beliefs and the need to act. Thucydides believes that fear by the Spartans played an important part in causing the war. Sparta felt threaten by the change in the power balance from Athens due to their imperialistic expansion. Fear can change over to terror‚ which is a more personal form and can change the way people and states think. Effective leaders can combat the fear and terror found in war and conflict. There are five major ways they can do this. (Petersen 321) The leader can use rational discourse
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Drug War: Failure or Success? Many people would claim that President Richard Nixon started the war on drugs. Although it is less well-known today that the Nixon Administration also repealed the federal 2–10-year mandatory minimum sentences for possession of marijuana and started federal demand for reduction programs. He also endorsed drug-treatment programs‚ and that Nixon only made an effort of continuation towards the states original acts of prohibition dating back to 1905-1914. Even with these
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EWRT1A-16 2/12/14 Discourse Paper Final Draft The Prohibitive Costs of the Drug War On June 17‚ 1971‚ President Richard Nixon committed what is arguably one of his most significant and lasting executive acts when he issued a special message to Congress regarding the growing drug abuse problem within the United States. Although this message was significant in many ways because of the public acknowledgment that the Federal Government was not doing enough to combat drugs and their associated ills
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3-25-13 P-3 Constitutional Wars? The United States was involved in both the Korean (1950-53) and Vietnam (1964-73) wars. Though the wars were fought at different times‚ both dealt with communism and containment. Questions arose as to why the United States was involved in these wars without having any formal declaration of war. Presidents Truman‚ Johnson and Nixon were involved with these wars. Many people think that congress neglected its constitutional military responsibilities and handed
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The Korean peninsula found itself in a situation much like Germany during the early years of the Cold War. Korea was under Japanese control until the surrender of the Japanese at the close of World War II. The 38th Parallel divided the Korean Peninsula into two halves. North Korea was under Communist control with the Soviets placing Kim Il-Sung as the leader. With Soviet assistance and training‚ Sung had quickly repressed the opposition in North Korea and solidified his control with Russian support
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The way we conceptualize and allude to war is‚ in this way obsolete with the truth of reasons for regular citizen passings. What’s more‚ as the above illustration demonstrates‚ this is not simply semantics. Occurrences that are not thought to be demonstrations of war can sidestep parliament‚ congress and general society and appear to be expanding in number. Artist proceeds with‚ "We can see this in an assortment of operations at this moment. Case in point‚ there have been more than 350 air strikes
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God of War: Redefining Hack and Slash The hack and slash genre of video games has been around for several years. The concept of endlessly going through level after level tearing countless waves of enemies apart has become a cultural phenomenon. After several years of the same repeated concepts‚ hack and slash started to lose its touch‚ until Sony released a redefined hack and slash that would change the genre forever. This new hack and slash was God of War. God of War was released in 2002 for
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Dogs have been an important part of fighting wars all throughout history. Their ability to detect enemies invading‚ smell out hazards such as bombs and landmines‚ and their loyalty to protect has made them a key element in fighting wars. According to the author Jane Desmond “the use of animals in war goes much farther back than WWI‚ and much farther forward too‚ and spans more species and places than we would expect. Elephants‚ camels‚ dogs‚ dolphins‚ sea lions and carrier pigeons have been used
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speech‚ Obama said: “In today’s wars‚ many more civilians are killed than soldiers; the seeds of future conflict are sown”. In order to prevent or stop genocide‚ you must commit one‚ however‚ it leads to the occurrence of another genocide in the future. War always has a victor and a looser. Consequently‚ the losers will have an inner urge to take revenge‚ and the losers are mostly relatives of the civilians or soldiers who perished in war. Therefore‚ going to war is like to sow a seed and wait
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Punic Wars were 3 wars fought between Rome and Carthage that lasted from 264 to 146 B.C. The first Punic War lasted from 264-241 B.C. which was for 23 years. The second Punic War lasted 218-201 B.C.for 17 years. The third and final war lasted 49-146 B.C‚ for 3 years. The first Punic War was fought over the control of Sicily and the Western Mediterranean. Since Rome was very agricultural they had an interest in Carthage‚ which was controlled more by sea power. In the first part of the war‚ Rome
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