bomb on Hiroshima‚ Japan on August 6‚ 1945 and dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki‚ Japan on August 9‚ 1945. 70‚000 died instantly in Hiroshima and 80‚000 died instantly in Nagasaki. Even though the U.S. destroyed many Japanese lives the atomic bombing of Hiroshima was the right decision. However dropping the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki was probably not necessary to get Japan surrender. The decision of using the atomic bomb was tough‚ but it saved many American lives‚ but the U.S. used the second
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Letters from Birmingham Jail: An analysis. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.’s “Letters from Birmingham Jail” is a response to a public statement issued by the eight Alabama Clergymen regarding the racial problems arising in Alabama. In the letter‚ King uses logical‚ ethical and emotional appeals to not only tackle the problem but also to address an excellent confutation to all the arguments put forth by the clergymen. While‚ King makes a strong arguments in response by using reasonable strategies while
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and how they are connected with one another. The UK has many urban regeneration projects happening all the time and I have chosen to focus on the city of Birmingham and the “Big City Plan.’ I am going to delve into the processes‚ objectives and outcomes of the project and come to my own conclusion as to whether urban regeneration in Birmingham is done in a sustainable way. Cities cover just 2% of the world’s landmass‚ but more than 60% of the world’s population inhabit them‚ therefore urban regeneration
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Birmingham Six The Birmingham Six was a group of six individuals who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The six men were from Northern Ireland and had lived in Birmingham since the 1960s. Five of them had left‚ apparently intoxicated‚ to the Birmingham New Street train station for Belfast on November 21st 1974‚ the night the Tavern in the Town and Mulberry Bush pubs were bombed. It was within six minutes when two pubs had blown up. These men were traveling to attend a funeral of their childhood
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Detente was a short period of time of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union between the 1960’s and the 1970’s. Detente is French for "relaxation". Although Detente was designed to end Cold War tension‚ it eventually became a "thawing out" period. Detente reached it’s zenith with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1968‚ the SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) of 1972 and the Helsinki Accords in 1975. Both the US and the USSR various had reasons to seek Detente.
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The Horrors of the Atomic Bomb I think President Truman’s decision to drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was wrong. I understand that many people feel this was the right decision and there was no other way to end war but here are a few reasons why I think the bomb droppings was a mistake. One reason is because the United States didn’t even leave a warning for Japan to get ready or give them a chance to surrender from the world’s harshest war weapon (Primary source packet #2). In another document
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A Historical Look into the “Ballad of Birmingham The “Ballad of Birmingham is a shocking poem that was written by Dudley Randall about a bombing of an African American church in Birmingham‚ Alabama in 1963. The bombing of the church was racially motivated and resulted in the death of four innocent African American girls and was the turning point in the United States 1960s Civil Rights Movement. In Dudley’s poem he has taken such a sad event and turned it into a poem showing the racially motivated
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instituting minimum wage laws for women workers. However‚ the Supreme Court declared them unconstitutional in 1963. Then President John F. Kennedy ’s Commission on the Status of Women recommended that Congress pass a law guaranteeing that women would receive equal pay with men for equal duties performed (The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [TUSEEOC]‚ 1997). On June 10‚ 1963‚ the Equal Pay Act was passed by Congress declaring that women and men must receive equal pay for equal work. The
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MARINE INSURANCE ACT 1963 THE MARINE INSURANCE ACT‚ 1963 ACT NO. 11 OF 1963 [18th April‚ 1963.] An Act to codify the law relating to marine insurance. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fourteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-Short title and commencement. 1. Short title and commencement. (1) This Act may be called the Marine Insurance Act‚ 1963. (2) It shall come into force on such date 1* as the Central Government may‚ by notification in the Official Gazette‚ appoint. Definitions.
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Civil Rights. Some of my influences were; Mahatma Gandhi‚ Abraham Lincoln‚ Bayard Rustin‚ and Henry David Thoreau. I am going to give you three reasons why you should keep me in the balloon; first I lead the March on Washington in 1963‚ I was in charge of the Birmingham Campaign‚ and I lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott. If you throw me out of the balloon the United States would still be racially segregated today. First I am going to tell you about the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The
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