On August 6‚ 1945‚ Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. Hiroshima was a city of southwest Honshu‚ Japan‚ on the Inland Sea west of Osaka. There were about a hundred thousand casualties at this time. However‚ there were six survivors. Pain affected the people of Hiroshima physically‚ emotionally‚ and mentally. Were the people of Hiroshima capable to stay calm in the time of destruction? Pain affected the people of Hiroshima physically. When the atomic bomb dropped
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The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Was it justified? The bombing of Hiroshima occurred on August 6‚ 1945 and three days later followed by the bombing of Nagasaki. The bombing killed hundreds of thousands of civilians‚ including woman and children as said by Admiral William E. Leahy (Document 2). While the dropping of the bomb had devastating effects on not only the people and the environment‚ it effectively ended the war. The amount of people that died due to the bombs may not even compare
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The United States’ decision to bomb two cities of Japan‚ which we’re Nagasaki and Hiroshima‚ was not at all justified. Many people know that Japan deliberately attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7‚ 1941‚ in order to strategically weaken the American Naval Base. However‚ the United States’ decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to push Japan to surrender the war . The bombing was unjustified because the U.S. military: targeted heavily populated civilian cities‚ deliberately
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Title: Trurl’s Machine Author: Stanislaw Lem As a boy Stanislaw Lem showed an early interest in science as well as in the imaginary worlds of fantasy and science fiction. The young Lem’s interest in tinkering mechanical devices of all sorts was put to use by secretly damaging the German vehicles during the Nazi occupation. Later on‚ he became a full time writer establishing himself as leading science fiction writer in Eastern Europe. This writer from Lvov Poland (now Ukraine) worked on serious
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THE INFLUENCE OF MODERN ART Cubism New attitudes towards pictorial space and geometric abstraction with geometric planes (but still based on real objects) - Influenced by African tribal masks/ breaking natural objects into planes/shapes. - Figures simultaneously seen from more than one view through relationships of geometric planes. - Analytical cubism based on process of human vision‚ eyes scan a subject then compile it into a whole. - Introduced collage‚ allowed for composition free of
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The problem with today’s youth is their addiction to technology. We have an undeniable hunger for entertainment. The hunger must be fed and sustained or we cannot function properly‚ yet it is never filled. We yearn for more and more. This‚ in turn‚ produces new technology to meet consumer needs. MP3 players‚ cell phones‚ and laptops are all objects to entertain our dulled minds. Rarely do we cure our boredom with a book or another form of "intellectual" entertainment. We would rather let the screen
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The Colomber Dino Buzzati‚ translated by Lawrence Venuti When Stefano Roi was twelve years old‚ he asked his father‚ a sea captain and the owner of a fine sailing ship‚ to take him on board as his birthday gift. “When I grow up‚” the boy said‚ “I want to go to sea with you. And I shall command ships even more beautiful and bigger than yours.” “God bless you‚ my son‚” the father answered. And since his vessel had to leave that very day‚ he took the boy with him. It was a splendid sunny
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Part 1: Estimation of demerged entities’ future earnings Tabcorp Holdings Limited (ASX: TAH‚ “Tabcorp”) announced a demerger on 18th October‚ 2010. The Company separated into two entities: the casino business was operating as an independent entity‚ Echo Entertainment Group (“Echo”) ever since‚ and the waging business was still operating under Tabcorp. The two entities announced their respective annual report for financial year 2011. Based on the historical financial data‚ we applied pro-forma
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Title In the early morning of February 3‚ 1948‚ in Queens‚ New York‚ John and Angela Miller’s one and only son was born. I was that only son. MORE HERE. Although they say that I was the greatest thing to happen to them‚ sadly‚ it never seemed like it. They rarely talked to me or spent time with me. As a result‚ I spent most of my early childhood alone. Over time‚ I began to like being alone‚ spending most of my time either in my room or outside in the nearby boroughs of Queens. I was happy with
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In the book Hiroshima by John Hersey‚ one of the characters‚ Father Kleinsorge‚ survival is a result of fate‚ not conscious decisions. At the start of the novel you found out that the Father lived in the only building at the mission house that survived the blast. “The next thing that he was conscious of .. that all the building round about had fallen down except for the Jesuits’ mission house‚ which had long before been braced and double braced…” (Hersey 13). The fact that his room was in the only
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