Just War

Money isn’t the world in “Civil Peace” When a person has an enormous amount of money, do they have true friends or are they fake friends? Many people decide to want to be friends with a prosperous person in order to obtain money from them; however, others use wealthy people so they will be given gifts. It is typical of others to be envious and want things that others can't have. Wealthy people are often betray by other people which is sad and is disappointing to see others being used…

or traitors so keep himself alive. Even if that means kill women or children even his own brother so he can stay alive. He needs to stay alive at all costs in the civil war against the free staters and the republicans. The sniper in the civil war is on the free staters side and is trying to kill the republicans to win the war for his side for the free staters. The only way he can do this is by killing the enemy no matter who it be. It may be men even women or children he has to kill because…

Characters in "Everyday Use" and "Civil Peace" by Alice Walker (Walker) and Chinua Achebe (Achebe), respectively are examined. Alice Walker’s theme revolves around African-Americans personal identities. Chinua Achebe’s work revolves around Nigeria’s civil war and the “civil peace” afterward, a bitter fact in many parts of the world even today (Fortin). Major and minor characters in both stories are compared and analyzed by character type, characterization, and their relationship in relation to…

War has many horrible consequences that the people who are not involved do not often understand. People view war as glorious and triumphant for their country when they fail to comprehend the loneliness that it can bring. Loneliness is a prominent component in both Shenandoah and Johnny Got His Gun. In the latter, Joe is a prisoner of his own body and feels that he has nobody there to be with him. Similarly, in the former, the Anderson family incorporates their late mother and wife, Martha, into…

Finally, one other reason that lead to the contrast in the two Wes's life style was their surroundings. The narrator was sent off to military school at a very young age. "This uniform had become a force field that ha kept the craziness of the world outside form getting too close...". (118) Here the narrator describes how shielded his was from reality at military school. He describes it as "… a different psychological environment... were leadership was honored and class clowns were ostracized".…

Tobias Lindholm is a commendable Danish writer-director who proved his tremendous quality in intelligent, realistic dramas such as “R” and “A Highjacking”. In his latest, entitled “A War”, he earnestly portrays a thorny occurrence that deeply affects the life of a soldier in two different fronts: the military and the civilian. Commander Claus Pedersen (compellingly played by Lindholm’s regular, Pilou Asbæk) leaves his wife and three little children in Denmark and sets foot in the Afghan Helmand…

freedom of others. According to the chart in document A illness is spreading during this winter season and washington’s troop will lose about “49%” men and they will be be needing as much support as possible. They are not going to desert their crew just when things start going south. They are sick of being treated badly, So why not stay and fight the cold and the british.The troops are weary and want food, but they will not quit because they deserve to be free. The men will fight for their…

of America’s war loving behavior. But people respond to the rewards and punishments of any particular system, and if our system rewards greed and self-interest that is the way we will behave in the world. My theory of why America goes to war can be narrowed down to four words: America’s brand of capitalism. The America focused on power, wealth, and privilege is hooked on war, because without war it can no longer function correctly, or in other words, yield the desired profits. Wars are a…

In our lives we can chose what happens in them. The sports gene is about Donald Thomas that was born with an Achilles tendon and about Stephon Holm who wasn’t born with an achilleas tendon. They compete against each other in high jumping. Thomas doesn't even have to train because of his achilleas tendon which allows him to jump higher than Stephon who does train. Into the wild is about Chris McCandless who sells all his stuff, donates all his money, and gives up his education at Emory University…

Thousands of children around the world are faced with hardships each and everyday. None compare to being forced to fight and murder. This is what is happening to child soldiers all over. Often, they are very young and told to either fight or die, with no other choice. The children do not know any better and in most cases are given drugs to help trick them into this. If a child was truly forced on their life to do something so terrible such as being a child soldier, exceptions should be made.…