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Many opponents of gun control argue that limits on gun ownership are unconstitutional because they violate the Second Amendment, which includes the phrase the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Opponents often emphasize the “shall not be infringed part while ignoring the other clause about the right being connected to a well regulated Militia but nobody’s perfect. Even emphasizing the right component, however, if we slow down and think about what an absolute right…

Losing someone that you know is ever easy, but losing a lover can tear you apart. The grief that Rat Kiley felt after his best friend, Curt Lemon, died drove him crazy. Everything from writing a “heartfelt” letter to Curt’s sister to abusing a baby buffalo. Grief is different for everyone, but what if Rat’s grief was so strong because he just lost his war lover? Although the secret war lover may be present in Tim O’Brien’s How to Tell a True War Story, masculinity and violence are also on almost…

The 1960’s through the 1970’s was a time filled with hardship for many Americans because of the unproductive invasion of Vietnam. In an attempt to contain and defeat communism, the United States, oblivious of the enemy capability and filled with pride, invaded Vietnam at a cost of large financial expense and human lives. The U.S. should not have invaded Vietnam until they were aware of the forces of the North Vietnamese. As with most other countries in the world, Vietnam has a history of being…

audience by using logos, or logic, by stating “Yes, they say, the amendment doesn’t prohibit the government from making it illegal for the average citizen to own, say, a grenade launcher or anti-tank missile.” Rosenzweig uses logos in this statement because the average person can agree that it is not safe for a regular citizen to own grenade launcher or anti-tank…

Tanja, the Wise Man’s German shepherd, was taking point as she was snooping around the hallways and classrooms of Monsignor Danvers’ Real World version, helping her owner and DHvKA look for the other M-Bomb. Apart from being a nerve wracking experience for the Ryanites, especially because of the fact that many of them had little idea as to how they were going to defuse the device. But with the Wise Man keeping everyone’s feelings and thoughts under control, a sense of assured self-confidence…

On the other hand, you could of decide to take a different course of action and detained him. After all, there was only one man against twenty or more men. It wasn’t the young man’s threat to O’Brien that made him throw the grenade, it wasn’t that he was in danger at that moment in time. It was the violence that resonates with war and the paranoia that grasps a man by the…

The Harsh Realities of War War is an unchanging human interaction that has been present in history for as long as humans have. Although every war has its own mitigating factors that started them and are fought by different people, the abstract concept of war has yet to change since humans fought each other with sticks and stones. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried provides specific insight into the effects War had on the soldiers of the American Alpha Company in the Vietnam War and…

Massacre in Tlatelolco 1968 is known to be the year that social conflict broke out internationally. People around the world were tired of their government neglecting their civil rights, repression, and war (Protests 1968, n.p.). Mexico wasn't the exception when on October 2, 1968, Mexican military and armed men shot and killed several students that were in a peaceful rally at the "Plaza de las Tres Culturas" in Mexico City (Berggren, n.p.). This tragedy involves the point of view of the…

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A Kaleb Lamb Ms. Gourd English 9 May 7, 2018 ESSKEETIT!! One day deep in the highland and plains of South Africa. Two friends were dropped of by there helicopter to explore this bare landscape. The two boys were friends back in the United States. One boy is named Mateo Levi Wilson, also known as…