A Separate Peace

Ruth Boro HIST 1302 - 73502 Professor Pawel Goral April, 19, 2017. Racial Segregation Post Civil War. Plessy v Ferguson was a case in the US Supreme Court that upheld racial segregation under the doctrine, “separate but equal.” The ruling was made by a bench of eight judges where seven voted for the ruling and one voted against. The ruling was made in 1896 and lasted for a period of 58 years, when it was overturned in 1954 in another Supreme Court case; Brown v Board of Education. The rationale…

President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the United States was in the odd predicament of fighting two wars. Obama noted the apparent strangeness of this, but didn’t outright say war was bad or unnecessary. Instead, Obama claimed that war was in fact necessary in order to attain lasting peace, (3). He stated that while non-violent intervention is ultimately the desired solution instead of armed conflict, it is sometimes impossible to secure peace from non-violent actions, (3). He…

Written in 1795, Immanuel Kant’s essay ‘Toward a Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch’ is a key text in discussions surrounding war, peace, and cosmopolitan ideals. Kant’s ideas of constitution, federation of free states and the cosmopolitan rights of individuals have formed the building blocks of many strategies for peace enacted since then, although his advice is occasionally ignored to this day. Scholars have interpreted Kant’s work in many ways, with some ideas being labeled as liberal,…

Hurricane Matthew made landfall in the United States on Saturday, October 8, bringing up to Category 4 force winds, rain and storm surge to communities across the Southeast. U.S. officials reported damage of at least $10 billion, making Matthew the costliest hurricane since Sandy in 2012. In North Carolina and South Carolina, swollen rivers transformed thoroughfares into canals and homes into sodden islands, in some cases with only the roof or the windows peeking above the water. American Red…

Malala Yousafzai 's speech is a demonstration of everything that makes a speech persuasive; the usage of pathos, the usage of personal experiences, humor, and parrallel structure,,all of which contribute to the author’s main message that children and women worldwide should have access to education. She believes that the sympathetic audience should believe that children worldwide should be provided an education, and take action by asking the world leaders to unite and make education their top…

December 2014, Malala gave her Nobel Peace Prize Lecture in Oslo, Norway. According to Malala, the award is not only for her, but also for those “voiceless children” (Yousafzai), who don’t receive education. Malala is from Swat, Pakistan. Her name was inspired by “Malalai of Maiwand, who is the Pashtun Joan of Arc” (Yousafzai), and Malala means “grief stricken, sad.”(Yousafzai) She is the first Pashtun and the youngest Pakistani to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She and Kailash Satyarthi,…

Democracy is considered as a peaceful entity and the world without war. American president Woodrow Wilson, for example, believes that democracy is inherently peace desiring and consequently contributes to the world peace, replacing war-like political regime (Gat, 2006). It is largely supported by liberal thinkers such as John Locke and Immanuel Kant. Liberalism is considered as an alternative theoretical thinking to realism, which is regarded as the dominant theory in the international…

a textual analysis on is called Give peace a chance, by John Lennon. The song was released in 1969. During the 1970’s, this song became an anthem of the American anti-war movement. This was about war in general and the Vietnam war. One of the themes for this song is peace. “All we are saying is give peace a chance” (John Lennon Lyrics, 2017, p.1 Album, Live Peace in Toronto 1969). John Lennon’s song, give peace a chance, was telling people to strive for peace and not war. The lyrics for this…

Wangari Maathai was the first African woman and environmentalists to win the noble peace prize. (Nobel Peace Laureate) She was raised in an underdeveloped or commonly referred to as a “third world” country. Home to her was a rural village in Kenya. She was a very intelligent woman who did stupendously well in school and eventually got herself a scholarship to attend school in the United States.(Nobel Peace Laureate) She graduated college with a degree in biological sciences and later went on…

International law faces the question of whether in fact it is a law at all. The lack of government to enforce the law as there is in a domestic government leaves a foggy area with a number of possible outcomes, either war or peace between sovereign states. It is alleged that only powerful states have a say in implementing the law and that less fortunate states have to comply. Despite this, international law is most of the time followed. It is derived from customary practices…