To begin with, we as human beings must be willing to accept that people are different. The trailer, “My So Called Enemy” shows Gal saying “my friendship with friendship…
By showing respect and acknowledging people’s views and beliefs helps to build a better rapport and understanding among the people in any setting.…
Evoked by the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992, the Bosnian War is a clear representation of ethnic conflict gone horribly wrong. Spanning from 1992 to 1995, it demonstrated on of the worst displays of mass ethnic cleansing in Europe since World War II. Mainly perpetrated against Bosniaks by the Serbs, the Bosnian War left the country of Bosnia in ruins and left millions displaced and thousands killed. John Moore’s Behind Enemy Lines portrays the final days of the war as an American navigator attempts to get out of dangerous enemy territory. Due to the fact that this film focuses on the experiences of US soldiers and that slight differences are made between this movie and the historical event, the connections between the two are not always very…
On the surface, A Separate Peace, written by John Knowles in 1959, is a tale of two boys and the events that take place between them one school year during World War Two. Behind the simple storyline, however, lies a deeply woven web of symbols, themes, and lessons that are all of great significance and relevance to our lives today. Perhaps one of the most important concepts we can learn from this novel is how we, as a species, create our own enemies due to our jealousy and insecurity. Knowles’ story shows how humans tend to satisfy the need to have someone to compete with by sometimes choosing to dislike the people who deserve it the least.…
What I found in this documentary is that the aggressive people involved in these conflicts, have been manipulated by family and leaders (politicians) since their childhood and youth by using the name of God in some cases, nationalism, and other cultural connotations as rationalizations for this madness and insanity with the ideology of hate. They see others like enemies building the cycles of violence and hate, using primitive irrational acts and reactions. Like Philosopher Sam Keem said “People educate people to hate, hate is training”. On the other hand the victims paying with their life , struggle of ideological and economical defense, with no right to defend their values and principles or participate in the agreement to end the conflict.…
Conflict is an inevitable part of life. It can arise from a failure to achieve a motive or when facing an unfamiliar environment. Conflict is an opportunity to improve. Different individuals will learn to cope with conflict differently; it may seem natural for some to avoid or stand by conflict and let it tear relationships apart, but there are common mechanisms which people can adopt to resolve their problems. Finding similarities and ignoring the differences is one way of coping with unlike individuals, but the fundamental approach to resolving conflict is to accept. The acceptance of individual and cultural differences gives us insight and understanding of the basis of conflict, which also allows for reassessment of moral values. This is how unity can be achieved in the most difficult of all circumstances.…
There are many parallels that can be found between Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People and Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. Both follow respected men who go against authority and majority opinion to save the lives of the people around them. These productions are iconic in their field, but it is not because of their story but because of their message: Tyranny of the Majority and Dangers of Ignorance. In An Enemy of the People there is pollution in the water, in Jaws, Spielberg chooses to poison the water with sharks. Before the realization of the poisons in the water, both of their jobs had been relatively calm and nothing tragic had happened in either towns. In both of these works there is political satire that caused the immediate hatred of both productions, now they are regarded as ingenious pieces…
In 2012, it was estimated that more than 172 million people were affected by conflict worldwide. The effect of so many people being affected by conflicts is a way to respond to them. With all the conflicts in the world, people need to be able to respond and react to these conflicts in the best possible way. People can best respond to conflict by believing in what they think is right and persevering through everything against them, so they can show what is morally right, let nothing hold them back, and help others with the same issue along the way. During times of conflict, it is important for people to choose a side they believe in, so they can show what they think is right.…
By recognising and understanding our individual differences and embracing those with simple tolerance create a productive environment in which everybody feels valued.…
My mother has told me since I was a child, “Conversation before confrontation. You must use your words to solve differences before violence.” That saying has always stuck with me since the first time I heard it. In keeping it close to my heart, I have grown to live by those words. Before any source of conflict can arise, I take the pacifist route to try and solve differences instead of letting hate overcome a more peaceful direction.…
It is intrinsically human to experience conflict; thus, we will all be forced to respond to conflict at various times and in various forms throughout the course of our lives, and in order to live serenely we attempt to avoid and resolve conflict. Whilst conflict may merely involve two parties disagreeing over minor differences of opinion (the permutations of which being largely insignificant), we have seen throughout history that major conflicts in the form of war and international political unrest, lead many to experience horrific and life-changing conflicts of a larger scale. Our challenge is to deal with conflict that might be well beyond the reaches of our control, and wholly influenced by the actions of others. Noting the diverse contexts of such conflict, what emerges is the extraordinary way that we can be tested, and how we emerge from such harrowing circumstances. We begin to question not the battle itself- conflict has occurred and will occur again- but the human behavior behind the conflict and our responses to such conditions. Those who experience conflict are truly tested and the core of their characters brought into sharp focus as they make sense of their experiences and those of the people around them. For the woman incarcerated at the end of Bruce Bereford’s ‘Paradise Road’ it is the conflict of enduring a war and all that this encompasses, including cultural prejudice and misunderstanding, violence and torture. For others in our world’s recent history such as Nelson Mandela, it was the conflict of enduring persistent ignorance, discrimination and injustice. Through the stories of these people we can see that while conflict can often breed further disagreement and suffering, it may indeed prompt some to act in extraordinary ways that are bigger and more complex than they might have realized themselves. They are led to articulate through their responses to conflict, who they…
Appiah poses a question: What do we owe strangers by virtue of our shared humanity? Appiah’s answers this with his personal story, history, literature, and philosophy. Pre-historic hunter-gatherers encountered fewer people in a lifetime than we would on a single day walking down the streets of Delhi, or New Orleans. Centuries ago, people lived in a world where they were isolated, and unable to communicate between different countries. Today we live in a world where most of what we do can affect people in other countries. According to Appiah we are responsible for every other human being. Appiah’s understanding of the responsibilities of a human being is that we should understand, and tolerate other countries, but not all people may actually want to accept other beliefs. We should be able to understand and tolerate other countries beliefs because that is how we are responsible for every other human being. Appiah gives many examples in his writing regarding these two factors.…
Humans cannot develop successfully without their personal ideology. Everyone's ideology, worldview and background is different and cannot be compared. If everyone had the same ideology, background and the understanding of the life, the world would have not been the same as today. Diversity and tolerance stands behind the modern world. Malala and Tamim are the greatest examples of tolerance and diversity. They have embraced many ideologies, values, traditions, and cultures. Being an open-minded and acceptable distinguishes them from the rest of the world. The most successful people are the ones that have liberal views to every ideology, culture, traditions and values. People must embrace various ideologies,…
Human nature and the effects of the natural world and social environment on it can be seen greatly in the short-story "The Interlopers" written by H. H. Munro. In "The Interlopers" Munro has placed two feuding men into an environment of hostility that eventually gets the best of the two. The excerpt analyzed will be the following: The two enemies stood glaring at one another for a long silent moment. Each had a rifle in his hand, each had hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind. The chance had come to give full play to the passions of a lifetime. But a man who has been brought up under the code of restraining civilization cannot easily nerve himself to shoot down his neighbor in cold blood and without word spoken, except for an offense against his hearth and honor.…
The poem talks about how someone as your enemy can be your friend. This poem was chosen because of how I act around this person. Not every day we are besties because we do get angry when we don’t agree on things. “An enemy must be worthy of engagement,” means that I can challenge my pearson and see who’s right on the a subject. “It’s the heart that asks the question, not my furious mind,” and that question is, is it worth not being friends after being friends for so long? And no not many things can stop me from being friends with my pearson. Also, we might not look like T.V. friends but we are friends.…