Black Hawk War

The idea for Arena centered on humanity facing a hostile species. At that time, World War II was nearing the end and Germany was the species being fought. Second Variety had a theme of mankind and their ability to destroy themselves. It was an apt theme, as the development of the hydrogen bomb was underway during the time the story was published…

Money isn’t the world in “Civil Peace” When a person has an enormous amount of money, do they have true friends or are they fake friends? Many people decide to want to be friends with a prosperous person in order to obtain money from them; however, others use wealthy people so they will be given gifts. It is typical of others to be envious and want things that others can't have. Wealthy people are often betray by other people which is sad and is disappointing to see others being used…

After analysing the 1915 play ‘War Mates’, we discover the argument between two social sides on their differing views about war. The play, written by Mr Herbert De Hamel focuses strongly on the impact of strikes. “It is without doubt the most real and effective short play concerned with the war that has yet been seen, and the lesson it teaches the men of fighting age and all who advocate or are responsible for strikes in war time.” (Daily Mail, 1916, p.3) The four characters, John, Mary,…

or traitors so keep himself alive. Even if that means kill women or children even his own brother so he can stay alive. He needs to stay alive at all costs in the civil war against the free staters and the republicans. The sniper in the civil war is on the free staters side and is trying to kill the republicans to win the war for his side for the free staters. The only way he can do this is by killing the enemy no matter who it be. It may be men even women or children he has to kill because…

In Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War, an overwhelming sense of Kien’s longing leads him on a journey of self-destruction. Ultimately Kien finds tolerance in his life, bringing to light how war veterans are destroyed by the gruesome Vietnam War. Kien had only craved the embrace of Phuong once he returned from war, but all that awaits him is a constant struggle to stay afloat in his post war life of solitude. Kien is the character in The Sorrow of War who absorbs the most misery, and because he is…

rifle in one hand, the will to survive in the other. The orchestra of war pollutes my senses, blinded and disoriented I stumble over the corpses of my fallen brothers. Or were they the remains of the horses I couldn’t tell, the flesh of man and beast were now joined in unholy matrimony. Thick mud pulls me in closer and closer until I can almost taste it on my now chapped lips. It wanted me back, desperately I fought this black oozy creature before it swallowed me alive. Each step I took…

Characters in "Everyday Use" and "Civil Peace" by Alice Walker (Walker) and Chinua Achebe (Achebe), respectively are examined. Alice Walker’s theme revolves around African-Americans personal identities. Chinua Achebe’s work revolves around Nigeria’s civil war and the “civil peace” afterward, a bitter fact in many parts of the world even today (Fortin). Major and minor characters in both stories are compared and analyzed by character type, characterization, and their relationship in relation to…

War has many horrible consequences that the people who are not involved do not often understand. People view war as glorious and triumphant for their country when they fail to comprehend the loneliness that it can bring. Loneliness is a prominent component in both Shenandoah and Johnny Got His Gun. In the latter, Joe is a prisoner of his own body and feels that he has nobody there to be with him. Similarly, in the former, the Anderson family incorporates their late mother and wife, Martha, into…

Finally, one other reason that lead to the contrast in the two Wes's life style was their surroundings. The narrator was sent off to military school at a very young age. "This uniform had become a force field that ha kept the craziness of the world outside form getting too close...". (118) Here the narrator describes how shielded his was from reality at military school. He describes it as "… a different psychological environment... were leadership was honored and class clowns were ostracized".…

compromised. That is a prime example of an extreme cyber attack. Examples like that are the reason why that some cyber attacks should be considered acts of wars depending on how severe the attacks are and who they target. For example the security breach that Yahoo had which leaked all of their user accounts out should not be considered an act of war because it didn't have an impact on national security. While for example the shadow brokers who hacked into the NSA and got the NSA hacking tools…