This essay will examine the Contact zone of wars and incidences of victims of conflicts and mistreatment. In history, war is supposedly the answer to all problems and still to this day many leaders still establish war as the means to an end. In these instances war is used as a tool to obtain land, fight off terrorists, and gain power. However, I will analyze the other side and take the perspective that it actually inflicts hardships, death and is counterproductive. War shifts and destroys whole communities and economies, making it difficult for survival. War causes the changing relationships between nations, societies, and individuals. To some, war brings about the loneliness of fear and the self-absorption of misery. It changes the people as well as the fighters themselves. The men who emerge from the trenches are marked for life by deep, irreparable psychic wounds. The bombardment that leads to the deaths of hundreds of thousands, allow diseases to take hold and mortality in every age group to increase. It becomes evident that often war is often presented from only on side by the news in that particular country. But in evaluating my own thoughts takes me into the contact zone and allows me to analyze and evaluate the thinking of the politics of war and mistreatment of humans.
             A specific group of individuals that have been degraded for centuries are the women of Afghanistan. "She may be an ignorant creature, degraded by the system that has brutalized her from childhood; but she has a mother's instincts, and is capable of feeling a mother's agony." (Jacobs, page 437 paragraph 6.) This quote perfectly depicts the agony of Afghani women and mothers that have been degraded and dehumanized for years. It is interesting to look at this situation throughout the eyes of the contact zone. I assume the women in Afghanistan have accepted there treatment for years in the same manner that a slaves was forced to ...