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    Policy of Appeasement: Good or Bad? After the Great War, Germany and a couple other countries were greatly punished, having to pay reparations and territorial losses. Hitler, soon to be a dictator, wanted to change that. He believed that Germany had been punished too severely and wanted revenge; because he had such a strong government and military, there were many ways of going about stopping him. During the 1930’s, the policy of appeasement was the most effective response to Hitler’s aggression

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    Aquinas Double Effect

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    conditions for just war are: proper authority, a just cause, and a right intention. The first condition, proper authority, specifies that a war in order to be just must be declared by the authority of the head of a state. A declaration of war gives the opposite nation the opportunity to reconsider things and resolve the issue in a peaceful way. Only if the highest authority rejects or deny this opportunity a war is consider just. The second condition is a just cause, which means that a war must be declared

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    Martin Luther King Jr. and President Barack Obama both have similar viewpoints on how to handle problems, but their positions in society make them think differently about when violence actually needed to obtain peace. King is a firm believer that nonviolence is the best way to obtain a goal and proves so when he says that nonviolence is the answer to the biggest political question of the time, and he is clearly stating that nonviolence is the answer to the big problem of that time period, which

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    Why Is A Just War Bad

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    just war? Some people will say no. They say that every war is bad. But, I say that a war fought for the right reasons is perfectly fine. War may be a terrible thing, but war is necessary for safety. In a fallen world, everyone is sinful. Since everyone is sinful, you need to protect yourself, and war is the only way. War is the only war to protect good people from sinful people. Sinful people won’t care about the other person, so there will always be war. But, there is a way to fight a good war, a

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    Jimmy Carter had effect on the war. He did things other presidents couldn’t do to make peace between palestine and israeli . He believed that United states can still shape the future of the Israeli, palestinian conflict. In 1978, during Jimmy Carter’s administration, he was trying to fix the war between egypt and israel. The war broke out in 1948 and it wasn’t going well. The Us offered the defacto recognition of israel provisional goverment , during the war united states couldnt do anything

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    Thematic Essay On Peace

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    Peace is a fundamental part of many religions. Just because many religions practice peace doesn’t mean they practice it the same way. All religions have their own distinct view of peace and go about achieving and promoting peace in different ways. Religion also relates to the concept of nonviolence. Most religions teach people to be kind to and love others. Two religions that have very different views of peace are Buddhism and Islam. Buddhism is considered a very peaceful religion. Peace is

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    Game that has a good story and good characters that add meaning to the story. The book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is about kids fighting in a war with an alien race, but what it’s really about is Ender learning that the aliens aren’t actually bad, they are just different and misunderstood. In the same way we need to learn not to misjudge other people. In the book Ender’s Game there is a boy named Ender Wiggins who has been chosen to go to battle school to prepare for war with an alien race

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    Just War Conditions

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    for a just war includes that war must be declared by proper authority, antagonist must be notified of the war declaration, and the antagonists must be given the opportunity to make peace before war begins. These are the necessary conditions for jus ad bellum. When a just war will begin, proper authorities must declare the war to the public. It must be a person of official purpose in the state, not a random citizen. The antagonist must be notified of the war and not blind sided by war in any type

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    causes for war are derived from the ideas of philosophers before him, primarily Augustine and Aristotle. Aquinas’s just causes for war are if it is “declared by the authority of a head of a state for good reason and with a morally good aim” (Christopher 50). This statement can be broken down into three key conditions; proper authority, just cause and right intentions. The first component; proper authority, states that only the highest of authority can declare war. If the person who declares war has to

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    Hopefulness can come in many directions, whether it is from good or bad times. This is one of the proponents in what the playwrights, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, set out in the play The Diary of Anne Frank, which shows a girl’s immense hope while in hiding. Even when dark times went into play, the main character, Anne Frank, and the other characters in the play had a huge amount of hope, even when they were in fear of being caught and sent to concentration camps by the Nazis. In all, hope

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