals, or other crises that make it difficult for the government to tax the population, as a sudden and sharp decrease in tax revenue coupled with a strong effort to maintain the status quo can be a direct trigger of hyperinflation. When associated with depressions, hyperinflation often occurs when there is a large increase in the money supply not supported by gross domestic product (GDP) growth, resulting in an imbalance in the supply and demand for the money. Left unchecked this causes prices to increase, as the currency loses its value. When associated with wars, hyperinflation often occurs when there is a loss of confidence in a currency's...
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...Soldiers all have intangible things they carry. There is certain burdens soldiers carry. The power behind the intangible things soldiers carry is that it affects their everyday life. Whether its fear or guilt it effects there sanity at times of war. In “Where Have You Gone Charming Billy”, “Soldiers Home” and The Things we Carry soldiers carry the powerful intangible emotions of fear, guilt and their sanity. Fear is a powerful emotion that all soldiers carry with them while in war. All soldiers carry intangible things with them in war. “...he went down under an exceptional burden, more than 20 pounds of ammunition, plus the flak jacket and helmet and rations and water and toilet paper and tranquilizers and all the rest, plus the unweighted...
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...When War is Honey in Wasabi A wise man once said that “It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country”, but over the years war has proved him wrong and with the poem “Dulce et Decorum est” Wilfred Owen wonderfully explains why he is wrong. “Dulce et Decorum est” is about a World War I veteran who tells the reader about an incident where the narrators company is ambushed by mustard gas and one of his allies die gruesomely. In “Five Day Requiem for Vietnam” by Nan Braymer, the author tells the reader about the Vietnam War and how the people did not want it to occur but the government made it happen. Both “Five Day requiem for Vietnam” by Nan Braymer and “Dulce et Decorum est” by Wilfred Owen use of allusions to show the good and evil to convey the theme that human nature has many facets and complexities, but Braymer...
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