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    peace and war

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    Peace and War Peace cannot be created with violence. Some might look to World War II as an example which contradicts that statement. But in fact it does not. During World War II‚ America created war‚ not peace. It was after World War II that peace was created. War never creates peace‚ and peace never creates war. When America went to war in Korea‚ they created war. And the 38th parallel has not seen peace in 50 years. Then America created war in Vietnam. Peace did not occur until after America left

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    War Is Pointless

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    War Is Pointless Wouldn’t it be horrific‚ to awake at dawn in your hajib‚ to hear those Air Force Jets scream past your neighbourhood? Wouldn’t it be horrific‚ to smell the burning shrapnel detonated from those who have torn your country apart. Wouldn’t it be horrific to think of the 99‚700 human beings‚ including your friends and family‚ now a bunch of bodies piled high? Wouldn’t it be horrific to look at fear on your sons’ pain-stricken face‚ after his mother is one of five-hundred daily civilian

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    The War on Terror

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    Iraq and Iran; Cold War Tension is War on Terror’s Motive Particular events that took place during the Cold War would later foreshadow and affect the events during the War on Terror‚ specifically regarding Iran and Iraq. During the Cold War Iraq invaded Iran and thus began the Iran-Iraq War in 1980‚ which would later involve the United States. This would just be the beginning of the affairs the United States would face when providing support for Iraq through this time. To completely understand the

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    War Poetry

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    War Poetry First World War Poetry. Pre-1914 Prose Assignment. “Choose two patriotic poems and two poems that reveal the reality of war. Write about the four poems in as much detail as possible‚ comparing the different attitudes of the poets.” In English‚ we have read four World War One poems: ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’‚ ‘Disabled’‚ ‘The Call’ and ‘Who’s For The Game?’ Two different authors have wrote these four poems‚ Wilfred Owen‚ who had served his country in the Great War and Jessie Pope‚ who had

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    War 1812

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    The War of 1812 The eighteenth and nineteenth century was a period of constant war within North America‚ there was the Seven Years War of 1754‚ the American Revolution of 1775 and the War of 1812. This paper will focus on the War of 1812 and its impact on the North American community. The War of 1812 did not have a single winner or loser; it was a war that was fought till it ended with a peace treaty in December 1814. This war can be simply described as a war between people still loyal to the British

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    The Boer War

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    First Boer War Main article: First Boer War The First Anglo-Boer War (1880–1881)‚ also known as the "Transvaal War‚" was a relatively brief conflict in which Boer (Descendants of Dutch settlers. Translates as ’Farmer ’) successfully rebelled against British rule in the Transvaal‚ and re-established their independence‚ lost in 1877‚ when the Boers fought the British in order to regain the independence they had given up to obtain British help against the Zulus. [edit] Second Anglo-Boer War Main article:

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    Virgil on War

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    poem is an anti-war poem. Virgil does not merely use the notion of war to further his plot but deals with many types and aspects of war throughout the poem‚ mythological wars; recent wars; their effects; their causes; and often we can notice Virgil’s own opinion on such a matter‚ subtly merged into the thick of things. However in contrast to Homer’s Iliad it could be argued that Vigil has actually portrayed war as a negative thing‚ as he stresses the negative consequences of war‚ the loss that it

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    The Effect Of War

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    War is only the pointless killing of innocent people and soldiers in a conflict that could be easily settled by more humane‚ economic‚ and mature ways. War is a chaotic‚ inevitable event that I personally don’t agree with‚ but oddly provides the conditions for a new and better future. The mindless destruction and reckless mayhem caused by war is unnecessary and very costly. In World War I alone‚ almost 15 million civilians died and just over eight million soldiers were killed in four years of fighting

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    Man-of-War

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    Man-of-War The Portuguese man-of-war if a member of the Kingdom Animalia‚ phylum Cnidaria(1)‚ class Hydrozoa‚ order Siphonophra‚ the genus Physalia‚ and the species Physalia(2). The man-of-war is not an actual jellyfish‚ but a Siphonophor. Also the man-of-war is not a single organism. It is made up of many different organisms that work together. These organisms are called polyps. The Portuguese man-of-war is usually found in the Northern Atlantic gulf stream. It can also be found in the tropical

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    War Crimes

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    War Crimes: Freedom or Justice “No crime without law”‚ is a statement that was agreed upon for every power- wielding country across the globe1. Any discretion would normally result in the United Nations International Court of Justice to bring down the iron fist and resolve the situation in any way that they feel fit. Recently‚ there has been another method to solve disagreements throughout the world‚ not with petty crimes‚ but war crimes. War crimes are offenses that undermine the previously amended

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