Seminole Wars

A Separate Peace written by John Knowles focuses on the story of the friendship of Gene Forrester and Phineas “Finny”, and emphasizes how their constant friendship/rivalry causes a feeling of envy leading to an ultimately hurtful relationship. In Chapter 2, readers see yet another example of how quickly Finny can get out of almost any situation due to his charismatic demeanor. When he talks his way out of getting in trouble for skipping dinner with Mr. Prud’homme, this can be seen as the moment…

Imagine children fighting in war -- many of them unaware of what’s happening around them. Now imagine you were one of the families that had to watch as one of the children of your family was whisked off to war. Even if that child has no intention of fighting, he/she eventually will fight. The child will have drugs in their system and those drugs will help brainwash them … until he/she is the perfect little soldier. How do you feel after imagining that? Do you believe that child soldiers should…

21- 06 -1915 It is my 100th day away from you ‘my love’ and it hasn’t gotten any better. I thought the training in Egypt was hard but now I’m here I’m really struggling. War is nothing like what they told usit would be. Remember Arthur Baldwin he was only 17 I watched him die yesterday. The anxiety and fear I live with is terrible. I just would like to be home. The boys need me. I think of them every day. Give them kisses…

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”(Tzu). Warriors that win first and then go to war spend months, maybe years, preparing for war. John Perry from the novel Old Man’s War by John Scalzi and Ender Wiggin from the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card both exemplify this prepare first mentality, which comes out in their battles. Perry practices patience before he attacks the Rraey by studying how to kill them, then uses…

There has been a lot of violence throughout time, but there never has been violence to where people cry of laughter. In the film of Monty Python there was an astounding scene which got the audience's complete attention. Who has ever heard of a limbless Black Knight who wanted to quarrel with King Arthur? Earlier towards the beginning of the film they had a scene where a man going town to town gathering dead people, dead or alive. During this medieval time the Bubonic Plague was growing intense…

11,000 child soldiers are serving with rebel groups, including the notorious White Army known for sending thousands of children into battles. 27% of child recruits during the Sierra Leone civil war who were interviewed by Theresa Betancourt’s research team had killed or injured others during the war. 77% saw stabbing and…

True Bravery in the Midst of Deception At the height of the Vietnam War, draft evaders refused to fight, the public continuously protested, and people were dying in great numbers, but one man possessed the courage to fight to delegitimatize a war that many opposed. This man’s name is Daniel Ellsberg. During this time period, Ellsberg was a special government analyst who worked on a paper titled U.S. Decision Making in Vietnam, better known as “The Pentagon Papers”, but Ellsberg described the…

population in Iraq, they were a government with a monopoly on state sanctioned violence. Ironically enough, the party had this monopoly on violence in order to cease violence among the people. When the party began to lose its’ monopoly following the Gulf War, people began lashing out at the violence of the state. State-sanctioned violence was only one factor that motivated insurgency in Iraq. Other factors that led to this insurgency were the invasion of Iraq by coalition forces and the…

Furthermore, Samuel examines how glorified soldiers for their service while Owen clarifies the desire for attention is not worth risking one’s life. The soldiers assume that war will be easy, so they picture themselves victorious. After they defeat the opponent they will arrive “arrive home from war, bronzed heros … submerged in golden seas of glory” (Twain). Being a “bronzed hero” conveys that the society places soldiers on a pedestal to flaunt them similarly to a trophy in a case -- the…

Henry sees that the Confederates had fled the battle and all the soldiers in his regiment is looking at him, especially the lieutenant. The lieutenant explains “By heavens, if I had ten thousand wild cats like you I could tear th' stomach outa this war in less'n a week!”…