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Ethos It is noted in the end of the article, that the author is an associate professor of politics and chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at University of San Francisco. I would like to note that, even without mentioning Zunes’ titles and experience, the well-organized text with supportive statistics and historical facts has already made his argument
In the book, Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun: A Personal History of Violence, by Geoffrey Canada, the author provides an insight of the violent acts throughout his life. Geoffrey was a young child in the Bronx when he was made aware of violence. His father was
These violent incidences evoke certain emotions in the audience reading this book today in addition to those exposed to it back then. Television broadcasts were primarily responsible for displaying public violence and they had a great affect on viewers and ultimately the
People are issued out.’ …, The issue isn’t what we want to write about. Everybody knows an injustice was done. How many know what actually went on inside?” (Foreword, Farewell to Manzanar).
Since the invention of guns, they have brought chaos, war, and fear to the world. Guns give people power, and Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone, gives great examples of this. In the reading, children and villages are afraid of ongoing war and fear armed rebels terrorizing villages.
And this was an effective strategy deployed to sway public support towards the strategy employed by oppressive state government. Winning the public’s support was necessary because it meant that the state could harass and torture civil rights activists without suffering percussion or public backlash because their actions were “justified”. “The cops had rifles and wore steel helmets... The first twenty of us were
A simple act of violence can genuinely affect an individual's state of mind. Through violence, individuals feel empowered and are tempted to prolong their violent nature. This results in one heinous act, following with worse violence. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of A Boy Soldier, both authors effectively highlight a theme, that violence will ultimately lead to more violence.
This editorial has a very strong sense of pathos, which helps the author grab a diverse group of people’s attention because it is relatable. The main claim states the real problem is the belief that all of our social problems can be solved with force. Ta-Nehisi backs this up with a few examples; the most heart wrenching has to be one about a young boy who was killed while playing with an airsoft gun. Furthermore, a mentally handicapped man decided to strip off all his clothes and parade down the street, he was shot on sight. This supports the fact that men and women trained to kill should not be addressing social problems where there is no
In John Gardner's novel Grendel he has many examples of how violence is in our society everywhere. “The state is an organization of violence, a monopoly in what it is pleased to call legitimate violence” - Gardner. In Grendel he gives many examples of how Hrothgar abuses his power and uses violence to control his people. America, in many ways, is like Hrothgar’s kingdom.
Numerous scenes in the novel, The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien, are riddled with violence. Those horrid scenes shape the themes of a heightened mental state and revenge. The actions of the Alpha Company are driven by emotion and stress. These issues create great problems for the Company, stripping them of their civilized societal standards and leaving only natural human instinct.
The division of labor in the texts requires too much effort on behalf of the reader and too little on the writer because it assumes that the reader will supplement the reading with other resources. The credibility of the article is severely lacking as the author’s name is not listed, nor are any sources listed providing evidence to support that the methods listed in the article will work. This article relies on the assumption that the reader will not question the statements made, but if he or she does doubt the credibility, this could cause grave consequences, inhibiting the eventual goal of this text: lowering the instances of and surviving an attack. The stakes of this text being ineffective are: death, injury, rape, theft, and mental
Throughout Chapter five of her book Shadows of War, Carolyn Nordstrom shares her views on war in terms of social, physical and mental goals and punishes of such violence. To begin, one of the first goals of war as defined by Nordstrom is a direct result of a threat of loss of control. She explains that it is common for one military to feel the need to destroy another when their control over a certain (land area owned or controlled by someone) is under threat (56). An interesting point that Nordstrom makes is relating to/about (community of people/all good people in the world)'s do not tell the difference between the existence of different violences. As stated by Nordstrom, most people will naturally tell/show the difference between different wars; however, very few tell/show the difference between the experience of violence throughout such wars (57).
This article aims to close the gaps in research of the use of informers in context of conflict and political violence, through the knowledge of IRA informers during the struggle in Northern Ireland. He outlines the main informer ‘models’ that can be applied to other conflict and transitional societies outside of the ‘Troubles.’ The focus of the article is the state’s actions in using informers or ‘supergrass’ and the negative effects of this on society as a whole. Ron Dudai puts forward the idea that this topic is lacking in the criminological research department, he says that ‘little has been written on the issue’ of the police using informers during a violent conflict. He does take into consideration that there is a decent amount of literature
Intro In the period from the 1641 until 1692, Ireland was plagued with continuous political conflict, rebellions, violence and civil warfare. This period of Irish history was driven by violence as it was prevalent throughout the whole country and it is the defining theme of that fifty-year span. What sparked off the violence, that prevailed for just over half a century, was the 1641 Rebellion which began because of fear of civil war on both sides of the religious divide. Oliver Cromwell was sent to Ireland to crush the rebellion and this lead to harsh and drastic changes both in Ireland and in England.
The violent conflict approach is defined through coercion, threats, and destructive assaults. Galtung’s, model suggests that each of these components influence one another, and while each
