...one of Bob Dylan’s most influential songs. In the song the main topic is war, he explains that god is on our side during war but he doesn’t seem to understand the reasoning of the war in the first place but he realizes that we must accept it. After learning about this song I looked up multiple sources on questions that bob Dylan is asking in this song such as why is there war? Why should we accept it? These sources that I have looked up are very useful to gather more information on the main topic of this song. I found 4 articles that talk about war and explaining reasoning behind war. The first article that I used was an article called “Why is...
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...The effects of war on both the body and mind are clearly portrayed in both Taxi Driver and Apocalypse Now. We also see war in film with a negative twist, we see the chaos, the mental decay both during and after the war is finished. These are not your classic Saving Private Ryan films, where the Americans come in and clean house. These films show the psychotic side of war, how some people come back to society and cannot function like the rest of society. These films portray war as an ugly disturbing event, which affects both the soldiers and the people back home. In Taxi Driver, we learn about Vietnam Veteran Travis Bickle. As the film unravels we see how Vietnam affects both soldiers and Americans. We come to see a split society, young against...
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...''Tonight to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans, I ask for your support,… for the more divided we are at home, the less likely the enemy is to negotiate …. Let us be united for peace. Let us also be united against defeat. Because let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that "(Nixon). After President Nixon got elected, he wanted to gradually fade out the Vietnam War, because he did no want his American citizens getting killed. In the speech “the great silent majority” Richmond M. Nixon uses pathos, logos, and rhetorical questions in order to slowly fade the Americans out of the Vietnam War, and to persuade Americans this was a good plan. To start off, President...
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...advisors to assist the South Vietnamese army. The U.S was worried that Ho Chi Minh, leader of the North Vietnamese Communists would try to unify Vietnam under Communist rule. At this time president Truman viewed Communism as the greatest post-war threat and was worried about the spread of communism in Vietnam. Truman believed that the U.S should be world police and prevent the spread of communism. As the U.S tried to fight against the spread of communism the power of Communist rebels in South Vietnam kept increasing. As a result president Truman felt obligated to send more and more military advisors until finally in 1965 Truman sent a large number of American combat troops into Vietnam to prop-up South Vietnam. This war was obviously between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States of America and other anti-communist countries. The United States played a big role taking the side of the South Vietnamese army but failed to have the support of the American people. The involvement of the United States into the Vietnam War was obviously not justified for many reason which I will talk about in the following. Since the American people didn’t support the U.S getting involved in war with communist North Vietnam it clearly went against and interfered directly with people’s pursuit of happiness. As well Americans believed that the intervention in south Vietnam interfered with the “ Self-determination” of the United...
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...War and Peace Thomas Merton wrote “Peace demands the most heroic labor and most difficult sacrifice. It demands great heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience”. I believe that peace is needed in this present world,where you hear every country is in war with other countries, whether it is related to terrorism, religion, or any other reason. When many religious beliefs describes war as holy war against their opponents. It is very difficult to create peace from one side. Peace is always two sided. It should come from both parties at war whether it is countries or individual themselves What causes war in this world? There are many causes for war like differences in opinion, competition, religion,and fight for the dominance. On March 19, 2003 the US started a war with Iraq. Since the Persian Gulf War ended in 1991, the US and Iraq have been clashing. The US is a democracy and Iraq is a dictatorship so naturally each government would dislike the way of the other. I don’t think the Persian Gulf War was aimed at Saddam Hussein but at the type of government. The US has always disliked dictatorships, which is why we invaded Vietnam. This is why I think it is good that we are at war with Iraq. When the war began I was against it, I really didn’t know why we were going to war and I felt that we should not go into Iraq and destroy innocent people and, I felt that this war was more personal and about the oil but what it really...
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...things that we needed and the other countries had but did not want to share. For example, the countries were fighting over land, food, trees, etc. It seems like they were fighting over what ever the other country may have had that they wanted. In this one century there were many wars there was the war of 1812, the civil war, Napoleonic war and many others. The War of 1812 The war of 1812 was a war fought between the USA and Great Britain. It was fought because the USA wanted to keep up the ongoing trade they had with France but because the British was France main rival and the British had more power they tried to stop the US from trading with France. The US felt that this was against the law and when the British would not let up the US imposed war on them; the war lasted from 1812 through 1815. In my opinion, this war was for territory in the end there was a peace conference where both countries came together declared the war over and which ever land they claimed. The British claimed all of the northern states like Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, etc. The US claimed many states farther up north on Canadian territory. This war made new places for people to live but it also kept these people segregated from one another. This war is the reason why the states up north are considered as New England, hints to why we have the New England Patriots. The countries named there states after what they accomplished throughout different wars. The Civil War The civil war began because...
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...and agree to a social contract, whose aim is to protect people from harm by others as well as to guarantee all the parties can keep the agreement. Kant says we need to act out of duty of moral rule. When we treat criminals, the only reason to be regarded as praiseworthy must be nothing else than the crime itself. Then we should consider the 1st form of categorical imperatives, which says “act only on the maxim that you can will as a universal law”. Next, we must take the 2nd categorical imperatives into account. It says “always treat humanity whether in your own person or in that of another, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end”. On the retributivist view, legal punishment is justified as a means of making those who are responsible for a crime or harm pay for it. According to the retributivist view, payment must to be made in some way that is equivalent to the crime or harm done. There are two arguments, proportional equivalency and egalitarian equivalency. For proportional equivalency, one is required to pay back something proportional. Egalitarian equivalency which is another view of retributivist holds that what is required in return is something identical or almost identical to what was taken. 2. First particular case to be examined (Case 1) 2.1 Case description The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) was a military conflict fought primarily between China and Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in...
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...|Nuclear Threat Nuclear weapon and its physical damage | |weapon and it has insurmountable negative effects on societies in |Nuclear weapon deterioration of health – what kinds of radiation are | |terms of its physical destruction and deterioration on human health. |emitted in a nuclear explosion and what effect do they have on human | |Not a thesis statement but a statement of fact. |beings? | |Try: Why is it best for nuclear attack victims to be right at Ground |http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/ocr_gateway_pre_2011| |Zero? |/living_future/4_nuclear_radiation1.shtml | |Working Thesis Statement: Countries may use the nuclear weapons in |Oral Presentation Thesis Statement (must be based on PART of the | |future because of the possibility of religious war and the other |research project): The time between 1946 and 2012, no atomic bomb had| |reasons. |been used even as an overt thread threat in any warpolitical crisis, | |I will argue that there is a strong possibility that nuclear weapons |the reasons … (I will find by researching.) | |will be used in the near future. | ...
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...place for you and for me, for this is and should continue to be the cardinal reason for our coming together. Society is formed when people as social animals, live in group. The person that exercises the state power is known as government. The government issues rules and laws and regulations to govern the realm as well as relationship with other nations, bilaterally and multilaterally. economic, social and religious interest are factors that affects the making of these laws, rules and regulation and its interpretation and implementation locally and internationally which often results to conflict and war hence there comes need to proffer solution for peaceful coexistence in this world we have found ourselves. Peace can be said to be an ideal freedom and happiness within all people and nations. It is a state of non-violence either voluntarily or by virtue of a system of governance that prevents warfare. Peace therefore means cessation of all sorts of hostility by all persons and nations. In certain cases, world peace has been seen and argued as unattainable because human by nature is violent hence rationally men choose to be violent. It remains also a proven fact that human being can change even more positively but the problem lies on not making attempt to change or cause a change at all maybe because outdated or unreliable believes. At this juncture it will be pertinent to point out some of those things that give rise to conflict and war. 1. The right to take back even by...
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...many of the previous students from Oxford. It was published on September 3rd 2010, 9 years since the attack on the World Trade Centre. Which may be why she focus’ the opening section of the article on the events surrounding that day. Margaret McMillan is a professor of international history at the University of Oxford she has written many books on the Great War and the struggles of what these wars do to peace throughout the world. From what I can gather, the main argument being portrayed here is that of how these days history is too quickly made. What I mean by this is that we too quickly accept what is told to us as definitive history, be that by people of power or leaders of nations. It says that we should take what is told to us with a pinch of salt as even historians can read incorrectly what is being said through time. She also makes the point that we put too much confidence into what we are told by our leaders and simply go with it almost blindly without any disregard to if it is true or not. She opens up her case by discussing what another author overheard in a bar on the evening of September 11th 2001, that a pair of men was comparing the World Trade Centre attacks to that of Pearl Harbour in 1941. One of the men said to the other that it was the Vietnamese who bombed Pearl Harbour and that is what led to the Vietnam War; this was taken without hesitation by his friend as complete fact. From here she goes on to talk about president bush and what influenced his decisions...
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...Monrovia Civil War Massina Ballah Strayer University English 090 Professor Delicia Battle August 10, 2012 Monrovia Civil war Many years of war that suffered thousands of people, and many dead. As a result of this, there were no food or medication. Moreover, a war that many thought will never come to an end. Monrovia war, a war that started early Monday morning april 6, 1990. A bright sunny day. Women and children running to save their lives. From a distance, I heard a very big sound of machine guns, bullet flying all over the place. We all ran for safety. As a got dark, it was a terrible night I didn’t know what to do. I felt stomach sick, because of the heavy guns sound. After many hours sitting in the house, I felt that this is the end of our lives. The next day the rebels told us to get out of the house. While working out there, there were many dead bodies in the street. I was afraid, especially my first time looking, and working over dead bodies. We walked for many hours. When it was night time, we slept in a school building. Women were taken from their husband by rebels. I knew that it was not safe for us. No one to protect us. We didn’t have safe drinking water. We drank from the creek, or the riverside. After many day of struggles, we had no food to eat, or medication. My elder brother got ill. We needed medicine. There were no medicine. My brother sickness got worst and he died. I felt so bad. My brother and I were so closed . He was everything...
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...America is at war. We have been fighting drug abuse for almost a century. Four Presidents have personally waged war on drugs. Unfortunately, it is a war that we are losing. Drug abusers continue to fill our courts, hospitals, and prisons. The drug trade causes violent crime that ravages our neighborhoods. Children of drug abusers are neglected, abused, and even abandoned. The only beneficiaries of this war are organized crime members and drug dealers. The United States has been engaged in a “war” for nearly 25 years. A war in which there is a great deal of confusion as to why we are engaged in it, and if we are in the war for the right reasons. The resolution of the war is curtailed by varying opinions and subjective statistical proof. The war which has been a continuing struggle, is the “war on drugs” At the heart of this war is a fundamental question: Is this a battle the United States can win? It is likely everyone will agree drugs are harmful, they have serious medical side-effects. Drugs are addictive; can ruin a family, a job, a life. I agree that drugs have very negative side effects, but is the solution to fight a very costly and ineffective battle to eradicate drugs entirely? Is this even a possibility? I am not so sure, and this paper will show that the war on drugs has likely caused much more harm than good. Further, it will explain why not all drugs are the same, explore some options, and look at the future of the United States, and of the world ...
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...Hernandez Professor Paisey ENC1102 11/22/2014 How the War in Afghanistan Affects Afghan People The war in Afghanistan is well known all over the world. It might not be as big and important as the first and Second World War, but the world is not the same as 50 or 70 years ago. We are becoming more and more civilized every day and a war like Afghanistan is considered a big deal nowadays. Whether war is not considered in some places as it should be, it is important for us to know the extent of damages a war causes in soldiers nor citizens. There are three important aspects we should know: does the Afghanistan people agree with the war? what are Afghanistan soldier’s impressions of the war? and what are the causalities results for Afghanistan troops during the war in Afghanistan? There is not as much coverage of what Afghanistan people think about the war as it should be. All the authors that had written against the war and the United States government agree in one thing: the only reason why USA attacks Afghanistan is for its petroleum. USA and others allied countries want to control the petroleum extracted from Afghanistan in a way to suffocate the high prices of gasoline and its derivatives. On the other hand, do the Afghan people want the war? Jhon Dear in “we do not want the war: the plea of Aghan youth.” Mentioned the words of a Afghanistan citizen named Abdulhai “we do not want this war to continue. We hope that this war will end soon and that all people will live together and...
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...movements and works contributed to the end of the slave trade and slavery which was rampant in Europe and the United States for the period between the 18th and the 19th century. The industrial and scientific revolution marked this period. To this end, slaves were in high demand on industries and plantations like the ones in South America. Most production was labor intensive, and this nature perhaps explains the intensification of the slave trade during this period. However, missionaries, philosophers and economists like Adam Smith started anti-slavery campaigns. Like Adam Smith, he was very certain that free people are more productive than slaves. Inhumane acts marked the lives of slaves. Masters could whip their Slaves even in public, and they were tied to immobilize them from running away. Thanks, to the antislavery campaigns through evangelism that led to the end of slave trade and slavery. An analysis of the second great awakenings reveals that there is a link between the evangelical spirit and the "reforming Impulse." This link animated the many movements of social reform in the years leading up to the American Civil War. The American evangelicals depicted Americans as the most religious people in the world. It gives an account of the American religious history and how the Protestant churches like the American Methodist Church came along. Several Protestant churches resulted from divisions in the denominations (McLoughlin 4). The American civil war resulted from the ideological differences...
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...Why should we preserve history? We should preserve history for several reasons. The first reason is because we will learn from the mistakes people made in the past and try not to repeat them. The second reason is so we will understand civilizations got to where we are today. The third reason is to learn about what causes conflicts and wars so we can help identify when they might be occurring. We should preserve history so we don’t make the same mistakes we did in the past. Things would not reoccur in the future if we knew what happened in history we would know how to prevent things from happening again. We would see signs that happened in the past and we will know how to keep more things from happening. More wars have and will be prevented because of history, inventions will be improved, and sickness will be cured because we know what happens if you do a certain thing. The next reason is so we will know how civilizations got to where we are today. If we didn’t have history we would not know what works best for civilizations. History helps us learn how laws we created; if we did not have laws the world would be chaos. Laws are sometimes based on religion. Religions are also very important in history. Religion is what a human believes how they got here, why they are here, and where they are going. Everyone has a religion whether you admit it or not, every civilization has one or many dominate religion like Americas dominate religion is Christianity. The last reason is to...
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