Paoli High School
Paoli, OK
War and Peace
James W. Pearce
12th
"We must have military power to keep madmen from taking over the world."
Billy Graham was born 1918, in the United States, and became a world famous evangelist. His early work in the United States and England for the "Youth For Christ Crusade" led him and his colleagues to conduct a large scale evangelistic campaign in Los Angeles in 1949. His success there influenced him to engage solely in large-scale evangelism. Graham has conducted evangelistic campaigns in the United States, England, Scotland, The Soviet Union, The Middle East, The Far East, and Africa. He started a radio program, "The Hour Of Decision," in 1950. He has also appeared on tv and made several religious movies. He wrote Peace With God (1954), Secret Of Happiness (1955), My Answer (1960), and How To Be Born Again (1977). Born near Charlotte, North Carolina, William Franklin Graham graduated from Wheaton (III) College. He was ordained in 1940.
I agree with Graham’s statement. We have to military power to be on top of the world when you have to go to combat unexpectedly. As Billy Graham said, our military power has to be strong enough to keep madmen from taking over the world. Military is important because if it was not for our military power terrorist would have already taken over the USA The USA has the most military power in the world. We could go to any other country and invade it. Then that country could be ours. That is not what the USA is about, though. We believe in being powerful, but we do not unnecessarily put other’s lives at risk.
We have got people who are trying to take over the world today such as, but our military will not stand for it. They hit us hard, but we took the hit and kept on living. Now we are out to kill the people who did this to us. We do this because our military is powerful it is not weak. If our military was weak, they would have already taken over the world. We, as a people, would be living in an economy that we do not want any part of. No, we took what they handed us. Now they have to take what we hand them, because we stuck together as a unit when they struck us.
If your military is weak, people will just come into your country and take it over. As “madmen” start taking countries over, the people in those countries have to follow them or die. Military power is important so we do not have madmen running the world and people, as a society can live the way that they want to.
"I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with stones and clubs." - Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a man of many different features. He did all sorts of different things from science to math. He even did some philosophy. The man was of many talents and we as the people respect him for that. He was best known for theory of relativity. He was a one of the fathers of the nuclear age. Einstein’s paper established the theoretical basis for the photoelectric cell, or “electric eye.” This device made possible sound motion pictures, television, and many other inventions. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics for this paper on quanta.
It is ironic how his quote goes with the problems we are having in this time. It seems that we are going into the world’s third war. To win this war we are going to have to use some weapons that have never been used before. It is not going to be very pretty when it is done. We will have to use a type of weapon that is going to wipe out the economy. When this war is over, we will be building our lives back from scratch. It will all be gone and it will be like we started from the very beginning. We will not have stores to buy things. We will not have air conditioning, t.v., radio, and electricity. We will have to survive off the land like in the old days. I think it needs to happen , because the world is getting terrible in crime and other issues like that. Once all that has happened, the fourth world war will be fought with stones and clubs. The earth has to clear so it will redevelop some culture. Then that will make it were America will be grand once again. The people can once again dream maybe even hope for a land full of peace, love, and happiness.
sources: Billy Graham The World Book Encyclopedia
Albert Einstein The World Book Encyclopedia 1996 ed.