Kalinga War

respective conflicts. The civil war in Syria began in March of 2011 due to a growing resentment of the government regime led by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, creating an eventual armed civil conflict between rebel groups and the government. A direct result of the conflict has been the humanitarian refugee crisis involving refugees fleeing to surrounding states. The ongoing conflict between Sudan and South Sudan has a similar basis to Syria, also starting as a civil war in Sudan as early as…

horrors of war. “First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey.” This shows the reader one of the many things of what runs through the minds of the soldiers and the weight of those burdens on their shoulders. During a combat mission having these worries on one’s mind when in a firefight can cause the soldier to make mistakes that could lead to his untimely death. It is a problem many faces when serving during a war. The…

fight in the Vietnam war or desert the war and flee to another country. The first side is staying and continuing to fight in the Vietnam war. The part in this side that I found compelling was when chaplain Edwards was talking to Tim O’Brien. Tim O’Brien is talking to chaplain Edwards about how he is stuck between “a desire to be good, and also, underneath, a desire to prove myself a hero” (O’Brien 62). Once O’Brien is done talking to chaplain Edwards about how he thinks “the war is wrong.…

Walker Poorman Mrs. Atkin ELA 8 22 September 2015 Burning Nation Your Nation is going to war With your government. What do you do, which side should you be on? This is what happen to a 17 year old boy named Daniel Wright in his hometown Freedom lake, Idaho. On day Daniel and his mother went to the grocery store. While they were living the grocery store a guy in a suite came up and shot Daniel Wright’s mother and killed her. Daniel fought that men and killed him. After that Daniel wright…

story, "The Things They Carried," is based on the life of soldiers in the Vietnam War era. The character Lieutenant Jimmy Cross in the short story is the one responsible for an entire group of soldiers during the war. Lieutenant Cross is fixated on a young woman named Martha who attended Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey to become an English major during this time (pg. 1). Martha, like most women of the soldiers in war, was hope, distraction, and realization throughout the story for…

People say warfare is foul and cruel. Liam O’Flaherty would agree that degrading effects on men in war can cause pain to family and one’s self. Soldiers in wars are dehumanize or not regarded as human. O’Flaherty uses internal conflict, mood shift, and imagery to show the dehumanizing effects of war. O’Flaherty’s uses internal conflict of the sniper’s mood after killing his brother, the opposing sniper. The sniper finds joy in killing his enemy at first. “The lust of battle died in him,” this…

The American Sniper is one of the most emotional book I have ever read in my lifetime. It has so many up and downs through this mans life ending up with the death its grieving. Being the best sniper to ever come across america and fight for our military he is known everywhere having a book and a movie made off him. everyone knows his story. this is my opinion on it. Chris Kyle's life would go from good to bad to good to dead, and thats a short sequence of the book and its sadening. his family…

his youthful eyes had looked upon the war in his own country with distrust. It must be some sort of a play affair”(Crane 3). Henry Fleming, the main character in Stephen Crane’s novel The Red badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, records the transformation of Henry Fleming a mercurial and immature adolescent who transforms into a war-ready soldier through the experience. Stephen Crane published the novel in 1895 thirty years after the Civil War. Crane uses naturalism to show…

The theme of “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty is that war reduces human beings to mere objects. to further explain it is that they have no names, no faces. That they are just targets and nothing more, to be shot at from a distance. Without knowing who are you shooting and knowing if they’re going yours or if their your friends or family. And there is no no winners,regardless of who you kills more people or takes more land. And the war knows no boundaries,age,gender,location, time of the day or…

The Juxtaposition of Beauty and Horror in Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War In Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War, Ninh incorporates juxtaposition throughout the novel to compare the beauty and horror of war. With every gruesome aspect, such as rape and harm relating to war, comes beautiful details. War is such a horrific and morbid event, yet Bao Ninh describes lovely scenes that contradict significantly to the horrors of war. Ninh first used juxtaposition when he mentioned the horrific events that…