Due to the semantic field of fear and terror running throughout the discourses of Bush and Blair their choice of lexis is crucial in conveying their political ideologies. The introduction of Bush’s speech was of dire importance. Antithesis is being used within the first sentence; Bush begins his discourse “… Our fellow citizens, our way of life…”, and then ends with “deadly terrorist acts”. Due to the contrasting image portrayed listeners feel their “way of life”, they, as individuals and citizens of America are at threat, of “deadly and deliberate terrorist attacks”. This further promotes the global normalisation of terrorism and the “War on terror”.
O'Brien's extract conveys to the readers the contradictory feelings that war evokes in a person. War can be seen in different perspectives and can be felt with many different emotions. The author describes war as astonishing; an adjective rarely used in the general opinion. But O'Brien has seen and felt first hand, and writes that war makes you grow up and learn about yourself as a person. You learn to value life in those desperate moments where death comes close.
Amie Bradley T/R phil 3 The Future Meaning of War There are many reasons why the U.S. needs to stop military spending around the world. Focusing to the most pertinent factors we see that: Our nation is in the largest amount of debt in not only its own history, but the history of mankind. Also our system of acting as a police like force for the entire world actually creates more tension and violence. This police-like image of the U.S. creates much more conflict amongst other countries, which antagonizes and creates a type of ‘want’ for more reasons to conflict war. The last reason to reject our ‘world-wide military spread’ (which is also the most in depth and most difficult of the three reasons to understand) is: The future’s national meaning and common understanding of ‘war.’ This can also be explained as the ‘Future’s way of participating in a war.
Katelin Knowles Ms. Hannaford English II -5th hour 06 December 2012 How Television Violence Negatively Affects Children Many adults urge for children to watch more hours per week of educational programming, while others assert that zero hours of television is the best solution (Alfred I.). Even though the best solution is for children to not watch television until after the age of seven, because by then they will know the difference between right and wrong. Children develop heroism from watching children’s shows. Also because even children’s educational shows have violence in them and when children see repeated amounts of violence it will affect them into using violence as a way to solve problems, television violence sometimes begs for imitation (Alfred I.). Due to the excessive amount of violence on television, desensitization (the process of reducing of sensitivity) is something that more and more children are starting to experience.
Gibbons uses language to create fear in his novel. Throughout the book, he adds different metaphors; one of which is when Rabia states, if you ‘choose to stand in no-man’s land you’re likely to be shot at’. This indicates, in her area of society, things are falling apart: people are picking sides, ready for war. The audience anticipate a conflict of some sort, therefore creating a sense of fear. The fear in this case would mostly be ‘Superstitious’ fear.
In Liam O’Flaherty’s “The Sniper”, we are exposed to the unfortunate brutality that Civil war inflicts on those involved. It’s ability to pit brothers against each other is a tragic realization that the protagonist in the story must come to realize. The author’s effective use of setting and characterization clearly provides a poignant insight to war that reveals it’s ferocious tragedy. O’Flaherty continually uses setting to create tension within the reader and give a more realistic approach to the nature of war. His short, choppy sentences cause a feeling of hurry, much like the character would have been facing in the story.
War has then become a natural extension of this role, and whether it is defined as just or unjust is determined by its effect on the position of the US and its allies. Inevitably, all civilizations have to deal with war, whether purposefully waging it or defending against it. World history is filled with bloody conflicts between states, the results of which have changed the way the world interacts. Our country was even formed as a result of a war against colonial oppression. At the time it was endlessly debated as to whether going to war with the British was the right thing to do, but it was eventually decided that it was necessary in order to gain our independence.
When the law is taken into the hands of each individual the people live in a state of lawlessness. Lawlessness and cycles of revenge undermine the civilization. This is Aeschylus’s main theme in his play Agamemnon. Aeschylus shows his attitude against war many times throughout his play when he makes references to lawlessness and cycles of revenge that cause unnecessary bloodshed. In Agamemnon, Aeschylus uses his characters to express his political opinion on war.
In the reluctant fundamentalist, Hamid deliberately employs the use of different stereotypes to challenge the readers own prejudices. Discuss. In the twenty first century cultural prejudices and international labeling is becoming more and more common within society. As a result of these preconceived stereotypes, global conflict has arisen, relationships have been shattered and barriers erected. Mohsin Hamid, author of the ‘Reluctant Fundamentalist’ implicates the reader within his controversial novel, to consequently highlight through the modern reader’s predetermined judgments, the ramifications of simple a misunderstanding between two cultures.
The added hostility that Germany had with France, dating back to the ‘Franco-Prussian War’ caused Germany to constantly be suspicious that France was going to launch an attack (Wrenn, 1997, p4). Both Alliances were formed so that they could defend themselves against the other, but as time went on they were increasingly hostile, well armed and suspicious (Guest, et al, 1990, p30) contributing greatly to the First World War. Militarism caused great tension and fear between ‘The Great Powers’ of Europe. ‘The Great Powers included, Britain, France, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russia, Germany, Italy and the Ottoman Empire (Guest, et al, 1990, p14). Guest, et al (1990), states Militarists believed ‘that their country should be well armed and that military methods could be used to gain nationalist needs’ (p27).