War and Peace

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…

what he has done or what he is accused of doing and then he would be killed. The only thing this can accomplish in a town is that the people would be living in fear since they don’t want to be falsely accused and that they would be living in a fake peace. There is no justification in these types of actions because they would only lead to fear and conflict. In Document G it says “We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish.” This is basically saying that everyone…

was commenced, World War I. With more than 6 million deaths due to this war it is apparent that the desideratum to kill was stronger than ever before in the wrangling soldiers, but will the slaughtering ever end? One man had to propose the conditions for peace and it was Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, served from 1913 to 1921 and was the leader of the Progressive Movement. Wilson, joined with The Inquiry, made up a list of fourteen points of peace that he…

ironically promote peace and democracy to the world. These men are ready to put their lives on the line and fight and defend their country at whatever cost. Cowardice is far from the mind of mere individuals when the word “soldier” is mentioned. However, when Tim O’Brien allows his readers to get a glimpse into the lives of these men whom we gaze upon with great revere, crippling fear and paranoia gnaws at the mind of these men as they trudge through the battlefields. The main reason for war is…

Can violence ever be justified? This is always a thorny question. During the peaceful era, the answer seems to be rather straightforward— in order to achieve the social harmony, no violence should be justified. However, when the situation complicates, it seems to be reckless to give such a simple reply. After reading Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and watching the Battle of Algiers, I think, in the colonial context, it is justifiable for the colonized to use violence in pursuit of…

According to HG Wells, “If we don't end war, war will end us” (Things to Come). In A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, the main character Gene struggles with the wars around him. Gene struggles at Devon, an all boys preparatory school during the World War II era. At Devon, Gene faces the struggle of finding peace and many conflicts throughout the story along with the other boys, Brinker Hadley a natural born leader, Phineas his sporty best friend, and Quackenbush a dislikeable crew team captain.…

His article War, Madness, and Death: The Paradox of Honor in Hobbes’s Leviathan goes in depth about the reflections that Hobbe had toward fear, honor, and how those relate to the human character. The author begins with “The Worst part of life during wartime, which…

choice of an authoritative power to go on a war and utilize its military force against its supposed enemies. But in the most obvious cases, these choices are likewise troublesome. Subsequently, the concept of justifiable war should be appropriately assessed and evaluated by the authoritative entities in light of human rights enforcement. The directions regarding the modernized concept of the justifiable war include the choice of being engaged in a war and the methodology of exercising the…

The First World War and its aftermath opened to gates to international politics and warfare as we know them today. After five years of brutal and slow stalemate, American intervention finally broke the back of Germany. The abdication of the Kaiser and unconditional surrender of the Weimar Republic led to treaty negotiations at the Paris Peace Conferences in 1919. The world that Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson, and other conference participants found themselves tasked with reshaping was in…

people’s opinion on war, but it is up to those people to decide whether or not they want to be influenced. I think that most people hold firm beliefs regarding war, whether they are against it, or for it. When they go to see a movie, or watch a television show, they do not necessarily go with the intention of changing their opinion, so they just tend to block out any ideas that are contradicting to their beliefs. However, the few that actually absorb the information and see that war is not…