Bayonet

Conflict resolution is a hard enough concept to grasp without throwing religion into the mix. Rabbi Amy Eilberg was not fazed by conquering both in her book From Enemy To Friend: Jewish Wisdom and the Pursuit of Peace. Rabbi Eilberg first decided to write her book on conflicts between faiths when she noticed her synagogue fighting ferociously about the events going on between Israel and Palestine, both in person and on a listserve. Horrified at how her peers were discussing the tragedy, she…

Living in the United States people have the right to speak freely and to act freely. Of course, some of their actions might have some repercussions, but indeed they have the right to those actions. How would you feel if one of your actions was to protest an idea or event because it was inhumane in your eyes. You felt like your voice had to be heard in order to make a change, but with speaking out, the government came and not only told you, you were wrong but also decided to kill you because you…

methods even remain the same. Therefore, trench warfare was significant, in that it changed the way people viewed total war and it also had a severe effect on the human person. Before World War I, men rode out on horses in their cloth uniforms with bayonets to fight the enemy. This regalia, however, changed as now, with the development of trench warfare, the men fought to save their own…

Organized Massacre What just happend? That was the question of many people in the early Twentieth Century. No one expected that a war of this great of magnitude would take place. The death and destruction the Great War brought was painted a vivid red colour with in the minds of almost every citizen who had any ties to this war. Why was the death toll so high and unlike anything the world had ever seen up to that date? World War I was the result of the changing of the world due to…

My Dearest Friend, I fear the worse for my young and still developing country. Our goal Manifest Destiny has almost been met but with the spread of Americans across the continent seems to come the spread of the appalling act of slavery. These damn southerners have no clue to how to make an honest living. They force their slaves out into the field while they sit there and drink tea. At the end of the day, they go to count their cotton and then reap the rewards. Meanwhile, the slaves live in…

Thomas was the third child of Julia (Neale) and Jonathan Jackson, an attorny. He was of Scotch-Irish descent. Two years after his birth, both his father and his sister, Elizabeth, died of typhoid fever. His mother was left alone to raise her children. Ill health and hard times forced her to send her children to live with relatives. Thomas, then 6-years old, and his sister Laura, were taken in by their uncle, Cummins Jackson, who lived at Jackson's Mill. His mother died in the fall of 1831.…

Helmuth Von Moltke and the Battle of the Marne Introduction By August, 1914 Europe had reached a boiling point. Germany and the Austro-Hungarian empire prepared themselves for an inevitable war against France and Russia. Germany had been planning for war for nearly two decades. Helmuth Johann Ludwig Von Moltke, German Chief of Staff, placed the fate of the entire German army into the success of the Schlieffen Plan, a grand mobilization plan he had inherited from his predecessor, which…

rivaled the infamous Holocaust. “Many thousands of [the women] were killed after gang rape, and...others brutally injured and traumatized. Meanwhile, approximately a quarter of a million defenseless Chinese men were...murdered en masse, used for bayonet practice, or burned and buried alive” (Jones). This savagery, as written in the “Case Study: The Nanjing Massacre, 1937-38”, is not even the full…

The effects of the Trail of Tears When we think of the first people in America, whom do we think of? Of course, Christopher Columbus comes to mind. Yet, the first people on land were the native people. Native people were the first people to set foot on this soil, long before any white person. Regrettably, the federal government brutally attacked and removed from the Indians from homelands that they dearly loved. Native people was forced to walk thousands of miles to a specific place “Indian…

By 1865, bloodhounds were seen as a weapon by which the planter class oppressed not only slaves, but white unionists and northern prisoners of war. The savagery of the bloodhounds illustrated what Northerners considered to be the true brutality of the culture of the Southern planter class. In the war’s second year, newspapers in Iowa began to discuss the new use of bloodhounds in the Southern states as literal instruments of control over Southern Unionists. Dogs were indeed deployed by the…