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    much that he starts training him to fit in a school. The boy has a family that teaches him and he uses this to teach his brother to walk, swim, box, and climb trees. On the other hand, the Sniper environment is harsh and brutal. The Sniper is in a war, he needed to desensitize himself from the constant death and bloodshed or he will not fight any more; he will start seeing the other side as humans. Because of this, he kills his brother with the intension of killing the…

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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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    As the prelude of war is presented within the story, Henry exudes confidence about fighting in the war. However, when he arrives and officially engages in the war, he is startled and seemingly frightened upon what he then experienced. This is understandable considering that he new to the true idea of war and later he begins to adapt to how the war is presented in a sense of casualties and other horrid events that followed. His first act of courage would be his drive into the war against the…

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    governments or by outer office. It can 't be forced from outside, it must develop from inside. In further barrier of his importance of peaceful in the cutting edge world, he express that the reasonable that lay the production of UNESCO was that "since wars start in the brains of men, it is in the psyches of men that the guard of peace must be developed". Subuddhi likewise composes "… for Gandhi, the methods utilized as a part of settling the question between the Indian individuals and the…

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    as “rational and practical”. They went to war to gain something that they believed to be valuable…

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    When we look at these events nowadays, it is almost impossible to see how anyone would have sympathy for those committing the violent acts. Even though we currently have wars that have been going on for years due to disagreement over religions, we no longer see people that are not part of either religion to give a compelling argument as to why we should have some sympathy for one side. Not agreeing on a religion is like…

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    The introduction of video game platforms that allow game creators to portray any action they choose on screen with lifelike realism is a concept once unimaginable, however within the past few decades monumental advances have been made in the digital arts. With the newfound power to create such lifelike realism, game designers often turn to death and violence as a basis for their games due to the popularity of such grim topics. Ratings have been placed on such material in attempt to protect the…

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    character, Krebs, struggles with his identity after returning home from war. Telling lies and losing his sense of war-changed self afflicts him. Krebs’ family and society pressure him into “renormalizing.” When attempting to reintegrate him into the community, his family ignores the past years that Krebs has spent at war and instead views him as “Harold”, Krebs’ previous teenage self who never grew up. In “Soldier’s Home,” the war experience…

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    In a scene from the 2006 Peruvian film Madeinusa, Don Cayo—mayor of the fictional Andean town of Manayaycuna, breaks a clay pot full of food on the ground, as a gesture that signals the beginning of tiempo santo. As they file out of church after mass, the people of the town prepare to celebrate a period that starts at 3pm on Good Friday—the time of Jesus’ crucifixion—and ends at 6am on Easter Sunday, the time of his resurrection. According to local custom, during this period there is no sin:…

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    Is Cyberwarfare merely an act in support of war, or can it exist as an act of war unti itself? To this, one might juxtapose the realities of Cyberwarfare with both traditional and modern concepts of war. However, as one who holds a poststructualist theory of international relations would suggest, ‘Cyberwarfare’ is a term of the English language, and is therefore malleable and whether it falls into the category of an “Act of War” depends entirely on how we define it. This problem, described…

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