Firestorm

On August 9th, 1945, the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the city of Nagasaki. The following paper will argue that the atomic bombing was truly a disaster. The paper will provide its own definition as to what a disaster is. Following, possible objections to the thesis will also be addressed. This paper will analyze the disaster of Nagasaki by providing brief parallels to the disaster of Lisbon and the Chicago fire. The disaster of Lisbon and Nagasaki both demonstrate how disasters…

Abstract This literature review focuses on the correlation of mental disorders and criminal behavior. The main question that will be discussed is whether people with mental illnesses are more likely to commit crimes than those who do not suffer from mental illness. This paper will evaluate society’s unfamiliarity of mental illness and how this created a stigma on mental disorder. The literature reviewed provides argument that people with mental disorders are no more prone to commit crimes than…

More than one hundred thousand people are involved in a shooting each year in the United States of America. (irrelevant). Gun control has become a major topic in the last couple of decades in America. It’s a very controversial issue around the world, in communities, and in some families. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people…

In order to encapsulate the full essence of a photograph, you first have to analyze it. To do so, you must consider the human factor that is associated with the photograph itself and the real life circumstances that surround it. In photographs, there is a clear line between empathy and exploitation. Between sympathizing with a person and using a person’s emotions for a personal or professional advantage. The first picture I chose to analyze is the iconic photo of the second airplane hitting…

increasingly effective such that by the end of the war ‘43.46% of 63 major Japanese cities had been laid waste [and] 42% of Japan’s industrial capacity had been destroyed’ (Willmott). To add to this, Japanese cities were particularly susceptible to firestorms as they were made from wood and paper. This was explicitly the case during the Tokyo raid of March 9, 1945, where ‘more than 83,000 people died in the flaming holocaust [and] another 41,000 were injured’ (Spector). Additionally, Willmott…

Should people be allowed to burn the flag? A contentious topic of debate in United States politics is government intervention over civil liberties. On a general basis, most people would agree that on a political ideological scale, liberals favor big government and conservatives lean towards small government. We see this played out in debates over entitlement programs and taxes. However, the topic of civil liberties actually contradicts this notion, as most liberals favor a hands-off approach…

another, without the other they could not occur. If the extinction of the dinosaurs was gradually over millions of years “both process probably played a role”(DinoBuzz). Most scientists do agree that an asteroid was a factor, it’s also acknowledged thaDinosaurs roamed the earth for 163 million years.(Dinosaur Worlds). They thrived as one of the most successful groups of animals in the history of life on land(PBS). Then, 66 million years ago, the last group of dinosaurs disappeared forever;…

In the book, Cancer Ward, a clear villain is never fully identified, however, the book uses symbolism to described the omnipresent fall of the U.S.S.R and the state under Stalin's rule. This is represented by the character named Pavel Rusanov, which is emitted into the cancer ward and forced to undergo treatment. Rusanov is both a standard worker for the state, as well as an informer working for the secret police. This unnerves Rusanov, as recently a man he helped arrest over eighteen years ago…

Loss as referring to a death is something everyone in life has to experience sometime within your lifetime. A loss does not have to be a sad time, a loss of love one can be a life change experience. My first encounter of losing someone due to death had a dramatic change in my life. January 25th, 2011 was a day that has changed my life forever. It was not what President Obama was talking about in his State of the Union Address that affected me that night. January 25th, 2011 was the day my…

After reading, “Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 ” famous olympic gold medal rowing champion Joe Rantz contacted the author, Daniel James Brown, to discuss the central character of the book, who happened to be the champion’s childhood friend. On his deathbed, Rantz started to weakly tell Brown his life story, and Brown decided that his story could not go untold, and sat down to write “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin…