Rhetorical Modes
Subject: War
1. My ears are ringing. I'm in shock. My friend is in my arms and his eyes are struggling to hold any signs of animation that they used to. I hear shots firing around me, but they don't matter anymore. All I can think, or see is chaos that doesn't lead to anything. Why are we really here? There's some guy in power, but is that really something to kill ourselves for? Suddenly I'm being dragged away. I don't wish to go, but then I see that I to have been hit. I see the flecks of blood starting to form from my side. Why did I volunteer to put myself here?

2. When us humans have problems that have opposing sides that are grinding together like two tectonic plates, we seem to only be able to find war as a solution. This problem almost always relates directly to who has the power in economic situations and they lead to the end of many lives. When a war starts, there is patriotism usually behind the cause, both nations see the other as completely wrong and they feel that they need to expunge the other from the earth or at-least teach them a serious lesson. They send  their most fit youth, who could be finding new forms of energy, or building bridges metaphorically and physically between bodies of people. Instead, they are sent to go kill the other prospects. Eventually, both sides see that their cause is no longer worth it, and the two sides do what they could have from the start and negotiate. Even when it's a one sided negotiation, both sides eventually meet in the middle. Always.

3. There are two sorts of wars. Both equally awful on the ground, and both equally disgusting. One being the likes of the world wars, and the civil war during '63-'65. This type of war is full fledged destruction. All things that fall into this sort of wars path it destroyed physically. Nothing remains. The other type of war being that, that is has been the most popular of the last thirty five years, and this is the terror war. In this sort of war, there is just enough fighting to get press and kill unnecessary amounts of people. But rather than decimating everything in its path, it leaves the eery skeletons of what used to be.   It destroys enough to send its message of fear and terror to both sides, enough to convince both that the other side is in the wrong. This war drags on, and no one really wins because both sides are so vague in their specific intents other than the destruction of the other. Maybe the latter is the precursor to the former, only time will tell.

4. War in the context of the world is wrongly thought of as water in chemistry. Water is the universal solution, meaning that it can virtually dissolve or break everything down over time. In human thinking, war is thought to be able to break any obstacle down. As we are now seeing in the middle east, in Cuba in the 60's, and in the Versailles treaty, war is not the final solution that breaks the other down. This is because the obstacle involved is not meant to be broken down because it too is water. What we suck at, is appealing to each other want to be happy and satisfied. This approach would be diplomacy, which like war, would need work, but in contrast it appeals to humanities need for safety and coming together.  Just as water particles have a need to stick together. It's a loose bond, but it is a bond that holds our world together. THAT WAS ALMOST AWESOME.

5. War is the inability for humans to compromise. Whether it be for right or wrong. War is the bloody conflict that takes place because two entities see themselves as too different and that the only solution is to get rid of the other side. Even as children we see violence as a solution to high friction situations. War plays on this childish lack of communication strategies, that then results in the destruction of our own brethren.

6. Every western country teaches about it and was deeply effected by its wrath. This being World War Two. In this illness that spread the world just as the plague, millions of Jewish men, women, and children were slaughtered for the reason that an ill man thought that they did not fit in society (I think I like the Hitler card too much). Springing from this mental instability, hundreds of thousands of men were sent to fight for their causes.  Because of this, cities were destroyed. Economies crumbled, and scars were left on masses of people that will probably never be fully expunged. This is the power of war.