Jonah Mendoza

Professor Parker

ENGL-1302

21 July 2019

Obama And the Conflicts Between Nations

The 44th President, Barack Obama was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize for his own

effort to enhance relations with other nations. After accepting the award, Obama makes a speech

that discusses his own ideas and beliefs regarding the war between different nations across the

globe. Throughout the president’s acceptance speech, he claims that wars are necessary when it

comes a resolve and it reminds the world that we are meant to fight against oppression and

corruption in order to develop a greater effort to create peace. While wars do create violence,

casualties, and conflicts between nations, it’s also not the right answer to make peace. The reason

Obama believes in his ideas of war and peace is because he thinks realistically that he will have

to face the world as it is. He thinks his own nation will continue the fight for international peace

even though he strongly believes that it will happen eventually.

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