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- 4071: A Separate Peace 3
- ... enemies has been a problem since the beginning of time. I never killed anybody, Gene had commented later in his life, And I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform, I was on active duty all my time at Devon; I killed my enemy there. In A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, the value of dealing with ... yelled at, but because of his openness he was able to talk his way out of getting into trouble. Finny claimed that he wore the tie as a belt because it represented Devon in the War. Again, Gene was envious of Finny s openness to make up a story and get away with everything. Another one of Gene s enemies is his anger. Alone, his anger is mild, but when mixed ... with his jealousy, prove to be a deadly combination. Gene was angry at such things as Finny s ability go get out of trouble, and his own unwillingness to say no to Finny. The real war, however, started when he got the idea that because Finny had low grades, he wanted to lower Gene s grades as well, so he could remain better than Gene. Gene believed that Finny was ...
- 4072: Iliad 2 -
- ... is full of doubts and fears. He is like a stallion that has been pampered too much, a child who is allowed to get everything he wants. Because of his attitude, he starts the Trojan War and brings on the fall of Troy. Paris is portrayed in this passage as being a walking contradiction. He appears to be a hero, but is one of the causes of the war because he kidnapped Helen for his own selfish interests. Homer uses the contradictions in Paris behavior to suggest the ironic contrasts in his character. For example, in line 40, after seeing his formidable opponent Atrides ... In this quote, Hector is highlighting Paris ability to ruin virtually everyone s future. After all, Hector s comment suggests, he is not only an unrepentant heartbreaker, but also a self-centered catalyst for the war. Hector specifically describes Paris as appalling and, in another ironic twist, juxtaposes this idea with Paris s unofficial title as the reigning prince of beauty. This contradiction allows these apparently unlike ideas to be ...
- 4073: Is Brutus An Honorable Man
- ... his wife. Brutus did not think about his actions before they were done. He didn t think about what would happen to the Roman empire if Caesar were killed. By assinating Caesar he started a civil war. He ruined an entire empire by his quick and stupid descions. Many, many people died that did not need to. How can a person be considered honorable when they were responsible for so many lost ...
- 4074: A Clockwork Orange
- ... would partake in this experiment that was to cure him of all the evil inside of him and all that was bad. Alex is given injections and made to watch films of rape, violence, and war and the mixture of these images and the drugs cause him to associate feelings of panic and nausea with violence. He is released after two weeks of the treatment and after a few encounters with ... Burgess was a composer of music since the age of sixteen years. He taught himself how to read music and how to play the piano. The inspiration for A Clockwork Orange came while during World War II, when his wife was assaulted while he fought. She died about a month after the incident from internal bleeding, along with their unborn child, who was killed during the assault. He compensated by releasing ... repeatedly reveals his powerful beliefs that even the most violent crimes are trivial when compared to the heinous crime of oppression. He considers it to be a destructive wrong against one’s spiritual existence. His war is against moral oppression and the government causing it. His weapon, a powerful one, is his incredible satiric writing ability. Outside the sphere of violence, critics had praised Anthony Burgess’s use of Nadsat ...
- 4075: Feudal Japan
- ... caused many riots and rebellions. The samurai were called upon to break up the turmoil. This lead to the samurai becoming an official class. The Samurai became an official class, but how did that happen? "War played a central part in the history of Japan." (Staff 1999) For the most part, the struggle was the one often repeated thoughtout history, the controlling of land. About 20% of Japan's land was ... ninjas (Japanese for stealers-in) were those who revolted against the warrior class. They left to the barren, cold and mountainous regions of Iga and Koga. There is were they trained in the arts of war. Their training is based upon a great Chinese book written by Sun Tzu called the Art of War. Over centuries they trained in every martial art known. Their main objectives were espionage and assassination by any means possible, but their training also took them to spiritual states. They trained to increase mental ...
- 4076: The Impact And Outcome Of Pain
- ... Duba’s in essence is not hard. Both have the clear topic of multiple sources of social identity. In both books you can read about things that make peoples identities change, be it atrocities of war or a horrible experience like rape. The difference however and also the main topic of this paper lies in emotional wounds and their possible healing. In “The bakers story” a poem is written about a ... as ill”. The baker whispers to her that she wasn’t really sick and that THEY killed her. Stating that the nazi’s have infiltrated America’s hospitals. This section illustrates how the atrocities of war and the horrors of the death camps must have had on this individual. It’s unlikely that his wife was actually killed. The more realistic option would be that his wife died of cancer since ... her coming to peace with herself and her emotions. Now who am I too write about my views on global wounds and their possible healing. I myself have never had any real traumatic experiences like war, rape etcetera. A strong point that is made by Allison on page 70, is that she is the only one who can tell the story of her life and what it means. But one ...
- 4077: The Republic
- ... not by mere accident is without a state, is either a bad man or above humanity; he is like the Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one, whom Homer denounces -- the natural outcast is forthwith a lover of war; he may be compared to an isolated piece at draughts. Now, that man is more of a political animal than bees or any other gregarious animals is evident. Nature, as we often say, makes nothing ... like to distinguish between the bodies of freemen and slaves, making the one strong for servile labor, the other upright, and although useless for such services, useful for political life in the arts both of war and peace. But the opposite often happens -- that some have the souls and others have the bodies of freemen. And doubtless if men differed from one another in the mere forms of their bodies as ... they had a man that did what they said, which is how women must have worked back then. In regard to courage, which is of no use in daily life, and is needed only in war, the influence of the Lacedaemonian women has been most mischievous. The evil showed itself in the Theban invasion, when, unlike the women other cities; they were utterly useless and caused more confusion than the ...
- 4078: Voting
- ... backs. So basically my family has concerns with money and where it goes. Which may affect who they vote for. However there was a consensus on what affects there voting habits, and that agent is war. My family felt that war wasn't good, and to end the war they would do anything. Even if that meant voting out who they voted in. Also if a candidate wanted military cut backs my family would probably not vote for them. That is because my ...
- 4079: Religions
- ... the twentieth century, split the region into angry factions (Ahmad, et. al., 207). Mohammed, the prophet of Islam, was a great warrior. This invariably lead defeated peoples to believe that he begot a cult of war and violence. Over the centuries, it also has developed the ability to instill a sense of holy purpose onto its believers and soldiers, where they go into a battle of certain death for their faith in the jihad, or holy war. Even today, the jihad is still a potent source of conflict and aversion, as the many of the problems in the Middle East center around the issue of Islamic Fundamentalism and the jihads. Originally, Islam ... with ties to violence is Hinduism. While that may perhaps be a startling revelation, history proves that it has had many violent incidents and tendencies. It was originally a product of the early Aryans, a war-like people who stormed into South Asia, sacking cities and eventually covering virtually all traces of the early culture of the Indus Valley. These Aryans transmuted their beliefs onto the now helpless people of ...
- 4080: The Awakening 2
- ... the husband was legal guardian and was given custody of the children when in a divorce. In the 1890 segregation was legalized (Jim Crow laws), but blacks horizons were expanding also. In Louisiana after the Civil War, African American men had voted in large numbers, held public office, served on juries, and worked on the railroad (Culley 119). In Creole society people are generally very warm and open, having plentiful long relationships ...
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