Let's Work for World Peace
In conducting research for an essay that I am writing on constructive approaches to the problems of war and peace, I read a short, but thought-provoking fable by an unknown author. I would like to share that story with you, as well as my idea as a possible solution for world peace.
"Tell me the weight of a snowflake," a robin asked a wild dove. "Nothing more than nothing," was the answer. "In that case I must tell you a marvelous story," the robin said. "I sat on the branch of a fir, close to its trunk, when it began to snow --not heavily, not in a raging blizzard, no, just like in a dream, without any violence. Since I didn't have anything better to do, I counted the snowflakes settling on the twigs and needles of my branch. Their number was exactly 3,741,952. When the next snowflake dropped onto the branch -- nothing more than nothing, as you say --the branch broke off." Having said that the robin flew away. The dove, since Noah's time as authority on the matter, thought for awhile and finally said to herself: "Perhaps there is only one person's voice lacking for peace to come to the world."
In contrast to the several books I read for my research that detailed the cost and carnage of war, this one simple story moved me to want to add my voice for world peace and to think that maybe one person can make a difference for peace to come to the world.
My generation may well be the generation that brings total destruction or total peace to the world. Therefore, the United Nations should think about working together with government and educational cabinet members to put together a unified educational program in the schools of every country in the world to teach constructive approaches to resolve conflicts peacefully within the family, school, and community environments.
As a student in public schools, I have learned much about the military, nuclear weapons, and war, but very little about peace. Through special program, I have had the opportunity to Send a Mouse to College, Jump Rope For Heart, Prevent Aids, Heal The Environment, Just Say No to Drugs, Tell Someone About Abuse, and be a Student Against Drunk Driving. However, I have yet to be offered any kind of compressive and educational program promoting world peace.
Lysosomes contain hydrolytic enzymes which function in the acid of the lysosome and are meant to be secreted not as wastes into the extracellular fluids, but as secretory proteins into an intracellular organelle. When one of these enzymes is dysfunctional, the catabolism of its macromolecule does not completely occur and there is a buildup of the macromolecule inside the lysosome. This results in great numbers of large lysosomes which begin to interfere with the normal functions of the cell. This disorder is called lysosomal storage disorder. These disorders can eventually lead to the dysfunction of the organs. The organs affected by the disorder are determined by two factors: 1) The location in the body where the macromolecules that are to be catabolized are found, and 2) The location where the catabolism occurs.
Hester, Tom. "Maj. Gen. Charles Lee's Division Retreats in Disorder." The New Jersey Star-Ledger, 5 August 2001
Tay-Sachs disease is a rear inherited disorder that affects the nerve cells (neurons) in the brain as well as the spinal cord. This disease is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder rather than a sex-linked disorder like some think. In order to inherit Tay-Sachs disease, the gene must be inherited by both parents (Gravel, 2003). If the gene is inherited only by one parent, then the individuals will only be a carrier and has the potential of passing on this disease to their children. The odds of inheriting Tay-Sachs disease if both parents are carriers are 1-4 (25%). The chromosome responsible for the abnormality or mutation that causes Tay-Sachs disease is chromosome 15. Chromosome 15 is the one that codes for production of the enzyme hexosaminidase A (Hex-A) (Gravel, 2003).
Tay-Sachs disease is a genetic disorder, eventually leading to death of the inflicted. Genetic diseases have to do with mutations in one or more than one of the genes located on a person’s chromosomes. In the case of Tay-Sachs, it is a mutation of an autosomal chromosome, specifically chromosome #15 (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). The mutated gene is the Hex-A gene, which codes for the production of the enzyme beta-hexosaminidase A (see picture A) (ghr.nlm.nih.gov).
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Even rarer forms of Tay-Sachs allow those affected to live into childhood, or even into adulthood, with extremely mild symptoms, such as Ataxia, weakness, and problems like mental illnesses or speaking difficulties. While Tay-Sachs disease is an autosomal recessive type inheritance, it’s most common in Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. Ashkenazi heritage is usually eastern or central European.
Tay-sachs disease is perhaps a very dramatic disease because it strikes most keenly at small children and babies. The disease is very rare and fatal. Tay-sachs is a genetic disorder in which harmful amounts of fatty lipids, known as ganglioside GM2, is built up in the nerve cells in the brain. Infants who with Tay-sachs disease, who are not carriers, appear to develop normally for the first few months since their birth, but as the nerve cells become swollen with the fatty material, a severe decline of mental and physical abilities occurs. The child then becomes deaf, blind, and unable to swallow.
First, war is universal due to its violent nature, violence in its application knows no bounds, and it is the common factor that identifies the war and without it the war is nothing more than a diplomatic effort to reach the end. However, wars blow out only when the diplomacy fails. Violence is the war engine. Although the application of violence evolved through time and its severity varies according to communities, cultures, and the means and methods used. Demonstrating the violence through the application of force to subjugate the enemy is the central idea of war. “War is a clash between major interests,
Nonviolence has but one prescription for all social diseases. It prescribes Gandhi-brand aspirin for everything from a headache to terminal cancer. But the social diseases of the real world are complex, not simple.
Thinking about peace requires understanding peace itself as thought, as knowledge, and as a critique of its others, its opposites: violence, terror, and war. Peace is encyclopedic in terms of the knowledge that it generates as well as the knowledge upon which it draws. This essay is a brief attempt to explore what the circumstances are for peace as thinking and what goes into that thinking. What I'm saying here rests on three important assumptions: first, we cannot simply point outward to terror and "hit" the right target; second, to have peace one must extend peace; and third, the necessary counter to notions of a "just war" is a "just peace."
Over the span of recorded history, humankind has inflicted horrors upon itself. Attempts at ending these brutal conflicts usually involved a great deal of violence; problem solving entailed an “off with his head” approach. We would like to think that we are better than that today, but look no further than newspaper headlines to see that human behavior has not come very far since the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, there has been a positive development in modern day problem solving that Pruitt and Kim (2004) call “reconciliation” (p. 218). Simply put, this is the process of relationship repair. The importance of this theory cannot be understated. Reconciliation of divided people and societies is vital to preventing the reoccurrence of violence and building long-term, sustainable peace (Sustainable reconciliation, 2013). If people do not reconcile, conflicts will continue to arise time after time after time.
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