Waiting For The Barbarians By. Coetzee

In Larry Lankton’s text, “Beyond the Boundaries” we gradually enter an unknown world that is frightening yet filled with immense beauty for miles. Due to the copper mining industry, a gradual increase of working class men and their families start to migrate to the unknown world with unsteady emotion, yet hope for a prosperous new life. In “Beyond the Boundaries”, Lankton takes us on a journey on how the “world below” transformed the upper peninsula into a functional and accepted new part of the world.

These boys were motivated by nationalism and false propaganda about the heroic nature of the war. As they began to understand the uselessness of the soldiers’ sacrifices, Paul’s comrades develop a bitterness towards the system. Especially after seeing their German leader, they question the government's intentions. Their innocence was manipulated to benefit political officials with no consideration for each individual life that is affected by the war.

In “The Interlopers,” Ulrich von Gradwitz and George Znaeym are descendants of wealthy families, who have been in dispute over some land for some years.In Ulrich’s grandfather’s time, his family used the court to seize the land from the neighboring Znaeym family, who the Gradwitzs believed illegally possessed the land. The Znaeyms never accepted the court’s decision, and have continued to hunt in the forest patch. Georg continues to hunt on the strip of land at the edge of Ulrich’s forest because he believes it should still belong to his family.

Victor Davis Hanson is a former classics professor, an American military historian, a scholar of ancient warfare and a columnist. He graduated from Selma High School, he also received a BA from the University of California in 1975 and later got his Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University. His rich education background and experience, therefore, qualifies him for his work, especially his book: Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power. In the book, Victor Hanson intends to shed light on the predominance of the western military as attributed to the western Hellenic culture as well as its legacies. John Lynn is a history professor at the University of Illinois; he is also an adjunct professor at Ohio State

Gabriella Gutierrez Mr. Gonzales English 9 4/24/24 Night Essay About 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust. 6 million people died because everyone that had the chance to help and to change what was happening, but they all were bystanders and didn’t do anything to help. Night is a book about a Holocaust survivor named Elie Wiesel. In this book Elie writes about his experience in the concentration camps, what it was like during that time and what he went through. Many people have died from that event in history, so now it is our obligation to report on behalf of ourselves and others bad actions.

Through out the history of the country, the U.S. have torture people for information. For example, Brown v. Mississippi a sheriff who questioned three African Americans, in the most heinous way. He hipped and hanged them for no true reason (Hickey, T., 2014). The

Through out the book To End All Wars, Adam Hochschild starts off with a very bold statement in the introduction of this book. The main point that I picked up from the introduction is that this war is a pointless war and it is in fact stupid, and I for one would have to agree with this. As the sub title suggests this book is more than just military history on the war. This book goes much deeper; Hochschild’s work uses lots of historical research to illustrate an in-depth storytelling to provide a look into the conflict between loyalty and the rebellion. As Hochschild illustrated in the very beginning of the book he explains that this war was truly pointless, and to my belief it was. This book was very educational because it shows us a different

Torture is known as the intentional infliction of either physical or psychological harm for the purpose of gaining something – typically information – from the subject for the benefit of the inflictor. Normal human morality would typically argue that this is a wrongful and horrendous act. On the contrary, to deal with the “war on terrorism” torture has begun to work its way towards being an accepted plan of action against terrorism targeting the United States. Terroristic acts perpetrate anger in individuals throughout the United States, so torture has migrated to being considered as a viable form of action through a blind eye. Suspect terrorists arguably have basic human rights and should not be put through such psychologically and physically damaging circumstances.

Any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him, or a third person, information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. (85)

Joll has always believed that the Barbarians are the enemies that need to be subjugated and controlled. While the Magistrate held the same belief at the beginning of the novel, he has quickly moved away from torture after seeing the results of it firsthand. He wonders how the torturers can eat after doing such cruel acts to other human beings. The Magistrate tells Colonel Joll, “The crime that is latent within us we must inflict upon ourselves…not on others” (170). He believes that the monstrous personality hidden within Colonel Joll must be recognized and inflicted upon himself, not on others.

The Middle Ages was known as one of the most violent eras in history. It represents a mind set in which men had thought long and carefully on all forms of suffering. I will discuss the definition and different views on torture. Torture was and continues to be an ethical dilemma prevalent in the world today.

In the first place, putting someone through the experience of being tortured can cause them to be left with long-term damage both physically and mentally. These victims are isolated from society and kept prisoners, the kind of torture they are often put through is unbearable. In the article, The Lingering Effects of Torture written by Devin Powell talks about a man by the alias Adeel who was a prisoner for four years, first at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility in Afghanistan and then at Guantanamo Bay. Adeel explains how he was kept isolated in a chilled cell, blasted with loud music which prevented him from falling asleep and being forced to stand motionless in the hot sun for hours. And how even years after being released he still

Many of these well documented effects include but are not limited to, mental and physical illness on individuals who were never plagued with such condition, “disruption in their emotional processes”(Corcoran. 3), and “symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder.” (Corcoran. 4) Doesn’t that not sound like torture to you? Criminals are sent to prison to be incapacitated and rehabilitated, not to be isolated and tortured. Inmates are given prison or jail sentences, not torture sentences.

In Waiting for the Barbarians, the line that divides the so called ‘civilized’ from the ‘barbarians’ is shown as deeply ambivalent. Illustrate this with examples and discuss the larger implications of this portrayal.

Although there seem to be discussions that there is a distinction between the physical and psychological inhumane, ill-treatment of detainees in the context of torture, I believe the only obvious difference between the two is an artificial one because both are inherent components of torture. The use of “psychological tricks” described in tehe article of Koubi interview like slapping from time to time or cigarette sharing in a holding cell as a lesser or “softer” mistreatment method cannot really produce the results expected by the interrogator to establish control over the detainee, convince the latter that he has power over him leaving him helpless and extracting the necessary information. These “tricks” of psychological manipulation such