Essays about War Page 5

October 14th, 1082. On On this day in 1982, President Ronald Reagan declared illicit drugs to be a threat to U.S. national security. The now popularized term “war on drugs” was first introduced by President Nixon in 1971 but can be traced all the way to 1914. A battle not as the citizens had been…

​This paper will discuss the topic of The War on Drugs in America and the harsh realities of what was occurring during the Nixon and Reagan era. It will take a look at past history and the origins of when this drug epidemic became such a hazard in America’s roots. It was first declared in…

The intent on the War on Drugs was to reduce illegal drug users in teens and availability to all. which can affect everyone in their families. Legal drugs have become an even bigger problem than illegal drugs are. “Since 1999, deaths from legal drugs have increased by as much as 400% among women and 265%…

To provide guidance, Kimenyi & Scott (2001), in their book, ‘Anatomy of Genocide, State-sponsored mass-killings in the twentieth century,’ share several Scholars’ essays to explain details on the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. The author points out the Rwandan government and Christian churches united to commit unlawful, atrocious acts of killing over one million Tutsis and…

In April of 1994, the largest African genocide would occur. The haunting body count of over 800,000 Rwandans, the rape of thousands of Tutsi women, and the graphic photos of dismembered children strewn across the ground like confetti would resonate inside the souls of the world as they reflected on their past actions. This complex…

During the Rwandan genocide of 1994, members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central African nation of Rwanda murdered as many as 800,000 people, most of the Tutsi minority. Commenced by Hutu nationalist in the capital of Kigali, the genocide spread throughout the country with shocking speed and brutality. As ordinary citizen were incited…

Genocides date back to 149 BC when the first recorded genocide took place in Carthage. Genocides target a group of people that may share the same race, religion, nationality or common grounds. The most known genocide of the 20th century is the Holocaust that occurred in 1934 when Adolf Hitler became the dictator of Germany….

According to the articles of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, genocide refers to violent crimes committed with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group. This can be done through not just the killing of the members of…

A genocide is the mass murder of a large group of people and or a specific ethnic group or nation. In 1994, April through July, a genocide took place in Rwanda. Roughly 800,000 Rwandan people were massacred in just 100 days. This devastating event sparked after the Rwandan President’s plane was taken down, killing President…

War, regardless of any feeling about it by a particular society at any particular time, has been woven into the fabric of society from seemingly time immemorial. This interconnected nature has also meant that war is inevitably political. This can be seen, for example, in the foundation of Rome in the story of Romulus and…