Essay On The Big Bad War Inside

Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War is a novel that is a personal view of the Vietnam War from the perspective of a Vietnamese soldier. Like the American novel “The things they carried”, this novel brings about the effects of war on people, and especially how it defeats the human capacity for things such as love and hope. Bao Ninh offers this realistic picture of the Vietnam War’s impact on the individual Vietnamese soldier through use of a series of reminiscences or flashbacks, jumping backwards and forwards in time between the events most salient in memory, events which take on a different theme each time they are examined. His main protagonist Kien, who is basically Bao himself, looks back not just at his ten years at

H.G Wells highlights the obviousness of the English to the sciences especially astronomy, which was his motif in writing the novel. Wells believed that humans should at least understand the basics of astronomy and be aware of their environment, which is why he creates the critical flaw of the humans in his book to be their obviousness to the sciences. He describes that the general population does not even know about the Martians’s projectile launches towards the Earth or even their landing at the Woking Common. Moreover, Wells’s War of the Worlds supports my argument that humans have a detrimental obliviousness to the sciences because in the case of the novel they easily fall to extraterrestrial aliens. Since the general population of humans did not see the Martians coming, the humans were not prepared and organized for the invasion, which illustrates the critical flaw of humans to astronomy.

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, written by the talented author Chris Hedges, gives us provoking thoughts that are somewhat painful to read but at the same time are quite personal confessions. Chris Hedges, a talented journalist to say the least, brings nearly 15 years of being a foreign correspondent to this book and subjectively concludes how all of his world experiences tie together. Throughout his book, he unifies themes present in all wars he experienced first hand. The most important themes I was able to draw from this book were, war skews reality, dominates culture, seduces society with its heroic attributes, distorts memory, and supports a cause, and allures us by a

She opened the door and heard a sweet voice say, “Scotts Valley Middle School, Valerie speaking, how may I help you?” She was opening her mouth to answer, when again, she heard, “Okay, I am so sorry, what time or day will he make it back to school? Hmmm, okay! Have a nice day!”

It can be hard to fully comprehend the effects the Vietnam War had on not just the veterans, but the nation as a whole. The violent battles and acts of war became all too common during the long years of the conflict. The war warped the soldiers and civilians characters and desensitized their mentalities to the cruelty seen on the battlefield. Bao Ninh and Tim O’Brien, both veterans of the war, narrate their experiences of the war and use the loss of love as a metaphor for the detrimental effects of the years of fighting.

“ Oh I know, I just want to stay with my little girl a little longer, boy a m I gonna miss you.” she said fake crying.

'Lisa, that's a beautiful name' she thought sparing a glance at her daughter. 'Unfortunately, she doesn't seem worth it. What a waste of the last 9 months'. The exhausted mother fell asleep

Lauren opened the door. “Hi. Lauren, it's me, Miss D. I've brought my son and granddaughter with me. I have some apple pie and coffee.” added the neighbor. Lauren opened the door wider and let her come inside.

Tracy replied sniffling, “I don’t think they wanted me to come along ... They just left me.”

“ I'm going to help myself” expressed Amanda “ for my sake and the sake of my family.”

She turns to face the bed, watching Marco with a pitiful look on her face. "I'm sorry Marco," she whispers, "but I think I really Stared it up this time." She bites her lower lip, her mind wandering a bit. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad, staying here. She was certain they would be able to fend for themselves. She would be free of the responsibilities of her title, her face furrows into a frown, but that also meant she wouldn't see her family again. Marco wouldn't either.

Out of a desperate attempt to fix things she said “Get rid of him, make it like he never existed.”

Many people have probably heard Bruce Springsteen belt out the famous lines, “War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!” However, Mr. Springsteen would be wrong in that statement. While war is horrible, it ironically has propelled us on a course that has made us richer, safer, and lead to progress and development. War has led to the establishment of larger societies, it is justifiable and necessary in some instances, and leads to an immense amount of progress and development in society and technologies.

“ Just leave I will find a way to get myself out of here”. Dad said.

1. International conflict among countries is more likely of what we may think. Today there are many different ongoing conflicts. International conflict is a stage of opposition, disagreement or incompatibility between two or more states (Malek). The term "international conflict" referred to conflicts between different nations and conflicts between people and organizations in different nations (Mr. Turetzky lec 11). It also applies to inter-group conflicts within one country when one group is fighting for independence or increased social, political, or economic power. International conflicts can be divided into two branches: private international conflict and public international conflict. A private international conflict is a disagreement