and “The Wars” Timothy Findley was a Canadian novelist and playwright. He has written many novels such as The Last of the Crazy People and The Butterfly Plague. Findley also writes an extraordinary novel titled The Wars. This novel is about a young man whose name is Robert Ross and is on his way to war because he feels guilty about the death of his sister. Mentally and physically he is not ready for war because he feels much violated of his privacy. As Robert is in the war to end all wars‚ his family
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The Rape of Nanking Although Japan’s history and culture fuel its army’s brutality‚ china’s lack of awareness‚ preparedness and leadership contributed to Nanking’s overwhelming defeat. The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang is also referred to as the forgotten holocaust of World War 2 this is a story taken from three different perspectives. Why after centuries of futile destruction‚ does man persist in waging war? In the non-fiction work-tron‚ by
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history where human rights have been denied was the holocaust. The holocaust was horrendous because many harmless people died. During world war II‚ Hitler created concentration camps and death camps to kill the Jews because he thought no one else should survive that not Germanic. Another example where human rights was denied was the Rape of Nanjing. The rape of Nanjing was when Japan and china were arguing during WWII because China abandoned their nationalist capital‚ Nanjing.
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Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is an outstanding example of the neoclassic genre of mock epic. Pope uses the mock epic to satirize the triviality of 18th-century high society through exaggeration and parody. Basing his poem on an actual incident that occurred among some of his acquaintances‚ Pope intended his story to put the episode into humorous perspective and encourage his friends to laugh at their own actions. A mock epic is a poem dealing with petty subject matter in the exalted style
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‘The Rape of Nanking’ by Iris Chang is a well-written account of what happened in Nanking‚ the capital city of the Nationalist China‚ when it fell to the Japanese hands during 1937. It was a tragic experience for the Chinese people and also for the foreigners who helped them. It also known as ‘The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II’ since there was voluminous murder that had happened that time. Not only the rape itself that is tackled in the book but also the denial of the Japanese about what happened
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Imperial Army too Nanjing‚ the capital of China at the time and home to more than one million Chinese citizen. The Japanese began a spree of murder‚ rape and looting‚ destroying and burning everything. As a result‚ hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizen were dead‚ with hundreds of thousands more starving‚ traumatized and homeless. This historical event The Rape of Nanjing is the focus of this book. The book “The Good Man of Nanking” by John Rabe also known as “The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of
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On December 14‚ 1937‚ the Japanese launched their mop-up operation‚ which continued for the following six months. During this time‚ the Japanese Imperial Army was accused of committing crimes such as mass victimization‚ rape‚ pillaging‚ and arson. This period became known as the Rape of Nanking. Japan’s intentions in the massacre were questioned. This incident did not need to occur in the first place. Like
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deals with many cases of postmodernism. Atonement relates with postmodernism because it deals with mature matter‚ and serious subjects. Atonement relates with postmodernism because it changes the point of view of the narrator throughout the novel‚ rape is a big part of this novel; also family issues are displayed in Atonement‚ death is also twisted into the puzzle of Atonement. The narrator’s point of view changes throughout the novel. In the first three sections the narrator writes in third person
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How the Weak Win Wars: A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict Author(s): Ivan Arreguín-Toft Source: International Security‚ Vol. 26‚ No. 1 (Summer‚ 2001)‚ pp. 93-128 Published by: The MIT Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3092079 . Accessed: 08/08/2013 11:12 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars‚ researchers‚ and
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The late Iris Chang hoped that her work “THE RAPE OF NANKING” would lead to an official Japanese apology for the atrocities Japanese troops committed in Nanking in 1937. Chang’s well-intentioned attempt to secure a Japanese apology for the Nanking atrocities is meaningless because many of the perpetrators and victims are now dead. Thus‚ a Japanese apology would be an empty gesture that has no meaning. "We will probably never know exactly what news Hirohito received about Nanking as the massacre was
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