“A noiseless flash ignites. Blinding every resident in Hiroshima‚ Japan‚ seconds later light falls into darkness‚ forever damaging the city I very much loved. The darkness turns to cold‚ not because of the weather‚ because of the emptiness of my body. My family had been lost in the rubble‚ I was trapped under the bookshelf that collapsed and crushed my bones. I lie motionless waiting for a sound. No sound ever came for me‚ the cold then came from the loss of blood‚ it just kept spurting out‚ until
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CW History Mr. Rioux 06.05.11 Was it right to drop two atomic bombs? “If you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast”1‚ said President Harry Truman to justify the use of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But isn’t this the exact opposite of what is preached in the bible? “If someone slaps you on one cheek‚ offer the other also” (Luke 6:29)‚ it does not say that we should slap back to even the score. So was dropping the bombs the wrong decision‚ or was it the only
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Thesis: While the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki culminated in the death of many Japanese‚ the bombings were warranted‚ saved lives‚ bringing an end to World War II. The United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a way to retaliate against Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The U.S.was the first country to use nuclear weapons against an enemy. The morning of December 7‚ 1941‚ Japan fired on eight U.S. Navy battleships and sunk four of them. They also damaged and destroyed
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Tanimoto . The words of Mr. Tanimoto‚ a Reverend who survived the atomic bombing in Hiroshima‚ is a parallel of my initial response to reading Hiroshima. I cannot fathom the atrocity that the victims and survivors of Hiroshima must have felt‚ but my immediate response to the book Hiroshima written by John Hersey was that the suffering of the Japanese could have been avoided if the United States would have enforced proportionality. The atomic bomb itself was disproportionate because it not only hurt the
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event in United States‚ a lot of different suggestions come to mind‚ raging from the invention of the iPhone to the Civil War. I believe that the most important event was the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The dropping of the bombs saved over a million American lives‚ introduced America as a world power‚ and‚ if not most importantly‚ was the first steps into the Cold War. If the bombs had not been dropped‚ many American lives would have been lost‚ and the war could have dragged on
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Who knew that a war between red and blue coats could‚ and would‚ change the future of the new land called America? American exceptionalism is the thought that America is better than all other countries. The literary movement‚ American exceptionalism‚ really helped change American literature in many aspects. It took place in the time period of the Revolutionary War. The colonies in America were ran by the ruler of Great Britain‚ King George III. Colonists were not happy with his senseless rules. They
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may also be true. However‚ I have found that people forget our past and how far we have come. Throughout the ages America has enhanced technology and warped society in a greater way. The America I believe in is an America of change. Let’s start back in the the 20th century. In the early 1900s America was at a time of rapid transformation. People were thinking “what can we change” and “how can we create a bigger and better America?” Even though they didn’t have iPhones or the internet they were creating
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lot of change in government. However none of those succeeded to rule the country efficiently. People were used to starving and wanted to change that. There were nobility but none of them cared for any change in the country and had most of their income come from the church even though they were not devout Christians‚ and to add to that the Military was decentralized and got involved with the government and rigged the elections. Therefore when King Alfonso the Thirteenth realized the people did not like
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importantly the change of one country was able to inspire another to do the same. On July 4‚ 1776 America gained independence from Great Britain and soon followed the start of the French revolution. In 1789 France was under bankruptcy from excessive spending of their king‚ therefore the storming of the Bastille signaled their revolution. Furthermore‚ the influence of America on France can be explained through the French fur trappers living in western America. The French occupying America‚ supported the
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culture. The typical music and art will change according to the place that is visited. It can mutate from a country to the other‚ and even from a state or city to another. This variations can also be found according to the time that it is placed. As the societies change‚ the music and art can change either. Despite that‚ it doesn’t mean that one can’t enjoy‚ appreciate and respect the other. An example of this is when we consider the countries in America Latina‚ we already can notice the differences
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