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Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers – Milton Meltzer, 2002; Lines in the Sand: New Writing on War and Peace – Hoffman and Lassister, eds. essays, stories, poems, 2003; A Little Peace – Barbara Kerley, 2007; Operation Warhawks: How Young People Become Warriors – Terrence Webster-Doyle, 1993
The first page of "Chiefly About War Matters" as it appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, July 1862 "Chiefly About War Matters", originally credited "by a Peaceable Man", is an 1862 essay by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The essay was inspired by the author's traveling during the American Civil War to experience more of the conflict ...
"The Peace" (German: Der Friede. Ein Wort an die Jugend Europas. Ein Wort an die Jugend der Welt, lit. 'The Peace: A Word to the Youth of Europe: A Word to the Youth of the World') is an essay by the German writer Ernst Jünger. It was intended for Allied readers in the event of a German rebellion against the Nazi Party during World War II.
A fundamental misconception that war is sometimes required to prevent worse evils is addressed and a misallocation of resources is critiqued, where nations spend billions on military infrastructures that could otherwise be invested in education, science, public health, and social welfare. [1] The author then explores the causes of war, in ...
Relief at the entrance of the Cultural Center of the Armies in Madrid, showing the Latin phrase "Si vis pacem, para bellum.". Si vis pacem, para bellum (Classical Latin: [siː wiːs ˈpaːkɛ̃ ˈparaː ˈbɛllʊ̃]) is a Latin adage translated as "If you want peace, prepare for war."
Count [1] Pyotr "Pierre" Kirillovich Bezukhov [2] (/ b ɛ. zj uː ˈ k ɒ v /; Russian: Пьер Безу́хов, Пётр Кири́ллович Безу́хов) is the fictional protagonist of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace.
Life can be a tricky, challenging journey. One of the many things that makes it worthwhile is the kindness of others — and showing that same kindness and compassion to yourself. There’s a ...
The second essay addressed what Freud called the peacetime "protection racket" whereby the inevitability of death was expunged from civilized mentality. [5]Building on the second essay in Totem and Taboo, [6] Freud argued that such an attitude left civilians in particular unprepared for the stark horror of industrial-scale death in the Great War. [7]