Book Report: Among The Enemy

“I can’t believe you are serious, General Zaroff. This is a grisly joke.” The Most Dangerous Game is a short story by Richard Connel. In the story, a famous hunter named Rainsford tragically falls off his yacht and has to swim to an infamous island known as Ship-Trap Island. During the rest of the story, Rainsford meets a crazy hunter, finds out the secrets of the island, and has to use his hunting skills to stay alive. I believe that Zaroff’s and Rainsford’s conflicting views on the ethics of hunting will cause tension between them and make the story more exciting and full of action.

Enemy Pie is the story of a young boy and his “enemy” Jeremy Ross. Initially planning on having a great summer, this plan changes when Jeremy moves to town. He does things like laugh when the boy does not do well in baseball and does not invite him over to play when he asks some other children. Asking his dad what he should do, the boys father says he has something called “Enemy Pie” that will get rid of any enemy. Unfortunately, for the enemy pie to work correctly, first you have to spend the entire day with your so called enemy which is what the boy proceeds to do. After a long day of fun and games, his father brings out the pie for desert and the boy realizes that Jeremy is not his enemy. Trying to stop his new friend from eating the enemy pie, in the end everyone enjoys desert together, and the boy notes that somehow the pie did work. Jeremy was no longer his enemy but is now his friend.

Timothy Findley in his novel The Wars uses a postmodern device where the narration is nonlinear in chronology, making it subjective and more based on memory, ultimately deeming the reader’s perception of the past and the present to be precarious and unreliable. The Wars focuses on a young Canadian WWI officer named Robert Ross. Robert’s story is recounted after his death through many other characters such as Marian Turner, Lady Juliet d’Orsey, and the archivists. Yet, these characters are separated from Robert Ross through one main medium: time. Since these characters are separated from Robert Ross through time and space, the consistency of their perception comes

Confederate spies, secret traveling of the president-elect, and hidden clues to secret operations. All of these things can be found in the book Spies, Scouts, and Raiders-Irregular Operations by William C. Davis. This book brought up many subtle factors throughout the Civil War that were, indeed, crucial to the fight.The following review of William C. Davis’s Spies, Scouts, and Raiders-Irregular Operations will include a summary of the text as a whole, how significant the author’s thesis was, and the strengths and weaknesses of the the author throughout writing this book.

In “Ambush,” Tim O’Brien portrays a sense of regret and uncertainty as he attempts to justify his actions of killing an enemy soldier in Vietnam. (MS 7) While O’Brien camps out with his platoon mate Kiowa, he awakens for the final watch. O’Brien spots a young enemy soldier, and without hesitation and thought, O’Brien automatically pulled the pin of a grenade and tossed it at the enemy’s feet. Immediately, O’Brien felt a sense of regret; he states that as soon as the grenade hit the Earth it softly popped and the enemy soldier jerked back from the explosion of the grenade (MS 5). O’Brien explains that the memory of the young soldier continually haunts him, and he therefore carries a burden of regret.

After viewing the documentary film ‘The War You Don’t See’ by John Pilger, my previous feelings towards the war and the way people are treated grew more immense as I felt more informed as to what was going on behind closed doors. I have always found the thought of war pointless, destructive and inhumane, this documentary supports my previous attitudes. The way certain media associations manipulate and hide the truth is a scary thought, this film shows how the media lacks honesty on a destructive level. How can one take a position and make an informed decision towards what they should do or how they should react towards these global issues? They can’t, it is impossible to make an informed decision when one is not told the whole truth. ‘The War You Don’t See’ also informs the viewers to see how poorly the innocent civilians are treated and in many cases how their lack of rights results in cruel deaths. Pilger presents these issues to the viewers of this film in a way which looks down upon the people of the military and media and sympathise toward those innocent civilians of these war stricken countries, which I personally strongly support and am left feeling pleased with Pilger’s work.

At the beginning of the war, the British army relied on volunteers to swell the ranks, which propaganda facilitated. Newspaper articles were one of the main forms of media that spread British pro-war propaganda. Alice Goldfarb Marquis writes that the articles “were seen as powerful movers of men and women; they became mobilizers of the national spirit, calls to courage, to sacrifice and, finally, to simple endurance” (467). This statement portrays the general message of all articles: the men must have courage and be ready to make sacrifices for the greater good of their country. Describing the journalists as “powerful movers of men and women” (467) demonstrates journalists’ abilities to empower the British people to enter the war. Journalists were at the forefront of creating propaganda and influencing people to take action. Marquis describes the role of the journalist as ”‘an engineer of souls’ playing on the ‘whole keyboard of human instincts… to incite action’, and employing ‘a tremendous apparatus - the press’” (467). Referring to the journalists as “engineers of souls,” (467) makes it clear that the journalists had the ability to manipulate the people, and in this case, the journalists were inclined to “incite action,” (467) highlighting the ability of their articles to motivate people to take up arms. Furthermore, with access to the press, journalists were allowed to quickly circulate their articles around the country, allowing them to swiftly engineer the masses at

Absolutism is a political theory that views all values and principles as unconditional, rather than as relative, dependent, or changeable entities. The school of thought is associated with the perception of interpersonal relationships, wherein one views oneself as a small being interacting with others in a larger system. It limits the effect of Utilitarianism, a form of belief that believes in aristocratic bureaucracy, which gives primacy to what will happen, as opposed to giving priority to people’s actions. Absolutism is the view that while consequences are relevant to the morality of an action, some actions are always bad, irrespective of the consequences. This theory is especially true in the case of Warfare.

Richard Edward Connell was an American author, who was probably most famous for the short story “The Most Dangerous Game.” Connell started writing at the age of 10 covering baseball games for his father 's paper. By the age of sixteen he had become the editor of the Poughkeepsie News-Press. Connell was a very smart man who studied at Georgetown and Harvard.While at Harvard he was the editorial chairman. Connell 's writing style was usually action-adventure. Some of his works were probably inspired from his time working as a homicide journalist, and serving in World War I. By the time Connell passed away he had published over 300 short stories. Richard Connell was a very unique author from experiences he had through out his life, and so was the writing style that he portrayed.

‘The Problem of Evil’ by John Leslie Mackie is a philosophical argument that discusses the logical paradoxes and impossibilities of God’s existence. Written in 1955, it details how Mackie believes that because God is represented as an omnipotent (perfectly-powerful) and omnibenevolent (wholly good) being, evil cannot exist and thus neither can God. I will explain those paradoxes and defend Mackie’s argument, but I shall will question the justification of his claims to God’s existence. I shall also provide and discuss three theistic objections to the problem of evil, both adequate and fallacious.

The United States Marine Corps is a frequently misunderstood, occasionally maligned but more frequently mythologized division of the U.S. Armed Forces. Sometimes its role is perceived as overlapping the roles and responsibilities of its military counterparts such as the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force. However, as the exhaustive text by Victor Krulak shows, it is far more often seen as enhancing, focusing and insuring the roles and responsibilities. As the original pressing of Krulak's text was completed in 1984, a great many of the sentiments that permeate First in Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps carry pointedly Cold War-related messages and imperatives. However, an open-minded consideration of the text demonstrates a particular relevance for the servicemen and women of today's U.S. Marine Corps.

Have you ever seen children with wounds on their bodies? These are sequelae affected by Agent Orange. They were victims of cruel war. Children with innocent smiles, their face and body were deformities, etc. They can never take care of themselves. You will not be able to imagine what I'm talking about and my feelings of tragedy. But you will believe when you see them in reality. At that time, I am sure you will feel the heartache of what they

It begins within an empty dark space. With nothing more than a pedestal for ones mind to sit in place.

My book, titled: Spiritual Warfare, is possible from what I have learned in the Bible and my lengthy visit to Heaven, during my near death experience. Also twenty-five years of teaching and counseling others on spiritual warfare since going to Heaven. Plus the combined knowledge I learned from three different, intense and very real exorcisms I have successfully performed.

About a half mile down the road, the demons were gathering. Unsuccessful in their first attempt to procure the child, Michael knew they would be better prepared this go around. A major and two captains were now among the group that he could see. A couple of real bad souls, they were, which