Isolationism

The Legacy and Consequences of War In his coming-of-age novel, A Separate Peace, John Knowles tells the story of Gene Forrester and the struggles he faces – both internal and external. While Gene’s external struggles revolve mainly around world affairs at large; his internal struggles prove to be his greatest obstacle to overcome. The following excerpt demonstrates the struggle of consequences as being like a chain-reaction and how it destructively affects his best friend Phineas, “I took a…

In the short story “ A Rose for Emily “ William Faulkner presents us with a very intriguing story that starts with the death of Miss Emily. The whole setup of the story is very intriguing and this is shown through Miss Emily’s character and the way she acts and what she does making her a round character . The way she is developed leaves the reader hanging on what her next step is, since little is known behind her reasons for her actions and it is left to the reader to interpret her actions. To…

The branch of literature that deals with human responses to the levels of science, technology, and artificial intelligence is known as Science Fiction. Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut are two well-known authors whose stories commonly revolve around this literary genre. Simply stated, all science fiction stories contain elements that imply a warning or message for its reader. Within all three of the science fiction related texts, “The Pedestrian,” Fahrenheit 451, and “The Big Trip Up Yonder,” the…

and they are making a nuclear threat to the world again. The world would not be peaceful if a nuclear threat again appeared in this world. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is also known as North Korea is an international byword for isolationism, autonomy and antagonism. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has isolated itself from the rest of the world for more than 50 years. In Park Yong-Soo’s article “The political economy of economic reform in North Korea”, he claims that…

Throughout history, mankind has been faced with several catastrophes and crises that needed to be overcame to ensure existence. Three epidemic plagues that humanities are credited to have defeated are the Black Death of the fourteenth century, the Justinian Plague, and the late nineteenth century Chinese Plague (Rosen 247). Being said, one of the most destructive disaster’s the human race has witnessed was the Black Death, which devastated the structure of the world at the time. A civilization…

The 33rd President of the United States came to power at a crucial, transitional time for the Nation. Harry S. Truman succeeded to the presidency during the final months of the World War II. Truman had to guide the Nation through the end of the war, the atomic bomb, and the beginning of the Cold War. Throughout his first and second terms, he faced crucial decisions that were detrimental for the future of the American foreign policy and that would leave a legacy. Harry S. Truman was born into a…

Mediated violence gives children a sense of accepted isolationism, away from reality and society as they do not understand it. So it goes due to otherwise productive time spent viewing violence. Children with media violence as such a strong influence have a good chance of taking on a life of crime or anything…

There is no doubt that over human history war has brought death, destruction, merciless slaughter and poverty in its wake as it sweeps a country or continent up like a tsunami. Almost two decades after the Great War, we humans are back at each other’s necks in the second world war. Have we not learned from our past mistakes? Was the first world war already a distant memory? It seems so as it is still the twentieth century and countries are invading others to see who can vie for dominance in a…

In the first months of 1941, Roosevelt saw the Lend-Lease program as the medium between outright belligerency and outright isolationism. Stoler quotes Roosevelt on page 37 as saying to Joseph Grew, the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, “menaced both in Europe and in the Far East . . . our strategy of self-defense must be a global strategy.” Churchill, relieved by the news of the passage…

introduced through writing that equates her to “other island girls”, yet “with something refreshing about the cast of her eyes” (Yukio Mishima 10). This description establishes her role as a representation of tradition by appealing to the cultural isolationism of the island, which parallels Hatsue’s own position in the novel: Uta-jima’s isolation renders it untouchable by the corrupt forces of modernization, much like Hatsue cannot be corrupted by modern culture because she embodies the ideal…