An example of such as excuse would be that they mistakenly thought they were being attacked by a civilian. Woodruff mentions another reason for harming or killing another person, and that reason is self-preservation. For example, if a soldier for some reason was forced to kill a
In Mailer's attempts to detail the men's motives and actions throughout the assault and through lengthy summaries of their previous existence he both exposes the futility and destructiveness of war and the hopelessness of man's quest for individuality in modern Western society. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is set in a vast and deliberately unspecified American city. The book takes place in the future as the West is dominated by the population’s eternal pursuit of instant gratification and the authorities’ war on knowledge. The science fiction tale was published in 1954 and was in part inspired by the McCarthy witch hunts and Bradbury's own experience of the authorities' predujice. The novel centres around the protagonist Guy Montag as a number of chance meetings with a girl named Clarisse lead him to try and achieve freedom and knowledge outside of the unthinking conformist majority.
Vonnegut reflects upon his experiences in WWI through the creation of multiple worlds or “realities” to present different perspectives to his readers. On the alien world of Trafalmadore, in describing to its inhabitants the nature of humanity and its engagement in senseless slaughter, Pilgrim tells them “I myself have seen the bodies of schoolgirls who were boiled alive in a water tower by my own countrymen”. To an alien race who can see how the universe ends, this seems insignificant, but to us, the readers, we are appalled by the atrocities fellow humans have had to suffer, and witness. By placing this event on an alien planet, Vonnegut puts the events of war into context. To someone who witnessed these atrocities, it seems like a big deal.
While he was careful to protect the spirit of Lenin, Khrushchev attacked the crimes committed by Stalin and his closest associates. Throughout the four hours, Khrushchev accused Stalin of creating a regime based on "suspicion, fear, and terror." Khrushchev added that he wanted to break the cult of Stalin, who had died three years before. He condemned the mass repressions that took place between 1936 and 1938, lashed out at Stalin's foreign policy during World War II, and accused him of nationalism and anti-Semitism (rferl.org). In the speech Khrushchev denounced Stalin and Stalinism, and stated the Stalin was wrong.
His thesis throughout the book: “Is burning the American flag as an act of protest protected by the First Amendment’s Freedom of Speech.” Goldstein takes us from the 1989 incident that ignited the national controversy back to the origins of the flag as a symbol of America’s liberty and democracy. He explains the history of the American flag’s debate on desecration. Before 1984, the government had passed laws preventing desecration of the flag, but now Supreme Court protects burning the flag by the First Amendment. The author of this incredible work is a professor of political science at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He has also taught at San Diego State University.
'The Tell Tale Heart' is a story about a man who killed an old man just because he didn't like the way his eyes looked like. The main character speaks about madness as being a gift and not a kid of disability for example in lines 2 - 4 he says: ' but why would you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses-not destroyed-not dulled them'. This person is trying to persuade us that the disease isn't bad. The mad man killed the old man and then cut him up and put him under the floorboards of the house.
The poem begins with a conversation between the speaker and a student. The student explains how he feels trapped by all of the commercialism he encounters, “Then one of the students with blue hair and a tongue stud / Says that America is for him a maximum-security prison / Whose walls are made of Radio Shacks, Burger Kings, and MTV episodes” (Hoagland 1-3). This is a metaphor for the deluge of advertisements that corporations fill the market with. The student feels that everywhere he goes, everywhere he looks, even the music he listens to, is full of marketing ploys placed there by big corporations. No matter where the student is, or what he is listening to, he cannot escape the commercialism.
This developed until a confrontation, from Western and Eastern Europe, in a nuclear arms race. Moreover, the decisions made by the ‘Big Three’ at the international conferences in Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam between 1943 and 1945 contributed to the deterioration of relations between American and the USSR. At the Yalta conference, February 1945, Germany had not been defeated so it was split into four zones of occupation by Britain, France, America, Russia and free elections were allowed in Eastern Europe: the Declaration of the Liberated. Also, Russia joined the UN and promised to help defeat Japan after Germany was defeated. Later that year in Potsdam, many open disagreements took place because Germany had lost the war so Russia had promised to fulfil, Churchill had lost the 1945 election and Roosevelt died so Truman, who replaced him was angered by the large scale reparations imposed on Germany and the setting up of a communist government in Poland.
George Orwell Summary “Shooting an Elephant,” by George Orwell gives the reader a first person view on working as a European sub-divisional police officer living in Moulmein, Lower Burma. In his essay Orwell, recounts, “the real nature of imperialism”(2). Orwell, also describes the feeling of the Burmese people opposing the British, the hatred he feels towards his job, how he covertly supports the Burmese people, and his sense of guilt. Orwell says, “In a job like that you see the dirty work of Empire at close quarters”(2). One morning, there was a received about a lost control elephant causing ruination.
Now Wikus experiences almost racist threats from humans as he searches for a cure, doomed exist as an Alien for the rest of his life. These threats to the aliens coincide with the eight steps of Genocide and truly prove how humans look at something and lie about it. For this kind of lying possibly ends in something disastrous: The Genocide of an entire race. This genocide is proven possible through District 9, which shows that humans are cruel, heartless, and unforgivable to creatures they do not even understand. Humans are unforgivable towards aliens, considering their “crime” is mere existence.