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    Children and War

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    justice are going to be continuing. Children on the battlefield have been found throughout history. From the biblical times to World War II‚ children have been used to fight because of their vulnerability‚ small size‚ and their need for survival. These children are exploited from regions in Africa‚ Iran‚ Cambodia‚ Australia‚ Afghanistan‚ Canada‚ and even in the United States. A child under the age of 18 would be considered a child. In the US‚ a 17 year old child could become a soldier

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    War Poetry

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    Owen. Wilfred Owen is a World War One poet‚ with many poems such as Dulce Et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth‚ two very influential poems about different sides of the War. Owen was very skilled in his ability to engage the reader and to put across his point about his chosen subject. In Dulce Et Decorum Est‚ Owen compares the realities of war with the old lie‚ how sweet and fitting it is too die‚ which was the view held by the English during World War One. . His criticism in this poem

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    persian wars

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    Persian Wars Persians wars were sequences of conflicts contested between Persia and ancient Greece‚ where the two were both ancient civilizations. The Greeks were successions of sovereign city states‚ and the most influential cities were Sparta and Athens. Athens had numerous celebrated philosophers and thinkers along having the privilege of being the first world’s democratic government. The people of Athens mostly depended on trade to obtain resources to be used to run the government. On the other

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    The affect of The Peloponnesian and Persian Wars on the Greeks position in the Ancient World The Peloponnesian War‚ that took place from (431-404 B.C.)‚ was fought between the Athenians and the Spartans. The Persian Wars‚ which took place from (499-448 B.C.)‚ were caused from the Persians attempts to conquer the Greek city-states. These wars affected the Greek position in the ancient world and caused the downfall of Athens. The Peloponnesian War was very intense and lasted from (431-404 B.C

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    The War of Independence.

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    THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE-1857 • During the War of Independence the Governor General was Lord Canning. He had assumed the charge of his office in 1856. • Wajid Ali Shah was the Nawab of Awadh. He was sent on exile to Calcutta and his state was annexed by the British in April 1856. • Three-fourth of the infantry and nearly two-third of the whole Bengal Army was composed of the people from Awadh. • Maulvi Ahmadullah devised the distribution of chapatti scheme during his travels in

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    Cold War: The Vietnam War

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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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    Korean War "They can call it whatever they want. I think it was a war and that’s it. A lot of guys were dying or getting wounded and you can call it "the Forgotten War" or "the conflict‚" but it was a war. That’s it." as said by Eddie Rios of the United States Marine Corps. Even though we don’t remember it‚ or don’t think it was a war but it was. The Korean War was a small one but it still happened. In this paper I will go over why the war started‚ what happened and how it ended. Without further

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    Civil War Total War?

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    The definition of total war is when one side mobilizes all available resources in order to destroy another side¡¯s ability to engage in war. The Civil War was a total war because both Union and Confederate Generals like William Sherman‚ Philip Sheridan‚ and Robert E. Lee used total war tactics against each other when the other side hinted weakness. They used these tactics to try and put an end to the war. The Civil War was a total war because both sides used tactics that were defined by the Powell

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    Love and War

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    drives halfway across the country wearing a diaper with the intent of murdering the girlfriend of the lover that spurned her. Prisoners of war in Afghanistan are brutally tortured in order to gain information about terrorist organizations. While some are appalled by the proliferation of such activities‚ others simply shrug and say‚ “All is fair in love and war.” However‚ the very nature of this phrase is problematic with the assertion that any and all imaginable activities can be deemed just. Nevertheless

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    The Wars of the Roses was not just one war‚ it was a series of ongoing wars between two parties‚ The Lancaster Party and the York Party. They were fighting over the English throne. The Lancaster party had a red rose‚ York had a white rose‚ and the Tudor rose was both red and white. This is why the series of wars that were named the War of the Roses. They did not name the wars until several years later. Some might say that the marriage of Margaret and Henry Tudor had been why the War of the Roses

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