’s essay “The Commerce of Violence,” he uses strong statements, emotional appeal, and logical reasoning as he constructs solutions on tackling worldwide issues. Berry also uses these tactics to persuade his audience in favor of his strong emotional opinions. The author utilizes the knowledge of his audience, his motivation for writing, and his argument, backed up by logical examples, to achieve the purpose of his essay. The main point of the essay was to call to attention the attitude that countries have towards each other.…
History has always prevailed itself by showing people fighting over territorial sanctions, ideas revolving around politics as well as the simplicity of faith itself. It’s these motions ad violence that affect us as humans. It greatly impacts the ideology of political and economical interest to society today, a pursuit that radicalizes a forth coming of how wars will leave a rationalized foot print in history to come. Through wars one is able to assert their dominance and through that one is able to force ideas and beliefs. To some, war represents a rational pursuit to gain economic interests, while for others it remains an irrational destruction of property and futures to others.…
Looking for how people are prejudiced, discrimination, and stereotype to the other by race? As author Gene Seymour says, especially black people get harassed for any kinds violent related any crimes. He gives some specific spot that the police shooting in Tulsa, and North Carolina against an unarmed black man, (par 1). In addition, he also mentions that why are people avoid those unfair things happening around the states, (par 2). At the fact that the main point strong and effective evidence, overall Gene Seymour gets his audience attention using sensitive cases.…
Beauvoir argues, “In order for this world to have any importance, in order for out undertaking to have a meaning and to be worthy of sacrifices, we must affirm the concrete and particular thickness of this world and the individual reality of our projects and ourselves.” Although violence is inevitable in the world, Beauvoir concludes that humans have the capability to determine their own lives and thus, individuals should not sacrifice their freedoms in order to prevent violence, instead, they should use violence if it is necessary to protect their freedom. However, if individuals partake in violence, they illustrate that it is acceptable and normal to use this behavior.…
“Does Peace Have a Chance?” written by John Horgan was published in Slate magazine in 2009 on the topic of war and human nature. Horgan argues that, despite popular opinion, human nature is not innately violent and that peace is possible amongst the human race. The author supports his thesis through statistics on mortality caused by war, anthropological studies of hunter-gatherer societies, and the decline of large scale warfare. In general, Horgan’s essay style is effective in persuading the audience to consider his opinion after reading. Although the author makes poor comparisons and lacks in some definitions, he successfully utilises narration and description to engage the audience, prove the credibility of both himself and his facts, and…
Violence can be described as the intent to hurt or damage something or someone, which can be done in a number of ways. The group of writings that I chose was under the title of “Cultures of Violence”, and I believe that this heading efficaciously describes the two essays within it. On War by James Boswell, and The Paranoid Style of American Policing by Ta-Nehisi Coates, each tell their thoughts on violence and how they view it within different areas of today’s society. However, I feel that On War is better able to effectively convey its purpose. The purpose of On War by James Boswell was to tell his personal thought on the irrationality of war.…
Steven Pinker’s “Violence Vanquished” is an article that focuses on the decline of violence since the start of the twenty-first century. He argues that violence today is relatively nonexistent in comparison to that of the past. However, deaths from rapes, shootings, and fights are still occurring today. Pinker uses a chart that estimates the deaths of people from the twentieth century to the twenty-first century (Pinker 701). The early 1900s included countless deaths from wars, slavery, and other violent conflicts.…
In Walter Mosley 's essay, “Get Happy” the author repeats the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence. This technique serves not only as an introduction and a preview of the forthcoming message but also establishes context and reminds the reader of what the phrase actually says. So many people think that our Declaration of Independence ensures Americans of life, liberty and happiness, but in face it is the pursuit of happiness. Mosley believes that in comparison to life and liberty, “our potential for happiness has lagged far behind.”…
Decolonization is the act of dismantling colonization or freeing a country that has been held captive. Decolonization is set out to change the order of the world, which is a program of complete disorder. But it cannot come as a result of magical practices or of a natural shock, or friendly understanding. Decolonization is more than coming to an agreement, but a way of surviving a colonized place. Frantz Fanon explains decolonization and the effects of it.…
In “Great to Watch,” Maggie Nelson talks about the ways in which violence has become a norm in everyday culture and the process through which people’s “blameless ignorance” leads them to ignore the ramifications of violence (Nelson, 300). In “Selections from Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other,” Sherry Turkle claims that when children spend a lot of time around life-like toys like Furbies and Tamagotchis, children experience a shift from a “psychology of projection to a new psychology of engagement” (Turkle, 290). In “The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism,” Jonathan Lethem discusses the gift and market economies and how they overlap in their primary purpose. Nelson’s view of people accepting violence…
In “A History of Violence,” Steven Pinker argues that violence continues to diminish. Pinker goes as far back as biblical times to prove evidence of our vicious past. He even analyzes murder rates from present day compared to the fourteenth century to find the present day completely outnumbered. Kings and Queens of sixteenth-century Paris watched cats being strangled and burned for entertainment. All examples from this essay show the violence that mankind was once accustomed to.…
Does globalization make war more or less likely? 160009668 War has been an unavoidable human convention for thousands of years; whether it to be for land, religion, or ideology, mankind has almost always been in one conflict or another. But since World War II, inter-state war has declined during the process of globalization. Globalization is the economic, political, and social interconnecting of the world. This process has made war, the physical conflict between states, difficult to occur and therefore less likely to occur.…
“Today’s worst weapons” In today’s societies, having power is what matter the most. The idea of who has more and better, makes have more control and authority than the person that does not have it, is causing problems all over the universe. In first world countries in North America and Western Europe, violence has increased significantly over the past 35 years. Based on the World Health Organization, in 1996, violence is “The intentional behavior of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or a group or community that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, damage, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation.”…
Chapter 10 of the text book investigates the prospects of making peace occur in our world. I find this to be a controversial, yet enticing topic. At first thought, I was truly marveled by the wonder if it really could be possible to have peace in such a frenzied world, but then I began to realize that acquiring peace would indeed be possible if people were willing. The problem isn’t the prospect of peace, the problem lies within power mongers and extremists who shun the idea and create chaos to achieve their personal agendas. I personally enjoyed this chapter’s information regarding the ways to handle our society’s victims and offenders, as well as, the introduction of holistic understandings in violence.…
In this speech I will talk about why people choose to be violent and what makes violence so attractive. Starting at birth, the positive and negative factors in a child’s life define…