This question has been floating around the air for years now‚ The first bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima‚ Japan in 1945 of August 6. This devastating bomb killed around 135‚00. There was also a second bomb that hit Nagasaki on August 9th that killed approximately 50‚000. But the question remained was this necessary? In my opinion YES! Dropping the bomb was very necessary‚ it was also reasonable considering the fact that US lost a total of more than 418‚000 both military and innocent civilians
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Was Manet an Impressionist? Outline the arguments for and against‚ providing and discussing specific examples to support the two arguments. Give your opinion‚ with reasons. Édouard Manet (1832-83) was one of the marginal figures associated with Impressionism. Impressionism is defined by the the online Oxford dictionary as‚ "a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s‚ characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment‚ especially in terms of
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ENG4U1 Seminar Essays : Thought and Style Mary Meigs Essay Thought Purpose ‚ Audience & Point of View • The purpose of this essay was to convey to the reader that tales of the old are all feminist. The author uses three main points throughout the essay: Eve’s apples‚ Pandora’s Box‚ and Bluebeard’s wives. • The target audience of this essay was somebody who understood the tales‚ because the author doesn’t retell them throughout the essay. • This essay is written in a first person point of view
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appeasement was a mistake and some suggest that appeasement wasn’t a mistake. Create a table with two headings - ‘A mistake’ and ‘Not a mistake’. Write each argument in the correct column. - Germany deserved a fair deal - Germany treated too harshly at Versailles‚ so were only being given their rightful land. - Germany was growing stronger - Allowed Germany to grow stronger meant it would be far more difficult to defeat. - The British people had to want war - In 1938‚ public opinion was against war
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aboard the H.M.S Beagle. In the article‚ Quammen talks about theory and explains what it is. He states that Darwinism was just a theory. In the article he talks about how “45% of responding U.S. adults agreed that God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last ten thousand years” (Quammen‚ 1). Quammen then begins to present the evidence that Darwin was correct in some of his theories but not all of them. He does this by stating what Darwin based most of his beliefs
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WAS DARWIN WRONG? An insight of Darwin’s theory of evolution 20th November 2013 Charles Darwin was an English naturalist who studied variation in animals and plants on a five year voyage around the world in the 19th century. He was born in 1809 and died in 1882‚ during his lifetime he managed to present his findings in his book‚ “On the Origin of Species”. Darwin’s findings caused a lot of controversy during his time and the present day‚ they were seen as conflicting with religious beliefs about
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specific behavioralcharacteristics that is firmly anchored in symbology‚ a set of discernible bodily movements‚ postures‚ facial expressions and voicemodulations that are acquired and take on strategic social value within the peer context.[3] Cool was once an attitude fostered by rebels and underdogs‚ such as slaves‚ prisoners‚ bikers and political dissidents‚ etc.‚ for whom open rebellion invited punishment‚ so it hid defiance behind a wall of ironic detachment‚ distancing itself from the source
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the path towards their destinies‚ they are ultimately unable to dictate the course of fate. “Muse‚ how it all began. Why was Juno outraged? What could would the Queen of gods with all her power? Why did she force a man‚ so famous for his devotion‚ to brave rounds of hardship‚ bear such trials?” (Page 47 Line 10) In Book 1‚ it talks about how Juno Queen of the Gods was angered when a Trojan man‚ Paris‚ did not choose her as the fairest of the goddesses. She became even more determined to do
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“ Go away!” I screamed. The words fell clumsily off the end of my tongue. “Wait! I think I hear something.” It’s my alarm clock. Thank God. This must just be a bad dream. As I pull myself out of the dream‚ I am once again in my pale blue room sitting upright‚ staring out the window at the beautiful day. I reach for my clock. Shoot! I’m late. Mr Gerdini will put me on detention for sure. I jump out of bed‚ get ready and run downstairs. As I grab an apple and run onto my front lawn‚ I realise I’ve
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Women Who Influenced Guy Montag’s Life Fahrenheit 451‚ by Ray Bradbury‚ showed what it would be like to live in a world where people couldn’t think for themselves. In this novel‚ people were not allowed to keep and read books because the government said that they made people feel and think too much. Guy Montag was the protagonist in this book. He was a firefighter whose job was to burn books‚ but he was beginning to question his role. There were many people that influenced Montag’s thoughts and feelings
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