People did not think that we are going to have another World War after the Great War had ended until Hitler’s first invasion of Poland. Germany‚ Italy‚ and Japan joined on one side to fight against the Allied powers. In Asia‚ Japan wanted to expand their territories so they start invading other countries included China and Philippines. The Japanese admiral saw the U.S Navy Fleet in Hawaii as a threat to Japan. Therefore‚ on a Sunday of December 7‚ 1941‚ thousands of Japanese airplanes and battle
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Pearl Harbor On a sad day pearl harbor was attacked by the Japanese. Pearl harbor was located in Hawaii‚ december 7 1941(Arizona). The Japanese sent 33 ships and 350 planes and aircrafts. He sent the planes and aircraft north of oahu early in the morning(Pearl Harbor). The mission was to sink 8 battleships that were among 180 vessels anchored in pearl harbor. There was a ship named the Arizona and it was one of the 8 battleships. It was shot down by a 800 kilogram bomb(Arizona). This completely
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Pearl harbor “ A date which will live in infamy”(President Franklin D. Roosevelt). Could the attack on Pearl Harbor been prevented??? To find that out you have to look back at the past. The attack on Pearl Harbor could have been prevented if the United States opened foreign communication with Japan‚ improved military defense‚ and recognized the importance of the intelligence reports on Japan. Japan and the United States both had interests in China‚ Japan wanting to become
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Pearl Harbor- Gavin Fontaine Around 8 am on December 7 1941‚ hundreds of Japanese fighter planes open fired on Pearl Harbor. The battle only took around two hours but it was extremely gruesome for America to have thousands of soldiers dying and many civilians dying. Four days later Japan‚ Germany and Italy formed an alliance and attacked on America pulling America into the war. The attack purpose was to keep the U.S. from blocking the Japanese from receiving materials such as steel and aviation
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supplied only by a spoken or written text (Covino and Jolliffe‚ p.332)‚ it is considered as the heart of the rhetorical situation. The purpose of this essay is to analyze two rhetorical situations to determine if they are effective or not according to the criteria of rhetoric. The rhetorical situations are President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech "Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation" and Coca-Cola’s famous polar bear commercial: “Say Thank you with a Coke”. Rhetorical situations are defined by the kinds
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tragedy that happened at Pearl Harbor. In order to convey this statement he provided all people with a brief summary on what happened the day before. In the opening of his speech‚ Franklin D. Roosevelt stated that the attack brought infamy to the nation. The first rhetorical strategy Roosevelt used would be Patho´s. He said ¨Yesterday‚ December 7th‚ 1941 -- the United States of america of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan¨. Through the first
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China worth going to war with Japan. Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy in 1940 forming the Axis powers. America did little to help out China in fear of provoking Japan. The United States issued economic sanctions on Japan in order to stop the fighting in Asia. Due to extreme shortages of oil and other resources that the United States provided along with the desire to knock the U.S. off as the “dominant Pacific power”‚ his lead to the attack Japan made on Britain and U.S. as they
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centuries can be summed up in the events of Pearl Harbor and September 11th. Both events took the nation by “surprise” although the type of surprise for each was different as there was some knowledge acquired by American intelligence prior to the events that hinted at the possibility of an attack. Mark Lowenthal (2015) makes the distinction between strategic and tactical surprise‚ arguing that strategic surprise occurs when a nation is unaware of a potential attack directed towards them by another party
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a terrorist attack. Japan sent over one hundred fighter planes to attack the United States military base in Pearl Harbor. This reminds me of the September 11 attack. One similarity is that both of the wars mainly started because if the many disagreements they had with United States‚ like the restrictions of trade embargo. One difference is that it took place at Pearl Harbor‚ while 9/11 took place at the World Trade Center. At the time‚ they were already in a war known
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have been accused and persecuted for things they haven’t done. During certain situations and times‚ people were used as escape goats. The people accused‚ usually ended up with the “bad end of the stick”. The Salem Witch Trials‚ The Red Scare‚ and Pearl Harbor are all events in history when people were profiled and treated unfairly‚ and we can learn from these events. During the Salem Witch Trials‚ many people were profiled and treated and unfairly. In the town of Salem‚ the Reverend was Samuel Parris
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