War talk is everywhere. For this assignment, please locate a text in which the vocabulary of war is being used to describe something other than actual, physical collective violence. Your text can be almost anything – a newspaper article, the text of a political speech, a song or poem. If you can’t think of anything else, you might look up the famous ‘War on Drugs’ or the lyrics of Christian hymns about Soldiers of the Lord. Or see if you can find a Seattle politician calling for an army of volunteers to fight homelessness. There are (almost) no limits. Then please write a short paper describing the assumptions you see embedded in this vocabulary of war. How does this language frame its subjects? Can you critically break down elements of the worldview that make this vocabulary make sense in the cultural context of the text you have chosen?
Max length: 500 words.