The Wall: The True Cost Of The Wall

“The rebel pulled the trigger, and like lightning, i saw the spark of fire that came from the muzzle” In this simile Ishmael explains how fast the rebel pulled the trigger and how quick a bullet can really go.

There are many walls around the world that exist and are designed to keep people out, or in, a certain area. These walls actually originated long ago and for the same purpose. The Byzantine empire was a tremendously educated empire that had a rich culture, which may have affected our military strategies and defences. The Byzantines had walls that were called the Theodorin walls because Theodora was a brave and fearless leader in her time.

Usually walls are put into places to avoid people to cross borders and keep peace but they destroy peace. Recently one could have heard in the News that Trump wants the Mexicans to pay for a wall between Mexico and the United States. This Wall should make it impossible for people to cross the border unofficially. As one could know from history classes, we had a wall in Germany for many years which was built by the winner countries of the second world war for a similar reason. Before the Wall, many people from East Germany tried to escape to West Germany where they had obviously better living conditions. It divided Germany in East and West Germany. Additionally, there was a part of Berlin, what was in the East German part, isolated from a huge wall that belonged to West Germany. This wall made it hard for the citizens of East Germany to visit West Germany. The Government of East Germany had other principles than the government of West Germany and it was not in the interest of the East German government to show their citizens how good their life could be in West Germany. After the falling of the Wall, it was possible for everyone to travel in Germany whenever they want without standing in line at the borders. But there was a big gap in wealth between East and West Germany. Even today the loans in West Germany are lower and the federal states have less money than the ones in West Germany. But in Berlin, one can visit ruins of the Berlin Wall which are colored and painted. As one could know from visiting Berlin, there is only a small part of the Wall left but at other parts, one could find the position of the wall with marked flagging on the ground. Additionally, one could buy a piece of the wall as a souvenir. Standing in front of the ruins of the Berlin wall inspires this realization: Peace is about breaking barriers not building them.

In the end, this is the case for the Great Wall of China, a project where the ends did not justify the

Like mentioned before, one of the main and most important reasons on why the Great Wall was built, was to protect the people from invasions. The problem is, how can a wall protect people if it is split up into different sections?Looking back at Document A, the map of the Great Wall of China of Qin and Han Dynasties seems to show that the Mongols were able to just travel around the wall. The furthest the wall extended to, was out to Dunhuang, a trading center. Located near this trading center were the Mongols. Now, since the Mongols were located so close to the end of where the wall ended, it makes sense that they could go around it.

He says this wall will cost in total of eight million dollars, and that Mexico will pay for it. The wall will span one thousand miles and be made of concrete slabs that will go up to forty feet high. Trump says this wall will look good, and be what a wall should really look like (Kessler). The wall that we already have on the border costed 2.4 billion, and only covers about one third of the border which is only about 670 miles (Kessler). So Trump wants to build a better wall, which has no grantee that it will work.

Regardless of one’s views on the topic of contraception, Margaret Sanger’s Woman and the New Race helped to break new ground through encouraging women to take control of their bodies. Early in her writing, Sanger brings up overpopulation and how women’s primary role as mothers have contributed to this issue. “While unknowingly laying the foundations of tyrannies and providing the human tinder for racial conflagrations, woman was also unknowingly creating slums, filling asylums with insane, and institutions with other defectives. She was replenishing the ranks of the prostitutes, furnishing grist for the criminal courts and inmates for prisons. Had she planned deliberately to achieve this tragic total of human waste and misery, she could hardly have done it more effectively.” This artfully formed passage shows the passion behind Sanger’s beliefs. While on the surface it may seem that she is attacking women, the point of her idea is to frame the passive nature of women in Western Society up to this point.

"I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great great wall on our southern border and I’ll have Mexico pay for that wall" ~ Donald J. Trump. Many remember Trump’s campaign promise of building a wall on the US-Mexico border, but what Mr. Trump neglected to notice was the many aspects that come into play when making such a dramatic decision. The idea behind the wall is to keep out illegal immigrants and cut down the amount of crime in the United States. It is easy to see why President Trump thinks the wall will benefit the country. Most of the drugs that come into the US are from Mexico, and the towns surrounding the border are some of the most crime-ridden in both the United States and Mexico. However, the wall impacts more than just the lives of

The separation that walls create cause the people that live within them to have a loss of freedom. Reagan tells us of how the walls cause failure, this failure is " technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even the want of the most basic kind--too little food." Without the walls, the city of Berlin could experience freedom, could experience the new discoveries of the world; without the walls the people could be healthy and well fed. Freedom from the walls would lead to the "advancement of human liberty" and would "strengthen world peace" as stated by Ronald Reagan. Not only do these walls rob individuals of their freedom, they also separate

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During his entire campaign, Trump promised Mexico would be paying for the wall. Hensley 2 Now, Mexico is saying that they will not pay a single penny for the wall. This proves to be a problem for American citizens as it will increase taxes because building such a large wall is expensive. In essence, this wall is just an impractical cost for the United States.

One of the most divisive stories in the news today, literally and figuratively is the border wall that the Trump administration is trying to put up. Despite some of the more negative aspects of this plan, there is a silver lining to this wall. For one thing, immigrants cross the Border whether there’s a wall or not, and nothing is more disconcerting than trying to go about your day and having to bear witness to the victims of Border Patrol. Also, the Border Wall is attempting to slow down the rate of illegal activity and raise the level of documentation throughout America. Despite the fact that it seems stereotypical or narrow-minded to say that a lot of unqualified people are sneaking into the US, Daniel Horowitz made an excellent point when he said, “It has been said that no fence can stop the determination of illegal immigrants seeking job prospects or drug running and human trafficking opportunities.”(www.procon.org). We can’t ignore the gracity of such a massive project; therefore, we must acknowledge the Pros… but in the same sense we must recognize the

It costed around seven billion dollars for one third of a FENCE! Trump is expecting Mexico to pay for 1,954 miles of WALL, not fencing. “It’s realistic if you know something about the art of negotiating. If you have a bunch of clowns negotiating, it’s not realistic,” Trump says as he’s trying to convince the people that his wall will work (Markon). There is no way he or anyone else could get Mexico to pay for a wall such of this magnitude, and he shouldn’t have false hope that he can convince them

The 2016 presidential election has created much controversy as both parties were viciously attacking each other throughout the campaign season; one of the initiatives that the Republican Party was the wanting to pursue was the building of a wall that will border the United States and Mexico. Although the source of this money is unaware, Trump’s plan is make the country of Mexico to pay for it as it stretches nearly two thousands miles long and has a great expense (Drew).

RESPONSE: In the article it says” Trump promises to build a wall along the U.S-Mexico border to stop illegal immigration and that he’ll make Mexico foot the bill.” In my mind this isn’t achievable for Trump. The immigration problem goes one way and that’s for Mexicans illegally coming into the U.S. There has not been an outcry from the Mexican government or population of Mexico about Americans illegally going into their country. So they would have no reason to pay for a wall to protect their border as