Boshin War

Set during the infamous World War II, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, unfolds into a story of a growing rivalry between two close friends. English Devon High School students, Gene Forrester and Phineas, are the best of friends, with the perfect balance of athletics and academics. However, Gene’s enmity towards Phineas drives him to have the ideal image of competing to become the top student at Devon. However, ultimately, when the two friends decide to jump off of a limb and into a river, Gene…

The title of my book is American Sniper. The main character is Chris Kyle. Chris grew up in Texas, lusting for a rodeo career since he first straddled a bull. He also worked as a cowboy on a friend's ranch for multiple years, while attending college. After his injuries cut that dream off, he turned to the military. Despite a setback du e to pins in his arm, he continued into BUDS training. After making it through intense and painful training and injuries, he becomes a SEAL. Just like in any…

suicide epidemic, which was featured on The Hill in early 2016, tackles the sensitive topic of veteran suicide. Westley is also the creator of War Virgin, a platform to inspire personal liberation and promote equality, and has been featured in numerous other publications such as NPR, The Washington Post, Military Times, and The Huffington Post. Using her Iraqi war experience for good, Westley is a role model…

Conflict theorists Pruitt, Rubin and Kim (2003) list five changes that occur as a conflict escalates. First, parties move from light tactics to heavy tactics. Light tactics include such things as persuasive arguments, promises, and efforts to please the other side, while heavy tactics include threats, power plays, and even violence. Second, the conflict grows in size. The numbers of issues in contention expands, and parties devote more resources to the struggle. Third, issues move from specific…

Violence is an aura surrounding all people in everything they do, physical and mental. People are constantly at war either with themselves or others over things sometimes simply resolved and others resolved by hundreds of bloody battles. War has existed our entire history, before humans even roamed the Earth. Animals naturally fight to protect what is theirs and to gain power, just as humans do. Throughout Candide, the protagonist expresses many instinctive acts of violence in the face of threat…

Tweet 1: It’s the first day. Several friends of mine are already injured or dead. We're giving it to them though. The conditions for the trench warfare are unbearable. Tweet 2: The intensity of this war has drastically increased. All these innocent people are being killed by machine guns and gas! All I see is blood and dead bodies around me. Tweet 3: The news is spreading around that men on the Eastern front are starting to lose their faith. I, however, am motivated to never give up! Tweet…

Wars are often glamorized and glorified by governments and state officials, when in reality wars are psychologically destructive and life changing events. These tactics that were used to reel in naïve men, failed to expose them with the realities of what was to become of them after the war. The short stories “Soldier’s Home” and “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” offer an insight to how life really is after war veterans return back home. These stories not only realistically depict how detrimental…

A massacre is known to be a brutal and indiscriminate slaughter of unimpeachable people therefore the use of the word massacre for this event is ambiguous, in truth, the Boston massacre should have been classified as a little dispute, brawl, or riot between mother country and colonies owing to the facts that; all the propaganda that was printed emphasized and exaggerated the actual actions taken by both the colonists and the British, the colonists made the first move, and the British only used…

Love equals War, Othello’s Indecision in Shakespeare “Othello” In Shakespeare’s “Othello”, the main character Othello experiences some relationship issues with his wife despond when Iago begins to make Othello suspicious that Desdemona is having a affair .This conjecture infuriates Othello so much that the true violent side is revealed. Throughout Act 3 Othello becomes increasingly violent and the correlations between how he treats love and war begin to resemble on another strongly. In the…

driver, a civilian, or combatant in service, war changes the lives of everyone involved for the worse. Due to situations like these, people develop bitterness towards fighting and instead work to express the harsh realities of war.War is presented as a hindrance to life in both Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and Walt Whitman’s “Beat! Beat! Drums” in order to demonstrate anti-war attitudes despite having different means of doing so. Both works describe war to halt the ordinary progress of…