Throughout the course of America’s history, millions of events and wars have affected everyday life. The Emancipation Proclamation, The Korean War, The Cold War, the American Revolution, the 15th and 19th amendments, the Great Awakening, and industrialization itself have all radically changed the way people participated socially and politically before the 1950’s. After the 1950’s, the next life-changing event occurred. It was the Vietnam War and the first dropping of atomic bombs on Vietnamese cities by the United States in a scurry to end the war. United States citizens have argued the bombing of innocent civilians was unnecessary to end World War II.…
War is a foul and nauseating occurrence throughout history. Nevertheless, it is something that has happened more than once. There are numerous amount of people who have experienced the events of a war. Each person can have a different perspective and experiences. However, those people can be categorized as victims, perpetrators, or bystanders.…
The idea of war brings up many questions about life and death, suffering, and consequences. While many people may see war as something that affects people as a whole, such as nations or a persecuted group, war further impacts every individual, whether or not they are directly involved. War limits freedoms and individualism, and in most cases people find themselves with less rights than during peacetime. People base their choices not on what they feel, and more on what they have to do to survive. Soldiers and civilians alike are influenced by war in different ways, however, these tie together when the overall effects of war are examined.…
War turns men and soldiers into animals. Animals that hurt people and are out to kill the innocent. “They put him on a prison ship and he got sick and died in three weeks.” (Collier and Collier 166). The British put Tim’s friend, Jeremiah Sanford, on a prison ship after capturing him. Jerry was only ten years old and could not cause any harm to the British. The war made the men take an innocent young boy’s life and that is gruesome. Sam’s death, Mr. Meeker’s death, and Ned’s death were all unnecessary to the war. “Ned’s head jumped off his body and popped into the air.” (Collier and Collier 145). This text shows that this death was unnecessary since Ned did not harm or bother the British. The British did not need to decapitate Ned, they did this for no reason. The war was so gruesome and disgusted so many…
Due to all the bombs being dropped many people were forced to move out of their homes. This caused a lot of hardship for the civilians because people had to move house due to the “ghastly [air] raids” source 2 says. Source 2 also tells us that “For amidst such suffering and hardship…Everyone seems intent only on patching roofs, propping up walls, cooking fried potatoes on an upturned electric iron” this source tells us that life would have been very hard for the civilians. We know that this would be true because source 1 shows us that houses have fallen down and people are moving out because it is very unsafe to live where they are. Source 4 also tells us a little bit of how hard it was for the civilians in London, it shows a German man dropping bombs on London but it also shows that it did not affect them. Even though a lot of deaths occurred there was lots of buildings destroyed, they still stood strong, this doesn’t mean it wasn’t hard for the civilians though. Warfare did cause a lot a hardship for civilians.…
Men have always viewed a love or need for a woman as a weakness. This is especially true in the U.S. military, where violence is sexualized and women are viewed as unnecessary. In a way, this is done to make life in the army easier because their are no women in the majority of their time. During an occupation, the local women have to incur the wrath of men trained to see them as something below human. Tim O'Brien exemplifies this in his novel, If I Die in a Combat Zone, where the soldiers in Vietnam mistreat the women used for sexual purposes like strippers and prostitutes, yet treat women in the villages as if they were their mothers. Soldiers at war, far away from the women in their lives, leads soldiers to objectify and de-humanize women.…
A possible theme to the Gifted Hands film could be "the value of human life". This is a probable central theme because this film is about a kid who grows up to be a very compassionate doctor who will try anything to save a life. For example when Ben Carson is charged with separating siamese twins, a task never preformed before, he recalls on how his to-be born children died and how it would effect his clients to have only one of their baby's, and he could not take, to killing such a young life. This theme relates to the short story called "The Most Dangerous Game". In that story the main theme was also "the value of human life", here are the reasons why; In the short story Rainsford is a hunter which points to the fact that he is imprudent…
The government trains soldiers for years to teach them when to and when not to pull the trigger. The ethical line remains blurred when it comes to shooting another human, and soldiers must realize when it is allowed ethically and factor in everything that has led up to the moment where the decision to take another life is made. There is no clear time when the military allows a civilian to be shot, but it remains unsaid that many soldiers will have to shoot a civilian. Many of them will not receive punishment for these actions because it will be to protect themselves or their comrades, but there will be times when a soldier views someone as dangerous when the truth is that they are not. How ethical a decision like this is in a time of war is…
Imagine your child or sibling has two choices, to get their limbs cut off, or to join the army. This makes me believe that the kids in the military are mostly victims. Because the children are forced, drugged, and brainwashed into killing, they are clearly victims.…
themselves they will die. In most cases military personnel have come home and have shown no…
War is malicious doing that causes many unarmed civilians to to die. In World War I, almost 9,000,000 civilians were killed and for what? Their deaths served no purpose in aiding the war effort on either side. These civilians died from diseases, because almost all of their nation’s medicine and medical personnel were helping in the war effort, from massacres, caused by militaries destroying entire cities filled with people, and from starvation, due to practically all the nation’s food being channeled to…
There are many reasons for the casualties on the western front during World War I, such as the length of the war, the weapons involved, strategy and tactics, and the conditions. The total number of casualties in World War I, both military and civilian, was about 37 million: 16 million deaths and 21 million wounded. Throughout this essay, I will explain how each of these things affected the number of people who died on the Western Front.…
The United States military is known for their “free” benefits to the armed forces. People say the military is like the civilian sector in terms of salary and benefits. This essay will look at two sections between military specifically using the Marine Corps for analysis and civilian sector using information for a logistician to see how similar these two groups are.…
There were many factors that had affected the lives of the civilians, but I think the loss of lives, change in status of women, inhumane treatment of the innocent people and destroying the properties of the country are the most important ones.…
Many countries participate in warfare for many specific reasons, but ultimately the injustice outweighs the benefit of participating in war. No matter the cause of warfare, it still results in lives being lost and destruction across all levels of society. In warfare soldiers massacre people who have done them and their country absolutely no outrage, and they are killed in turn by soldiers on the conflicting side of combat. Furthermore, noncombatants, including innocent children, men and women die in war even if every precaution is attempted to avoid massacring the innocent. No matter how careful soldiers fight, mistakes are made and uninvolved people die. Even after bullets stop being shot and bombs stop being dropped, the effects of war can still remain present. Noncombatants can die from ravaged infrastructure and being forced to live in the inhospitable living conditions. Living in conditions without running water electricity, and fresh food can raise serious concerns, and as a result lives are lost from civilians having to live in cities with destroyed infrastructure. War is an extremely devastating and agonizing act and can easily be classified as an unjust operation.…