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    War is one of those things that as much as one tries, one will never fully understand till one has lived the experience. However, Stephen Crane in his novel, The Red Badge of Courage, and Edward C. Judson in his poem, The Attack and Repulse, thoroughly explain the experience of being on the battlefield from two different perspectives. Crane, specifically in Chapter 5, writes about war seen through the eyes of the protagonist, Henry, and Judson writes about his own experience. Though both…

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    On the 12th of June, 1987, President Ronald Reagan delivered a powerful and emotional speech in west Berlin, Germany. This speech was addressing the Berlin Wall, and all of the political issues that came with it. 26 years prior to Reagan’s speech, the Berlin wall was built to separate the communist East from the “Allied” west, this wall was extremely controversial and kept any people from leaving west Berlin without great difficulty. Reagan’s speech had immense impact on Berlin, 2 years after…

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    “Harry S Truman’s Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb.” National Park Service, https://www.nps.gov/articles/trumanatomicbomb.htm. “Harry S Truman’s Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb” reports the reasoning behind President Truman’s choice to use the atomic bomb in World War II. Truman had four choices: conventional bombings, ground invasion, demonstration of the bomb on an unpopulated area, and bombing a populated area. The conventional bombing had already been tried, and it was not effective, so that…

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    suspected internationally for communist militancy. Compelling him to move from country to country for his status as international refugee. However, most countries he went to were fascist countries such as China and Russia where he received trainings and warfare strategies. In Soviet Union, Ho Chi Minh joined the Comintern, the International Communist Movement. Even though communism, liberalism, democracy and other political paradigms were modern Western ideals, he found communist doctrines very…

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    Imagine loud crashes and destruction all happening in a single second, causing your world to blur in one moment, did you know before that you were about to suffer the worst of all types of pain? The lives of your family were beyond what you could do, they laid motionless and few ashes remain of a few people. That’s how many innocent lives would live today if we had never taken these Atomic bombs seriously. Atomic bombs have been created but only legalized in wars because they are so dangerous to…

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    Bear Grylls once said, “Survival can be summed up in three words-- never give up.” This is exactly what the characters do going through a nuclear war. The drastic experience takes the characters on an emotional journey as well as help them take a look at the world through a different perspective. Alas, Babylon, a classic apocalyptic novel by Pat Frank, utilizes psychological situations and common knowledge to show that survival of the fittest brings out the true nature of people The characters…

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    Millions of people die each year due to Cancer and AIDS, if this could be prevented simply by trading 3,000 involuntary humans to aliens for tortuous and lethal medical experiments, would it be morally justifiable? Depending on the different ethical approaches, the answer to this may vary. John Stuart Mill, a utilitarian, believed that good comes from human pleasure and that an act should benefit the majority of society for it to be good. Immanuel Kant studied deontology and believed that good…

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    In Tim O’Brien’s famous short story, “The Things They Carried”, the story follows a group of soldiers lead by Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. This story takes place during the Vietnam War and Lieutenant Cross spends most of his time fantasising about home and the girl of his dreams, Martha. However when one of the soldiers under his command, Ted Lavender, is killed by a sniper, Cross realizes that he has to put aside his desire to go home and focus on leading his men and keeping them alive. Theme is…

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    In Anthony Grooms book, Bombingham there are many references to moments that are life changing to the main character, Walter. The story is comprised of flashbacks Walter has while he’s a soldier in Vietnam. During the war, Walter feels obligated to write his condolences when a fellow soldier from his hometown, Haywood, dies in the pinnacle of battle. He is prompted with the recollection of questioning his faith in a series of flashbacks regarding his childhood, specifically when his mother was…

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    I Pledge Allegiance Book Reduction I Pledge Allegiance by Chris Lynch is a phenomenal book. The book is about four friends, Ivan, Morris, Beck and Rudi.ow they pledge to another to do certain things and it helps them look out for one another. Rudi gets a draft letter from the army and the rest of them sign up with him in the four different branches to go to Vietnam. The story follows Morris and the struggles he had during the war and how he didn’t want to shoot the guns from the vessel. Morris…

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