Commonwealth of Nations

Throughout war, death, and defeat, millions of words are spoken and the majority are damaging. In the novel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the language are gut-wrenching. The protagonists undergo great changes throughout the story. This is shown in Max Vandenburg, a Jewish man who left his mother for safety from Nazis. While in Nazi Germany, he undergoes challenges. During this time, he learns to be thankful. While spending his life in silence and hiding from the world. Hans Hubbermann is a…

issue with using military force is that it also takes the lives of some innocent people. In Benjamin Valentino’s reading there were 18 soldiers in the US who passed away in 1993 in Somalia in the “Black Hawk” incident. The United states and United Nation troops killed about 500 Somalian’s and about 1500 during the mission. Half of those people were vulnerable woman and children. Military interventions make the costs of abuses from human rights higher for the ones that commit the act. If…

Genre Study: Shane Dawson Conspiracy Theories The genre for this study is conspiracy videos. Conspiracy videos are based mainly on theories. Conspiracy theories are an explanation of an event or situation that creates an unjustified conspiracy, generally, one involving an illegal or damaging act carried out by the government or other powerful figures. These theories can range from simple things such as the way something was once pronounced, to the cause of world tragedies. Conspiracy theories…

The War On War Author Haruki Murakami once said “Listen up- there’s no war to end all wars.” For as long as people have lived on earth there has been war, whether it is over food, land, or supplies. Every human has greed and eventually it will come out. Ever since the invention of chemical weapons and automatic weapons, war and terror has become much more of a evident problem with World War Two causing around 60 million deaths. In the book Interface Text by Joan Green she asks the…

Secrecy, is the main acceleration point of The Scarlet Letter. It is what brings down all mankind at some point in time. Secrecy is what prevents trust, but also keeps it stable in today’s world. There is no where you could go, that doesn't have a secret or mystery to hide. What is the driving point of secrecy? Why is it that secrecy is always present in the face of conflict? What makes the feeling of need when secrecy comes into play? The natural man has a divine but damaging tendency to…

Life is a series of conquests and compromises. Battles are fought between countries, groups of people, or even within the self. Control is the goal of these battles, the state of having power over other people or even just power over oneself. After battling is ceased, a winner is declared in most cases, making them the ones who managed a conquest. This aura of superiority glorifies and gratifies its host. Compromise is a shared conquest and defeat of the parties involved in the battle.…

Thesis: After reading Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki-Houston, it has been revealed that the divided society of Canada and the internment camp Manzanar are similar and disparate in numerous ways. Both Canada and Manzanar have comparable experiences with the internment of citizens. During both World Wars, internment camps were not an unfamiliar subject, in fact, many governments issued them. In both countries, citizens were forced from their homes into these camps by a law or order the…

Humanity has had several instances falling upon hard times, whether it is war, plague, or natural disasters, and undoubtedly, WWII was one of these instances. It was an ugly 6-year war, where there were an estimated 40 million casualties at minimum. WWII left victims of the Holocaust, veterans, and countries physically and mentally shattered. For a while, Great Britain was one of them. Although they had been part of the Allied force, fighting against Italy, Germany, and Japan, the war left them…

Patriarchy and the Marginalization of Aboriginal Women addresses multiple topics in regards to the effects of colonialism, the introduction of the Indian Act and its detrimental effects in pertinence to the Indigenous Peoples of Canada, specifically First Nations women. Stark also explores the colonial/pre-colonial political identity of Indigenous women. In addition, Stark examines how patriarchal design of the Indian Act served in its ability to not only redefine the roles of women, but to…

were propped up and inspired across the world. Almost instantaneously human rights became a predominant ideology that influenced political systems in America, Latin America, and the Soviet Union and its Satellite Nations. Many human rights activists sought to establish sovereign nation states that strayed away from colonial rule, therefore resulting in the rights for citizenship. Human rights became an idealistic ideology that was intended to grant unalienable rights to all human beings,…