Can war be justified? Since September 11th‚ American news has been filled with stories and photographs of violent war. We were attacked mercilessly on our on soil‚ so most would say that the war on Afghanistan and Iraq are justified. But looking further into the matter‚ what are we really accomplishing with war? Are we proving that they shouldn’t bother us anymore? Or are we just getting revenge? Neither are justifications for war. We should in the first place keep the best relations possible
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country has a story on how it became its own independent nation‚ some were founded off of colonists moving‚ looking for a new life in a new territory‚ some revolt against their current corruption of a government‚ and that is exactly what the Haitians did. The Haitian revolution from 1791-1804 was the most successful slave revolt in history. With every revolution comes questions such as; why did they revolt? What lead to the revolt? Were they successful? What was the end result of the revolution? The
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In 1860-1877‚ Slaves were considered to to free‚ but they really weren’t. An example would be from the Black Codes in Opelousas‚ Louisiana stated‚ “No negro shall be permitted to rent or keep a house within the limits of the town under any circumstances.” This literally says that freed slaves were not free. If they were free‚ whites would let them rent‚ buy and keep a house‚ but in this instance the whites are not letting them do that. Imagine how the other codes sound. Henry Adams is a former slave
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The Civil Rights Movement started revolutionary protests like the Montgomery Bus Boycott and radical dissent movements such as the Black Panthers and political ideologies such as Black Power in self-defense against the state-advocated violence. (1990 p.111-116) The dissidence persisted against both the violence and the legal policies of the US‚ and was therefore seen as a threat‚ not only to national identity‚ but national security as well. The need for a Civil Rights Movement in the USA to ensure
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The New England Colonists highly valued religion and rules. Some well known colonists are the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims came to the New England Colonies for freedom of religion. They believed that the Church of England had gone to far beyond Christ’s teachings. There way of dealing with serious crimes was execution. The lesser crimes were handled with fines. There was one law on guns‚ if you did not bring a loaded gun to church you were fined 12 shillings. The church building itself had no significance
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or give me death!” why were the colonist so motivated to feel that it was mandatory to give up their lives so they can receive freedom. Great britain used the 13 colonies to make money for themselves. They taxed the colonies for mostly everything that they could think of‚ they just had to make some extra money. The colonist were okay with it for a little while but later it led to bigger problems. The colonist realized that they were being and the Intolerable acts all were very important events taken
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Le 1 Calvin Le Mr. Brazee World History Honors 23 October 2011 Is war ever justified? "Never think that war‚ no matter how necessary‚ nor how justified‚ is not a crime." - Ernest Hemingway. Is war ever justified? Well that depends on how much you value your freedom. When the United States entered the war in Afghanistan‚ many people criticized President Bush as if he was the responsible for the war itself. What those people don ’t see is that if we hadn ’t entered the war‚ we ’d be ducking
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Oliver Cromwell is today held by outstanding virtue by many people in Britain. Numerous Britons still see Cromwell as the father of modern British democracy due to his effective role during the English Revolution and the subsequent years he spent as a Member of Parliament. Nevertheless‚ his reputation in Ireland is quite the contrary. Cromwell only spent nine months of his life in Ireland yet amongst the island’s people he has gained a reputation as a genocidal monster hell-bent on massacring its
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Reasons of The Unjustified Crusades During the middle ages‚ there have been multiple crusades that happened all over the Middle East. The Crusades were missions led by nobles. All of these crusades were meant to liberate and conquer Jerusalem or also called “The Holy City”. The first crusade out of the four main crusades came out as a success. The first crusade did conquer Jerusalem at first until it was taken back from them. The other three main crusades ended up as a failure‚ but the most embarrassing
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Was it Justified or Necessary for the Americans to Drop the Bombs? Introduction On August 6th‚ 1945‚ an American B-29 bomber named “Enola Gay” dropped the world’s first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan. The nuclear explosion killed nearly 90 percent of the cities population‚ killing 75‚000 people from the point of impact and thousands more dying from Radiation Poisoning later on. Three days later‚ on August 9th‚ a second B-29 bomber named “Bockscar” dropped a second Atomic bomb on the Japanese
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