War is Hell A review of chapter 2‚ ’The Crime of War’ in Michael Walzer’s book‚ "Just and Unjust Wars: A moral argument with historical illustrations." Allen Lane 1997. In this chapter‚ Walzer discusses the cruelty of war and whether there can be any justification for such cruelty. He begins by distinguishing between the justice of war (jus ad bellum) and the justice in war (jus in bello). "War is always judged twice‚ first with reference to the reasons states have for fighting‚ secondly with
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Joyce Carol Oates was just a young child when she began exploring desolate homes and barns. Joyce would trek miles through fields to find that one empty home. A few of the homes were abandoned for so long that they began to decay and become over grown with weeds. Joyce was particularly attracted to the homes that were most recently deserted. The most recently deserted homes had lost remnants of past owners that really caught her attention. When Joyce entered the home she would often imagine
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Dan Kassel Just War Theories in the West Sinkwan Cheng 10/15/04 Since the beginning of time‚ strong nations have taken over weaker ones without any consideration for the indigenous people of those lands. Some claim that because many of these peoples are inferior intellectually and/or physically to the conquerors‚ than by nature they are slaves and‚ as stated by Aristotle‚ "it is better for them as inferiors that they should be under the rule of a master (Aristotle‚ Vitoria 239)." However
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Operation Just Cause was not the capture of a man; it was the genocide of a country On December 20 of 1989‚ 26‚000 U.S. troops invaded Panama in ‘‘Operation Just Cause’’ to expel and capture the country’s strong man‚ the former general Manuel Antonio Noriega and destroy his military. No honest Panamanian‚ no human being can be indifferent to the horror of war‚ one can justify the thousands of dead innocent civilians. ‘‘Forget Prohibited’’ as many Panamanians says for this day‚ the world’s most
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LenNee’ Kimbell Professor O’Roark ENGL 210-103 13 March 2014 More than just “Brownies” “Brownies‚” by ZZ Packer is about a Brownie troop of fourth-grade African American girls from suburban Atlanta‚ Georgia‚ who go to summer camp. (Gale) At the camp‚ they have an altercation with another troop called troop 909 which were all white girls. They believed that one of the white girls addressed them with a racial insult by calling one of them the “N” word. Apparently they feel offended and seek revenge
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A man by the name of Gary Mark Gilmore spent most of his life either in trouble or in jail being punished for it. He was born December 4 1940 and he grew up in Portland‚ Oregon. He was abused by his father and when the family moved to Salt Lake City‚ he started on a life of crime. When the family moved back to Portland‚ Gilmore became a neighborhood tough and dropped out of school at the age of 14. His involvement in a car theft ring opened his long criminal record. He was arrested a second time
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In E.E. Cummings’s unrhymed poem‚ “[in Just-]‚” Cummings emphasis on the importance of the start of spring‚ children‚ and innocence-filled world. In addition‚ Cummings symbolizes spring to youthful children and their innocence throughout the whole poem‚ because spring is the season after the chilly and empty atmosphere of the outside during winter. Spring is often visualized as a colorful‚ warm‚ and bright season‚ where children are playing from “running from marbles and piracies” to ‘hopscotch and
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us because we are all human and there is only one earth if you can’t accept another person there is nowhere for you or the other person to go. So then you each must accept one another. I believe that we should accept one another. In the short story "Just Walk On By" there is a black male named Brent Staples who was thought to be a mugger‚ a rapist or worse. People only judged him by his appearance that something as humans we should change. If we were to talk to him we would know that he is a well educated
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Running head: JUST SAY NO TO LEGALIZATION Just Say No to Legalization of Marijuana Your Name Your University Legalization of illicit drugs is a controversial topic. Proponents approach the issue from many vantage points. This paper will address two main arguments proponents of drug legalization put forth. First‚ they claim illicit drugs such as marijuana should be legalized due to medical value this drug is alleged to possess. They also claim that legalization would reduce crime. The
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JUST TAKE AWAY THEIR GUNS THE PRESIDENT WANTS STILL tougher gun control legislation and thinks it will work. The public supports more gun control laws but suspects they won’t work. The public is right. Legal restraints on the lawful purchase of guns will have little effect on the illegal use of guns. There are some 200 million guns in private ownership‚ about one-third of them handguns. Only about 2 percent of the latter are employed to commit crimes. It would take a Draconian‚ and politically
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