The Good War

War is Never Good War is a destruction which can be performed with weapons or without weapons. It is caused by several reasons such as inequality and religion. War has never contributed in creating something; it always advocates disaster. War is itself an evil and is on the top of many kinds of evil like unemployment, illness, poverty, illiteracy and instability. Conflict has never done well to anyone. Because of war, peaceful environment fades away. Many people are severely suffering because of the war. I am against war because it destroys human life and unity among people and increases economic and social shortages and pushes us towards unemployment and it exploits the environment and degrades the health of living beings. War results in several consequences which is mainly caused by religious intolerance. Fighting has never done well to anyone; many people get injured…

INTRO- Often the darkest times in history provide an aura of excitement not soon forgotten. Studs Terkel’s The “Good War” shocks its audience with the grotesque reality of World War II battles as well as the exhilaration of being in the midst of SOME TYPE OF WORD FOR WAR. Oppositely Michael T. Bertrand’s Race, Rock, and Elvis looks into the arguments of Rock’n’Rolls impact on changing postwar race relations in the United States. KICKASS THESIS. One of the more subtle comparisons between…

depriving the reader of the different perspectives and leaving the story incomplete. In the book, The Good War, author Jack Fairweather in some way assembles various short stories that while following the timeline of the War in Afghanistan, also offers assorted encounters that paint detail to critical events (whether it be of actions or lessons learned) of others viewpoints that complement the title of his book, “Why we couldn’t win the war or the peace in Afghanistan”. As an award winning war…

Did you know that in the last 13 years that the U.S. has been in the Iraq war, the government has spent over 800 Billion US dollars. Most Americans believe that war is generally good for the economy, but studies have realized the opposite. Economists argue that money spent on war could be spent on better things such as, education, transportation, growing the economy and job creation. Another negative impact of war is the environment. Likewise environmentalists argue that the environment is often…

“Good Morning Vietnam” is a comedic movie and thought-provoking criticism of the Vietnam War. Robin Williams plays Adrian Cronauer, an off-the-cuff radio DJ who is assigned to liven up a bland US military radio show broadcast from Saigon in South Vietnam during the War. Cronauer uses this platform not for its intended purpose of spreading American propaganda, but instead to poke fun at different facets of the unpopular war. The movie heavily criticizes US leadership, military methodology, and…

War and Morality: Thucydides and Herodotus Jaylin Swan As I read both excerpts of Thucydides and Herodotus, I could tell that they had conflicting ideas about the question, “Is war good or bad?”. When I first thought on the topic, I was leaning more to the good side, but I re-read my notes and both excerpts and realized that I agreed with Thucydides’s argument; war is actually bad. Not only for the two nations that are fighting in the book, but for all nations and the…

To begin, there are three questions that we should think about. The first question is, what is war? According to the Merriam­Webster dictionary, war means a state or period of fighting between countries or groups; a situation in which people or groups compete with or fight against each other; an organized effort by a government or other large organization to stop or defeat something that is viewed as dangerous or bad. The second question is, why is war a common occurrence when it comes to…

War; there is a lot of speculation about what it is actually good for. But what actually constitutes as a war? Is it the number of deaths? Above a threshold of 1,000, few doubt a war is going on. A threshold of 100 can be more divisive. In keeping the “troubles” in Northern Ireland from becoming a war, for example, such a threshold fits the views of the British public—but not that of Northern Irish paramilitaries. (Economist, 2013) Fernando (2011) clarifies that for a business to primarily…

Obviously, Mythmaking and the War to me was an interesting reading I thought was good but also upsetting due to the facts that it discussed. If World War II was considered to be a good war then what would be considered a bad war? War is war I think, and no matter how it is put. How can a war be considered to be a good war. In war goos soldiers are lost on a daily basis and they aren’t not the only causalities that are lost. Among the causalities are the innocent that get caught in between…

The period after the War of 1812 has been historically labeled as the “Era of Good Feelings”. Although many would argue that this label is accurate due to some feelings of nationalism that emerged during the period, but numerous other social and economic divides prove that this label is in fact mostly false. After the Battle of New Orleans, there was initially a sharp increase in the amount of nationalism that resided in the hearts of United States citizens, which is mostly what the label of…