Anti-war

of the anti- world war novel. This one book shaped the way that America has generally viewed war, in both theory and practice, as evidenced by the major shift in viewpoints between World War II and the Vietnam War. This shift started in centers of higher thinking where novels like this would be read and discussed and spread outwards. Much like the similar reaction to the memory of World War II by students in Paris compromising the 1968 generation, these students were protesting that World War…

In the aftermath of World War I, Germany remained in turmoil throughout the 1920s, providing the setting for the rise of extremist ideologies and political leaders. To Germans burdened by reparations payments to war victors, and threatened by very high rise in inflation, political chaos, and a possible Communist takeover, Adolf Hitler offered scapegoats and solutions. Germans were provided with an easy explanation to all their problems: Jews and democracy. It was the “International…

The conflict described in this anti-war song deals with the influence of governments, media, and religion on modern society. The song suggests all of these sources of information are biased and self-concerned, thus deceiving the individuals to blindly believe only one point of view. I chose this song because it can relate to the issues faced in the modern society. The main message of the song is that a big part of today's world is moving in the wrong direction, but that is justified by religion,…

America became affected in the Second World War after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbour in 1941. Even though the society had had anti-war attitude since the First World War, Roosevelt recognised the needs for intervention. This vital decision has significantly changed the lives of every citizen. Whether it was abroad or on the home front, each American individual was urged by the government to contribute to the war effort. Because of the protracted war most of the young and healthy men…

today. As the British and French were in a war throughout Europe the conflict eventually reached America and this became known as the Seven Years War. In the 1700s, the Seven Years War also known as the French and Indian war marked a major turning point in American relations with Great Britain. This ultimately marked a major changes because tension between Americans and Britain ended then led to the American Revolution. The British were victorians in their war against the French and the…

Ashlyn Nelson, a writer for Al-Jazeera, writes this article about anti-Japanese sentiment during World War II, and its similarities to today’s anti-Muslim sentiment. To open her article, Nelson establishes ethos by stating that her grandparents are both second generation Japanese Americans, or Nisei. She writes about her grandfather moving to America, only to face extreme anti-Japanese hostility. She continues by stating, “My grandfather stopped leaving the house alone because he feared…

Wilfred Owen’s, “Dulce Et Decorum Est,” is arguably the greatest anti-war poem. It was composed near the end of the First World War by Owen who had actually experienced the horrors of the trenches. Owen gives readers the reality behind the wartime recruiting phrases, “it is sweet and fitting to die for your country,” as he records a friend’s death during a gas attack. This is a First World War poem, the poem that most brilliantly, most accurately, most informatively sums up the horrors, the…

Aristophanes’ Lysistrata satirizes the fruitlessness of the Peloponnesian war and the roles of women which is conveyed by the premise that something as simple as abstinence by women can bring an end to a dragged-out war. It can be inferred that this is an anti-war satire from the conversations between the women after Lysistrata asks “don’t you miss the men, the fathers of your children all the time?” where the women talk about not being able to see the fathers of their children for months at a…

In Slaughterhouse Five By Kurt Vonnegut, the “main” character is known as the anti war hero. Billy expenses many tragedies, witch turns him into an anti war hero. Billy undergoes many tragic events in his life which changed the way his life ended after he got back from the war. Billy has many characteristic of a shakespearean hero, because he was a protagonist that dealt with fatal conditions. It 's said that a shakespearean tragedy is an “ noble protagonist… placed in a stressful heighten…

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also known as “Mahatma Gandhi”, was an Indian leader and an Anti-War Activist. He believed greatly in justice for all people and that we are children of God. Gandhi was born on October 2nd of 1869 in Porbandar, India and was unfortunately killed on January 30th of 1948 by a Hindu fanatic in New Delhi, India. As a young man he studied in three different places one of them being Law at the University College in London (Gandhi Timeline). In addition, during his lifetime…