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    interpretation of art. His poetry dealt with current issues of humanity during a time of totalitarianism. He suggests a sense of terror in relation to those living in the twentieth century; it was a time when dictators determined it's people's independence, a time of war, violence and vast murder. He tries to distinguish the role of his poetry in world full of nightmares and terror. As a realist he understands that his poetry may not precisely influence society, but due to his willingness to confront humanity

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    Maya salazar Mrs. salcido War Of Injustice Per.3 11.2.16 How is war injustice ? The injustices of war are many people don't have personal space . Another discrimination of war is a variety of people die everyday . The government can kill off people and it could be injustice because, no one would even know it was them. It is sickening knowing that people die everyday

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    Kurt Vonnegut Analysis

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    story of war and hope which will go on for years to come, and will carry the message of what war is truly like to many generations. Kurt himself was a veteran of the war, and his book features the main character, Billy Pilgrim, who becomes unstuck in time, and goes through the moments of his life in no specific order from his time in the battlefield, his experience in the alien zoo, and his childhood. Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse Five contains a timeless message of inevitability of war, our numbness

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    (Mulvaney 2015). However, terrorism will not go away or be deterred by symbols of solidarity. In his conclusion, Mulvaney feels American leadership should turn the requirements against "the war on terror from symbols to tangible action". He writes that "an American with a French Facebook flag demeans the war on terror and is as effective as a smiley face" (Mulvaney 2015). Mulvaney makes a few good points on how using a Facebook Flag trivializes the gravity of the Paris attacks. However, I disagree with

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    destabilize State structures. It illustrates the delicate balance existing between reducing civil liberties to enhance security in a state. States have detained suspects for years and have also conducted extensive privacy incursions as strategies to combat terror, however it risks violation of civil liberties. This essay discusses the extent to which a state should be allowed to restrict civil liberties for the enhancement of national security and not abandon democratic values. It looks at aspects of the legal

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    anguish that was brought up by war and to reveal it’s true effects. In the beginning of the novel it states,”From the earth, from the air, sustaining forces pour into us--mostly from the earth. To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence

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    of logical fallacies in his essay weakens the full potential effectiveness of his argument. In this persuasive essay, Charles Krauthammer immediately speaks on the steady demise of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda and how the war on terror was an “unconventional war by an unconventional enemy” that required an unconventional approach to win (Krauthammer 706). Krauthammer states that there has not been a major terrorist attack in the United States of America in over a decade. In turn, this supposedly

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    chance to live a real war events. I learned in school about wars involving my country, I read many books about wars, I watched many movies about wars, but I never have experienced the emotions of war. Anyway, there have been wars since the beginning of the world and continues to exist today. In my family there are few members who have experienced the horrors of war and even my parents told me about the negative effects of war seen through the eyes of children. I understood how bad war can bring both to

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    counter-terrorism. Faced with the exposure of the weakness to its homeland, the US opted for a military based counter-terrorism approach, resulting in the deployment of military forces into the Middle East and Central Asia, initiating what was known as the War on Terror (Schorlemer, 2003). The invasion of Afghanistan was designed to strengthen state borders from afar by defeating terrorists at their source. However, in order to do so, the US strategy was to utilize violence to secure their human rights. In using

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    Space Race: The USA Wins The Competition To The Moon And The Cold War Few moments define the twentieth century and human scientific advancement like the Apollo moon landing. But now, almost fifty years later, we may forget that this achievement was the result of a relatively short and furious "space race," with a mere twelve years separating the first manmade object orbiting Earth (Sputnik 1 in 1957) and Neil Armstrong 's 1969 walk on the moon. No human has ventured so far since the end of the Apollo

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