against humanity’s limitless potential for good‚ a crime against creation itself. He saw clearly the complete futility of the great bloodletting of 1914-1918 which decimated the flower of a generation‚ leaving on both sides more than ten million combatant
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Ulzhan Mukasheva 09/11/13 Religious Studies Just War and Pacifism (I) Examine the view that some wars can be justified. (21) What is just war? It’s the act of war that must be justified because of the considerable losses which war entails. Pacifism? The pacifist will pursue every other option a prior to resorting to war. War actually has some advantages and can be justified; mainly it establishes peace. It stimulates the economy e.g. weapon development‚ employment‚ reparations‚ rebuilding
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possessions. While the largest concentration camps held 30‚000 people at one time‚ more than 11 million people were confine in these special camps. By the end of the war‚ the Germans had imprisoned twice as many civilians in concentration camps as they did enemy soldiers in prisoner of war camps. This camp end because soldiers went in and stopped them this was followed by the end of the
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there were several battalions‚ only one fought in the war‚ but fight they did‚ capturing enemy soldiers. Combat may have been restricted‚ but women were near‚ sometimes on‚ the front lines‚ often as nurses caring for the considerable number of wounded‚ or as drivers‚ particularly of ambulances. While Russian nurses were supposed to have been kept away from the front line‚ a significant number died from enemy fire‚ problem nurses of all nationalities sometimes faced. While the role of women in nursing
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The United States Air Force began as a subdivision of the U.S. Army and was declared an official combatant arm in 1920. It wasn’t until 1947‚ a whole 27 years later‚ following World War II‚ that the Air Force was finally recognized as its own military branch. What events led to this separation from the Army? There were actually seven major events that had the biggest impact on the separation including America’s first military aircraft‚ an American coalition operation against Germany‚ the Army Reorganization
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that but specifically in the Vietnam War chemicals were used as well. One major chemical compound used in the Vietnam War was Agent Orange. “Agent Orange was a defoliant sprayed by the U.S. during the Vietnam War to clear dense vegetation and reveal enemy troops. It was contaminated with dioxin‚ a potent toxicant that persists for decades in the environment.” Exposure to this chemical causes health problems including diseases. Korean soldiers
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dense metal made from low-level radioactive waste‚ DU is principally used by the United States‚ but also by other countries such as Britain‚ in defensive military armor‚ conventional munitions‚ and some missiles. Its ability to penetrate the armor of enemy tanks and other targets more readily than similar weapons made of other materials has made DU extremely valuable to the US military. Perhaps not surprisingly‚ the US military has downplayed potential health risks posed by exposure to DU. In many cases
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weapons in armed conflicts. In the 1868 St. Petersburg Declaration renouncing the Use‚ in Time of war‚ of Explosive Projectiles under 400 Grammes Weight‚ State parties agreed that ‘the only legitimate aim of war was to weaken military forces of the enemy and that‚ that aim will be exceeded if arms which uselessly
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Stereotypes are biased opinions‚ which one group of people has towards another. The primary problem with stereotypes‚ however‚ lies in the fact that they do not project themselves as opinions but‚ instead‚ are presented incontrovertible facts. Indeed‚ as Hinton (1993) maintains‚ “stereotyping can be seen as a more extreme form of typing where we see a whole group of people as homogeneous‚ with the same characteristics” (65). In general‚ stereotypes derive from behaviours‚ which may be observed in
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America faced serious troubles as so many families were affected by the great loss of life during the war effort. In his V-E Day proclamation‚ President Truman called for every American to join together‚ regardless of their personal God‚ in a day of prayer for all those affected. And thanking God for delivering victory over tyranny‚ in Europe‚ to the Allied Forces. He also asked that they pray for safety as the war in the pacific still raged on (Obama; “V-E Day”). After Truman’s call to action‚
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