Manus: A Tragic Hero

With all of the monstrosities that have occurred, one can only hope “that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare” (Zinn Ch. 1). Because it is seemingly impossible to find peace in the world, many fear that the future will be marred with violence and destruction following the example that has already occurred. Nevertheless, Zinn hopes that the future will be better than the past; he hopes that they, rather than follow genocidal acts that have occurred in the past, will follow the loving and compassionate acts that

At the conclusion of the ceremony, the crowd applauded as the President stepped away and Jackson and his men relaxed from their position of attention as the members of their group stepped up to congratulate them. In light of the events, Mangus was so proud and about to bust his with his chest puffed so far out because Jackson was now a United States Marine and had another Medal of Honor to go along with it. As a consequence of his new rank and position, Jackson would soon be the commanding officer of the 1st Marine Regiment and continue his father’s tradition of honor and duty in the Marine Corps. After letting the rest of their group congratulate Jackson, Mangus waited until last and grabbed him in a hug for all to see. He was sure everyone

We must render extremist ideologies as unattractive as soviet communism and Stalinism are today. When the new ideology is unleashed, beliefs worldwide will be transformed forever, evidently, this transformation is necessary if there is to be peace.

There are moments in our history where the citizens of the world stand up and for their beliefs, their honor, and themselves. They come together to reform the existing government that is holding them back from achieving their desired lifestyle. When this occurs, most likely, war is inevitable to follow. When war comes to a country, death and destruction is destined. Leaders and rules change, but the pride of its citizens prevails and becomes

In his Wall Street Journal essay, “Violence Vanquished,” Steven Pinker claims that contrary to perceived notions of increasing violence and turbulence in the world, "brutality is declining and empathy is on the rise.” Pinker establishes this argument through numeric comparisons of death tolls, genocides and other aggressive perpetrations in modern society with those in prehistoric times. He credits the fall in these quantifications of “violence” to the processes of pacification, civilization, humanitarian revolution, Long Peace, New Peace and the rights revolution that have together created an environment conducive to “our better angels.”

Even though a majority of the story is about Odysseus, he is not a hero in The Odyssey. He boasts about everything, he gets his men killed, and he leaves his men behind. But a major thing he did was disrespecting the gods, in example. not giving credit to Poseidon for (Source 1) summoning a sea serpent to get the Trojan horse into Troy. Odysseus doesn’t do a single thing for others. Even though he fought for his people, he is not a hero because he thinks only of himself and doesn’t respect others.

When the world famous liberal thinker Francis Fukuyama in his masterpiece declared that we were witnessing the end of the history, he was greeting the new political structure and also the new international environment, which is peaceful[1]. However, developments that occurred after the collapse of the Soviet Union showed us that the dissolution of the Soviets was unexpected. The international society was not ready for peace and Fukuyama’s optimistic assumptions were far from becoming real. Moreover, the international society currently started to realise that the tension and the potential of mass destructive war during the Cold War era had provided a

Dating to the beginning of civilization, war continues to be a repeating occurrence in the world whether it be with oneself, society, or the outside influences in the world. In terms of war between countries, there is the growing controversy over its utilization and purpose when a country is predisposed to a situation foreboding unavoidable conflict. War is the only solution to certain situations but cannot be considered a panacea to all the issues prevalent in the world. The reasoning behind this is that war produces consequences some of which that are permanent. War has always spawn more conflict, gives disfigurement to human bodies, death and occasionally affects the state of one’s mind in areas such as mentality, emotions, rationality

¨But you know what I sometimes think? I think the world may be going through a phase, the way I was with Mother. It´ll pass, maybe not for hundreds of years, but some day . . . I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart.¨ (Frank 510) For as long as humans have been alive there was conflict and for a while that was resolved with violence and that has created many great inventions and awful ones too but, humans were killing each other and we can't grow if we don't work together. That was the way to deal with conflict for a while but now we are starting to deal with conflict in more humane ways, at least some of us, but there still are wars and they still are awful. The worst battle in humankind was D-Day which

Everyone has many different personalities, but the two that Odysseus holds makes up who he is. In the epic poem, The Odyssey by Homer Odysseus a very fearful man goes on a very long journey through ups and downs. Throughout his voyage he has brilliant ideas and plans along with some mad chaos.

In the movie Miss Congeniality, all of the contestants are asked what they wished for. Coincidentally, all of the pageant contestants replied confidently with ¨world peace.” That famous line has now turned into a well-known punchline due to how stereotypical and obvious it is. All joking aside, that is actually what everyone strives for in their lifetime. World peace has unfortunately been absent in past occurrences. For example, blacks were greatly mistreated by many in a harmful and unkind way. Back when slavery was present, kindness was absent. Despite all of the past happenings, hope for a more loving world still has a chance to prosper.

The idea that Steven Pinker discussed in his Ted Talk was that over time our world has become a more peaceful place to reside in. Breaking his evidence down into the viewpoint of millenniums, centuries, and decades, he utilized mortality rates due to warfare, homicide, and death penalty. Furthermore, Pinker analyzes the history of warfare from a social perspective that investigates the effect that anarchy, the value of life, and the expanding of one’s circle of acceptance.

Janus, also called Ianos or Ianus, was the God of doors, choices, transitions, beginnings and endings. He also was responsible for changes and time. He was considered the Porter of Heaven because he had the role of the Guardian of Gates, Exits and Entrances.

Throughout the history of mankind there has come to be two factors that are seen as inevitable. The first is progress, humans are naturally competitive creatures who not only want to insure their own safety but also get one up on their neighbours. Progress has led to huge leaps forward, not only technologically but also socially. However, aside from progress there is another factor, war. Time and time again throughout history humans have fought and killed each other for their own selfish reasons and security. And according to political theorists such as Hobbes this is simply the state of nature, a perpetual state of ‘war of all against all’, further surmising that it is due to this that mankind is fundamentally selfish. However, just because so far, mankind’s history has consisted of an endless cycle of wars, does that mean that it must continue to be this way? Political Philosopher Immanuel Kant outlines a number of articles that he hypothesises could lead towards a perpetual peace. There are many criticisms of Kant’s perpetual peace, many argue that it is to idealistic and utopian. However, Kant doesn’t deny these claims. Instead Kant argues that if this ‘perpetual peace’ is even a remote possibility then for the good of mankind, we have a duty to try make it a reality.

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