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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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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obscene horrors of war. Discuss with close reference to Mental Cases and at least one other poem studied. War is brutal and impersonal. It mocks the fantasy of individual heroism and the absurdity of utopian goals like democracy. The horrific post traumatic stresses are graphically exposed. In Mental Cases and Disabled by Wilfred Owen. They both expose a chronicle of the debilitating stages of post war traumatism; this is achieved through the employment of various poetic techniques. War is the annihilation
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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 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: 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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War has affected each generation in its own way. It has brought about gruesome deaths and sadness across nations. However‚ it has also been the reason for positive things such as beautiful war writings. Writers possess the skill to not only share stories from previous battles or personal memories they might have‚ but they also‚ in their own way‚ can protest war. They do this by simply using imagery‚ irony‚ and structure. These three things have enabled authors to help readers who did not go through
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The American Civil War lasted from 1861-1865‚ and is known as one of the most crucial events in the history of American. In those four years‚ more than half a million soldiers from both the Confederate and Union side were either wounded or died trying to fight for what they believed in. A nation was divided and mass social and economical changes occurred throughout the entire region. This fight over slavery and State rights would pit man against man and create a greater debt within the United States
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Vietnam War The war first began in 1959‚ five years after the division of the country by the Geneva Accords. Vietnam had been split into two. The communist government in the north was under Ho Chi Minh and democratic government in the south was under Ngo Dinh Diem. The Vietnam War stated because France tried to make another attempt to takeover Vietnam by having a foreign power to rule. In Vietnam the target of containment was Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnam front he had created in 1941. Ho and
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and that the disputed territory was theirs. In 1845‚ a group of troops were walking in the distributed area‚ when Mexican soldiers fired upon them‚ killing 16 of them. This was one of the reasons that the U.S went to war with Mexico in 1846. The United States was justified in going to war with
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