September 11‚ 2001 the attack of on the Twin Towers. American Airline Flight 11 struck one of the towers early morning‚ destroying six floors instantly and people within the building are confused and have no idea what had happened. The building was engineered to withstand fires and smoke the smoke still mangoes to take over. On the floors above the impact the people with high level of authority were taking charge and asking other employees to look for people within the area‚ and making phone called
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President Franklin Roosevelt declared that the day of the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor‚ December 7‚ 1941‚ would live in infamy. Pearl Harbor was just a prelude to what the United States was getting into‚ when joining World War II. Not only was Pearl Harbor the beginning of a very long and horrific conflict‚ but it was also ushered in one of the worst violations of civil liberties in U.S. history. This was the blatant disregard of Japanese Americans’ human rights. After the bombing of
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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th‚ 1941 appeared to be quite unexpected to say the least. The American naval fleet on the base of Pearl Harbor suffered a catastrophic blow at the hands of the Japanese army. Ninety minutes after it had all started‚ the attack was over; more than 2000 Americans had lost their lives‚ there was over 1000 wounded‚ a loss of 200 aircraft and the Japanese had managed to sink eighteen ships including five battleships. Compared to the United States of America
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A terrible tragedy occurred on December 7‚ 1941‚ Japanese planes pounced on a naval base in Hawaii near Pearl Harbor. The attack lasted only two hours‚ but the results were tragic. Huge battleships were at the bottom of the ocean‚ more than 2‚000 American soldiers dead‚ and 1‚000 wounded soldiers. The U.S didn’t sit on their ass‚ they declared war on Japan for their unexpected barrage. FDR was the U.S current president and he was hiding an atomic bomb that could ruin Japan and it was going to be
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A scathing attack on all levels of Athenian society and its political leaders or just light- hearted fun? What is your opinion of “The Knights”? The knights is a scathing attack on Athenian society. Aristophanes makes the play this way through the constant attacks on the Pathlagonian‚ the many negative comments on the people and how he uses comedic techniques to attack Athenian society. Although the play is a heavy attack on Athenian society‚ Aristophanes does also include comedic value in some
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bombs was at the most 20‚000 and some estimates put the number of lives saved lower at maybe hundreds or tens. This is because the Japanese military in August 1945 was very weak due to the fact it had a minimal air force reduced to using kamikaze attacks to destroy US ships and an army which would use suicide ‘bonsai’ tactics against ground troops. Though many Americans were killed as a result of the suicide tactics‚ it showed the desperation of the Japanese army in
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Attack on Pearl Harbor "December 17‚ 1941‚ a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan." - Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt At 7:53 AM‚ the aerial onslaught began with the second wave perpetuated at 8:55. A radiogram was sent from the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet: "Airraid on Pearl Harbor. This is no drill." Within two hours‚ the carnage had concluded leaving 2‚403 people dead
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James Downing was part of the navy unit on pearl harbor. He was only 28 at the time and it was his 9th year in the navy. James remarked “I was doing my daily job‚ to find out that we were under attack.” James Downing was a gunner’s 1st mate and postmaster. He was eating breakfast with a couple other service men. His wife‚ Morena‚ was cooking the breakfast. They were fine until they heard a few explosions go off. “Then an anti-aircraft shell
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The Heroes Journey Outline 1. The Ordinary World Agent Kay identifies the only alien from the line of illegals. This shows this is an ordinary day for Kay. Also when we say Jay and an NYPD officer doing his job. 2. The Call to Adventure Kay’s partner retires‚ he needs a new one. He meets Jay after an encounter with an illegal alien. He then deletes his memory and assigns him for testing. 3. Refusal to the Call Jay is confused and doesn’t believe what he is hearing. He says to Kay ‘show
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What would you do if a 20 feet tall alien stepped in front of you? Would you fight for the sake of humanity? Or run‚ like the coward so many of us are? In "War of the Worlds" Ray Bradbury talks about martians invading the Earth. While in "Zero Hour" H.G. Wells tell a dynamic story about how aliens manipulate children into invading the Earth. "War of the Worlds‚ and "Zero Hour" are both the same and different in the way of setting‚ characters‚ and events. These two stories have different aged characters
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