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The Questionable Authority: Helping People With Homework Since 2005

By tqa on February 5, 2009.

When people arrive at this blog via the google, it's usually because they're searching for a combination of words that doesn't produce a lot of hits. Often, it's a series of words that looks suspiciously like things that have to do with some sort of homework assignment.

Earlier tonight, someone punched "Compare and contrast between peace and War" into google.ca. The fourth item on the results list was a post from early 2007 that probably didn't help our searching student much. (Unless, of course, they were looking for an exposition of former President George W. Bush's flaws.)

It's unlikely that the student in question is going to return to this blog, but just in case they do, I thought it might be nice to do something to make the answer a little easier to find.

So, if you are looking to compare and contrast between peace and war (or war and peace), here's a starting point:

There is usually - but not always - less shooting going on in peace.

Hope that helped.

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