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    grow and allowing it to torment everyone. 2. In moral subjectivism context‚ Mookie did the right thing‚ as he was enraged by the death of‚ Radio Raheem‚ a fellow black man‚ and so did everybody else. However in this case‚ everybody was reacting strongly instead of responding according to the situation. Everybody was selfishly warped into their own situation‚ and they failed to realise that the problem was getting out of control. Instead of trying to help one another to calm the situation‚ everyone

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    It wasn’t necessary to drop the bombs on Japan. It wasn’t justified for many reasons. One reason being that Japan was already on the brink of surrendering. They killed innocent people just for the sake to end a war when there could’ve been other diplomatic ways to end it. It was all immoral. US also wanted to show off the power that they had. They knew just how powerful and how much damage it was going to cause‚ but they took the chance. Before the bomb decision was made‚ an “Allied demand for an

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    Was President Harry S Truman right or wrong in deciding to drop the atomic bomb on Japan (thesis) and why (evidence)? On the 6th of August 1945 the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ Japan killing 70‚000 citizens instantly and a further 10‚000 perished from burns and radiation sickness1. President Harry Truman was wrong to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima‚ Japan. One of his reasons for dropping the bomb was to end an ongoing war; his reason behind this was that to end the war in such a

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    Harry S. Truman was unwillingly thrown into the stressful demand of ushering the lives of Americans through a gruesome world war. With bodies dropping at every attack‚ Truman erroneously believed that the only way to save thousands was to kill millions. Sadly‚ this world war’s pressure caused this abominable leader to make the gratuitous decision to drop a ghastly atomic bomb on the innocent people of Hiroshima. President Truman’s imprudent decision to squander the atomic bomb against the Japanese

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    American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima‚...That bomb had more power than 20‚000 tons of TNT...which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare”. By the summer of 1945‚ millions of soldiers and citizens of the world had died after years of fighting in the Second World War. Although Europe’s involvement in the war had come to an end‚ the War in the Pacific between the United States and Japan had not found its conclusion. The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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    Essay Life and Success because of the Atomic bomb After defeating Nazi Germany there was only one step for the United States to end World War II and achieve world peace. The U.S. had to make the Japanese Empire surrender. The U.S. armed forces had already devastated the Japanese and conquered Japanese territories of Iwo Jima‚ Okinawa‚ and Japanese-held Luzon at a very high casualty rate. The last effort to make Japan surrender was to invade the mainland. This was going to be a very difficult task since

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    of all of this were two atomic bombs dropped by the United States. At first glance‚ it may seem that dropping these two bombs was a terrible and horrific thing to do. However‚ the use of atomic weaponry was actually a necessity in how well our conflict with Japan played out. Without the bombs‚ we would have fought longer‚ and more lives would have been lost. Dropping the atomic bombs on

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    Herbert Hoover once said “The use of the atomic bomb‚ with its indiscriminate killing of women and children‚ revolts my soul.” This is the opinion of not only Hoover‚ but for everyone else in the world as well. An atomic bomb is a dangerous weapon‚ no one can stop the power of an atomic bomb. The first place that America used the atomic bomb was Hiroshima‚ Japan. The bomb was too powerful and it killed thousands of people. The bombing in Hiroshima has been the final attack to Japan that stopped the

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    chapter on WWII. The class was exposed to what happened leading to the dropping of the bomb. Some believe that the droppings were justified‚ because if the bombs weren’t dropped‚ there would have been more battles and even more deaths than the bombs combined. Another reason some would agree is to show the world what this weapon really does. Others may think that the bomb was one of the worst event that has ever happened to our world because of how many innocent lives the bomb took and how the threat

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    On August 6‚ 1945‚ during World War II (1939-45)‚ an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb named the Enola Gay over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It is said to have dropped right over Shima Surgical Hospital some 70 yards southeast of the Industrial Promotional Hall (now known as the Atomic Bomb Dome). The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80‚000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Crewmembers of the

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