The Just War Tradition is a justification for how and why wars are fought. A just cause is clearly the most important rule setting the tone for everything else.1 The two basic rights for a just cause are the rights of the state and those of individual citizens. International law affirms these rights and further identifies legitimate governments (states) to have rights.2 To be legitimate the state must be recognized as legitimate by its people and by the international community. The state avoids
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By definition Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy in which full-scale use of nuclear weapons by both sides would effectively result in the destruction of both side. It is not a complicated concept. An elementary school child could understand that the two biggest kids in the class don’t openly brawl because both would suffer unacceptable damage as well as put third parties in the danger of the crossfire. The concept of MAD is not the complicated part; it is everything
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WAR AND AFTERMATH OF WAR IN THE ENGLISH PATIENT BY MICHAEL ONDAATJE Abstract War and aftermath of war is a paper which talks about the various aspects of war and its outcomes as discussed in the novels of Michael Ondaatje. Ondaatje takes war as a major theme in his two most famous novels: The English Patient and Anil’s Ghost. The present paper discusses the treatment of war in the hands of Ondaatje in his Booker winning novel The English Patient. The treatment of the sensitive topics of war gets
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Jubayer Ahmed Mr.Disiro period 8 Imagine a war without the use of weapons. The Cold War was a standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union without a use of arms (Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race). It was a period of time with great resentment and pressure. Even though both sides never had a direct military confrontation‚ they engaged in “proxy wars” and threatened each other with nuclear annihilation (Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race). For over forty years the Soviets and Americans
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The Destruction of the National Library of Baghdad: What happened and Why? Libraries are fundamental elements for constructing civil societies. Their existence is vital for our interpretation of history from the beginning of time and it is only by the words and possessions of our ancestors that we will learn about our collective past. Previously documented knowledge allows constant reevaluation of societies. Knowledge of this sort must be continuously replenished or else its loss would lead
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The prisoners of war were not treated in accordance with the international agreements. They were complaining about starvation and malnutrition and there were some Japanese who were claiming that the Japanese Army had tried to do their best to service the foods to the Prisoners of War while they were in the camp. What is it like to be a prisoner of war? When you are a Prisoner of War you have to do everything that you are told to do. Often times the Prisoners of War were treated poorly by their captors
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Tristan Seth 11/10/13 Period 8 “Invincibility Cannot Be Gained Without Self-Destruction” Not very often does a profound‚ life-altering figure surface via literature. However‚ Fight Club‚ a novel written by Chuck Palahniuk‚ ushered in one of the most revolutionarily minded characters literature has even seen. The story is set in an urban‚ United States city and suburb. The name of the city is never revealed‚ nor is it of any importance. The purpose of the setting is solely to give
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Jarassic Park: The Dinosaurs Were Not To Blame For The Destruction of Jurassic Park ’Nature won’t be stopped .......or blamed for what happens’(Ian Malcolm ‚ Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton). Jurassic Park mystifies its critique even as it makes it; or rather‚ to be more precise‚ it offers us contradictory messages about whom to blame for what goes wrong. Science finally takes the blame. Near the end of the book‚ while the humans are fighting off the velociraptors‚ Malcolm (the mathematician)
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to talk about the ethics of war. Now to some minds this phrase “the ethics of war” will likely cause raised eyebrows. “The ethics of war? What can ethics possibly have to do with war? Isn’t war evil?” Well‚ of course it is. War is a terrible thing. The existence and prevalence of war in history is‚ in fact‚ ample testimony to the depravity and wickedness of Man. The conduct of war involves the intentional killing of human beings and the destruction of property. War inevitably causes untold suffering
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Americans have inhabited the land for more than 10000 years prior to the “discovery” of the new land. With new people inhabiting the land‚ new disease that the natives never saw before appeared. These diseases were one of the main causes of the destruction of the Aztec and Incan empires because they killed their population and threw their civilizations into turmoil. Christopher Columbus was the man who found the Americas on his Spanish funded adventure.
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