Yom Kippur War

or traitors so keep himself alive. Even if that means kill women or children even his own brother so he can stay alive. He needs to stay alive at all costs in the civil war against the free staters and the republicans. The sniper in the civil war is on the free staters side and is trying to kill the republicans to win the war for his side for the free staters. The only way he can do this is by killing the enemy no matter who it be. It may be men even women or children he has to kill because…

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…

Volant shards of metal slice through the thick charred smog that's now bound to the battlefield. On my hands and knees, rifle in one hand, the will to survive in the other. The orchestra of war pollutes my senses, blinded and disoriented I stumble over the corpses of my fallen brothers. Or were they the remains of the horses I couldn’t tell, the flesh of man and beast were now joined in unholy matrimony. Thick mud pulls me in closer and…

Characters in "Everyday Use" and "Civil Peace" by Alice Walker (Walker) and Chinua Achebe (Achebe), respectively are examined. Alice Walker’s theme revolves around African-Americans personal identities. Chinua Achebe’s work revolves around Nigeria’s civil war and the “civil peace” afterward, a bitter fact in many parts of the world even today (Fortin). Major and minor characters in both stories are compared and analyzed by character type, characterization, and their relationship in relation to…

War has many horrible consequences that the people who are not involved do not often understand. People view war as glorious and triumphant for their country when they fail to comprehend the loneliness that it can bring. Loneliness is a prominent component in both Shenandoah and Johnny Got His Gun. In the latter, Joe is a prisoner of his own body and feels that he has nobody there to be with him. Similarly, in the former, the Anderson family incorporates their late mother and wife, Martha, into…

Finally, one other reason that lead to the contrast in the two Wes's life style was their surroundings. The narrator was sent off to military school at a very young age. "This uniform had become a force field that ha kept the craziness of the world outside form getting too close...". (118) Here the narrator describes how shielded his was from reality at military school. He describes it as "… a different psychological environment... were leadership was honored and class clowns were ostracized".…

compromised. That is a prime example of an extreme cyber attack. Examples like that are the reason why that some cyber attacks should be considered acts of wars depending on how severe the attacks are and who they target. For example the security breach that Yahoo had which leaked all of their user accounts out should not be considered an act of war because it didn't have an impact on national security. While for example the shadow brokers who hacked into the NSA and got the NSA hacking tools…

Tobias Lindholm is a commendable Danish writer-director who proved his tremendous quality in intelligent, realistic dramas such as “R” and “A Highjacking”. In his latest, entitled “A War”, he earnestly portrays a thorny occurrence that deeply affects the life of a soldier in two different fronts: the military and the civilian. Commander Claus Pedersen (compellingly played by Lindholm’s regular, Pilou Asbæk) leaves his wife and three little children in Denmark and sets foot in the Afghan Helmand…

“Maybe life isn’t about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it’s about collecting the scars to prove we showed up for it.” -Unknown, Washington’s troops showed up at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777. The troops built huts that had no ventilation, but they were large enough for 12 men to sleep together on the muddy, straw covered floor. The men would have to stay in these huts for the next 6 months not knowing what they were going to have to endure. If you had to be at Valley Forge, would you have…

of America’s war loving behavior. But people respond to the rewards and punishments of any particular system, and if our system rewards greed and self-interest that is the way we will behave in the world. My theory of why America goes to war can be narrowed down to four words: America’s brand of capitalism. The America focused on power, wealth, and privilege is hooked on war, because without war it can no longer function correctly, or in other words, yield the desired profits. Wars are a…