Civil War Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Abstract

The first article majorly focuses on the factors that lead to the lengthening of the duration of the civil war between the government and the rebel protagonists. Many factors are taken into account. This paper is based on the religious and spiritual factors that influence the decision making of a legislator. It majorly emphasizes on the facts that the religious belief of the legislator, the religious credence of the citizens and the spiritual views of the board of the legislator mainly influence the decision making regarding the state. It also focuses on the transition towards democracy, its sustainability and importance ...

The book, “For cause and comrades why men fought in the civil war” by James McPherson establishes an understanding of the motives behind men’s involvement in the civil war. The first chapter refers to ‘this war is a MacPherson” contemplates why so many men gave out their lives in the blink of a civil war. According to MacPherson, the war was pointless, and negotiations could have solved the problem. In this chapter, MacPherson contemplates how his friends, including members of his family decided to indulge in the civil war.
The second chapter of Macpherson’s book entitled ‘we ...

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The advent of war is usually occasioned by the development of conflict of interest between warring factions; however, the result of the war is usually a resolution that comes from the defeat of one faction or a peaceful agreement between the warring parties. This paper reviews literature that provides information as to reasons behind the duration that wars take. In respect to this, the focus of the literature review is to analyze literatures advanced on the topic of duration of wars. The intention of the literature review is to investigate reasons behind why some wars take a short duration to resolve while ...

Introduction

A lot of global attention has recently been directed towards the ongoing conflict in South Sudan. Less than five years after seceding from the Sudan, the newly formed country has been embroiled in a tribal conflict that has quickly escalated into a civil war. At the very heart of the conflict is a fight over resources between the two major tribes, Nuer and Dinka, which make up the dominant tribes in the country. The onset of the civil war was a political power struggle between President Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar (Civil War in South Sudan, 2016). ...

Literature Review

This section review literature on the responsibility of Western Powers on Civil Wars as well as Rebellion within Eastern and Central Africa. From the reviewed materials, it is evident that the style of Western administration on the African continent left African countries unprepared economically as well as politically for independence. For that reason, it undermined the state of security within most countries from their start of self-governance.
The influence of Europe within Africa has contributed significantly in establishing conditions within many countries for rebellion and civil conflict to take place. The Western powers treat African states as strategic economic ...

Analyze the relationship between the evolution of protagonist and the city of Barcelona in the novel "In Diamond Square" by Merce Rodoreda’s
In Diamond Square is an acclaimed and classic story of a woman caught up with her children in Barcelona civil war. She struggles in a convulsive period to feed her family as her husband fights the fascist. The novel is set during the Spanish civil war and the second Spanish republic. It is set in Barcelona and pictures Joe and Natalia all struggling to make end meet. It as well pictures Natalia’s conflictive life giving a blend ...

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thorea was surely one of the finest writers to emanate from the United States before the Civil War. His novel Walden describes an almost perfect settlement where the subject lives simply in natural surroundings and is an ideal introduction to his seminal work. Another important work is his essay on Civil Disobedience which is perhaps one of the best known elements which argues for resistance to civil government which is a moral opposition to an unjust state.
Thoreau’s books and articles number over 20 volumes and he has several contributions on natural history and philosophy where ...

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Literature Review
It is quite obvious that the relationship between Turkey and Russia as well as their national interest in Syria came into the limelight when both countries went on a serious crisis after the downing of a Russian plane by Turkey on November 24, 2015 (Özlük 1). But prior to this incident, scholars have already been studying the national interest of Turkey and Russia towards Syria and how this national interest impacts the bilateral relationship between the two nations. In order to provide a deeper understanding of the national interest of Russia and Turkey in ...

Terrorism can be defined as use of violence and other forms of intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. Terrorism has become an issue of global concern given the detrimental effects it usually has on economies and lives of people. State terrorism is defined as the terrorist activities carried out by a state against its own people or a foreign state. Currently, state terrorism presents a huge challenge to counter-terrorism. The USA, for example, has been a target for nation-state terrorism. The 9/11 attacks are a perfect example of state terrorism attacks. State sponsored terrorism can take different forms. For example, the Soviet Union ...

Introduction

Since the dawn of human civilization annihilation of millions of people has been occurring. After the two World Wars, this annihilation took place through many civil wars fought within the nations all over the world. The Genocide or the mass killing of a particular ethnic group has been a common phenomenon in civil wars. In 1990s, the Kashmiri Hindus were expelled by Muslim terrorists through severe massacre. The question is whether mass massacre is the answer to any problem. There is a universal agreement that genocide is immoral and unethical (Jones, 1999). Still even after the horrified consequences of ...

Stephen B. Oates, the author of The Fires of Jubilee; Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion not only gives a drill of the egregious slave defection in Virginia of the Southampton County in August 1831 but also analyzes the backlashes of the Southern culture. This book is a historical narrative that details the history of the rebelled slaves, narrowed specifically to Nat Turner, who led the insurrection to eliminate the Southern white supremacy. Inclusion, Nat Turner is highly portrayed as a talented black slave who managed to marshal slaves into the bloody rebellion against their bosses. Oates vividly explains the ...

Khalid Husseini an Afghan national has written a story named “The Kite Runner”. The writer himself belongs to the area from where the story erupts. In this story, the writer has very beautifully portrayed the various images of life.

Thesis statement:

The three stages in the life of a young boy have shown how bravely he faced all the hard situations in his life. Rising from a small area, and going up and then coming back to his roots, is the main theme of this story. The ethnic problems engulfed the happiness of a whole country.

Literature review:

This story is very deeply written by the writer. ...

Introduction

The bloody Algerian Civil War was triggered off when the army staged a coup d’état to halt an impending second round election victory by the Islamic Salvation Front. However, the causes of the conflict are both complex and interrelated. The deposition of President Chadli Benjedid in January of 1992 and cancellation of the election results, brought to a head the more than three years of continuous riots and demonstrations in the lead up to the first ever multiparty. The basic problem stems from the country’s indecision on whether to introduce democracy or not, especially when it became apparent that ...

Literature Review covering Media and Politics

Introduction
Media and politics come hand in hand because they combine to convey information to the public. Media is defined as the channel in which information is stored and transmitted to the population. The media has been given different names such as mass media or the news media. The media has many advantages and disadvantages that could end up ruining the country and corrupting the youth. Politics is defined as the practice of influencing people so as to do their civic duty in the society (Safire, p.566). By influencing people certain people are able to gain position of ...

The acknowledgements at the end of the book tell us that the names of people who disappeared (mentioned on p.41) are taken from an actual list in Amnesty International reports (see p. 310). Similarly, the description of the assassination of the president [p. 291-95] is based on true events, though the president's name has been changed. Why does Ondaatje insert the names of real people, and the real situations in which they died or disappeared, in a work of fiction?
The aim of this essay is to present you with the reflections driven upon some of the ways reality ...

Given the fact that Charlie and Helen had had a fight that ended up with Helen locked out in the cold, and that this fight led to Helen's death, it is not self-righteous of Marion to be suspicious of Charlie. Her sister is the one who died as a result of this argument. To be fair, both Charlie and Helen were drunk when the fight took place, and they ran with a hard-partying crowd. The fact remains, though, that Charlie is still single, and while it seems that he has turned his back on his former days, the fact that his drunk ...

Prior the American Civil War that marked the highlight of the gradually expanding rift between the Northern and Southern regions based on differing ideologies, abolitionism was a common theme in the country. The sympathetic Northerners sought to abolish the slavery system that had indefinitely supported white supremacy on American soil at the expense of the black race. Now, the calls for the liberation of slaves in the United States of America originated from two significant premises; the diverse economic practices and contradicting doctrines of black inferiority. The Northerners were industrialists and in need of cheap menial labor for their factories, ...

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American History
1. US economy grew leaps and bounds during the post- civil war era, thanks to the new inventions and creation of new industries. This era was marked by tremendous expansion in industry and agriculture. The completion of railroads resulted in the expansion of settlements throughout the North American continent. White settlers crossed the Mississippi to mine and ranch, the Blacks migrated from Deep South to West in search of freedom and economic prospects, and the Chinese railroad workers completed the diversity in the population of the West.
However, this economic transformation did not ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with an analysis and in-depth description of the narrative technique applied by Michael Ondaatje in his novel ‘Anil’s Ghost’. Michael Ondaatje is widely acknowledged within the borders of the literary community as a new talent shedding a unique light upon the secrets entailed in what is to be received as an interesting piece of writing, generating deeper thought and motivating its readers to go one step further than the plot they have just read. His novel ‘Anil’s Ghost’ took according to his own admittance seven years to be completed and ...

Summary – Katula and Donald

In Katula’s essay “The Gettysburg Address as the Centerpiece of American Racial Discourse,” the author argues that Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was the turning point at which America’s destiny was turned to the search for racial equality. The work itself is largely an opinion piece, only working from speculation of the Address itself in the context of history (citing other importance civil rights events like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Brown v. Board of Education and more) to paint the Address as something that inspired all these other cultural advances. As a professor of African-American studies, Katula ...

Literature Review

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This literature review paper focusses on the subject of the role of dreams and the relationship between those dreams and hope. For this purpose three readings of different genres have been selected, to see what and how the three writers have expressed their dreams. The three pieces of literature under study are, a poem called ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by William Blake, Martin Luther’s speech ‘I have a dream’ and the speech by Abraham Lincoln, popularly known as the ‘Gettysburg Address’.
‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by William Blake addresses the issue of child labor and the social oppression that a ...

In any literary work, certain factors affect the quality done by its author. In reviewing prose of a particular author of choice, for instance, the viewpoint of the author presented along with the setting, character(s), and others should [definitely] be considered. In so doing, the greatness of the work is revealed. Nevertheless, in this particular paper, it is worthy to consider the comparison of two of Theodore Roethke’s works: “My Papa’s Waltz” and “Wish for a Young Wife”. And this literary review will be done in light of the works’ symbolism and the point of view of the ...

In Sherman Alexie’s story, What You Pawn I Will Redeem, the homeless narrator Jackson Jackson is a Spokane Indian. When he describes himself, he says, “Piece by piece, I disappeared. And I’ve been disappearing ever since,” he is describing both a literal disappearance and a figurative one (401). Literally, he has been discussing his disappearance from his lovers’ lives, meaning that he didn’t simply walk out on them with no notice. Figuratively, he means he is slowly losing his identity as a person and as a member of his ethnic background as he becomes more absorbed in his alcoholism and vagrant ...

Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Corey”

Robinson’s poem, “Richard Corey,” fits into the genre of American Literary Modernism because it deals with disillusionment and individuals “trapped by blind laws of heredity and environment or buffeted with uncomprehended chance” (Perkins 130). The poem is written from the point of view of a poor person who goes “without the meat and cursed the bread” who is admiring and envying a rich man of the town named Richard Cory (Robinson 14). Like many Modernist pieces, it reflects back to an earlier era of literature for contrast, using Romantic language to describe Richard Cory. For example, the speaker says, “he ...