Colonel Lanser Themes

During the 1700s era, King George III constantly persecuted the colonist. He distributed many unjust rulings, taxation without representation, sending soldiers to invade colonial homes and territory, and taking away their basic rights while giving them less freedom than that of the people who live in Great Britain. Many colonists did not agree with the way he was ruling, however, many of them stood by and let it happen. The ones that did not stand by had more forceful tactics of taking care of a problem. The main issue with being inclined to violent thoughts, or nothing at all, is not actually executing a problem to the solution. Patrick Henry, being one of the many leaders of change, delivered a speech towards a solution. Patrick Henry delivered his speech to the 122 delegates and the President on March 23, 1775. This speech took place about 1 month before the American Revolutionary War and about 1 year before the Declaration of Independence. Henry’s speech became the start of a new America. His speech uses allusions, metaphors, and rhetorical questions to emphasize the need to go to war with England.

The war ends in new England. The first prison was organized in Nantucket. The author feels the events occurring in Virginia are serious enough to start a rebellion. His age race and social status play a critical role in how the rebellion developed. He was rich, he had privilege, but he chose to empower the marginalized. He chose to deny his privileged and side with the oppressed at a time where class dictated the norms of the society. The author doesn’t acknowledge his bias. His rhetoric is lazar focused on the rebellion, and the language he uses, is focused and charged up on the rebellion.

Society is based upon those who lead and those who follow. Typically people will go as far as harming innocent people in order to please authority. Events such as mass genocides and massacres, happen due to people’s strong willingness follow authority they will perpetrate these horrendous acts. From the outside perspective, it seems as though these events should be obviously avoidable. However, it is difficult to imagine being in the position of either going against personal morals or following authority. Milgram decided to test the theory of how far a person will go to satisfy authority. Although society is skeptical to accept the validity of Milgram’s results, the event that occurred in My Lai proves his results.

The foundation of today’s society is not in immense chaos or destruction, but rather in an organizational order because of the choice in obedience. As depicted in the movie, “A Few Good Men”, obedience is questioned due to soldiers choosing to obey or not when it presents the case of Lance Cpl. Harold Dawson and Pfc. Louden Downey being disciplined for committing a crime, even if they were only following orders. Eric Fromm, a social psychologist and psychoanalyst, furthers points in whether it is permissible to commit a crime under the pretext of obeying orders in his article, “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem”. Comparatively, Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychologist, addresses obedience overriding

Revolution and radical change seem, to many, to be intrinsically linked to violence. But as proponents of pacifism such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez will tell you, nonviolence holds the true power. Revolution, in the opinion of both these civil rights leaders, should be peaceful. In Cesar Chavez’s article for a religious organization’s magazine, Chavez expresses these beliefs by arguing against the idea of a bloody, casualty-filled revolution. He masterfully develops his case against violent revolution by using the rhetorical devices of allusion, logical cause and effect, and powerful metaphor and language.

“If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen...” (pg. 54). Throughout the course of A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, we familiarize ourselves with the exceptional hardships that Ishmael has experienced as a child soldier, in Sierra Leone, and what actions he takes to overcome them. Despite the fact that Ishmael has been through these devastating hardships and that he became the fear that he himself feared, Ishmael is able to instill hope and keep the reader going through the themes of powerful memories, nature and redemption. He does this through the use of powerful memories that contrast the fear and danger of the war with the remembrance of the beauty of life. Furthermore, nature leaves the reader striving

The members of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 were influenced and conditioned in a general way and filled in particular with a sense of their own superiority and racial relationship. The aspect of Jewish inferiority, peer pressure and sense of duty therefore turned many of the police battalion into murderers. Browning suggests that given the same or similar circumstances, a similar number of ordinary men would experience the same results.

Forche then begins to describe the ordeal in grim detail. For example, “They were like dried peach halves,” (13) or “He took one of them in his hands, shook it in our faces, dropped it into the water glass. It came alive there.” (13-14) Forche probably does this so the reader can easily visualize what the whole ordeal was like for the speaker. The colonel then says “I am tired of fooling around he said. As for the rights of anyone, tell your

The Colonel does not consider the twins a harm but thinks of them as “no more than a pair of big buffers” (Márquez,56). Aponte’s indifference, prevents him from taking more dramatic measures, other than taking their knives and sending them off to sleep. Even though Clotilde does hope that he will detain them until there is proof of their intentions; the Colonel says that “no one is arrested on suspicion” (Márquez,57). Having reassured his conscience, he sets off to warn Santiago and finish his job. However, when he does see Santiago at the docks, he does not warn him about the twins. Instead, he “congratulate[s] himself for making the right decision”

Bruck mostly uses logical and emotional appeal to persuade his readers against capital punishment. His appeals correlate with his use of tone to persuade. He begins his essay by scorning Koch’s reason for the death penalty by stating that Koch views is “the standard ‘moral’ defense of death as punishment.” Hs use of tone and appeals is stronger when he discusses varies cases of wrongful executions such as Green and Knighton’s because of the strong use of pathos and logos. For instance, he states that the “the state of Georgia refused to allow the examiner into prison” in Green’s case even though Green asked for one in order to prove that he was not guilty of killing the woman but of only kidnapping her. The word “refused” has an emotional connotation of bewilderment and frustration from Bruck. That is what he hopes to convey to us and for us to have a mutual reaction to what he is stating. He mostly has a strong emotional appeal when he argues about Knighton’s case. His tone is hateful and

As we progress through the essay, Orwell’s creative style becomes even more apparent through his contrasting tone when he has an epiphany that the hanging is wrong. In this section of the essay, a dog has come running into the prison yard, and is very excitable, while the prisoner and the guards are standing, waiting.

There have been many produced films that represent the Australian society, but no film can be as tremendous as the movie of the legendary Pilbara Wanderer, Red Dog.

The Colonel grew up poor in a trailer park in rural Alabama. He is very smart and attends Culver Creek on a scholarship. He resents the “Weekday Warriors” the rich kids in school who go home on the weekends, and most of his pranks are against them. The Colonel has a good relationship with his mother, and he plans on repaying her when he finishes school. He is Pudge’s first friend at Culver Creek, and he introduces Pudge to the ways of the school.

3. Choose one or two themes from the following list and show how Spiegelman conveyed this in Maus: Loneliness; Discrimination; Abuse of Power; Loss of Innocence, Guilt, Survival.

The fact of the play is a weak young man was killed to ensure a “code” and to instill in him “honor.” Yet, somewhere, there is a disconnect between real honor, and that honor demonstrated by Jessup. Jessup has the honor of a bully. He helps his friends, and sticks it to his enemies. Meanwhile, real honor, as one of the accused soldier’s notes at the end of the film, is defending those who are too weak to defend themselves. It is to behave admirably and justly, not simply to follow one’s orders, no matter what their cost. “That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives.” Jessup believes that, if one link is weak, the whole chain is weak, and that it is his responsibility to make it stronger. Jessup’s sense of honor to the Country is doing whatever is needed, at all costs. Jessup argues that while he might be “grotesque” he is necessary to defend the nation. He sees no other way to defend the nation except to force every man into a defender of it. To him, there is giving code REDs or there is watching the nation fall apart. But these two options are the same thing. He believes the nation is indefensible without ordering this ruthlessness against his own troops, yet our values oppose code REDs.