...During the time of the Vietnam War and Nixon administration the society was at a state of anger and unrest. John Lennon took a stand against the government and society by writing music and performing physical acts of protest. Immediately, he was faced with a deportation scandal, and many people were rallying for change on his behalf. His long-term impact is shown even to this day, through his song “Imagine” and other political songs that were screaming for someone to take a stand. As many already know, John Lennon was part of the ever-so popular group, the Beatles. During the time he spent with the group, his “voice” and his stance on the world was not shown much, as it was overpowered by Paul McCartney’s drippy and love-like lyrics. His...
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...command them to go.Will you rather take the offer or face the hard time while fighting to control your property?If someone is leading you to a way that’s the most beneficial for you,should not he be called a hero for you life? Stand Watie was known as Stanhope Watie, meaning “Stand Firm” and the leader of the Cherokee tribes and General of the Confederate State army during the Civil War among other Indians tribes with the lead by Watie, the Cherokee nations and his fellow men went through many battle and obstacle for their peaceful life within the tribes...
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... thoughts of nuclear launching, mass poverty increasing and army ascendancy influent peoples, as recurrent nightmares take ones concerned in spiral of pessimism. Furthermore, in techno sciences, the human factor[] can only be surrounded by “crazy guard”; fact is that the human mass comportment is not predictable. This is why predict the future cannot forejudge on the human behavior but on the technology progress. This finding is particularly obvious when those two novels are compared with pure science fiction anticipation novels like Stand on Zanzibar (John Brunner, 1968) and Paris in the Twentieth Century (Jules Verne, book written in 1863). These four novels serve as examples for this essay because although they were written a long time ago, they depict a specifically dated future that allow a contemporary reader to corroborate and witness the reality of events that occurred at the specific time anticipated by the authors. A careful review of the political context of the time The Penultimate Truth and 1984 are written and an objective comparison of the visions of the future in each novel demonstrate that they should not be considered as science fiction novels as the future is either describe more a...
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...American Icons Americans have many icons they look to during times of despair. Icons are things that obtain a meaning to represent a symbol. When thinking in particular, icons such as the American flag or the Statue of Liberty come to mind. The question that derives from people is whether or not these icons still stand for their meanings in America. The American flag will always represent the United States as the land of the free and the home of the brave. People use the flag to show their gratitude to their country. On the other hand, the Statue of Liberty stands for the countries never failing democracy and freedom. These icons did rise from past wars which only reinforced their meanings. To begin, the American flag is considered sacred...
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...Abraham was president right when the Civil War started. He had to think thoroughly, weigh all his options. Lincoln finally came up with a foreign policy strategy that worked very well, which was no other countries interfering with the war. Blockades was the most effective way to stop countries from supplying the south. England and France decided not to over run the blockades. This made the Abraham never liked the idea of slavery, but was quiet about it in his early years. Like most politicians, the day would come to take a stand on slavery. In his stand, once the civil war has started he felt it was time to take the stand. On September 22, 1862, he wrote the emancipation proclamation. This was intended to end slavery and discrimination towards...
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...important factor of the Civil War. Not only was Fort Sumter where the first shots of the Civil War were fired, but it was also the turning point to a war that would change the course of history. The fort was named after a Revolutionary War hero, Thomas Sumter. Built as a symbol of independence in 1860, Fort Sumter stood at a towering 300 feet by 400 feet in Charleston Harbor. Originally, the fort was under the command of union troops until General P.G.T. Beauregard and the confederates bombarded the fort on April 12th and 13th, 1861. The reason the first shots were fired was because President Abraham Lincoln had ordered supplies to be sent to his troops. The supplies...
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...The excerpt opens with Huck Finn making a choice, a choice to spend the day with his friend. But quickly we learn Jim is not with him and has been captured because of his race. From that moment, an inner war begins inside Huck Finn on whether to stand by his friend or keep his own reputation intact. Initially, Huck Finn made the choice to leave with his friend. He acted as a leader in that moment. Then a negative consequence occurred and Huck Finn was forced to take a stand. When given the chance to stand by his friend (when he was asked if the runaway man was who he was looking for) he lied about how he knew him. He went as far to throw Jim under the bus and label him as violent. Huck Finn spends some time torn between helping his friend...
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...Additionally, the survival imagery makes a bold statement regarding the incapacity of the ordinary citizen to stand to a power greater than himself. In these few lines, we can detect a tone of hopefulness and determination. These two texts appeal to the moral side of humans. By illustrating our world as one that has been failed by older generations in the case of Smith and the ones that we have fought to keep us alive in the case of Chrystos. These two women took a standby addressing subjects such as protest and inaction. Violent protest and silent protest in Chrystos case, protest that is seen as controversial. Diversely, in Smith ’s case acknowledging the wrongdoings of US citizen in part of the chaos that currently reigns. Furthermore, in similar fashion Dylan and Chrystos explore the idea that justice for people is an ongoing fight. This controversial theme is addressed with subtle imagery in Chrystos text. The imagery of war and chaos that is simultaneously shocking and eye-opening, Chrystos writes: “These tears are private frightened gestures of woman Who cannot stand guns & death &how useless They think our lives...
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...The Revolutionary War was one of the biggest wars in American history. Major battles were overcome and won by Americans, even when their morale and resources were low. Yorktown was the greatest victory for America in the Revolutionary War, this battle lead to the defeat of the British and the establishment of a new society in America. The Battle of Yorktown is the most significant battle won in the Revolutionary War due to the events it set into place in America’s need for independence. Yorktown was settled in the 1600s and was used as a direct port to send tobacco and other supplies to Europe. (Greene, 24). Once the need for tobacco began to slow down the port was put out of commission. (Greene, 24). Yorktown was just a small peninsula, occupied by a sleepy town, but was awoken when British forces made camp. Yorktown was nothing major...
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...primary cause behind many terrorist activities in the recent times. The misinterpretation of this word was first started by Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami, He was a Damascene jurist and a pious Muslim who was the first to preach jihad against the crusaders in the aftermath of the First Crusade. He was one of the first to misconstrue jihad and preach the misinterpretation of jihad .He wrote the book Kitab Al- Jihad which means “book of the holy war”. In this book he proposes for the first time Jihad as a means of warfare against non-believers. “If he did not undertake the sending of enough troops to fight, those who are absent (must) go out, and consider as an obligation that which God (who is praised) said.” The above excerpts explicitly prove the aggressive nature of his ideology and the eventual misinterpretation of Jihad. The above statement suggests to Muslims if god didn’t send enough men to war against non-Muslims then it is the obligation of every Muslim to fight this war against non-believers. This concept was shouted through speakers in mosques and had a lot of audience hence the impact it had on Muslims was much more. His concept of jihad as warfare and fight against non-Muslims originated thus and slowly gained favor amidst other Muslim leaders as well. Jihad today is practiced in many countries all over the world. However, as stated earlier Jihad’s true meaning was lost in the course of human...
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...In 1941 A speech was given by president roosevelt about how the U.S the speech was given during the time when japan was attacking them and hawaii. The speech was given at a sessional congress meeting. President roosevelt wanted to urge congress to declare war on japan. He did that using persuasive ideas and loaded words. One way roosevelt achieves his purpose is by persuading the congress about what japan has been doing around us and what it is destroying. It is through that it might cause more problems but we can stop the deaths of people and fight back and stand up for what's right. What roosevelt is trying to say “ japan has been bombing us and trying to start a war and over It is an act that is treacherous and requires some kind...
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...Elayne Miller March 17, 2014 English 2111 Paper 1 Aristophanes’s Lysistrata shows the different types of women in society and the inequality of the sexes during Peloponnesian War. During that time, women had no political rights. There was a war going on between the Athenian and the Spartans, and the women, specifically, Lysistrata, wanted to stop it by seizing Acropolis and refusing sex from all the men in the city. Women during the Peloponnesian war were not expected to end the war, however, in the play, Lysistrata, women had the intelligence and judgment to make political decisions just like men. In the play, Lysistrata’s behavior is not like other women. She likes to stand up for herself and not take orders from anyone. The other women are rather the opposite. They don’t care about anything once the possibility of sex is taken away from them. When she gathered all the women together, she says that “From now on, no more penises for you” (829). What that meant was the plan to end the war was for women to refuse sex from men. They are to stand up for themselves and not give in to their husband’s orders. The other women were not happy with Lysistrata’s plan to end the war, which shows Lysistrata that the other women are not like her, but in the end, the plan worked and the women restored peace to the city. Aristophanes showed both side of women in this play, the stereotypical housewife and the influential, leader type. When Lysistrata says, “I am a woman, but I...
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...The Things They Carried was a book written to teach you a lesson. Whether you learned a lesson was up to you. One thing Tim O’Brien was trying to teach us is that war is dirty. In the chapter “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” Rat Kiely says ”You come over clean and you get dirty and the afterward it’s never the same. A question of degree. Some make it intact, some don’t make it at all.” This quote stands true to every character in this novel but Tim O'Brien and Norman Bowker stand out to me the most. Even though these two men are alike in many ways there is a major difference that separates them. That difference is that each man had different ways of dealing with the war. We all know Tim’s outlet to help with the war was writing. The Things...
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...Women’s Power Thao Vo Monday 4:30-5:45 War, the word that has been and will always be the word that no one wants to hear or think about. Aristophanes, a writer of ancient Athens, wrote a comedy to discuss the serious topic of war and how it affected the Greeks. He is also the author of Lysistrata, a play where Aristophanes expressed his feeling and thought about the war during this period of time. “Aristophanes wrote to express his vision on life, his delight in life itself seen behind the warping screen of contemporary event.” In this play, we will get to see the importance and serious meaning of war toward the union, espectually the soldiers’ family. The play Lysistrata is about the war between Athens and Sparta. This play is about the story of “ an Athenian matron who convinces the women of Athens and Sparta to withhold sex from their husband until they sign a peace treaty.”The main character is Lysistrata, and she is one of the Athens’ women that willingly to stand up toward the men just to bring peace back. She does not want war between the cities in Greeks. Lysistrata wanted to save Greeks and she believed that if all the women agreed then they can achieve the tremendous goal. “So fine it comes to this--Greece saved by Woman!” She held a meeting with all the other women and told them about her plan to bring peace. There is only one way to save the union is to make all the women withhold sexual privileges with their husband. “sexually explicitly to a degree that can...
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...to be a man and appear superior. The men of ancient Greece were no different; their lives were focused on war and survival. The Iliad follows the struggles of Achilles as he battles with fate and mortality as well as what it means to be a man. The society that these men lived in was one of a warrior; there was no greater honor than to defend your homeland even if it meant dying. “Your cup stands filled, always, brimmed like mine when the will stirs you to drink—so now drink deep of battle.” (4.299-301) In these lines King Agamemnon is praising one of his soldiers, Idomeneus. Going to war and fighting to the death was a trait that the Greek held in high regard. Only women and very young children did not fight in the wars, it was the duty of the men. In later lines, Agamemnon calls out the cowards in the ranks. This public disgrace further shows the importance of wartime to the image of masculinity. “Why are you cowering here, sulking out of range? Waiting for others to do your fighting for you? You—it’s your duty to stand in the front ranks and take your share of the scorching blaze of battle.” (4.394-97) Part of Achilles’ internal battle stemmed from this definition of masculinity. If you are a man you are willing to die for the cause, if you sit back you may live longer but there will be dishonor to your name. Achilles knew from early on that if he fought in the war he would not live to go home. “…two fates bear me on to the day of death. If o hold out here and I lay...
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