The club plays a prominent role in village warfare after European contact. Drawings by European artists often include war clubs in portraits of post-contact Native Americans. Figure 3.7 shows Mandan Chief Four Bears in a battle using an ax style club. In the battle, the chief was injured by his opponent wielding a knife. The war pipe displayed on his belt signified that he was the war party leader (Keyser 2000) . When metal became a common material for construction of the ax blade, the war pipe design was incorporated into the club. War clubs appear in the ethnographic record as well. Both the Mandan and Hidatsa have the Black Mouth Society, a male group charged with policing the village and defending attacks. Once inducted into the society,
From the time that the War Resisters League was created, its stance has been against war on an international and civil level. However, it was a one-stance organization when it was first created. This changed at the start of World War II, as several of the members declared themselves conscientious objectors and spent the war years either in Civilian Public Service camps or in prison. The experiences in the Civilian Public Service camps and prison prompted the members to achieve fair working conditions, meaningful work in terms of national interest, and racial integration. As a result, the War Resisters League’s agenda changed from one to several issues. Since then, the issues that the War Resisters league have worked on are World War II, prison life and segregation in prison, Cold War and civil defense drills, Watergate scandal, fight against racism and equality including working closely with Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Great March for Jobs and Freedom, Vietnam War, nuclear warfare and chemical weaponry, women’s rights, poverty and race including the poverty draft into the military, and ending corporate profit from war.
Many common objects, such as a paperweight, can hold significant value to its possessor. Memories that are associated with these types of objects can create a strong bond that may sometimes weigh more than the object itself. This type of correlation between memories and objects is an important theme within Emily St. John Mandel’s novel, Station Eleven, as well as Tim O’Brien’s short story, The Things They Carried. At a young age Kirsten, the protagonist of Station Eleven, is abrasively thrust into a new and desolate world where most of the population has been killed by a virus. Whereas Jimmy Cross, the protagonist of The Things They Carried, is a fully-grown man
How did the War affect Americans lives and continue to shape American lives in the 21st century in the following categories:
Citizens do play a role in warfare. Every single victim in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not innocent in the war efforts. Many of them probably worked in the manufacturing plants and arms factories. However, they are doing no different from what Nazi Germany did, the Soviet Union, and the United States. During a war, there is a necessity for weapons. Wartime is a major cause of increasing domestic manufacturing. These civilians were following the orders of their government. They were doing their job in creating weapons for the army. The citizens should not be penalized and victimized simply because they are making weapons to support the government’s wishes. The Truman Administration provided numerous warning to the Japanese, they chose to
i)Up to 1/5 of white population Loyalists- some officeholders in imperial govt, others merchants engaged in trade tied to imperial system, others who had lived in isolation of revolutionary ideas, others expected Brits to be victors
Good morning, Mr Colyer and fellow classmates. Today I am going to discuss and analyse how societal attitudes to war have changed over time. First, we must explore the idea of a hero. What is a hero? It is a concept that has evolved over time to conform to the ideas and thoughts of the authors that have existed and written over the centuries. The concept has constantly changed and shaped it to fit their views, and left us with an amalgamation of ideas and thoughts and viewpoints on what heroism actually is. The differences in views are clearly shown in the two contrasting poems that were made in time periods only a few hundred years apart. King Henry V’s ‘Once more unto the breach’ speech in famous playwright Shakespeare’s play ‘Henry V’, portrays war as noble and illustrious, while Wilfred Owen, a soldier and poet in World War One, describes the war in ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ as senseless and inhumane, writing 318 years later.
troops, because as we could see the first character of this drawing is a Cheyenne warrior who is running towards the U.S. troops on his already bleeding horse. The reason that makes me to think that he is running to fight is because he is holding a rendezvous throwing knife and facing forward. Seems to me that he is also the leader of the tribe, since the artist numbered each one of the characters and the first character’s number is one. Artist distinguished each character by having a different dress accessories, roaches, fire guns and knives. Besides that each one of Indians holding some sort of an animal totems, which could be the symbol of the tribe that they belonged to. If my analyzation on animal totem is right, then in this piece artist tried to bring the member of the different tribes together, united against the enemy. By droving the character I believe the author tried to escalade the events. Because, this male Indian on his heavily injured ride is trying to run away, however he is still not giving up and fighting. As we could despite the fact that he is running away, him and his gun are pointed against the enemy. His difference from other male Indians is that he is holding an actual firearm. In my
With the advances in technology and military medicine, improved amounts of armed veterans are surviving the injuries they endure at war. These brave men and woman are faced to enter the civilian life after enduring the things that they cannot remove form their memories. Posttraumatic stress disorder is a common psychological and physiological consequence of deployment for combat in military veterans. For an individual to be diagnosed of PTSD, the person had to have been exposed to an intense traumatic situation, which resulted in terror or helplessness and continue to re-experience the event for at least a month (World Health Organization). It can be very difficult for a military personal to return from active duty with the mindset that
There are many events that led to the American Civil War. Most of them were because the North and the South disagreed on many different things. The Dred Scott Decision, John Brown’s Raid, Lincoln’s Election, The transcontinental railroad, and Kansas’s statehood are all events that greatly influenced the American Civil War. Overall, the North and the South disagreed on many different subjects. In this essay, I will show and explain how the transcontinental railroad influenced the Civil War.
“I had been done once before. That was a queer thing, and the proof, actually, that New Tahiti was intended for humans to take over” (Le Guin). The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin is a written representation of colonialism, oppression and militarism representing it’s the consequences in the behavior and integrity of innocent people. Ursula K. Le Guin highlights how two cultures, The Yumens and the Athsheans, have different characteristics and behaviors that can resemble to our own reality. Le Guin presents the Yumen’s culture as a provocative, brutal and greedy society in search of environmental resources for their homeland.
The pioneer form of policing was developed by clans, and tribes among other ethnical groups. Particular members from each group were granted authority to enforce statues the community stablished. The punishment for violators was brutal; subsequently the structure of policing evolve during the Greek and Roman Empire (citation). Moreover, during the twelve century the policing structure evolve to frankpledge system. Kings assigned leaders called chief-pledges, their function was to ensure laws were enforced and functionality of the system. Chief –pledges grouped ten houses called a “tithing” out of every ten houses chiefs assigned a leader who was liable of the tithing’s behavior. The policing system kept evolving, public servants stated obtaining wages for their service. Moving forward, police officers have developed new strategies and skills to reduce crime rate in present time. The due process established by the U.S. Constitution privileges offenders to have a fair judgement and a justified punishment. However, as the structure evolve law enforcement agents grew different mentalities and their reasoning skills for many of them were corrupted due globalization. The cultural diversity, non-legal aliens living in this country among other factors are deviating the consciousness and responsibilities og law enforcement agents. Morals, values, beliefs and ethics have been evolving through the years. Several police officers have decided to practice their own
The American revolutionary war is one of the most riveting tales to learn about, especially to a patriotic citizen, sadly it is full of myths and exaggerations and at times outright lies. The very motive for the war has been twisted through the years to make the fight for independence a more beautiful story. In the late 1770’s several important people “found that by creating a nation, a symbol, a legal unity called the United States, they could take over land, profits, and political power from favorites of the British Empire. In the process, they could hold back a number of potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new, privileged leadership” (Zinn). This is the true motive behind the fight for independence. Year after year, the fight the “founding fathers” of this country put up against Britain is celebrated and yet the essence of the war is never discussed nor analyzed. The United States is a nation filled with blind patriotism. The inequality in wealth distribution in the United States started in the colonies and continues on today. During Colonial times “the top 5 percent of Boston 's taxpayers controlled 49% of the city 's taxable assets” (Zinn). The poor got poorer and the rich got richer. The poor would speak their grievances to no avail. In the traditional story, every single able-bodied man took up arms to fight the British who were encroaching on colonial homes and rights, but in reality, the majority
(Bowers, A.W., 1992) The village members that planned on searching out their enemies could be seen giving feasts to the older men for advice, checking their riding equipment and ceremonial bundles. Warfare was highly encouraged within the tribes and males hoped to show publicly their military accomplishments. The members of the tribe that were asked to remain in the village to help protect women, children and the elderly were praised just as high as if they returned to the village victories from
Assume that Pittman Company decides to continue selling through agents and pays the 20% commissions rate. Determine the volume of the sales that would be required to generate the same net income as contained in the budgeted income.
War is strongly ingrained into our world today whether we like it or not and while it may seem more prevalent and worse lately considering the advances in technology and the increase in hysteria over security, war is not a recent adjunct to society. That poses the question, where does war come from? As human beings, are we hard-wired biologically to fight each other or is it a behaviour influenced by peers and morals?