Anti-patriotism

Lemire asserted last week, namely, that we cannot analyze the inner workings of individuals outside of the historically specific moments in which particular beliefs and actions occur. In this case, Kuniyoshi was faced with a war time effort to create anti-Japan imagery to communicate why we are against Japan, who they are, and the importance of participating in the effort. As Wang argues, Kuniyoshi was caught in between identities: he believed himself to be a fully assimilated American with…

writes the poem to reveal to people what really happens to soldiers during the war. The poem exposes the gruesome experience during the first World War. Owen wrote the poem during World War One, which is the war that kills him. He uses the poem as an anti-war manifesto. His argument in the poem is that people view going to fight in the war and dying for ones country as heroic, but it’s an old lie: that men shouldn’t have die for their country for glory in the terrible war condition the men were…

“I saw no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history or law” (O’Brien “On the Rainy River 38). Moreover, he spent six days at a lodge by the river, coupled with many emotional innovations throughout these six days. His young anti-war self battled the perception of one thing: shame. Tim O’Brien ends his trip with one realization, “I would go to the war - I would kill and maybe die - because I was embarrassed not to” (O’Brien “OTRR” 56). Tim’s heart and mind hold…

to end voting discrimination. Lyndon B. Johnson uses the pathetic appeal of patriotism to unify congress and the nation and convince them to pass a bill that eliminates barriers to the right to vote. When talking about the problem in our nation’s hands, Johnson says, “There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no…

partake in war even if they didn’t want to. Some men fled to Canada, emitted themselves into mental hospitals, and did anything possible to prevent their having to go. Tim O’Brien is saying throughout this novel is that the whole culture of war is patriotism, strength, and fear. It is shown through the soldiers, the atmosphere, and the surroundings in Vietnam that the United States feels superior over North and South Vietnam and the American men fighting are greater soldiers. Although the…

Krystyna Skarbek, a Polish woman, was in Ethiopia when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. Skarbek’s patriotism compelled her to participate in anti-Nazi efforts, so she traveled to London and volunteered to work as a spy. With the alias Christine Granville, she posed as a journalist in Budapest, working her way into Poland to sneak in documents and collect intelligence to bring back to London. On one of Skarbek’s numerous missions, the Gestapo arrested and interrogated her. By faking a cough…

Jingoism- Extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy. Although rarely used in our lives, this is the best word to describe Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Mussolini was willing to do anything for Italy’s growth as a country. For his extreme efforts to build Italy he is falsely remembered as one of the most diabolical dictators, in history responsible for thousands of deaths. He was interested in obtaining power so he could make Italy into a dominant…

When we think of the words nerd and geek, we think of a smart person with freckles and thick-framed glasses. They are usually bullied by the athletic people of a school and are at the lowest rung of the social ladder. But why do we also think about that same person being harmed and ridiculed? Why can’t we praise their intelligence and use it to improve our society? These questions are argued in Leonid Fridman’s “America Needs Its Nerds.” In order to do this, Fridman uses rhetorical strategies…

In response to the red scare, **the federal government enacted the Espionage Act of 1917 and added amendments to it in the Sedition Act of 1918. These prohibited interference with the war effort, with that legislation ended by the end of WW1, Palmer called for every state to enact its own version of the Sedition Act. In comparison, in response to the terrorist attack of September 2011, ***the United States passed the Homeland Security act which created the Department of Homeland Security. After…

attack the Nationalist rebels in Dublin, creating tension between the two countries. The Irish were very much against conscription, fearing that many of the Irish-nationals living in Australia would have to fight for the British. The leader of the Anti-conscription campaign and the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Daniel Mannix , was outraged by the actions of the British and believed that “every man, woman and child should throw themselves into the fight against conscription” . Mannix didn’t…