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    experience the bomb knew what horrifying and terrible effects it would have on the city. In Hersey’s Hiroshima‚ a display of all the innocent lives lost and ruined in the bombing of the city of Hiroshima was shown‚ resulting in an example of why nations should find alternate solutions‚ other than nuclear weapons‚ to solve their problems. To illustrate‚ after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ thousands of people’s lives were instantly ruined. The results of the bombing caused so many people

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    over 100‚000 innocent souls. On this day‚ an American aircraft dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima‚ Japan. This was the first atomic bomb ever used in the history of warfare. In the non-fiction book Hiroshima by John Hersey‚ first hand six survivors of this horrific event describe accounts of the bombing and its effects in vivid detail. The atomic bomb affected civilians of Hiroshima and the city’s environment in that people began acting irrationally‚ suffered from injuries and deaths

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    did exactly that when it bombed Hiroshima in 1945. The tactic that America took to end the war resulted in the deaths of nearly 146‚000 people; this was unacceptable because the citizens of Hiroshima were unarmed and were not part of the police force. This act was not a reasonable resolution to the war‚ it was a genocide that occurred because of a poor decision. Killing civilians during war is a serious violation (The United States war crimes). The bombing of Hiroshima was an unreasonable act that

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    INPUT DEVICES 1. Where does the name QWERTY keyboard come from ? The name QWERTY comes from the first six letters on the top row of the alphabet keys. 2. Why do think the QWERTY keyboard is the most popular method of data entry? The QWERTY keyboard is the most popular method of entering data because an easy way of usage and when you get used to it you start typing faster 3. Who might make use of a concept keyboard? A concept keyboard might be used by a fast food restaurant

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    It is always slower to access data from backing storage than from internal memory. Fixed hard disks A hard-drive built into the case of the computer is known as ‘fixed’. Most computers have one. Fixed hard-drives act as the main backing storage device. They provide almost instant accsess to files (random access and high access speeds) Large storage capacity Stores and retrieves data much faster than a floppy disk or CD-ROM Data is not lost when you switch off the computer Usually fixed inside

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    Throughout the article‚ New Yorker article on Hiroshima by John Hersey goes through details to explain true stories of people that fell victim to this harsh crime. Hersey describes the timeline of several different people‚ explaining their thoughts and sights they were experiencing during the time of the bomb. They stories in this article are completely heartbreaking‚ they will bring one to realization of how bad the bombing really did affect the people of Hiroshima. He also goes through how they came together

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    narrative‚ Hiroshima focuses on the detonation of the atomic bomb‚ Little Boy‚ that dropped on the city of Hiroshima on August 6‚ 1945. Although over one hundred thousand people died in the dropping of the bomb‚ there were also several survivors. John Hersey travelled to Hiroshima to listen to the experiences of six survivors. Hersey uses his book to tell the story of six of these survivors (spanning from the morning the bomb fell to forty years later) through a compilation of interviews. Hiroshima demonstrates

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    to surrender. When Japan’s militaristic government ignored the declaration‚ the United States targeted the Japanese manufacturing city of Hiroshima with the newly developed atomic bomb. The effects of the atomic bombing at Hiroshima left the city and its inhabitants in a different state from prior to the attack. When the American bomb detonated over Hiroshima‚ its strength was catastrophic

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    Hiroshima The novel Hiroshima by John Hersey depicts a tragedy of mass human suffering when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Hersey tells many stories that actually happened of people dying painful deaths and suffering for long periods of time. I believe that Hersey was against the dropping of the bomb because of his vivid descriptions‚ personal stories from the victims‚ and the concern for the future of the survivors. “He reached down and took the woman by the hands‚ but her skin slipped

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    decided to try their new invention on Japan. The bombing of the two cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many innocent people died due to the bombs which led to the surrender of Japan. These bombs would not just kill people instantly‚ but it also made people very sick from diseases. The bombing of the two cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unjustified because it killed many innocent civilians. Dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was unjustified because many innocent civilians died from the

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