Military use of children

the age of 21. The main argument is that “ the law should be brought into sync with age-of majority rights such as voting, military service, or contract”(Main, C.41). At 18 young adults are given several responsibilities and are held to the same standards as adults. Yet young adults are seen incapable of handling alcohol. At the age of 18 you are able to serve in the military, pay taxes, own a gun, and even be governor in some states.(Wil Fulton.1) Yet 18 year old are seen as not “mature” enough…

women are treated and allowed into the military. However, there was (and still is) a hard time for women to move up in the ranks because they are restricted from such positions, this ideology has begun to disintegrate, but it is still challenging for women to be seen as powerful. Stachowitsch says that most women are viewed as “non- threatening” and look for peaceful ways to resolve a conflict. There has been a study to prove that strengthening women in the military increased the awareness…

wish I could have spent more time with my brother David and my father Adalberto. Since I joined the military my family and I had been distance for several years at a time. The first personal account I choose was “Confluences” by the author Jennifer Sinor. This essay reminds me of my brother David. We spend a mass of time together camping and enjoying the wilderness before I served in the military. We had to cancel a camping trip because I had a short notice deployment to Balad Air Base, Iraq. A…

I now understood how children feel about being transgender. When I become a father, I will not be hard on my children because it would be very hard for me to know that children are not satisfied, or thinking about killing themselves. My research revealed that gender dysphoria is a condition in which there is a conflict between a person's physical gender and the gender the individual identifies his or herself. It would be very difficult to determine how many people are transgendered. The answer…

well-rounded personality and a passion for helping people become the best they can be. The education levels required vary depending upon the career path an individual chooses. The different career paths may be: a private practitioner, professor, military, or working for an NCAA institution. Depending upon an individual’s specialties one may work with various kinds of people, and can influence one’s salary. An individual looking at Sports Psychology will need to look into the education and…

South Vietnam had many of the same desires for freedom as North. Divided by the 17th parallel as also given by the Geneva Agreements of 1954 South Vietnam had many resource advantages over the North. With the richness of the delta’s this gave them access to ports and fishing. The Republic of Vietnam (RVN) or South Vietnam (SV) were allies with the United States and their allies. Like North Vietnam, South Vietnam was seeking full independence, forming a nationalist country. The (RVN) was ruled by…

‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man’, killed 60,000 people on impact. Just 8kg of plutonium is needed to create a blast with a 260km radius. It is an efficient way to end wars but it comes at a cost. Their uses in the attack on Japan were groundless. There were other options but US military wanted to flex their military might instead of saving fatalities. President Truman had other options instead of dropping the Atomic bomb. The first was, launching a full scale invasion on Japan. Japanese were known…

The subject of the use of torture to extract information in a military setting is something that has caused a large amount of controversy. First, we will explore my personal opinions as to the morality of torturing the solider and his children in this situation. Then to get a deeper understanding of the issue from a true moral theorist’s perspective, we will discuss aspects of both Kantian and Utilitarian theories as to why torture is morally wrong. To get a deeper understanding of this…

Due to my father’s affiliation with the Department of Defense, my childhood was mainly spent living overseas in the Kaiserslautern Military Community in Germany. I spent the majority of my time volunteering at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, a hospital where families of military service members frequented. This hospital was the only main facility that provided critical health care to thousands of service members stationed in various locations in the Middle East before they returned back…

started using drones for their own use, and in the near future they will start replacing human-operated vehicles. In war, they use predator drones. It needs no pilot, and is relatively cheaper than any other in air device. For us, drones are perfect. They do the job for us. We are told that predator and reaper drones have taken out “suspected militants” in airstrikes. What they don’t tell you is that with these airstrikes kill innocent civilian lives, including children. Even though drones are…