Poison gas in World War I

Ryan Lobo is a photographer who spent time traveling the world and also to war torn countries like Afghanistan, Libera, and Iraq. Throughout 2007, Ryan found himself taking photos all the time when traveling through these countries. Ryan really felt and understood what his photographs had to offer. They represented something that is stronger then a documentary, something that hold so much purpose and ability to tell a story without a traditional narrator. Photography The Hidden Story is a Ted…

is just the decisive actor of power that exists outside of norms. Nonetheless, Schmitt’s conception of the state raises many questions about who is sovereign and what normativity is which I will further address later. The “extreme antagonism” that Schmitt uses to define the political is actually a state of war that is created once the state makes the Friend-Enemy distinction. He affirms that this distinction is the only thing that political actions and motives can be reduced to. Schmitt uses…

Peace: Warfare and Order From bloody battles in the war scene to conflicting relationships with each other, and breaking strict rules and getting away with breaking them, there was a lot going on at Devon. These are a few general examples of how the theme warfare and order is portrayed in A Separate Peace. What is warfare and order in A Separate Peace? Warfare is the wars going on around Devon and out of it, such as World War II and personal wars between characters. Order is the strict rules…

In the year 1920, a few years after it was first drafted, Wilfred Owen published his poem Dulce et Decorum est. His poem, one of the most famous pieces of literature during this time about The Great War, told a story of the lives of soldiers living in the trenches. The poem starts out talking about himself (or the view of a fictional person who is telling the story in first person) who start to head to one of the camps designated for soldiers to rest as flares light up the night sky behind them.…

At the end of Great War (1914-1918), European society faced astronomical cultural and social changes that eventually led to the rise Fascism in Italy, Germany, and Spain. Throughout the 1920s, Jose Ortega y Gasset gave series of lectures that eventually became his magnum opus entitled The Revolt of the Masses. His work centers on the rise of the mass-man and his disregard for political authority (or the state), culture, and progress. Gasset essentially argues that the perfection of the 19th…

the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road directed by George Miller, explore the challenges of post-apocalyptic futures. Hough and Miller focus on the ideas of war and survival. Hough challenges the reader to view the idea of war and survival through the use of literary techniques. Miller conversely uses film techniques to display this same idea of war and survival however in a distinctly different environment. Hough and Miller both explore disease and disaster in their texts and how this can lead to…

At the beginning of the book, Montgomery states that “the history of their dirt set the stage upon which economics, climate extremes, and war influenced their fate” (pg. 13). This quote leads to the question, “Why would so many unrelated civilizations like the Greeks, Romans, and Mayans…

“The Fighter” Book Report Moshe Wisniak is the main character of the book “The Fighter.” The main goal of this protagonist is that he needs to learn to fight so he can defend himself in certain situations. Moshe was born in Poland with his mother, younger sister but no father. When he was sixteen he moved to Paris in search of a better job. He got a job with his uncle for a little while working with leather. It isn’t the best job there, but that is all Moshe could get. Later on he…

War and Morality: Thucydides and Herodotus Jaylin Swan As I read both excerpts of Thucydides and Herodotus, I could tell that they had conflicting ideas about the question, “Is war good or bad?”. When I first thought on the topic, I was leaning more to the good side, but I re-read my notes and both excerpts and realized that I agreed with Thucydides’s argument; war is actually bad. Not only for the two nations that are fighting in the book, but for all nations and the…

avoiding intergroup comparison and its negative outcomes. For example, patriotism may foster a positive sense of identity and belong so that they can feel love and happiness in their nation. Yet, nationalism may lead to competition and then war such as World War I due to the arguments of nations which were attempting to take Herzegovina and Bosnia as their own as Europeans had proud of their nation and they believed others will threaten them. Moreover, it may cause extreme movements such as the…