Essays About Peace

Someone once said that being yourself, being who you are, is a successful rebellion. Gene Forrester, one of the main characters in John Knowles”s novel, A Separate Peace should have taken this advice. Throughout the novel, Gene acted artificially, disguising his true self. He lived in fear of people finding out what he was really…

I was born in Medan, a city which is known as the “melting pot” where religions and cultures unite in diversity. Since I was a child, I used to play with children who had different religion and culture backgrounds. We were so close. We did not choose the children we wanted to play. However since…

As the Bible says To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under Heaven. Woodstock 1969, it was a time for love . . . and hate. In a country with raceriots and the Vietnam war a single dove perched on a guitar neck changed America for ever and brought a new…

Dealing with enemies has been a problem ever since the beginning of time. In A Separate Peace by John Knowels, the value of dealing with your feelings and dealing with your enemies is shown by Gene Forester, a student in Devon during World War 2 dealing with few human enemies, but his emotions create a…

Challenges of Civilization (An Analysis of Marxism in a Separate Peace)A Separate Peace is an impeccable paradigm of critical mythology interpreted by philosophers such as Marx, Engels and Hegel. The philosophy of Marxism serves as a basis for socialism and communism and is explicitly demonstrated by means of power, the understanding of human nature, and…

The Irish Republican Army, also known as the IRA, is a parliamentary and nationalist organization that opposes the connection of Northern Ireland to Great Britain. The IRA is also dedicated to the creation of a single unified Irish state. The name IRA derived from the veterans of the Easter Battles of 1916. The battle was…