Greco-Persian Wars

The Russian winter was more unforgiving than past years. Which in return made it difficult for the young Soviet sniper to hold his rifle steadily, due to the shaking and trembling of his hands and body. His name is Aleksei Sokolov, he is 18 and he will have been in combat for about 4 months by tomorrow. He used to work under his father in the family’s watch store in Kronstadt in Saint Petersburg, Russia. That is, until Germany broke the non-aggression pact and began invading his motherland.…

The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty,Suspense Set during the weeks of the long and horrible irish civil war.A brave soldier fight’s back almost getting himself killed multiple times,the confused but brave sniper ends up killing his brother over the war.”Almost immediately,a bullet flattened itself against the parapet of the roof” (O’flaherty page 1) In The Sniper the author creates suspense by the use of timing,action and word choice. The author uses…

Its 1218 and growing up to have no fear, but war and violence is key to the nomadic empire I am a part of. Overlooking my camp, I have spent fifteen years preparing myself to become one of the warriors of a huge army full of fearsome fighters known in Central/Northern Asia, for the rest of my life. Ever since I was young enough to remember, I have been training with horses with hunting and herding them. Now that I am of age to be a part of the military life, I was given four horses to alternate…

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” However, even his peace movements that were heard throughout the world involved some form of violence. Many events preceding the American Revolution solidify the doubts about having violence in this world in order to create change. The Stamp Act riots, the battle of Lexington and Concord, and peace movements around the world promote the idea that…

The Art of Thinking Fall 2015 Violence by Slavoj Zizek (selections) • What is “subjective” violence and how does it differ from “systemic” violence? Subjective violence consists of crime and terror. Perceptibly obvious violence seen on the news or on the streets in the form of “crime and terror, civil unrest, international conflict.” Systemic violence represents the catastrophic effects of economic and political systems. • Who are “liberal communists”? Does Zizek admire them? Why or why not…

The Revolutionary Force of Colombia called “FRAC” is a terrorism organization that declared war to the Colombian government 40 years ago. They are described as a people's army that has emerged as a popular alternative power. But in the eyes of the governments of Colombia, the United States and the European Union and many Colombians, it is a terrorist organization that is funded by extortion, kidnapping and drug trafficking. At the beginning, the FARC was a group of peasant self-defense. During…

1. Okonkwo’s punishment was too harsh. In the culture Okonkwo lives in, everything the people do is too please the gods. Therefore, his punishment too was put in place to please the Gods. He was forced to leave his village for seven years and burn down his huts and his wives huts. I do not think that his punishment was fair. He did not hold the intention of murdering his son. Also, I believe that it was not fair that his whole family had to receive the same punishment as well. They did…

When thinking of children, most see a young, innocent human, incapable of dark tendencies without being provoked. Others don’t see the mind, age, or body, but the murder or illegal act committed in another country as a child soldier. However, evidence from the I.C.C. (International Criminal Court), lives of these child soldiers, and the repercussions of not granting these children amnesty all show that child soldiers should be given a pardon for their convictions. Out of the I.C.C.’s 128…

shipped off to war. Marlantes implies that boot camp should not be accessible at the age of 18 and rather, soldiers should be more experienced and older in order to enlist. The minds of the young kids, at the beginning of their deployment, were convinced by demonizing used in propaganda that the North Vietnamese were evil and worth killing. (Shah). However, the posters never taught the young men how to deal with the guilt of killing. Therefore, as they returned home, many soldiers had similar…

Sarwar Sdiq Professors, Edward Gaffney and Robert Knowle National security law March, 10, 2015 The Iraqi war consequences on children since 2003 A 'child' as a person below the age of 18, unless the laws of a particular country set the legal age for adulthood younger, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the monitoring body for the Convention, has encouraged States to review the age of majority if it is set below 18 and to increase the level of…