Just War

Independent novel The book American Sniper by Chris Kyle is the true story about himself a navy seal sniper and his experiences during war in the middle east. Chris Kyle was a small town farm boy who grew up to be one of the most lethal navy seal snipers that there was. Chris was born April 8, 1974, in Odessa Texas. In his own words, he was a “cowboy” which meant that he loved working on a ranch and getting his hands dirty with hard work. Later down the road, Chris decided to join the…

“War is kind” by Stephen Crane is the perfect example of irony. It also ties many war themes together nicely and is similar to “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh”, and “O Captain! My Captain!” in various underlying ways, including war themes, tone, and mood.. Even though it shares themes with other literary works, it brings Stephen Crane’s creative views on war onto paper and melds all of the pains focused on in the other passages into one. Crane’s poem has many…

If a kids does a commit a war crime and is not charged for any crimes, then commanders can make the children do the most drastic decisions, and not worry about any charges against that child. Child soldiers should be punished so the commanders do have a fear in their minds of a…

Private First Class Daniel Wright has been placed in strange dilemma, in Trent Reedy’s novel, Divided We Fall. He has sworn loyalty to two different people, both of which want him to battle the other. PFC Wright is an Idaho National Guardsman. The President passed a law that the Idaho legislature disagreed with, claiming it to be unconstitutional. Riots broke out in response. Daniel, along with other National Guardsmen, were deployed to prevent things from getting violent. Instead of preventing…

only express the negatives of joining and leaving your term . The peace corps is a great way to help people around the world and to express cultures all around the world. People overlook the positives and the advantages the peace corps can bring not just to you but the others you will be helping…

Siege of Calais: Review The Siege of Calais play that was performed at GIHS in the PAC. The performers used costumes to represent the people of France and England in the Siege of Calais. The English are running out of food because the French are cutting off their supply routes. The English the surrender to get their supply routes back. The French want 6 hostages, all men, with white shirts and rope around their necks to arrive by sunset the English then send 5 men and 1 boy, all of them having a…

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…

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 near his house, but decided to leave the program early and according to Julie his girlfriend, “no one could convince him to go back to the VA”. Jeff did eventually seek help at the Hampton…