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    Warrior is a gripping and compelling story about the story of two brothers and their father. This film is similar to the biblical story of Cain and Abel. There are many parallels between the two storylines.Some of the things that happened in Warrior are symbolic of what happened in CAin and Abel. In Warrior, Tommy Conlon is a retired U.S. Marine who shows up, looking for his father to train him, after being absent from his father’s life for several years. Brendan Conlon is a teacher who was…

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    When you're at war, the most vital you would stress over is surviving. Well in "The Expert sharpshooter" by Liam O'Flaherty; he passes on the subject of survival. In this short story, the primary character is in a duel with an adversary amid a the Common War, when he just comes to discover at that the end he executed his sibling. A great many people would respond with savagery, before discovering that would be a man so near them. It's a battle for your life, and you would do pretty much anything…

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    treated them with honor and dignity, loving them as if they were his own. When he retired from the army, he showed, even yet, his most yearning love for duty. Lee chose to serve the last chapter of his life as the president of a small, ramshackle college in Virginia, deciding that the…

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    In the article “A Band of Brothers” by James McPherson, the purpose is to explain why ordinary men volunteered themselves into the army in the bloodiest war in American history. MacPherson's thesis explains that the main reason men enlisted themselves was due to honor. He uses primary source diaries from soldiers who fought in the ear to help explore this thesis. The first point that McPherson makes includes three sections: pride is self, community, and family. He explains that having pride…

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    Scene 1 (In the fields of the great war, 4 men lie down, not knowing if this day could be their last. They are fully committed to their duty, not afraid to die. They came from Britain, leaving their lavish life behind and settled for the harsh realities of war. Here we see them defending their trenches from German Stormtroopers during the Kaiserschlacht campaign in Western Europe, specifically in Northern France near Amiens, the target city of the German offensive. The fighting and artillery is…

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    was made public in early 2006. Over the course of the investigation, over a thousand wagers were tied to the ring, and it involved close to two million dollars. Most of the bets were placed on basketball and football on both the professional and college levels. This news came out at a poor…

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    Whenever one hears of war, one would probably imagine soldiers fighting courageously on a large battlefield fighting valiantly for their causes. Often times however, the civilian aspects of war are often forgotten, and it seems that sometimes, they are the ones that suffer the most from conflict. Both The Massacre at El Mozote and Persepolis provide a look into the civilian view of war, and how society must change and adapt to the new reality. In The Massacre at El Mozote we get to see the…

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    I think that Bill Clintin's letter is very contradictional and infomous with himself beliefs and values and his own nation. On one hand he wants to enlisting in the military to supposedly defend the patriotism of his country.However, he does not want to be a just a simple service man, he really intention is being commissioned as an officer to gain power and control everything over the war. In other words his purpose is to become part of the ROTC. Bill Clinton contradicts himself when he starts…

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    Every time you hear a story about war, writers always put it in a male’s point of view making it seem like women don’t matter too. Women should be able to do anything and everything men could do, meaning equal access to jobs and careers in military as well as outside of it. People state that women aren’t “physically, mentally, and emotionally qualified” to actually be involved in combat. People think we should continue to have legal bars against women that want to be involved in the combat unit,…

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    often forget the importance of our military. Some think we need a strong military and others think we need a small military. According to the Conservative’s handbook, Military strength deters aggression . If we have a strong military, it will imply that we can hold our ground and it will show other countries not to mess with us. (William Inboden, The Role of a Strong National Defense). Presidents like Ronald Reagan and Theodore Roosevelt advocated for a strong military. They believed in the…

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