Soldiers Argumentative Essays Samples For Students

Man like most of the other members of the animal kingdom is a territorial creature. He needs space to live, space to gather resources, maintain a family, pass down assets to progeny, and so on. War like behavior is seen in many other species from ants to chimpanzees (Thornton). However, the one distinct feature that sets man apart from all the animals is the virtue of compassion, understanding and the ability to live in harmony. The world as we know today is a lot different from what nature has defined it to be. Man’s colonial tendencies, his ability to develop cultures ...

Several factors can be attributed to the Spaniards conquest against the Mexican. However, the most significant factor that led to this conquest was the coalition of Spanish forces. Spanish forces got reinforcement from a number of rivals of the Aztec Empire. The rivals who offered support to the Spanish included Totonacs and the Tlaxcaltecas. The Spanish army coalition had the numbers in their favor besides the superior weapons which helped them a great deal to conquer the Spaniards (Lockhart, 2004). The Mexican on the other hand used inferior weapons which could not counter Spanish weapons. The Spanish coalition of forces was ...

300 Movie
Several opinions can be derived from the movie 300. It is essential to recognize the efforts that were employed in putting together the thoughts behind the creation of the movie. This is achievable by analyzing the thoughts behind the choice of media. The set of the movie is a battleground where three hundred Spartans were facing thousands of enemy soldiers. The movie is inspirational especially for the message that is supposed to pass and the target audience. In order to appreciate the value of the movie, it is necessary to analyze the chosen media (Bennett 43). The ...

The play entitled Corpis Christi was a communal effort which lasted quite long. It was seen as a day-long celebration which dramatizes the moments in the Bible. This play only has five main characters, four soldiers and Jesus. Everyone who has watched the play, or has seen one using the same plot knows how it ends. These plays are questioned because of their “lack” of Biblical depth, not telling the story how it was really told in the Bible. This was seen in a more dramatized, at times comedic and highly gruesome kind of point of view. The focal characters were really ...

Adverse Effects of the U.S. Army Drawdown
Adverse Effects of the U.S. Army Drawdown

Introduction

Just about a year ago, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced the intention to move to a “smaller, leaner Army that is agile, flexible, rapidly deployable, and technologically advanced” (Feickert,Jan 2013). As a consequence, the United States Army is now in the process of one of its largest drawdowns (reduction in the size of the force) in history. High ranking officials believe this drawdown will be beneficial to the U.S. Army, but many soldiers, Department of the Army civilians, military dependants, and local economies will be ...

Burma (Myanmar) currently has the largest number of child soldiers in the world. This number is expected to increase exponentially, given the most recent unrest in that part of the world due to religious conflicts between Buddhists and Muslims. This fighting arose between the Rohingya Muslims and the Rakhine Buddhists in June 2012, and erupted once more after the reelection of the President on the 21st of October. Many of the rebel groups put to use child labor and child soldiers in carrying out their illegal activities.

Child Labor

For many societies, child labor was part of life. Many families viewed ...

Charles Yale Harrison was a soldier in WWI and his book Generals Die in Bed is a reflection of his war experience. He dedicated his book to the Canadian, Australian and German soldier that died in the woods near Amiens in 1918. It is hard to know exactly why Harrison wrote the book just as no one knows for sure why Leonardo Da Vinci painted the famous Mona Lisa. But certain reasons can be speculated that fit well with Harrison’s writing. Harrison hated war and realized that soldiers are mere pawns in wars that do not even understand ...

Introduction

Combat soldiers in Vietnam War had slightly different experiences compared to their counterparts in world war two. This is because, compared to world war two where young men, trained or untrained were ambushed to fight. They had no idea of where they were going and were green on most of the experiences they would later have. It was mainly because of the experiences of their forefathers that the government realized on the need of training and preparing their soldiers for the battles ahead (Longley, 89). However, this does not distinguish them from the after-war experience, which was both traumatizing. ...

World War II is up to today considered the largest and the worst war to ever happen in history. It started in 1939 from Europe and ended in 1945, spreading to almost all parts of the world and leaving about 70 million people dead. The figure included men, women, soldiers, children and civilians who died mainly due to illnesses, starvation and bomb attacks. The WW2 involved two opposing military alliances, the Axis and the Allies, formed from great nations that participated in the war. Axis was the alliance between Germany, Japan and Italy where as Allies alliance was between ...

Poly-Trauma and Nursing Competencies

Health illiteracy in the United States has reduced drastically over the last decade. However, a third of the total population still lacks perfect knowledge in the health sector. From an aesthetic point of view, traumatic patients in the country constitute the large portion of the population of the United States that lacks the knowledge on managing their health. In particular, the United States Army officers suffer major traumatic disorders from the dangerous missions they undertake across the world. The US army Institute of surgical research for joint trauma system provides the clinical procedure that helps the injured soldiers to ...

Orwell’s essay ‘England Your England’ written in 1941 is typical of the confusion that is felt by individuals and the whole of the country in uncertain political times. George Orwell attempts to set some kind of direction for the country amongst all the confusion of war. England was being bombed by the Germans in WWII at the time. This paper will argue that the central thesis of the essay was that English patriotism and loyalty exists in different forms depending on class in normal circumstances. As a collective idea, it is far more complex and is undergoing transition. For ...

Subsequent to the entrance in into World War I by the Ottoman Empire, the then first Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Winston Churchill constructed a plan for raiding the Dardanelles (Gallipoli). Employing the Royal Navy ships, Churchill considered, partly owing to faulty intelligence, that the channels could be forced through, creating the way for an on spot attack on Constantinople. This arrangement was endorsed and many Royal Navy's battleships were reassigned to the Mediterranean. Actions against the Dardanelles started on February 19, 1915, Admiral Sir Sackville Carden British ships bombing Turkish resistances with small result (Gillam 56).
A subsequent ...

Lugene Rosen

English 100
Women on the Frontline
Following the existing debate on whether or not qualified women are equally entitled to be on the frontlines like men, lots of heated debate is generated. In January 2013, the United States military lifted its ban on women in ground combat positions, a policy that according to the information stated in the sources of Fox News (FoxNews.com) had been in effect since 1994. Skaine mentions that the ground combat positions were defined according to the 1994 policy as “engaging the enemy on the ground with individual or crew-served weapons, while being exposed ...

Introduction

Nazi experimentations involved numerous medical experiments carried on prisoners without their consents. The experiments were carried out to all individuals including Jews, Roma, disabled non-Jews, and Soviet POWs. World War II prisoners in concentration camps were used as the in the experiments in order to enhance and advance science. Most of the experiments were aimed at improving military personnel’s efficiency during the war. After the World War II, leading experiment doctors faced justice when they were tried in the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. An approximate twenty leading doctors were charged with various crimes against humanity. It was during ...

Qualified women are entitled to be in the frontlines too. In January 2013, the United States military lifted its ban on women in ground combat positions, a policy that has been in effect since 1994 (FoxNews.com). The 1994 policy defined ground combat as “engaging the enemy on the ground with individual or crew-served weapons, while being exposed to hostile fire” (Skaine, 7). This paper therefore takes the definition of ground combat as the meaning of the word “frontlines” which was earlier mentioned. The 2013 decision generated many opposing opinions about the issue. Different factors such as physical strength, emotional complications, ...

Introduction

The British emerged victorious at the battle of Camden southern theater of the American war. British army under the command of General Cornwallis sent American army 10km north of Camden. The British became strong by taking control of Carolinas and capturing Charleston. The send away of American army was extremely humiliating for Gates, as he was known as the best general. He commanded American army in defeating the Saratoga who had superiority of the Britons. After the battle, he did not command in the field. He used his political connection to avoid a court martial and avoid inquires. Despite the gains ...

Once Albert Einstein said, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” (Moffett et al. 175). Nowadays, his statement is more challenging than ever. We live in the age of technological progress that works both ways. On the one hand, it significantly eases our life and improves its level. On the other hand, almost uncontrolled development of technology makes people dependent and results in loosing humanity. Comparing with previous days, we have become less attentive and more indifferent to everything around us. The aim of this paper is to discuss the impact technology has on ...

This paper presents an argument in favor of a United States sponsored full-scale invasion with troops, into Iraq and Syria, for the purpose of confronting ISIS. The term ISIS, for a short abbreviation, represents the ‘Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.’ Recent global news reports indicate a bloody sweep of terror by ISIS organizational members and sympathizers. Nevertheless, counter arguments pertaining to whether or not U.S. troops should enter into a war against ISIS provide opposing opinions. After the counter argument reviews the situation, its stance shall be revoked, and the argument in favor of U.S. invasion shall ensue.

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Introduction

Humanitarian intervention as a concept can be traced back to the seventeenth century. This is the time when the foundations for the contemporary internationally recognized system of sovereignty of states and the principle that such sovereign states have control over all the matters within their borders was established. Since them, the concept has been reformed to enable the international community through the United Nations to protect citizens within sovereign states from human rights abuse, civil wars, ethnic cleansing and political abuse (Piereson, 2013). Although the United Nations charter does not allow the intervention in sovereign states, various humanitarian crises since ...

Essay on the song ‘Hero of war’ by Rise Against

The song is in the appeal to reason album of the rock band appeal to reason. This song is written with specific reference to war, the time period when it was composed, in 2008, the United States was still involved in major wars around the world, specifically in the Middle East. The position enjoyed by the United States as a major economic and political leader in global affairs puts it in the position of increased responsibility and duty in maintaining peace in regions that it has no political jurisdiction. The involvement of the United States in regions other than its ...

Introduction

Flashback to when you were young. Did you play with baby dolls and Barbie dolls or with play kitchen, or rather Spiderman action figure and Hot Wheels? Personally, growing as a little girl, I played with baby dolls and Barbie dolls, as well as fake kitchen utensils to prepare meals. Similarly, the girls I attended school with played with the same type of toys I used. Conversely, the boys in my kindergarten class played with blasters, G.I. Joe action figure, Hot Wheels, and fake tools from mini workbench. The girls were discouraged from touching boys’ toys and vice versa. Now ...

Final Literature Exam Question 1

The beauty of poetry and indeed any literary works is that the interpretation is not cast on stone. What a section of the audience may see as positive, another section may see as negative. At the end of the day, it is the justification that matters. The Charge of the Light Brigade raises these contrasting feelings. It could be both relevant and or irrelevant depending on the side of the coin one looks at. The paper will advance both arguments in a view to appreciate the beauty of the poem and indeed literature’s overall wealth.
This poem is relevant ...

Introduction

Women in military have the history which extends more than four millenniums into past, throughout a variety of nations as well as cultures. Women have been engage in several roles in military ranging from the early warriors to currently serving in various forces around the globe side by side with men. It is a fact that almost all the armed forces of countries throughout the world have majority of men serving as military personnel however the role of women can’t be neglected over men. The military role of women have been controversial since its beginning but still many events in ...

Over the years there have been thousands of personal accounts have been made by U.S. veterans and former soldiers who served in the South Vietnamese Army (ARVN), only a fistful of which are in English, but none of them are as unique as Last night, I dreamed that Peace by Dang Thuy Tram. Contrary to most accounts, a voice from the other side is offered by this book, yet this voice is so universal that it was worth preserving. Unlike a majority of the northern accounts, this book is a chronicle of the journey of a young woman who works as a civilian doctor on ...

D.W. Augsburger found that women and men do have fundamental differences in how they regard violence and conflict resolution, with women preferring methods of negotiation and nonviolent resistance to the use of physical force and coercion. Because of differences in culture and socialization, women simply lacked political, economic and military power in the public sphere while they wielded considerable influence in the private and domestic world, especially as the ‘power behind the throne’. As societies become more urban and industrialized, though, with more educational and economic opportunities for women, these distinctions may change. After all, there is no realm ...

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Thesis: Burning the American Flag should be illegal, and Congress should pass an amendment to the Constitution making it illegal

Introduction
Arguably, flag in America plays various purposes. In fact, many people in a nation have freedom of opinion and speech, but burning the American flag is a form of disrespect to the nation. Flag is a symbol of unity; hence, burning it is a total show of disrespect to American people and the state. For many decades, America has tolerated the desecration of its flag. As a matter of fact, the burning of American flag is a questionable activity, in that why should an individual burn the American flag and all it importance. Since the end of civil war, debates have been ...

Introduction

Abuse of alcohol and prescription drugs is a nettlesome problem, as its incidence has risen since the beginning of the century. Long-term regular alcohol abuse sooner or later leads to alcohol dependence, mental shock, nervous system and internal organs diseases. Despite the commonly held belief, active-duty personnel in the military are not quite as tough as to be completely immune to the substance abuse problems that blight civilian populations. However, the exact number of the alcohol abusers is very difficult to determine because people tend not to share this information. Thus, the numbers among civilians are very rough as ...

Natural resources are getting finished at a rate faster than nature can restore, and still we continue to live as if these resources were limitless. The human race is faced with a great risk of extinction, and no amount of faith or willpower can save us from the extinction that threatens our existence. Natural resources such as oil have continued to reduce over the years and have led to the loss of certain species on earth such as dinosaurs, and there are numerous concerns that mankind will face the same fate in the future (Drake). The human race is ...

Anthony Doerr is multiple award-winning author who wrote the novel All the Light We Cannot See. The novel is about a German Boy and a blind French girl whom collided in France as they try to survive the wrath of the Second World War. Doerr describes Marie-Laure as a young girl who lives in Paris adjacent to the Museum of Natural History with her father, who is a locksmith. Marie-Laure’s mother had early died while giving birth. At a tender of six, Maria- Laure goes blind and her father built her a delightful miniature next to their home ...

Women are not only limited in number in their fields, but they are also limited as to the fields they can fill. Most militaries still limit the occupations that allow women to occupy. For the most part, women are excluded from all combat and some combat-related fields. Traditional observation on women assumes that they do not want to be involved in combat, nor are they in a position to handle such occupations. Most people believe that men are more physically and emotionally suited for roles in combat. Suggestions of women participation in combat fields have variation cross-culturally, and have ...

In all societies, obedience to authority is a characteristic that defines human beings. People obey those with authority over them. Whether individuals obey law and authority plays a big role in determining whether the society remains cohesive or plunges to chaos. Obedience or disobedience shapes the relationships that members of any given society have with one another. Sometimes, obedience goes to extremes in the society typified by master - slave relationships where slaves demonstrate obedience to their masters in its extremes (Gazzaniga et al. 554). As will be explored and shown in this essay, extreme submission to authority is ...

Introduction

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) affects people who have been exposed to traumatic disorders such as war, serious injuries or death threatening situations. It is manifested in as a result of the experiences lasting longer. It has various symptoms and effects, among them contemplating suicide. PTSD is very common to our generation; however, what is not known is the reason the suicide rate keeps increasing and why more and more people gain symptoms of the disorder. Studying Henry can help researchers find a different approach to helping soldiers cope when they return from war.

The Red Convertible

The short story “The Red Convertible”, ...

Argumentative Essay

The American people have been proud of the U.S. Army for a long time, because it was able to protect them from the numerous international threats. Nowadays a large number of people are involved in the activity of the army. There are “1.1 million soldiers in the ranks and more than 400,000 civilians and contracted employees”. However there are critics that think that there is a very deep crisis in the civil-military relationship that needs to be addressed as soon as possible. Particularly, the army has become strategically and militarily ineffective, and it is not neutral anymore. In ...

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The physical environment, as described in a story, can take on different meanings and describe various physical sensations when perceived by the narrator, both in first and in third person. The quality of the descriptions relating to the physical, sensual feelings such as sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch are affected by an omnipotent narrator writing from a third person perspective, or when written from a ...

Introduction

The Hurt Locker is a movie that depicts the lives of three men who were in Explosive Ordnance Disposal team. At the beginning of the movie, Thompson is the main bomb specialist. However, while he was on a mission to disarm a bomb, he is killed when the bomb is detonated by unknown person using a phone. After this incident, a new specialist was required. After the death of Thompson, William James is introduced in the movie. After he is told about Johnson by Sanborn, he becomes aware that he is brought in as a replacement. He then knows that much will be expected of ...

WHY WAS JAMES II DEPOSED IN ENGLAND IN JANUARY 1689?

Why was James II deposed in England in January 1689?
Religion had played a key role in the development of many nations, and some have met immense criticism and opposition, especially in countries wherein ideology clashes with religious tradition and teachings. In Great Britain, new religions brought into the country had been met with reluctance and even severe opposition, such as Catholicism. Catholicism had met both support and opposition especially in the time of James II in the 17th century. However, while the monarch had embraced Catholicism, his subjects did not and opposed his desire to make Catholicism be ...

Modern warfare as we know it today began to take shape during the 19th century, with the rise of nation states came patriotic fervor and the need to express this through a strong, varied and most importantly competent military force. For the first time in history, armies became institutions and nations took pride in training and equipping their regiments. This change coincided with the industrial revolution which brought wide ranging changes to manufacturing processes. The production line allowed weapons and other instruments of warfare to be produced in mass numbers never before seen. More advanced manufacturing techniques meant more secure ammunition, ...

In 1798, Thomas Malthus predicted that humans would soon run out of food to eat. He thought that the limits on the world’s arable land meant that food supply would simply not rise as quickly as population would. Even in 1798, Malthus felt that the population was at the point of growing faster than food supply, so he did not see this as a problem that would show up millennia later; instead, he saw it as an imminent development. Of course, we are still here, more than 200 years later, and the plenty available for sale in supermarkets throughout ...

The ways in which people interpret the past are often colored by the ways in which they see their contemporary times. One of the more colorful phenomena of American politics in the early twenty-first century has been the emergence of the Tea Party, a group that appears to want to roll back the role of government in American affairs much like the American colonists wanted to roll back British influence in North America. When a group of colonists stormed Boston Harbor in the guise of Mohawk Indians, bent on throwing a load of British tea into the harbor in protest against a new ...

Introduction

Munera was an ancient repetitive Rome game which involved gladiators. Rome was a known ancient entertainment city in the world engaging in many forms of entertainment and games, which included Munera. The significance of manure was that of brutal entertainment of the emperors and the crowd's thirst of blood. The games had social significance and were a means of communication and sacrificial rituals. The paper seeks to approach Munera games as a text and bring to light clear implications of the games. Focusing on the way Munera was used as sacrificial rituals, funeral and also as a representation of masculinity in Rome. The ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Christopher Columbus and "Globalization" in the early modern world
Globalization is by no means a phenomenon invented in the twentieth century, particularly with reference to cultural exchanges. Globalization is much more than a commodities exchange across national borders. It is a phenomenon which denotes the flow and bartering of knowledge, commodities, values, specimens and people on a global scale. It is fast replacing the societal identity of nationality with globality. Most historians attach the origin of globalization to the year 1492, when ‘Columbus’ stumbled upon America in his search for trade route to Asia. But even as early as thousand years before ...

Truth in fiction is often relative; the extent to which objective truth is embellished in favor of dramatic license or reflecting the emotional tenor of the speaker is important. In “How to Tell a True War Story,” Tim O’Brien tells various tales of his time in Vietnam from various perspectives and sources – it is equally a recounting of his own experiences and embellishment from an author looking to create an interesting story. O’Brien’s story is, in essence, about the nature of storytelling, demonstrating the ability for authors to dramatically change and determine the perception of events while providing ...

Arguably, the issue of war in Syria continues to bring out global debates. As a matter of fact, U.S has been involved in various types of war in the world. The power and determination that U.S apply in times of war has raised a lot of controversies. There are various reasons why the United States should not intervene in Syria. The United States have learned or need to learn from previous intervention in Middle East and other nations in the world. It is worth noting that the Americans are against the use of military intervention in the war in Syria. This ...

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The United States Army launched an effective reserve recruitment campaign in1981 with the slogan Be All That You Can Be. According to an article published by The Army History Museum Advertising Age included it as No. 18 in its list of “The Top 100 Advertising Campaigns of the 20th Century.” . It was paused abruptly when America entered into war in the Mid-East in 1991, resumed after hostilities ceased and continued until it started to lose its effectiveness. It provides a perfect opportunity to examine a situation driven rhetorical argument according to the theories extant in Lloyd F. Bitzer’s essay The ...

Does the Brony culture redefine masculinity in the U.S? I am not in the position to answer this question for the all American males. I would like, however, to share my thoughts about this subculture. Based on what I understand of the Brony culture, it is just a fandom of the online series originally intended for little girls called “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.. The cartoon was considered by some individuals to be made for adults, and in my opinion this show should not be watched by grownups even if they had developed the series to older viewers. This ...

Rome was actually the greatest empire in world history. It rose from a simple beginning to a wealthy and powerful empire. Before its fall, it had 80 million people with its territory stretching from today’s Scottish board all the way to the Persian Gulf (Ermatinger, 12). Different historians have listed reasons that led to the decline and eventual collapse of the great empire. These reasons include, rise of Christianity, military decline, attacks from foreign tribes, economic decline and division of the empire into the Western and Eastern blocks among others. This essay will argue that it was possible to prevent ...

Dang Thuy Tram was born in Vietnam on 26th November 1942. At the young age of 25 she was already working as surgeon in the battlefield during the Vietnam War. She was however a civilian doctor but many are the times that she operated of wounded soldiers. It is during this time as a surgeon in the battle field that she secretly wrote down the encounters and the events of the Vietnam War in her diaries of which two were burned by United States soldiers. Her war time encounters as well as the story of her diaries are now well documented ...

During my growing up years, I became close with an old neighbor who told me stories about the war and his early childhood days. From the time I can remember, he has always instilled in me the love for my country. Through him I learned about nationalism and patriotism, which until now, I believe are very much part of who I am and what I stand for. Loyalty to our country, he said, is what helped his ancestors move the country forward and will continue to do so for the people to have an undivided and united America. Deeply ...