W. G. Sebald

Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Rwanda, here are only a few countries in which children are used to fight and endure war up close. Throughout history and many cultures children have been used for direct part ( actual soldiers), support roles (spies and messengers), and even political advantages ( human shields and propaganda). This is the cruel reality that these children face everyday. During their time in an environment like this the children are indoctrinated by many different tactics. In A…

War is a two faced devil, it is justified killing that is latter praised in winning. It has reason for being set into motion that may seem to be logical to certain parties, and to others it may seem like an emotional weight pulling them down under the water 's surface of the frontlines. Pulling them down along side those who are backing up the war with one rash reasoning, a group of suits who have made decisions for war and nearly all of them have never stepped a foot onto those frontlines that…

“The worst thing that can happen in a democracy- as well as in an individual’s life-is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.” – Hillary Clinton. A president is someone that can lead the country in a right direction. It takes a special kind of person to be a good president. He/she must be smart, driven and have good leadership. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was born October 26, 1947 in Chicago. As a child, she played baseball and she swam. She graduated in the top 5 percent of her…

After the events that occurred in the United States in September of 2001, its government started to mobilize in order to fight terrorism and be able to give its citizens the security they expected. In order to do so, Bush’s administration, after a series of negotiations with Iraq and the UN, decided to invade the Middle East country in an effort to end terrorism and make the world, and mostly America, a safe place. However, it has been broadly discussed whether this war was in the best interest…

In the case study, Assassinating bin Laben: Right or Wrong? the author Priya Dixit outlines and examines the event of Osama bin Laben being assassinated by U.S. Special forces in Pakistan. Dixit proceeds to further debate not only the ethics and legality behind this killing, but also behind the target killings the U.S. has been committing with greater occurrence on ‘terrorist’. In order to understand these actions I believe we must first identify what decision making process is occurring in the…

Ethics is a subject fully steeped in observation and informed speculation. It seeks to construct a sort of ‘outline’ to life, referencing interactions with self and others. Ethics, also referred to as moral philosophy, forces us to think about morality under a thousand different scopes. Many philosophers described endless theories; all in efforts to teach people how to live. Philosophers often ascribe to theories characterized by a group of interconnected ideals that result from a single, basic…

much be the reason why blacks are held in the prison system longer and at an alarming rate than those of different races. One major debate that has been going on since the early 90 's has been the crack and cocaine epidemic. Former president George W. Bush Sr. based his campaign off the crack vs. cocaine battle causing a rise in crackdowns in the Black communities with the drug crack being the motivation to send more Blacks to prison and misplaced from their families than ever before. The…

Wikileaks, an organization that allows whistleblowers to publish “…suppressed documents of diplomatic, ethical, historical or moral significance that reveal illegal or immoral behavior,” (Wikileaks); is being silenced by the media from exposing the Democratic Presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. The media is helping cover up the truth because of special interests. Wikileaks has released the deleted Hillary emails, DNC emails, and John Podesta (Hillary’s Chairman of the her presidential…

Publix: Where Shopping Should Be, But is Not, a Pleasure I think, in the Fall of 1930, George W. Jenkins endeavored to emulate lionized, yet-to-be-born-television-icon-Oprah-Winfrey. A furtive and sinisterly burly man, I believe, he traipsed into burgeoning Southeastern neighborhoods and bellowed, “You get a Publix! You get a Publix! YOU GET A PUBLIX!” Frightening (and expensive… so, so expensive). No one really wants to go to Publix, but Jenkins opened Pandora’s box 86 years ago, and now…

Barack Obama is the forty-third president of the United States of America. He is the first African-American president. President Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. After high-school Obama attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. Afterwards he transferred to Columbia University in New York City, graduating in 1983 with a political science degree. He worked his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, when Obama moved to Chicago he…