Third Punic War

Response paper 1 The resource war that Oketh- Ogendo is referring to, is the battle that occurs when the world most powerful countries wage war to claim resources of particular importance. As mentioned in the movie by the economist John Perkins, this battle is step up after a certain procedure has been performed. A resource war only really occurs when the country that has the natural resource is very disobedient to the stronger governments demand. For example, Iraq has plenty of oil and the…

The wars scarred and bruised the land, almost nothing left of what was once a mighty kingdom. Stones to pebbles, Wood to ash, houses flattened, temples brutally pillaged and destroyed. What had happened to this place it was once a land of gold and trade, but only bodies and fire remain. Ancient Battles Two of the most fierce empires in the ancient world, would soon clash together. This clash was called the Punic wars or the Carthaginian Wars. It was called the Punic Wars because Punic is part…

Ryan Job was a decorated Navy Seal, a family man, and a modern-day American hero who served his country faithfully. Though he was blinded in the war in Iraq, he didn’t let that stop him from living life to the fullest and portraying his faith in his everyday life. Job was parallel to the Job of the Bible several times, always letting his hardships strengthen him and emerging as gold from the testing. There are some instances in my life and my friends and families lives that I connected with in…

The Greek empire was unorganized and underdeveloped having trouble unifying their group of people as one political group. The Greeks, developing on stony lands, formed on an area with no fertile plains nor irrigating rivers with the mountains separating the entire the land mass into areas with little escape and travel routes. Greece was different than the other european lands around it because of the rocky structure and the people needed to be stronger to survive in the hardships that came with…

Although the allies had defeated Hitler, and his third Reich, a much bigger conflict had yet to be solved in the world, which lasts to this day. Throughout the whole war, the allies had worked together closely, but a feeling of distrust permeated the air amongst them. After the war the Russians felt they should receive the bulk of the prize as they had barred the brute force of the German army. However, the allies thought otherwise and thought it should be equal amongst them all. As the…

speech is going to be about children in war, I am going to talk about children being prohibited to go to war and not being able to fight for their own country, i'm going to talk about whether they should be allowed choice to fight for their country at a young age instead of having to wait. What happens to a child when they are prohibited to fight for their country while their parents have to leave them to fight. When you have to sit there and watch a war go by right in front of your eyes and…

almost all are currently war zones, leaving the question: What is the connection between warfare and poverty? This idea comes from researching various countries who are both considered developing and are fighting wars at the same time, in order to determine the relationship between the two. Poverty and war are two problems often intertwined in the same country. There is a huge connection between war and poverty, including the sale of ammunition, relationships between third and first world…

This collective covering up of the bad helped by myth makers of all kinds hid France’s true nature from its inhabitants. The first thing that French people wanted to forget was that they lost the Second World War and were occupied by Nazi Germany. Marc Bloch, a historian who worked on the front during the retreat as an oil distributor and who eventually became a prominent member for the Resistance movement wrote in his book about the retreat, Strange Defeat…

fresh water reserves present an unfavorable picture, with only 1% out of 3% accessible for direct human use. This scarcity, fueled by unequal distribution amongst countries caused by geographical and political obstacles, raises the potential of “water wars”. Such concerns are exacerbated by uncontrollable population growth, pollution due to industrialization and modernization, and climate change. A new approach to the sustainable distribution of water is necessary. International cooperation…

It is rare to have wars based solely on religion, although they make up about 40% of all other wars fought. Religious wars are motivated by a higher power or idol that is said to have commanded radical groups to kill in an unjust manner. Ethnic cleansing, for instance, is one aspect of war against religion. The Holocaust, for example, was a war against millions of Jewish men, women, and children were killed because of their ethnic background. Hitler’s affirmation of dominance of his race was…