Peloponnesian War

Pinker argues that even genocide has declined throughout the centuries. He explains that, “The decline of genocide over the last third of a century, then, maybe traced to the upswing of some of the same factors the drove down interstate and civil wars…” (342). Autocracy nations becoming democracies, building stable governments, and the openness to trade allowed them to refrain from committing genocide and, focus on the interests of their nations and its…

Ancient Greek values. Both Odysseus and Telemachus are similar in the way that they’re great heroic warriors, which reflects the Greek values of Arete. Odysseus is already known as a Greek hero throughout the book, due to his heroics in the Trojan war, but his heroic abilities…

this heading efficaciously describes the two essays within it. On War by James Boswell, and The Paranoid Style of American Policing by Ta-Nehisi Coates, each tell their thoughts on violence and how they view it within different areas of today’s society. However, I feel that On War is better able to effectively convey its purpose. The purpose of On War by James Boswell was to tell his personal thought on the irrationality of war. Within Boswell’s essay he describes how ineffective people are…

tells Murray “Don’t worry I’ll look after you.” (p.39) Will says this after he shoots his dog. Will is demonstrating courage in this important part of the novel because it’s not easy killing a dog. Will also demonstrates courage when he say’s “I’m no war hero.” (p.201) Will is showing honesty and courage because he doesn't think he’s a hero, considering he was fighting for his country at the time. This demonstrates that Will is a courageous character in Break of Day, showing no fear or distress.…

terrorize society and steal minerals simultaneously. The fear that comes from mass rapes is undeniable. When this scare tactic is being utilized within a community, people flee, further enabling the armed groups to steal, rape, and pillage the community. (War Child , n.d.). When asked the consequences of rape within the Congo, Nicholas replied, ‘that raping stuff they know what…

grown-up had happened to me before. This was something Grandma Tilly couldn't understand—how war promises a boy it can make a man out of him.” (Peck, 152) The River Between Us by Richard Peck is the story of Howard Leland Hutchings who is on his way to visit family in Grand Tower, Illinois. There, his grandmother Tilly takes the story, retelling the family's experiences in the first year of the Civil War. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is a novel about Liesel Meminger, a young German girl…

the glories of war. He enrolls in the Union armed forces and rapidly finds sides of himself he never knew existed. Him joining the army was a result of his mother telling him that he should never run from battle. “‘I don’t know what else to tell you, Henry, except that you must never avoid your duty, child. If a time comes when you have to be killed or do a bad thing, Henry, don’t think of anything except what’s right.’” (page 4) The trepidation, boredom, and maltreatment of war draw out the…

military organizations confronted the problem of not only adapting to technological changes in peace time, but also the fact that war itself has inevitably turned up the speed of technological change”. The first Gulf War constitutes a turning point in the history of modern conflicts essentially because of the integration of technology into all levels of military operations. War was always been a declaration of hostility between two opposing groups clashed over a battlefield in a duel with the…

The Capitalist Project War is an art form and a science, and an innovative one at that. For it to persist at its utmost peak, Adam Smith declared that “...it is necessary that it should become the sole or principal occupation of a particular class of citizens.” (Way 1) Historiographically speaking, what has been written and studied about war is, for the most part, information in regards to combat, and the wars themselves. How soldiers thrived throughout The Seven Years’ War appears to have…

It is with deep concern that I, as the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), need to engage you in a serious foreign affairs situation so early in your new presidency. You are fully aware of the overall concerns in Cuba from your security briefings, but I need to bring to your attention our uneasiness over Cuba and Prime Minister Fidel Castro’s forceful move towards communism. First, you know we were never pleased at Castro’s rise to power. Yet, although we were suspicious of his intentions,…