Pacifism

Candido Rondon, known colloquially as Marechal Rondon, was a devout Brazilian expansionist of both faith and civic pride. He successfully did what many before him had tried and failed to do, which was to unite Brazil. A driving force behind his seemingly superhuman motivation and desire to accomplish his goals of both unifying Western Brazil and Coastal Brazil and helping to further the rights of indigenous peoples was rooted in his ideological beliefs, namely the pseudo-religion of Positivism.…

The Vietnam war (1950 - 1975) was a significant event for New Zealand and its involvement in it. It was commonly known as the Second Indochina War. It was the first time that New Zealand had not allied with its usual countries e.g.Great Britain. The Vietnam War was fought between North Vietnam/Viet Cong (communist - run by Ho Chi Minh) and American ran South Vietnam. As the war raged on in the early 1960’s, and the Viet Cong got closer and closer to the south, namely Saigon, America decided to…

The women named Dorothy Day,who lived between 1891 to 1980 life could be found on the book “The Long, Loneliness,” the film “Entertaining Angels,” and many more articles and papers. Dorothy Day was a journalist and founder of the Catholic Worker movement in the 1930s (WW 2 era) with Peter Maurin, who have very similars goal with Day. Both support nonviolence, and enjoyed to help the poor with simple life. Throughout her life, the Catholic Worker movement is what made Dorothy Day well-known to…

Considered as one of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century together with Nelson Mandela, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Vladimir Lenin and many other great leaders, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also known as Mahatma Ghandi, was a very famous political and spiritual leader in India, he was the one who accomplished the Indian independence which his nation hoped for such a long time. He was the one who lead the campaign…

The idea of simple living was both widely promoted and discouraged from the arrival of the earliest Puritan colonists in 1630 to the extensive industrial growth of the middle 1800s. Many groups and societies aimed to resurrect the simple life and promote it among the masses. Yet each of these revivals were either stopped or drastically slowed down by the American majority’s desire for wealth. A small percentage of Americans consistently lived interpretations of the simple life but they were…

never be like them, he could have wept in his longings” (Crane 61) G. Analysis - H. Main Point 3 - The youth exemplifies all soldiers initial courage and readiness for war in the start of the book. I. Quote - “ In the face of his mother’s Christian pacifism and her quietly ironic undercutting of his egotism, he eventually enlisted and left for camp with a soaring conviction ‘that he must be a hero’” (Cady 121). J. Analysis - This shows the youths’ expectations of having courage and his longing…

Rituals are fundamental in human societies, they are prevalent within all cultures across the globe, this occurs because rituals are significant because groups use them as a means to create solidarity among that specific group. This particular essay will attempt to dissect and apply a sociological perspective to a ritual that is commonly observed within Australia: Anzac Day Dawn Service (April 25th). There are numerous events and norms that take place during this ritual that make it more…

Violence Creates More Violence Violence was one of the most defining characteristics of the twentieth century. The violence caused by imperialism and decolonization are some examples of how violence was used in order to try and create political change. While many saw violence as necessary to accomplish their political goals others denounced it it as they believed it only pushed those changes further away. Some of these leaders were Gandhi, Mussolini, and Fanon. Gandhi in, Satyagraha, believed…

Owing to the careful organization and overwhelming military power of the Nazi regime, groups of historians have come to understand that the Jewish population of Europe was ultimately unable to resist persecution at the hands of the staunch anti-Semites. Thus, the Jews had gone like sheep to slaughter; and had essentially allowed themselves to be led to death. However, one cannot merely conclude that the European Jewry played a completely passive part in their own near annihilation; one needs to…

series wonderfully depicted the bravery and patriotism of the Russian soldiers. Czar Alexander II loved the first part, but banned sections of the next three for military criticism. The last two installments particularly uncovered a glimpse of the pacifism that Tolstoy would later completely inherit. “You have but just opened the door when the sight and smell of forty or fifty seriously wounded men and of those who have undergone amputation-some in hammocks, the majority upon the floor-…