War and Peace

“ When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love” (Knowles, pg. 111). The novel A Separate Peace focuses on the special bond between the two main characters, Gene and Phineas. Although these two have little in common, they stick together and often obsess over one another. This leads the reader to believe that there are ulterior motives in relation to their close friendship. The relationship between Gene and Phineas is one more than normal friendship because of the…

basis. Atwood delivers powerful imagery that displays to the reader just how extreme the conditions are for soldiers at war. . Because of the chosen title for the poem, the reader understands that Atwood’s opinion on the soldiers of the military is that they are lonely. Her poem gives a certain understanding to the reader that soldiers don’t wish to be perceived this way, but that war changes people. Although I feel that the title chosen for the poem fits it wonderfully, there are many…

The physical sacrifices of war lead to inner and outer turmoil within men impacted by the cruel intentions of military battle. Bloodshed leads to victory. However, this bloodshed arrives at the mercy of millions of men who war kills and wounds. These wounds are most often mental, yet physical wounds directly correlate with the inhumanity of war. Physical wounds of war strip man of his confidence in personal image and force him to place prior ideals of body composition above the reality of his…

In Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War, an overwhelming sense of Kien’s longing leads him on a journey of self-destruction. Ultimately Kien finds tolerance in his life, bringing to light how war veterans are destroyed by the gruesome Vietnam War. Kien had only craved the embrace of Phuong once he returned from war, but all that awaits him is a constant struggle to stay afloat in his post war life of solitude. Kien is the character in The Sorrow of War who absorbs the most misery, and because he is…

have been the two most important paradigms of International Relations. They have accounted for much of what has taken place in the world. Continuing to offer provisions of state behavior, and pose queries; that perhaps it is possible for there to be peace in-between nation states. While both approaches to the understanding of the on-going crisis in Ukraine are undeniably different, surprisingly they have similarities. Examining the different approaches and theories will enable one to form a…

Taoism started to influence people in China, writers such as Sun Tzu who was a general in the Wu dynasty began to use Lao Tzu ideas on spontaneously and abjuring high ambitions to come up with a book called the Art of War. Sun Tzu’s book the Art of War was a step by step way to win a war without even fighting or using minimal troops to accomplish the same task. These ideas helped small unit tactics and was adopted by a man Mao Tse-Tung.…

The Revolutionary Force of Colombia called “FRAC” is a terrorism organization that declared war to the Colombian government 40 years ago. They are described as a people's army that has emerged as a popular alternative power. But in the eyes of the governments of Colombia, the United States and the European Union and many Colombians, it is a terrorist organization that is funded by extortion, kidnapping and drug trafficking. At the beginning, the FARC was a group of peasant self-defense. During…

Discovering One’s Self: Identity as a Theme Within Of Water and The Spirit by Malidoma Patrice Somé Malidoma Somé’s memoir, Of Water and the Spirit, details the life and coming of age of a young boy abducted from his Dagara village in Burkina Faso to be immersed in the White man’s Jesuit seminary school. The book explores the dichotomy of two cultures: European and Dagara, which although seemingly contradictory, coexist within Malidoma Somé. Somé struggles endlessly with self-identity in his…

government in 1954 leaving a strict military regime in its place. This ultimately triggered a thirty-six year long civil war causing hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans, specifically the native Mayan peoples, to be displaced, missing, or dead. The Forced Disappearances in Guatemala…

having to choose between wars. “Cranes” is about two friends that met in the wrong way after a long time of not seeing each other. “The Sniper” is about an unflinching young man who was stationed on a rooftop in Ireland. Both stories have a relation to the other character in the story. “Cranes” is the old friend, “The Sniper” is the brother who is on the rooftop across from him. These were both about a civil war that tore countries apart. “Cranes” is about Korea's civil war; contrarily, “The…