Firestorm

War is one of the most controversial subjects for many. It splits countries in half, turns neighbor against neighbor and divides a family. When discussing if a war is considered moral or not several viewpoints must be evaluated before action is taken. Someone with the view of absolute pacifist would find dropping the bomb immoral. This viewpoint is defined as seeing all actions of war as immoral. War involves humans doing heinous acts, which if performed in their own countries, would be deemed a…

Martin Luther’s weren’t the only reforms that swept Europe in the early 1500s. He had come to his conclusions a tortured soul, desperately searching for a way to be redeemed in the eyes of God. But those same conclusions were reached by another, and not from the perspective of a tortured soul, but from the scholarly pursuit of truth. The teachings of Ulrich Zwingli affected Switzerland much the same as Luther’s affected Germany, but not even these great reformers were prepared for the Anabaptist…

The plague was always a medieval disease in my mind. I never saw it as anything more than a horror story in history. However, after reading Plague and Fire a book written by James C. Mohr, I learned a lot. The book showed me that my way of thinking was wrong and that there is much more to learn about the plague. Mohr used his book to tell an informative story about something most people have forgotten about. The book focused on the third outbreak of the plague. It happened just over one…

sent out to war. Vonnegut also pushes how overwhelming and destructive the war is when he describes the firebombing of Dresden. Instead of using very literal language, Vonnegut describes the bombing in a very dramatic way by saying, “There was a firestorm out there. Dresden was one big flame. The one flame ate everything organic, everything that would burn” (227). Vonnegut uses Dresden to represent the entirety of the war and to show his dislike for how it dominates and exhausts everything.…

Albert Einstein was a great scientist who was well-known for his Special Theory of Relativity E=mc2 (Energy=mass times the speed of light squared). Although he was a pacifist and did not want to help in the creation of such a weapon he found it necessary at the time. Einstein would never want Adolf Hitler to get control of such a weapon, and urged President Franklin Roosevelt to build the atomic bomb (doug-long.com) The atomic bomb was not the most powerful bomb that could be created using…

In August of 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri an 18-year-old black man was fatally shot by a white Ferguson police officer. It started a firestorm of national and self-examination in America. There were protests against abusive police in major cities across the country, and the national government investigated. Recently Newsweek Magazine published an article titled, "15 Most Outrageous Examples of Police Misconduct in the DOJ Report on Ferguson." The author, Taylor Wofford, reported on the…

Rubio’s boots previously became one of popularly debated issues after he was photographed wearing heeled-shoes which are similar to pair of boots. According to Emily Crockett, Rubio’s boots are recorded by The New York Times as "one of the weirder firestorms of the presidential campaign, and "bootgate" (please make it stop) has eclipsed any other fashion…

Think Before Passing A Verdict Teenagers with so much life ahead of them should not receive a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Currently, there are around 2,000 teens serving life sentences without the possibility of parole (Liptak and Bromer). The film When Kids Get Life documents the situation. In the film, it's stated “ California voters were so persuaded by tough-on-crime rhetoric, they passed Proposition 21,” (Lundstrom). Proposition 21 gave prosecutors the power to try…

Fission was used in the original atomic bombs, and fusion is most commonly used today. This is due to the fact that the amount of energy that can be released from fission is limited, whereas fusion can theoretically release an unlimited amount of energy. Fusion is the same type of reaction that occurs on stars, thus obviously very powerful. Fusion occurs when two atoms are “fused” together and release a stray neutron. Thermonuclear bombs are much more powerful, and produce significantly greater…

Nuclear weapons are the most dangerous weapons on Earth and in the hands of those who wish widespread destruction it is something to be very afraid of. The worlds in trouble and we need to secure it and the only way we can is to abolish nuclear weapons but that turn around just cannot happen overnight we need a clear and concise plan of disarmament and all states have to be willing to put aside their need for power over the greater good of humanity. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have…