December 7‚ 1941 - Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii; also attack the Philippines‚ Wake Island‚ Guam‚ Malaya‚ Thailand‚ Shanghai and Midway. December 8‚ 1941 - U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan. Japanese land near Singapore and enter Thailand. December 9‚ 1941 - China declares war on Japan. December 11‚ 1941 - Japanese invade Burma. December 15‚ 1941 - First Japanese merchant ship sunk by a U.S. submarine. December 23‚ 1941 - General Douglas MacArthur begins a withdrawal from Manila to
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9.7 Zhang Xueliang’s Xi’an Incident speech This document was composed by Zhang Xueliang as a speech on December 13th‚ 1936‚ and refers to China’s civil war after Mukden Incident. As a result that Jiang Jieshi advocated the policy of " resist foreign aggression after stabilizing the country" and gave his order of non-resistance to Japan. Zhang Xueliang engineered Xi’an incident and wrote this document to demonstrate his motivations of kidnapping Jiang Jieshi. The direct reason that triggered Zhang
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Francheska Sanchez Professor Mary Mathis ENGL 101C-H1 November 2‚ 2006 Aristotle ’s Artistic Proofs as Applied to the "Declaration of War" Speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt Aristotle‚ although having lived thousands of years ago‚ continues to make an impact in our society with his contribution to Western thinking and his famous "art" of rhetoric. He remains to this day‚ one of the most influential philosophers in the history of rhetorical study. One of his most prominent works is his "Rhetoric"
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Hall Reporting- Comm. 225 Oct. 18th‚ 2013 Assignment #7 Reporting Speeches President Franklin D. Roosevelt has asked Congress to declare a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire since the Dec. 7th attacks on Pearl Harbor. “I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost‚ but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.” The room
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Philippine Islands. Last night the Japanese attacked Wake Island.” where this repetition causes the audience of the speech to feel betrayed and afraid of Japan due to the fact that they planned that all these attacks to be taken at once. In this speech Roosevelt managed to put his point of view in order to show a certain message to the people with his decision as the president. In this speech there are two kinds of point of views‚ the first person plural and the first person plural. To begin with is‚ the
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possible through promotional opportunities and story points for publicity. We worked with major studios and television/cable programs to place Ray-Ban products in programming that was consistent with the brand’s positioning. We targeted the film Pearl Harbor because of the dual appeal of its young hot cast‚ Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett‚ and the relevance of Ray-Ban sunglasses to the WWII storyline. The fact that Ray-Ban Aviators were actually worn by fighter pilots during WWII provided a built in
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Film Review of Pearl Harbor The movie opens with the two Tennessee boys Danny Walker and Rafe Mccawley pretending to be fighting the Germans. The year is 1923 and World War One just finished. Danny’s father fought in world war one fighting the Germans and he never wants the two boys to ever witness the horrors of war. In 1940 the two boys end up in the military. Danny is in the United States Army Air Corp and Rafe volunteered to be in Royal Air Force Eagle Squadron in England as did
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There are many similarities and differences between the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the terrorist attacks of September 11‚ 2001. One attack was committed by terrorists and the other was committed by a government. After Pearl Harbor‚ we entered a world war‚ and after the terrorist attacks‚ we invaded another country. Both Attacks were grave threats to our national security. To begin‚ the two attacks were launched by different types of enemies. On September 11‚ 2001‚ civilian terrorists attacked
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the other car. Ida assumed the woman remembered his license plate number and decided to file charges. But soon after arriving at police headquarters Henry Ida found himself under arrest for a far more serious crime. The 20- year-old wife of a Pearl Harbor Navy officer identified him as one of five local men who allegedly had kidnapped‚ beaten‚ and repeatedly raped her earlier that evening after she had left a Waikiki nightclub alone. The woman’s name was Thalia Massie‚ the daughter of a wealthy
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the World War II and Pearl Harbor has been the most rewarding experience I have had in a long time. He is ninety-two years old and it is amazing to see how good he still looks. I have known him since my family and I moved to Fort Campbell‚ KY. He has an amazing spirit and everyone in the neighborhood knows him and respects him. He did not hesitate for a moment to agree to this interview. I had the opportunity to see family albums‚ photos from the World War II and Pearl Harbor‚ his time in the Navy
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