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[tapia89]

Prof,

I was looking thru my folder and found out that i only gave u my
essay. I uploaded my short story. Also i wanted to ask you when are we
going to meet to discuss this essay?

Thank You,

Melanie Tapia

[Colin C.]

Thesis - Terrorism and America’s justification for war as a necessity
for safety and security


“As we gather tonight, hundreds of thousands of American service men
and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By
bringing hope to the oppressed and delivering justice to the violent,
they are making America more secure. “ (Bush, 2004) these are the
words if President Bush during his State of the Union Address the
following January after 9/11. As a once proclaimed nation of
Christianity we haven’t drifted far from it’s principles in recent
years. A main principle being we must “help those who cannot help
themselves.” (C.S. Lewis) And as much as the safety and security of
our own country is our main concern the war in a Iraq has gone on so
long to ensure that the government we abolished will be replaced with
a just one. We are morally obligated to stay as long as the country
is not safe for its people. America is still the most powerful nation
in the world, with the grandest army. We are “Big Brother” in more
ways than one. The shock of 9/11 was a great eye opener to our
country. It showed us that we can be attack by another country at any
time, and for little or no reason. We are dealing with cultures that
are archaic in tradition and belief systems. We are the infidel and
if they kill us, they are rewarded by their god. Ehrenreich speaks of
“Blood Sacrifice” as a religious experience. Which is what a suicide
bomber would be. The act blood sacrifice is a barbaric and uneducated
tradition. Death is certain and cannot be undone. We are dealing
with an irrational group who does not want to listen to what we have
say. Maybe through force and through war they will.

[Olesya Stryzhak]

Olesya Stryzhak
English 101
Essay 2
Professor O’Connell

Young people in the war

According to New York Times/CBS News Poll forty-eight percent of
Americans 18 to 29 years old said the United States did the right
thing in taking military action against Iraq, while forty five percent
said the United States should have stayed out. In her 1997 Blood
rites, Barbara Ehrenreich claims that the war transforms young people
to the angry animals, such as the ‘pray-to-predators’, while all those
young ‘prays’ support actions entering the war; almost same numbers
appeared in other survey, where about fifty two percent of people
under the age of 30 supported the war in Vietnam. In her book, she
talks more about philosophical and psychological aspects of the
negative sides that influence the young people that go to war, but she
ignores needs of the country and its citizens. Who and how will
protect and serve the country, and the land you were born on? From the
other side, no one wants their child to be killed by the bomb. May be
in depends on the level of responsibility somewhere deep inside us,
for the family, neighbors and the country itself? It had historically
been put in us to fight for the loved ones and for the land where your
house were built. But why those numbers show that young people
actually support the idea of going into the war? Do they support their
president and his decision? Is it because young people are more
energetic and believe in changes, especially those that they can make?
Do they or their loved ones think about the transformation from pray-
to-predator, that are going to happened with them once participated in
the war?

[FASantamaria]

Felipe Santa Maria
Eng 101.
Apr. 4, 2009

(*note* draft of essay, quotes, and outline)

In her 1997 Blood rites, Barbara Ehrenreich examines a short aspect
on the anthropological and physical data on a child’s role in war.
Violence, which includes hunting and survival, is an instinct within
us that develops in the early stages of life. This is an instinct
that is in our nature to defend ourselves from danger. As for
children, this is act of defense is something that is learned early on
in life in groups, or as Ehrenreich would call it, the Darwinian
Algorithim. In our present world, it seems like our children are
forced and breeded to protect and serve. The more pictures we see
from Iraq, the younger our soldiers become. Is it in a child’s nature
to kill? Or is it because it is force upon them to protect the
country and to survive?

More than 300,000 Iraqis were killed in the 43-day military war in
1991. Since then, more than one million people-mainly young children
have died as a direct result of the US-led blockade on this small
country. Twenty-three percent of all children in Iraq have stunted
growth, approximately twice the percentage before the war. (Women and
Children, Rania Masri) 4,500 children are dying every month. Iraqi
children are being bred to be soldiers. American children are being
introduced to the heroic aspect of being a soldier.

Adults play their perverse war games, and children suffer. This is a
severe indictment of any war and of those who orchestrate war without
assessing its potential consequences on the most vulnerable of
civilian populations. Children are those who suffer and will pick up
the pieces of the broken leader. This is the third time in the last
25 years - after the war with Iran from 1980 to 1988 and the Gulf War
in 1991 - that Iraqi civilians, mostly children, have suffered the
consequences of war. (Children of Iraq, Cesar Chelala) “Operation
Iraqi Children.”

[tapia89]

Professor O'C thanks for the feedback. Wanted to know if there is any
possibility of me meeting with you to discuss Essay 2?

Thanks,
Melanie Tapia

[o'c]

MT:
Sorry for the late response. I thought I answered this a long time
ago. Most every week, online students are welcome to join the class
for extra practice or answers to specific questions. This week,
Saturday April 18, however, the classroom students are meeting in one
on one conferences, so there's not the usual class format. My office
hour is officially after class: just let me know if you plan to come
by with any specific questions. I have a pretty full schedule today,
but I know you're on campus anyway, so stop by if you want. If
someone's late or doesn't show up, I try to work others in any gaps in
the time.

[tapia89]

Thanks Prof O'Connell,

I am sorry would have liked very much to meet you on saturday, but by
the time i read it it was already late. And i had already read a
message that you had already posted the day before telling me to ask
you from here. So here goes, What else in your opinion can i include
or elaborate more on my essay? I really need a 4 on this one, please
help. Thanks Prof., you are always a big help.

Melanie Tapia