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One season, Messi played for both Barcelona and Argentina at the same time. In 2008, Messi won an olympic gold metal for Argentina. He won the FIFA best player of the year award in 2009. In 2002 Messi scored five goals in a single championship league match. Messi says that when you play soccer you have to have fun and that it doesn't matter if you lose or win just have fun. Messi also made the record of the youngest player ever to score a professional gain in 2005. The year ended with Messi…

INTRODUCTION: In the early 20th century, Europe was home to a jumbled network of coalitions that pitted state against state. Pressures grew rapidly as nations snapped up any region they could get their hands on, built great armies and navies, recognized their enemies, and organized for the huge war that was looking more likely every day. There had already been numerous small hostilities in the century's first 14 years that overwrought the continent's harmony even further. By 1914, Europe was…

Following Germany's loss in World War I, German citizens were ashamed and embarrassed to live in Germany. Largely supported by the left, The Weimar Republic reigned, although the right wanted this to end along with socialism and communism. Additionally, the Treaty of Versailles was passed in attempt to resolve conflict, although Germany succumb to unseen consequences in the form of unemployment and a power vacuum. Many German citizens chose to move from the center to conservative and nationalist…

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.…

World War I and World War II are two of the most studied wars in the history of our planet. Despite the fact that they share a common name, the two wars are very different. These differences, however, do not render them polar opposites, as there are many similarities and connections to cause and effect. But as wars, World War I and World War II have many common and unique traits. The first similarity is the conglomeration of power amongst countries through alliances. In World War I (WWI), the…

not affect you personally, the amount of hate and disunity that has spread like wildfire in this country since the day Donald Trump has announced this election should awaken even the most ignorant of us. I am proud to know that students of the Ivy League schools, where individuals are deemed to be upper class, were visibly affected by this election. I too wish I could run and scream and cry the day after this terrible election. The amount of times I cried that day was too many to count. This…

Introduction Hironaka’S Tokens of Power is a book written from a social relativistic standpoint of war and its meaning in society. The title of the book plays 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…

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…