Definitions of War

One person from the group post the following information as a comment:
  1. Definition of War
  2. Percentage of years at war
  3. Link to your PUBLISHED and PUBLIC google spreadsheet with your data


Comments (17)

Symone Smith (Student 2013)
Symone Smith

Similarities: They also talked about having two parties. Our definition also kind of focused on more physical battle. We generally both said that war is need to dispute a problem . Differences: They included verbal battles. Where Wars Overlap: Barbary Wars War of Texas Ghost Dance War. General Comments: We liked they way this is organized and clear. Very distinct.

Imani Johnson (Student 2013)
Imani Johnson

1) Similarities: We both mentioned that war is between more than one party who have a conflict. We both have some of the same breaks from war.

2) Differences:

Their wars and our wars are way different. We listed more wars in our document than they what they put. We don't really match with many wars.

3) We rarely overlap wars or breaks from wars.

Bernicia Guercio (Student 2013)
Bernicia Guercio

Similarities - Both include physical conflict - Definition some what the same Differences - We think war can be physical or verbal - Includes different wars, more wars Overlay Big gap after the Mexican American war and the Cilvil War

Justin Pullins (Student 2013)
Justin Pullins

Group 4 Response: (Group 6)

Our definitions of war are once again similar. However, this group made a very concise and concrete determination of what truly defined a war, while we left our definition vague.

This group also included some minor wars which we omitted, but the also included some wars that were very interesting, namely the "War on Drugs" and the "War on Terror".

Manna-Symone Middlebrooks (Student 2013)
Manna-Symone Middlebrooks

Definition: War is an armed conflict between two or more organized opposing parties. Similarities: - Both definitions recognize that the presence of opposing forces Differences in Definition: - This definition recognizes the need for the conflict to be armed. It also recognizes the fact that participating parties need to be organized.

Differences in Wars: - This group has listed in detail, the relationship between the United States and the Middle East. This group recognized wars that were between native american tribes and also states that have not gained statehood. This group recognized rebellions as war"

Imani Johnson (Student 2013)
Imani Johnson
  1. Similarities between our groups' spreadsheets are that we have many of the same wars/ information. We have very similar definitions because we both mentioned that there are basically two groups that have opposite views.
  2. Differences between our groups' spreadsheets are that for certain wars our time periods seem to be different sometimes. They chose different wars. A huge difference is that our group forgot to put down both of the World Wars which is probably why our percentages are different.
  3. We both have a huge gap between 1990- 1940, and our wars are similar in the first 45 years on the document.
Manna-Symone Middlebrooks (Student 2013)
Manna-Symone Middlebrooks

Similarities in Definition: - Both definitions recognize that the presence of opposing forces Differences in Definition: - This definition recognizes the need for balance and uses tragedy to describe war. It also recognizes the occurrence of injustice. Physical battle is also present in the definition while no other form of battle is. Also the items that are being fought over are not mentioned.

Differences in Wars: - This group has listed the majority of wars that were in our timeline, but also recognize massacres and other revolts as "war". This group recognized wars that were between native american tribes and states that have not gained statehood.

Symone Smith (Student 2013)
Symone Smith

Similarities (Definition): We feel like they are very similar. We both included that there are two sides.

Differences (Definition): We considered people outside/ innocent people who could be affected. We feel as though they were more detailed when including what the cause of war might be.

Where Wars Overlap (Doc): Spanish-American War Philippine-American War Cold War

General Comments: Possibly include more in "other info" about why there was no war. Confused really about their general direction. A lot of repetition. Good ideas but not so good execution. In places it say just war not specifically what war.

Allen Yang (Student 2013)
Allen Yang

Similarities: We basically have the same range of definition, both stated that war is some type of conflict between two or more opposing parties or forces. Our group also have a fairly close percentage, with a difference of 2%. We both included the Native American wars of the 1800s.

Differences: They did not include WW1 & and WW2, meaning they didn't define the U.S at war during the 1914-18 and 1939-45. Barbary Wars was labeled in the wrong time period, same for Persian Gulf War.

Overlap: We both had a huge gap between 1919 and 1940.

Justin Pullins (Student 2013)
Justin Pullins

Group 3 Response: (Group 6)

This group's definition is pretty similar to ours. The main difference between the two definitions is that they specified that a war must either be a verbal or physical dispute, whereas we did not make that distinction.

This group also included some minor wars which we did not, such as the Mexican-American War and the Apache War, which allowed them to have a higher percentage than us. However, this group did not include the Cold War at all, which is was a great boost in our war percentage.

Yasmeen Brownlee (Student 2013)
Yasmeen Brownlee

Group 3 : Malik, Sophie, Bernicia, Yasmeen, Nick

Definition: War- a hostile conflict between two or more parties, when they can't come to a consensus resulting in a verbal or physical dispute

Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApoTbRyhW4LCdE9nU2E0QlVWTmhSbWQ0cGFzOW5PWlE

Percent: 58%

Manna-Symone Middlebrooks (Student 2013)
Manna-Symone Middlebrooks

Group 1: Manna-Symone, Maddie, Keanu, Maggie, Allison

Definition: War is a conflict between two or more opposing parties over objects, ideas, or situations in which participating parties seek their own interpretation of justice.

Percentage of years at war: 27%

Link to timeline: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aoo-MwfBlAqUdE9PUnlmbUR6c0RzRU1lVVJWMlE2NGc

Shamarlon Yates (Student 2013)
Shamarlon Yates

Group 5: Shamarlon, Cyndi, Allen, Matt G, Rugei.

Definition: War is an armed conflict between two or more organized opposing parties.

Percentage: 63% - 140/222

Link: https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Amig6cxGGFlRdEF6eW9Wa2Nnd0x1Um1FU3M0NkVKakE&hl=en_US#gid=0

Justin Pullins (Student 2013)
Justin Pullins

Group 6: Justin, Tania, Cheyenne, & Matt Ferry

"War is a high-tension conflict, which can between multiple groups, countries or nations. These conflicts can arise from anything."

52% of American History, we were at war. (115/222)

https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsnkoXGxPva_dFluQVczcEVFTUFoRGFRZ2RtTHk2dUE&hl=en_US#gid=0

Imani Johnson (Student 2013)
Imani Johnson

Group #4 members: Keiasha, Imani, Alysha, Marina, Naquan

Definition: War is a conflict between two or more opposing forces who disagree about an object, belief, or decision.

Years at War: 61%

Our link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0AqKTQoI-VeCpdHQxSjJzSlU0MzY2WU1DNW1HSE5xNkE&output=html

Symone Smith (Student 2013)
Symone Smith

Group 2: Symone,Katherine,Martha,Zac,Ronald

Definition:War is when opposing forces feel physical battle is needed to dispute an issue which is creating some type of unbalance. Typically the outcome is tragic and injustice occurs often.

Link-https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlxIOH7LzAUudFViQ01ZeEZHY285Yy03TXB3STlXaWc

Percent:64%