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    anxiety, curiosity, distress, nervousness; all emotions of a young, naïve soldier entering war for the first time. To the reader, this is exactly what Henry Fleming represents. Because Crane never tells us what he looks like, just how old he is, or exactly where he comes from, and usually refers to him as "the youth" (Crane, 12) or "the young soldier" (Crane, 14), Henry could be any young many experiencing war for the first time. Throughout the novel The Red Badge of Courage, Henry Fleming goes

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    that cyber war will not happen is that cyber war is completely misplaced if not entirely misunderstood. He argues that the concept of cyber war is not in tandem with the historical definition and understanding of what constitutes ‘’war’’. Rid’s definition of war, borrowed from Carl von Clausewitz, is that war must constitute three elements: violence, instrumental and political. (Rid, Cyber War Will Not Take Place, 2012) Therefore, his main argument against the possibility for cyber war is premised

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    1 BOOK REPORT Name: Smith, Stephen Grade: LCpl Date: Section: . Book Title: Rifleman Dodd Author: C.S. Forester Why I chose this book: Originally this book was given to me by on of my combat instructors in Marine Combat Training(MCT). I wanted to read it but soon found it impossible due to certain time constraints. I lost the book during the transition from M.O.S. school to my current residence. Just recently, I obtained another copy of this book from a fellow

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    adulthood are vast and biased towards the higher power. This power struggle is evident in every day situations all around the world whether it be in a family dynamic with a parent and child or school systems via teacher and student or more violent as in war ridden cultures. Children become second class citizens and their ideas and opinions become repressed in their own society. The concept of power distributed in society is always slanted towards the majority ruler which consequently displaces and alleviates

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    bsp;                       There are many archetypical symbols used in hundreds of works, new and old. Some of these symbols include: war, peace, love, nature, birds, mountains, and darkness. These symbols have deep meaning which help embellish a certain work. They also help the reader to better understand the theme or plot of a work. They are used freely and abundantly in most modern

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    The Definition of Cyber Attack The most important thing that needs to be done before taking the debate on the status of cyber attacks under international laws of war any forward is to specifically define a “cyber attack”. Scholars generally use the terms such as “information warfare”, “cyber warfare”, “cyber threats”, “computer network attacks”, etc as alternatives for “cyber attacks” without a reference to any particular definition or limitation of scope. Perhaps this is done on a supposition that

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    Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Edmund Burke published the Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790; after the Bastille had been stormed by the Paris mol. He reflects upon about how France was very chaotic. Burke opposed the values of his contemporary revolutionaries; and he predicted that the French revolution would cause problems of fear and chaos to the country. Burke also believed that the revolutionary leaders were more interested in themselves and that they wanted power

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    1.07 Dialectical Journal

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    1.) The ending did not surprise me; I think it may have if we hadn’t discussed it in class. I think I would have been very surprised and confused, if I hadn’t known the ending prior to reading it. 2.) Farquhar neck was broken, so he must have died instantly. “Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with his broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge” (Bierce 57). 3.) The verb changes from past tense to present tense in the second to last paragraph, because

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    in a civil war, supplied trucks are routinely stopped and drivers are intimated or killed by other civilian’s who steal the food to feed their families or villages, and the drivers believe that the situation Elbonian Relief project puts them in that drivers feel they have to be able to meet “financial Demands” from the armed looters to be able to pass by in

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    States have fought wars for a multitude of reasons in the past few centuries. Today, smaller amounts of wars are being fought between states, and more are fought within states. Many states and areas of land are extensively packed with many different people, all possessing specific cultures and ethnicities. Currently, Iraq is plagued by resentment from Sunni Arabs, under control of the Islamic State, while a Shiite Iraqi Army tries to fight back. Boko Haram is also present in Northeastern Nigeria

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