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    The Ascendant, by Drew Chapman, the United States was in a cyber war with China, where literary elements such as plot development, foreshadowing to create suspense, and point of view are skillfully used to drive the novel. Each of these elements help to convey the story’s central theme: when a war begins to break out, the military are not the only ones whose lives will change entirely. The team attempting to fight back in this covert war against the Chinese faced many struggles, but came out on…

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    Girl At War Analysis

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    The novel, “Girl at War” written by Sara Nović, is a book about the life of a girl named Ana who is 10 years old that lives in Zagreb, Yugoslavia during a time of war. Ana and her family are constantly in fear of losing their lives and so they do everything they can to survive. Ana eventually escapes the war by going to America, but the events of the war did affect her and molded her personality as she got older. Ana eventually goes back to Zagreb to get closure and in a way she does. She…

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    King James Criticism

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    But James is not always praised and his criticism is often based on two of his policies: the Irish plantation and the reformation of the Scottish Kirk both, some believe, being major factors in the explosion of the Civil War in the 1640s. It is true that if James was a flexible monarch who favored stability he did tried to pass more revolutionary policies. Notably towards James’s other major source of dislike: the Scottish Kirk. If James did not like the English Parliament he was on the other…

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    When he wrote “The Red Badge of Courage” he had never fought in a war or witnessed an experience like that before. He relied on the powers of his imagination to create such an extraordinary piece of writing. Crane didn’t really have a purpose or reason to write the “Red Badge of Courage”, but it is known that he had always imagined war stories since he was a little boy and his imagination created the novel. Taking this into consideration, I believe…

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    unique individual? While some believe that DNA is the largest contributing factor in how a person will turn out, Rufus in Kindred proves that environment is more influential. Written by Octavia E.Butler, Kindred, takes place in both 1800s and 1970s. A black woman, Dana, travels back and forth through the times when her great-great-grandfather, Rufus, gets in danger. Since Rufus was raised by slave-owning environment, Dana attempts to prevent Rufus from being like his abusive father.…

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    warfare in which civilians are increasingly targeted, and women continue to be excluded from participation in peace processes. Most people view women as simply victims of civil war in their countries. However, that is not always the case for majority women. Women are critical actors in peace building. The end of the Cold War era of international politics was detrimental within the Third World. Conflicts would arise where regional stability was threatened immensely and are accompanied by…

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    persist. Despite these challenges, Ghana’s post-independence era evolved peacefully without a civil war or large scale conflict. In the past three decades, Ghana develops the enhanced capability to manage conflicting and competing social interests, allowing the country to pursue a peaceful economic development trajectory and a deliberative political discourse. In spite of Ghana’s ability to avoid civil wars or large-scale violence, in the past decade, the rate at which the local media report…

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    Minnesota Duluth Police Department: DPD states that only peace officers who have successfully finished the determined training may be able to use the CEW. They are set to be put in the opposite side of the firearm with marked differences from it. Officers are also responsible for them to be in good working conditions, and they should never hold both the firearm and CEW at the same time. When using a CEW, the peace officer must give the suspect enough time to comply as well as let other officers…

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    reason being to some it may mean the absence of violence or rather the presence of justice to others it might mean to not experiencing terrorism, or ethical violence, however the most popular definition of peace still remains the absence of war. The absence of war is the simplest form of explaining what peace means to us or better yet what it means to live in a peaceful world, yet it’s not simply the absence of peace however it is a condition of…

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    until sadly a life is lost. I think to help with this they need to be keeping better tabs on officers, and let the public know, because we obviously aren 't aware that you need to listen to cops. It’s hard to say if there is such thing as a “just war”. I think I’d say no, because fighting violence with violence just creates more violence. I do not feel it is worth risking even more people 's lives to fight back against whatever attack. Unless that is, these attacks keep coming and people keep…

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