Love Is A Battlefield By Dominic Tierney

In this writing assignment I will be giving a detailed interpretation on Robert Nozick’s writing, “Love’s Bond”. First I will give an explanation on Nozick’s account of the nature of love. Secondly, I will explain why Robert Nozick believes that in love there is no desire to trade up to another partner. Lastly, I will also explain why he says that it is incoherent to ask what the value of love is to an individual person.

Australian author Beau Taplin once said, “You will not always be strong, but you can always be brave”, summing up a prominent theme in Angie Thomas’ novel, The Hate U Give. The novel’s protagonist, 16-year-old Starr Carter, frequently expresses how she believes that she is not at all brave, contrary to what other people, such as her mother, tell her. Starr seems to think that being brave is the same as being strong, which it is not. Although bravery and strength are two different concepts, and Starr often feels that she is never her idea of brave, there are actually quite a few moments throughout the novel where Starr is brave, as well as strong.

The book Black Hearts is written by Jim Frederick and tells the story of all the controversial accounts one infantry unit ran into while on deployment in Baghdad, Iraq. The book is a documentation, captured accounts and events written down to tell the crazy story these soldiers went through. The specific unit Frederick writes about and what Black Hearts is about is 2nd brigade of the 101st airborne infantry division. “Black Hearts” was the unofficial insignia of 2nd brigade. Frederick covers one platoon in particularly and their ethical dilemmas they encounter while on deployment. 1st platoon, Bravo Company, 1-502nd Regiment is the unit the book covers. Many things on deployment unfold poorly for this platoon such as having little

When I was a child my parents pushed me toward physical activities such as football and other sports, while on the other hand my sister was pushed toward things like music and arts. Whenever I would hurt myself my parents would laugh it off, but they were quick to aid my sister in the event she was hurt. As most people know, women and men are treated differently in how they should act. Men cannot show their emptions, while women are expected to be emotional. Society has strict guidelines on what it means to be a man and a woman, and these guidelines can have negative effects on both genders.

Political strife has been always present on an international scale with surges of civil war due to government overthrow, sending nations into unrest. Although not common recently, the ideology of recruiting child soldiers still remains, and the lasting effects on the children are traumatizing. From witnessing the carnage of constant bombshells erupting in the distance to whole families being executed, the images are etched deep into their minds, haunting them even after they are discharged from the armies. Although putting an immediate end to child soldiers is unrealistic, the United States should aid in creating and training members of war-affected countries to run long-lasting Rehabilitation centers due to the unqualified and ineffective

The American Revolution is arguably the most important battle that we as a country have ever taken on. Through this war, we grew together as a country and as Americans. This country was founded through the help of thousands of people of different races and gender. In the novel Revolutionary Mothers by Carol Berkin, the author discusses the role of women and how their various accomplishments are often looked over in the history books. Through the progression of the novel, Berkin details various events that highlight women’s efforts through the course of the revolutionary war. The contributions of women were necessary and helped weave the fabric that is our country.

Sara Josephine Baker was the first woman to serve as a top administrator at the New York Board of Health. Though Baker’s memoir, Fighting for Life, people will be able to approach the process of how Baker became a pioneer of public health in New York city from an unknown inspector through historical descriptions of New

Divided we fall book is about a private first class name Daniel Wright trying to serve his country and do his duty to protect and served his home as an Idaho Guardsmen. The author, Trent Reedy served in the Iowa national guard for 7 years and a tour in Afghanistan. I believed the book was well written by the author by giving us dramatic moments and good postures. The plot of the story was great by giving us details and action to give us an answer. Trent did an excellent telling us a story of a young soldier who’s trying to do good for his country. The story is mostly about a 17-yr. old private in the Idaho Guardsmen who’s going to High school somewhere right by a lake. Daniel was not just a guardsman, he plays for his school football team for

John Dower, a professor of Japanese Studies at the Michigan Institute of Technology and Pulitzer Prize winning author, is the author of the extensively researched and well formulated book, War Without Mercy. War Without Mercy approaches the well-known WWII era Pacific Theater in a way that allows the readers to witness the Japanese perspective of the war. Describing in great detail the wartime attitudes of the Japanese and Americans toward each other, the reasons such attitudes were felt, the atrocities and the merciless actions against the enemy which they encouraged, it even entices the readers to question their own opinions about the war with its eye-opening writing. World War II, who often stands out as the “Good War” , was a war to reestablish the peace and ethics challenged by the Axis powers. Or so goes the notion, yet the facts set forth by this book make the reader realize the true and often absurd mentality behind many of the actions taken by the Allies, namely in the Pacific Theater. War Without Mercy depicts the transforming American mentality as shaped by different events, such as the shocking Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor where Americans reacted with a mixture of terror and rage, and shows the ensuing consequences of such thinking. These strong negative feelings and perceptions from the Japanese and the Americans against one another, became the fuel which allowed the blatantly racist and exaggerated negative portrayal of the enemy in both side’s media and

"I do not trust people who don 't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you. ' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt." This is a quote by Mayra Angelou that it clearly explains that, having kindness for yourself is the most important thing for people. Having kindness for yourself it’s the first step that everyone should take. “Suicide Note” by Janice Mirikitani talks about a girl who committed suicide just because she didn’t have kindness for herself. I choose to compare the reading by Mirikitani with chapter number five “It’s Never Too Late” of the book “When Things Fall Apart” by Pema Chodron because this chapter talks about how people should start having kindness for themselves. This is a part of the book that Asian-American girl who committed suicide, which Mirikitani talks should have read it before taking the decision to end her life.

This new article discus a book called “Out of Carnage” written by Alexander Griffin. Griffins books’ main argument was that medical advances came directly from war. He proved that medical advances in war immensely kept fatalities low and recovery time quick. This book goes through major time in war where disease was prominent and how new medicines were used to address the injured troops need. The author also discusses diseases and injuries that came from war like typhus, malaria and war burns and he look at how these issue were addressed and how they spawned new medical technology. I think this article would have been noteworthy in 1945 because it was the time of World war II. People had seen the negative effect of war and I’m sure at the

In any point of literature or crime- homicide novel, love and friendship, is a weapon, rather a guerrilla of man to combat, deprive over any sort of civil rebellion or manslaughter, and this is quite masterfully demonstrated in Tomorrow When the War Began, the film.

In the short story, “Death Constant Beyond Love”, the significance of the title of the story has many meanings. The first meaning is that death is the one this that is constant. Regardless of how we feel about one another, emotions evolved, and even love, all things will come to an end. If something dies, it is forever. Therefore, nothing can come back to life. Giving death a constant role in life. I found the title of this story to be very direct to its readers.

Grief. Agony. Pain. She was going through so much as an adolescent. Afraid. Alone. Abandoned. The young lad had nihility in life. Bereaved. Cheerless. Dejected. Her soul pleaded to be convivial. Bruised. Deformed. Disabled. The saddened girl longed to be like everyone else. Ashame. Discomfit. Chargin. Everyone looks down upon her.

Thrity Umrigar’s novel The Space Between Us follows the lives of two women, Serabai and Bhima, from completely different classes in India, who despite their social and economic differences, are in fact alike. Both of these women envisioned a life filled with happiness and fulfillment that were more than attainable, but fell short due to the circumstances each woman has been through. The Space Between Us takes a look at gender and class, and how they relate to social and economic factors in modern day India.