Essays Tagged: "pacifist"
The Columbine Shooting and what it mean for us and how to del with the shooting that America is dealing with,
is probably more likely to resort to violence to solve a conflict than a boy whose role model is a pacifist folk-singer simply because violence and fighting is a prominent overtone of the sport. The ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
New religion- Americanism.
onto Slave 4 U and I can't stand Kelly Clarkson, and uh I don't support US troops either since I'm pacifist. That makes up for the CNN I guess. I eat by McDonalds from time to time and I love Titanic ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
Reborn refugees in Australia and best life in Australia.
bullied, attacked, driven from several homes. Both his parents work for peace through a groundroots pacifist organisation but it's taking a long, long time to break down the barriers. They fear for th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
The Horse Soldiers with a brilliant star in John Wayne playing a Union Col.
Marlowe a man that thinks that the Army's duty comes before being a humanitarian. Wayne runs into a pacifist-leaning surgeon Major Kendall (William Holden).The film is set in 1863 as the practical-min ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
A quick review of the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930). Also has a little commentary.
e perspective of German soldiers fighting trench warfare against the French during World War I. The pacifist sentiment of the film is laid out in a title card in the first frame, which explains that t ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Abraham Lincoln Assassination Thorough Description plus Assassination Source Analysis
was against.Before the civil war Booth served under Colonel Robert e. Lee. During the war he turned pacifist and did not take action in the war, so he continued his career in acting. Booth took pride ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
How radical was the religious program of AKHENATEN (Amunhotep III)? In particular, address the question of the assumed conservatism of the 'heretic Pharaoh' with respect to Cyril Aldred's remarks.
us on a new monotheism , the cult of Aten, led to his initial description by modern eulogists as 'a pacifist visionary, eager to preach the brotherhood of mankind...'Recent works concerning the king's ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt
The Gandhian Concept of Non-Violence and its spread in the United States
s Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), the Mahatma, the "great-souled one," of Hinduism and the statesman-pacifist guru if India's struggle for political liberation, developed an intriguing and far-reaching ... rticular in Jesus of Nazareth's Sermon on the Mount. This sermon lay at the heart of the nonviolent pacifist message preached by both Gandhi and King. The nonviolent core of Jesus' entire ministry was ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
How plausible is the claim that there is no moral justification for warfare?
oughout the Crusades. Justice became the highest moral value after the conflict between Christ as a pacifist and the fight to spread Christianity. From this stemmed the principles of the just war trad ... as there is patriotism but no recognizable version allows killing even as a defensive act. Absolute pacifists agree with the title and say that it is never right to kill another person, however evil t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
The Causes of World war II.
Britain and France could easily stop Hitler when Germany was still weak, but their war-traumatized pacifist desire to totally avoid violence just helped Hitler rebuild Germany's military strength mor ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II
Wartime Propaganda: World War I
le.Like an undertow, America's drift toward war was subtle and forceful. According to the outspoken pacifist Randolph Bourne, war sentiment spread gradually among various intellectual groups. "With th ... raitor." Forced to stand quietly on the sidelines while their neighbors stampeded towards war, many pacifists would have agreed with Bertrand Russell that "the greatest difficulty was the purely psych ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
An overview on the roots of Pacifism and it's history in recent times.
he Quaker controlled colonial Pennsylvania had no military force, was completely unarmed, and had a pacifist public policy. During this time, for the most part everything was peaceful, with very few p ... ceful, with very few problems. Quakers follow pacifism because they believe that Jesus Christ was a pacifist which, according to the Bible, is true. They believe that Christ taught pacifism and that h ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Conflicts In Utopia
Armed with starry-eyed, pacifist idealism and a thirst for finding the truth, the Transcendentalists of the Era of Reform so ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
What To Do With John Walker
ne anything wrong. Quoted in the article, "Their son John is a spiritual, questioning guy"¦a pacifist at heart, young and maybe susceptible to brainwashing." They cannot connect the dots ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Close analysis of the film "Witness" by Peter Wier
through many different ideas, images and techniques. Some of the main themes are the clash between pacifist attitudes and violence; the opposing attitudes of the ideals of individualism and community ... hoice because there were too many differences between both worlds. In Rachel's world the Amish have pacifist attitudes, work together for the common good and are innocent of the corruption of the mode ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Dorothy day
en. She has made many contributions to our society though she could be considered a socialist and a pacifist. Her views on Christianity were to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Acc ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
War Poetry
has had upon the soldier. His face is described as hanging like "A devils sick of sin". Owen, as a pacifist and a soldier experiencing the harsh realities of trench warfare, clearly does not feel tha ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Gandhi, Zedong, and Mandela
he struggle of freedom is an apparent theme running throughout history. The development of Gandhi?s pacifist methods, Mandela?s use of non-violence, and Zedong usage of military force has all furthere ... spectives from Gandhi, Zedong, and Mandela, each share a connectedness. The development of Gandhi?s pacifist methods, Mandela?s use of non-violence, and Zedong usage of military force have accomplishe ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
The Effects of Violence on Television
violence is present; in the streets, back alleys, school, and even at home. Even if one might be a pacifist, violence will seep its way into our homes through the television. Some children that see v ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
"Not So Quiet" as representative of gender in WWII The novel "Not so Quiet" as representative of gendered experience during WWII
ature of the book "Not So Quiet" is reflective of "All Quiet on the Western Front" in that both are pacifist responses to war, but in the case of "Not So Quiet," the pacifist voice is female. The idea ... e pacifist voice is female. The ideas about war expressed by Smithie are often reminiscent of other pacifist women's responses to war and draw attention to the women's peace movement that started duri ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature