Greco-Persian Wars

However, when Tim O’Brien allows his readers to get a glimpse into the lives of these men whom we gaze upon with great revere, crippling fear and paranoia gnaws at the mind of these men as they trudge through the battlefields. The main reason for war is a contradiction in itself; a gruesome fight which results in the death of many and and the main goal is to restore…

Old Major is one of the characters who play their roles as masters possessing great rhetorical skills. Old Major narrates: “‘Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our live are miserable, laborious, and short’…All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.” (6-14). In the opening of the novel, Old Major gives a passionate speech about the animal’s miserable living conditions, and how they should fight back. This sparks a rebellion. Propaganda is one powerful…

Urban Violence in the Middle East In “Urban Life and Questions of Violence” Nelida Fuccaro writes “Writing about violence with an awareness of its embeddedness in a specific historical place purges it of the priomordialist and primitive aura that has surrounded it—an aura that has long tarnished our understanding of the Middle East” . Fuccaro argues that violence is not innate to a region. This assumption has tainted people’s perception of the modern Middle East. Through the book Violence and…

Jeff Lucey, was a USMC truck driver who was deployed to Iraq. According to his family members when Jeff came home everything appeared to be normal and even went back to school. His mother Joyce, said it wasn’t until a couple months after his homecoming that Jeff started to isolate himself more and he began drinking heavely, even showing up to his sisters graduation incoherent. In Joyces words, “he was falling apart before our eyes. I just didn’t know how to help”. Jeff did seek help at the VA…

100 people all for the “protection” of their country? In the book American Sniper, Chris Kyle served as a Navy Seal Sniper in Iraq, racking up a total of four military tours. This autobiography contains amazing insight into the horrors and honor of war and what's it’s like to be regarded as the deadliest sniper in US history. Chris began his military training in his early 30’s after a hand…

“In war films of the buddy type the deadliness of war is not glossed over. But it is portrayed not in the death of the enemy who are often faceless or even unseen, but in the death of the comrades and buddies” (Tribunella). Mark Simpson says that often times in war films, seeing one’s comrade in the state of death is hard for a person live through, and therefore loses his boyish innocence. In the same way Gene is overcome by sadness when he gazes upon the dead body that once housed the life of…

Research Question: By adopting Weeks’ denominations of non-democratic states, is there variation in the duration of violent conflict between the Boss and the Strongman classifications and why? Theoretical Argument: Our theoretical argument will be based off the assumption of Weeks’ classifications of non-democratic states. These classifications are defined by an autocracy’s constraints and audiences. While Weeks researched the onset of conflict across non-democratic states, we will be…

A hybrid threat is a combination of regular forces, irregular forces, and criminal elements. Hybrid threats may be nation-state actors such as conventional core state armies or non-state actors such as terrorist organizations. These forces and organizations may work together, either purposefully or not, to achieve mutually beneficial effects on the battlefield. Defeating a hybrid threat requires adaptiveness, and the ability to react quickly. Hybrid threats are highly adaptive adversaries…

There is a quote by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam that says, “Almost half the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, violence.” In Chinua Achebe’s novel, “Things Fall Apart,” violence is an answer to most problems and unfortunately, a part of their daily lives. There is one question though that haunts the story while you read it, is the culture…

narrative ‘Break of Day’ depicts the themes of family, bravery and death. The plot of the story is about two brothers named Will and Murray. Will is the oldest of the two. Will went to war to deal with his emotions about the marriage of of his childhood sweetheart and Sid Archer. Murray later followed his older brother to the war because of the pain he was caused from his brother leaving and the death of his dad in a fir and also Sid archer insinuating that theere uncle jack had been a coward in…