Essays On War

McDonald’s Corporation is the giant fast food restaurant chain in the world. It serves around 68 million customers every day in 119 countries. The first restaurant in Singapore was opened in 1979. Nowadays, 121 McDonald’s restaurants operate across the island, serving 1.2 million customers weekly (McDonald’s, 2013). Primary products which mean selling world wild include […]

The plot of “The King’s Speech” centers on the characters King Bertie (played by Colin Firth), Queen Elizabeth (portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter), and Lionel Logue (played by Geoffrey Rush). The film also includes the King’s daughters and other significant individuals in his life. Unlike typical wartime movies, the main emphasis is on improving the […]

In every historical event there tends to be conflicting sides, each member has their own point of view based on a plethora of statistics. These statistics include but are not limited to, socio-economic classes, race, geographical boundaries, gender, etc. When two cultures interact for the first time there is bound to be some discrepancies over […]

The media and scholars of history never fail to capture, through images, symbolism, or words, the unspeakable capability of war to turn human beings into animals of violence. War involves the deaths and killing of so many innocent people and soldiers from opposing parties, which fundamentally renders any war, even the just ones, unjust. Politicians […]

The role of the poor in modern society (as an example in American society) is the crucial question for all people. Herbert J. Cans has spent many years to find the crucial reasons why people become the poor and who the poor actually are. Her books and the article “The war against the poor instead […]

Shakespeare Inc. is a privately held book printing and publishing company with a December 31 year-end. There are five accounting issues that management must consider during the course of proper financial statement presentation. This memo will break down the accounting issues and provide guidance per section. 1. Should the information pertaining to actual claims incurred […]

War is one of the most terrible things the human race has invented. It sends more people to their death than anything else we force upon ourselves. Voltaire once said, “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished, unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” This portrays the […]

First Architect of the Third Reich, Minister of Armaments and Munitions, survivor of the Nuremberg Trials, acclaimed author and “Good Nazi” Albert Speer has obviously left his mark on history. In this speech I will be arguing that Speer although made some positive actions in his life he had a mostly negative impact on his […]

James Thurber (1894-1961), one of the country’s premiere humorists, was born in Columbus, Ohio and educated at Ohio State University, where he wrote for the school newspaper. After working as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch and later a Parisbased correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, in 1927 he joined the staff of the New Yorker, […]

What is the purpose of inner conflict (poet vs skinhead) in Tony Harrison ’s V? Tony Harrison by employing different voices and different linguistic styles he achieves to demonstrate the antithetic distinctions of personas belonging to different social and educational backgrounds. The shifts in linguistic styles in the poem, between his voice as a poet […]

Robert Frost’s poem The Vantage Point tells of a man who is lost in the world of people so seeks refuge in nature. A vantage point is a viewpoint from which someone is able to see a wide range of things. The vantage point in the poem is where the man goes to watch the […]

The novel The Running Man by Michael Gerard Bauer explores the effects of war and societal expectations through different relationships. Similarly, Bruce Dawe’s poem ‘Weapons Training’ uses the relationship between a drill sergeant, soldiers, and their enemy to portray the brutality and demands of war and society. The theme of the effects of war is […]

Rifleman Dodd is about a green-coated British infantry rifleman in the Napoleonic Wars, an age when rifles were a novelty and most of the army was red-coated and carried muskets. Private Matthew Dodd gets separated from his regiment during a retreat and finds himself stranded behind enemy (French) lines in Portugal. With the occasional aid […]

The story of Fox Company’s last stand in the frozen hills of northern Korea serves as an inspiration to Marines everywhere, reinforcing their already mightily proud history. As a testament to the human will in the face of overwhelming forces of opposition it stands equally high as the courageous acts of Iwo Jima, Belleau Wood, […]

Most war novels overlook the role of binary linguistic oppositions. However, Timothy Findley defies this trend in The Wars by emphasizing the psychological effects of war on the human mind. This award-winning novel revolves around the First World War and follows Robert Ross, a young Canadian who joins the military after his sister’s tragic death. […]

The title of the poem is an extension from George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man. ” The replacement of ‘boy’ for man indicates the nature of the monstrous First World War, that the Great War had boys instead of men forced into the war. The starting phrase “Let the boy try along this bayonet […]

Douglas MacArthur once said, “The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. ” In the book Ship Breakers by Paolo Bacigalupi the main character Nailer has many external and internal struggles as he strives for peace in his […]

With the Communist organization here estimated to still have more than forty thousand duly registered members by March 1951, the government went on with its sustained campaign to cope with the worsening peace and order problem. The 1951 budget included the use of a residue fund for the land resettlement program in favor of the […]

Despite the various artistic representations in poetry, music, and film that illustrate war’s destructive nature, there remains a prevailing belief that war is glorious. Posters, advertisements, and literature often depict war as heroic and awe-inspiring. Some even romanticize it as a type of vacation. However, if offered lifelong security and wealth, many individuals would willingly […]

Have we become a world that has forgotten how to listen and debate? Why are people so quick to argue? Everyone wants to prove their point these days. In “The Argument Culture,” Deborah Tannen discusses how today’s society no longer honors the noble American tradition of debate. She explains how we no longer want to […]

It’s an age old argument, men are all around better than women. For decades a women’s job was in the kitchen, cooking meals or taking care of the children although for most of us these views are now outdated. The army however seems to think they still apply. Looking back though history we read of […]

James Augusta Aloysius Joyce was born on 2 February 1882 to John Stanislaus Joyce and Mary Jane “May” Murray in the Dublin suburb of Rathgar. He was baptised in the nearby St. Joseph’s Church in Terenure on 5 February by Rev. John O’Mulloy. His godparents were Philip and Ellen McCann. He was the eldest of […]