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Is Peace Possible?
Is peace possible?
Tyler kluempke
Period 1
05/15/10

"Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals "(Bernard Guertzman). War is a part of nature like plants and animals. Ever since the dawn of humanity war has broken out between people. “The world is filled with war, terrorism, turmoil, and confusion"(Ralph B. Levering). Life itself is A clamber. It is just a huge scramble between people's soul ,nation , and stratum. It takes shape as social, political, economic, and military composition. Peace is just not possible in the present day. Humans are competitive and power-hungry by nature . Everyone strives for power to reign, to work ones advantage , or to progress ones opinion of what is just in the world. When people are deprived from that right , the ultimatum is normally violence. Peace is such a huge thing to ask for. There can be peace between a region or state , but not world wide . Peace is a word that describes a society or a relationship that operates harmoniously or has the absence of all hostility .All wars ever fought have all had either a economic, opinionated, religious, un-humane, and independence related drive behind it. For there to be peace in the world , humanity will have to get rid of all religion, money, weapons, power, independent thought, and distribute all resources to everyone evenly. This is just realistically impossible . All nations of the world are currently at war, preparing for war, or are now recovering from war. As of only 1960, it was recorded that there have been over 14,600 wars/conflicts around the world. As fellow historian David C. Pack quotes, “Men seem to invariably go to war in search of peace . But , the outcome of war usually involves a truce, but it always fails to yield permanent peace.".Also as quoted by Georges Clemenceau, the French statesman during world war 1 "I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace ,or peace in an interlude during war" . Some

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