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    positive over who the guy was talking to or what he was talking about. His Marine reinforcement recommends that he might simply be talking about a completely different topic with somebody on the cellphone and may be a bystander who isn't part of the war. The man then left the housetop and isn't seen again. Some time passed and a lady and a child leave the same building, they walk into the street, and stroll toward the escort. Kyle then radios down giving information on the two individuals. He…

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    The Injustices of Uganda There are many Ugandan children who have experienced the horrible injustices as a child soldier. These soldiers were forced to kill, maim, slaughter, riot, kill civilians and even their own families. Children are being forced to be soldiers and if they don’t, they are killed. When the soldiers find a way to escape the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) they find there way back home but even that is hard because the leaders of the LRA would kill them. If they make it back to…

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    Taoism started to influence people in China, writers such as Sun Tzu who was a general in the Wu dynasty began to use Lao Tzu ideas on spontaneously and abjuring high ambitions to come up with a book called the Art of War. Sun Tzu’s book the Art of War was a step by step way to win a war without even fighting or using minimal troops to accomplish the same task. These ideas helped small unit tactics and was adopted by a man Mao Tse-Tung.…

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    the army, and some join for safety and food. In conclusion it becomes clear that child soldiers should be given amnesty because there are other ways to stop the use of child soldiers, they are not cared about, Instead of trying child soldiers for war crimes countries should attack the leaders who authorized the act. One is reason for this is: In 2012, for example, it announced it would withhold military financing from the Democratic Republic of Congo and training from a Congolese battalion…

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    In the dramatic poem “Danny Deever” by Rudyard Kipling, the soldiers face two duties and hardships throughout the poem. One hardship is that Files-on-Parade was good friends with Danny Deever. A duty is that the higher ranked members have to lie to the newer soldiers and not tell them the horrors that they may face. Colour-Sergeant cannot tell Files-on-Parade why the men “breathe so ‘ard” or why the “man fall down” (Kipling 9, 11). The hardship of seeing Danny Deever, Files-on-Parade’s best…

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    enemies shapes Gene into only a fragment of who he use to be. Before this Gene and Finny were as close as brothers, but afterwards they hated each other. A shared passion that followed Finny to his grave. The change in Gene after he and Finny declare war on each other is Genes most pivotal moment as it affects him then and for years to come. Before Gene was reborn he had another life. In this past life Gene and Finny were inseparable. Gene and Finny went to the beach together, lived in the…

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    As I looked around I saw trees and bright blue sky this day was like no other. I stared up into the sky as the first bird flew across it. I knew everything was going to go down hill fast. People from all different places ran from all corners of the land. They were yelling something. In some language I couldn't make out. But that didn't matter. As I took my first step onto the mossy ground and took a gasp of cold air I knew the battle had begun. Two weeks prior to the battle I was in my home.…

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    The shift of violence is motivated by a historical shift that has caused the global reaction to violence to decrease. Humans see their actions as good and reasonable, but when victimized, it is only a step away to judge our tormentors as pure evil. This is seen in Chapter 8: Inner Demons in the book, The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker that discusses the concepts of the moralization gap and self-serving bias. The moralization gap results from the…

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    of torture during the Algerian war. Due to the immense violence of the war, it was difficult to come to terms even decades after. Torture took many forms of pain, humiliation and shaming of the Algerians in order to gain information. The information that was at stake helped the French to bring down the hierarchy of the FLN. Although torture helped the French win battles, in the end it might of cost them the war by bringing more Algerians to the FLN’s side. The war might have ended differently if…

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    What is Cyber Terrorism? (Consumer View) When you say terrorism many people think of bombing and physical actions taken towards other people. You usually don?t think of the internet. Cyber terrorism is one of the largest points of attack in America, simply because people don?t think of their computer as a device that can physically harm them. But computers are the main way of taking care of sensitive documents that the government thinks are important to national security. The fact is that an…

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