Essay on Wars – Destructive for Humanity. War is‚ without argument the worst collective experience of humanity. It has created new nations on the rubbles of destroyed cities and humans dead. It involves mass killing without humane feelings even if short and swift. Our recent experience with Kargil‚ which was not even not even a full-fledged war‚ reopened the sordidness of military action. Wars‚ when prolonged like the World Wars‚ result in human brutality‚ mass extermination of races and
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John Lewis Gaddis is a history professor at Yale University‚ lecturing an undergraduate class every Monday and Wednesday on the Cold War. He wrote The Cold War: A New History based on questions some of his prior students had on the Cold War‚ as well as making a shorter‚ more understanding book for students to read. Gaddis provides a fantastic overview of the Cold War but could have organized the information a lot better. For instance‚ if he put it in chronological order rather than jumping back and
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Nicholas Allen History 122-005 March 30‚ 2016 Paper 3 In the book The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh‚ he tells the reader about his experiences in the Vietnam War. First‚ Ninh shows how the Vietnam War impacted the Vietnamese soldiers and the traumatic experiences and emotion hardships they had to go through. Secondly‚ the Americans also had traumatic experiences like the Vietnamese soldiers but the American soldiers had different traumatic events that messed with there emotions. Finally‚ the Vietnamese
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In “the Trader’s War”‚ John Reed gives his main reason for being against the war in general‚ and why the U.S should not become involved. He describes how the war began even before it was formally declared‚ and calls it a “clash of traders” (74). He simplifies it as the German’s wanting to achieve more economically as others before them already have done so‚ but the ones at large‚ England and France‚ do not want to share (76). In doing so‚ he declares the hypocrisy of the war‚ those who claim to spread
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A Rumor of War A Rumor of War is a book bases on personal experiences of the author Philip Caputo during the Vietnam War. Philip served in the United States Marine Corps (USMC). He was deployed in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. When he came back he chose to become a journalist. He is renowned for his book A Rumor of war which he wrote 10 years after returning from war. The book starts with Philip’s narrating the reason he joined the United States Marine Corps (page 1) and ends with him
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entering World War 1‚ the United States proved to it’s citizens that not a single care would be given about their sons‚ fathers‚ brothers. The stock brokers‚ manufacturers and bankers prospered immensely from the vile that went on in the period of four years. The so figuratively called “masters” in Eugene V.Cantons speech‚ control the masses to their free will. Eugene also believed that the “master” class has always declared wars for their own personal benefits. The masters chose wars for their subjects
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Civil War and Genocide in Guatemala Hundreds of families are fleeing from their small villages because an army invaded their land that was once their home. In Guatemala the rise of the civil war and postwar has caused a disruption in the nation and extreme violence. A war that has lasted about 34 years has forced entire villages to migrate and put the nation in a state of genocide. The cause of migration varies because it is believed that there were different factors that contributed to the rise
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Reading Response to "The Cause of War" "The Cause of War" by Margaret Sanger is about the high birth rate in Germany during World War I. Sanger also states that "behind all war has been the pressure of population. (533)" Sanger wrote this essay to inform the public that "the great crime of imperialistic Germany was its high birth rate (533.)" The audience to the essay is essentially anyone who is against war and overcrowding families‚ nations‚ and the earth (533.) The author offers three
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action‚ the authors of “War changed my Dad” display many similarities throughout their’ work. Each of the authors use of imagery and the tones they convey‚ allow the reader to understand what they‚ and their fathers went through before and after the war. Initially Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston/James Houston‚ and Scholastic action‚ the authors’ use of imagery is similar because they both talk about how the fathers’ both leave when the children are a young age to war. An example of one of the
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1776: A Superior War Novel Pulitzer Prize winner‚ David McCullough‚ authored the intense and well-researched novel 1776 about the tumultuous times of American independence from the British Empire. He recreates scenes of heroic battles as well as dramatic encounters between diplomats with outstanding details to support his writing. In his acknowledgments‚ McCullough informs the reader that the material in his novel came from over 25 libraries‚ archives and historic sites in both the United
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