Landmines

Motorolla, a multinational telecommunication company was involved in selling electronic parts to mine manufacturers, indirectly contributing to the deaths caused by anti-personnel landmines. Back in January 1996, the news broadcasting Motorola’s semiconductor chip being found in a Chinese-made landmine in Cambodia spurred public debate over the company’s ethical code of conduct (HRW, 1997). Anti-personnel mines are explosive weapons built to harm and kill enemies, they are placed just below the grounds

landmines? “Responding to landmines” speech by Princess Diana discusses a critical topic about landmines dangers and raises an awareness to everyone listening to the speech to acknowledge and recognize the causes, the consequences, and the recommended solutions of landmines terrible problem. Diana’s speech encompasses a wide collection of linguistic and stylistic devices that definitely support her message to the audience. The use of facts, statistical evidences, call to actions, rhetorical devices

Landmines are bombs that are left in the ground after a war. It costs three dollars to make a mine and three hundred dollars to remove (Assistance in Mine Action). Landmines kill about 4,000 people a year; many innocent people die of a war no one is fighting any more. In 1992, many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) came together to ban landmines; it was called the Ottawa Treaty. Besides military, children are those most affected by landmines. Women and girls are victims 12% of the time when

Landmines If one is fortunate enough to be an United States citizen, the notion of landmines in combat may seem like primitive warfare technology. But, for the people in war torn Africa, one mistep has become a death sentence. Suprisingly, the United Nations estimates that 2 to 5 million new landmines are put into the ground each year. This statistic shows that landmines are the exact oppostite of primitive technology. On top of all that, as if the traditional variation was not enoough, they now

He was still terrified, but there was something about him that seemed almost calm. He was right, though. We had gone over how these landmines worked in basic training, and there was no hope for him. Any force over five pounds arms the mine, and if too big of a change in weight is detected, it detonates. The catch with these mines was that there was a timer built into them, and it would

offensive tactical device and extremist’s tool to wreak havoc on an enemy or marginalized population. Connecting the history of landmines to the conflicts we have discussed in this class will take several steps. The first part of this paper will discuss the history of landmines, how they are detonated, and the different types of landmines. The next section looks at the ways landmines are used defensively in war time, and as an offensive weapon in past wars and by current day extremists. The third section

Although the Landmine and the Rope in Melissa Range’s poems are both made to participate in horrifying violence against the innocent, the Landmine reveals its boastful indifference by twisting imagery of life and hope into a grotesque threat to haunt the world of peace long into the future, while the Rope reveals its humble sympathy by longing for a future that redeems violence by affirming life and beauty The Landmine and rope in Melissa's Range’s Poems are both made to participate

Although the Landmine and the Rope in Melissa Range’s poems are both made to participate in horrifying violence against the innocent, the Landmine reveals its boastful indifference by twisting imagery of life and hope into a grotesque threat to haunt the world of peace long into the future, while the Rope reveals its humble sympathy by longing for a future that redeems violence by affirming life and beauty. Both of these poems begin with both of them creating violence, but the difference is that

Paul Jefferson, an early humanitarian deminer once said: “a landmine is the perfect soldier: Ever courageous, never sleeps, never misses” (Khamis par. 1). Jefferson’s quote can be interpreted in two ways: that a landmine is a great weapon and all countries should use it, or that a landmine is too dangerous for one’s own good. For years, landmines have been affordable, yet dangerous killers that countries use to defend their borders in war. But as wars end, countries often forget about their rural

In Confessions, Augustine provides anecdotes of landmines that he has encountered with some of his friendships. Augustine regales the reader first with a tale of his friends and him stealing from a pear tree. The cronies had no need for the pears, but were drawn to the action because, “(they) derived pleasure from the deed simply because it was forbidden,” (Confessions 37). While Augustine is unable to determine the root of this desire, the reader can assume that the presence of his friends at