League of Nations

In the story Sula, Toni Morrison gives the accounts of various characters, and the most complex of them all is Shadrack. Shadrack was born in the years leading to the First World War, and at a tender age, he found himself tossed into the chaos of war. The experiences that he had during the war left him traumatized. What the author called shell-shocked and is known in the modern day mental health care as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. At that time, mental health had not evolved to the point of…

It is easy to believe that attaining peace in this world where violence and wars are so apparent is getting much harder. Perhaps to the point in which it is verging on the impossible. ‘Eve of Destruction’ expresses a strong but heartfelt warning towards how our hypocrisy as a society is edging us closer to our own demise . The writer, P.F Slogan, addresses both the solider and society singing about being on the ‘eve of destruction’. He wrote, “You’re old enough to kill but not for voting”,…

The Oxford Dictionary online (2016) defines international relations as “the way in which two or more nations interact with and regard each other, especially in the context of political, economic, or cultural relationships”. However, what to include and exclude in the definition is a controversial topic and there is still no decisive answer of what international relations means. Scholars have been suggesting various definitions, for instance, one source stated that International Relations (i.e.…

on the central theme that the winning of wars is a gaining of these imaginary tokens. In relevance to today’s news internationally, we can see a mad grab for these tokens of power in the Middle East and in other surrounding countries as different nations try to garner maximum power over others in their efforts to dominate world interests for their own benefit and ideology. Social Relativism in the Construction of Power One of the common problems in political relationships is how to measure…

George S. McGovern once said “I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” McGovern is stating that the “old men”, the government use the young men of a specific country to fight the wars they initiate. War is most of the time seen as a sense of pride and tribute for one’s country, but many don’t realize the savagery battlefields hold. Just like George McGovern, the poet, Wilfred Owen, who was a soldier in World War One and died in that Great War wrote many…

Prior to treaty negotiations, Lloyd George and Collins effected one another’s actions because they were on opposing sides during the Anglo-Irish War where the IRB challenged the British presence in Ireland. After Sinn Fein candidates, Collins included, won seats in Parliament across Ireland, they refused to take their seats and instead formed their own parliament called Dail Earnnian. Lloyd George’s response to Sinn Fein’s establishment of an illegal parliament was not to try and forcefully…

Peace is one of the most important concepts that many people around the world long for. However, during World War I, propaganda in Britain and other countries meant that many soldiers were ecstatic to join the war and serve their countries. After gaining first-hand experience himself, Wilfred Owen’s “Disabled” exposes the calamity of war, by contrasting a generic disabled soldier who is young and naive before the Great War, when he was “whole”, and after losing his legs (and possibly arms) in…

When Britain declared war on the Axis powers in 1914, many young English men saw this as an opportunity for bravery, glory, and chivalry. As the war escalated many people started to change their view as they saw the brutalities of the fighting. This war had a big influence on poetry in future decades. The main difference between the attitude towards the war sparked from the poet's tone. The tone varies from seeing the war as glorious, to it being a dreadful experience. The Soldier by Brooke…

"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die," said Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States. This quote that is still relevant today, is referring to the situations in countries such as the ones in Venezuela, Ukraine, Syria and Iraq are in today. The situations in these two books, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, are similar to the ones of these countries. The main characters, Ishmael Beah and Katniss Everdeen, are kids in a…

The Maginot Line: France’s Most Ingenious Military Failure France’s Maginot Line is well known for its failure to halt the German invasion of France in June of 1940. Named after André Maginot and constructed in the 1930s, the Maginot Line was thought by the French to be an impregnable and untouchable wall of defenses. The Maginot Line was an unbroken line of fortifications that went along the Franco-German border from Longwy, near where France, Belgium, and Luxembourg meet, to Switzerland’s…