Essay on Hiroshima Day

taught us about him on Martin Luther King Day. I remember chanting with the radio of the “I have a dream” speech. Back then, I had no idea of what he exactly contributed, but now I have found myself amazed by his career. Not only did he give his speeches, but he has acted with nonviolence. The Montgomery bus boycott Martin Luther King protested in resulted with the Supreme Court ruling that the segregation was not acceptable on the public buses. Back those days, black people were segregated on…

The last interview which Mahatma Gandhi gave to Margrate Bourka White in the early afternoon on 30th January, 1948 was on “His persistence in his theory of non-violence in the event of a nuclear attack on a city.” The Mahatma’s reply was that if the defenseless citizens died in a spirit on non-violence, their sacrifice would not in vain; they might all pray for the soul of the pilot who had thoughtlessly sprayed death on the city. This was the last message of compassion to mankind. Gandhi had…

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…

Michael Nickerson ELA 10th summer reading essay Entry 1 After reading the first ten pages of “Hiroshima”, by John Hersey, I got a good view of the lives that were affected by the bombing. The main characters introduced to me were civilians, both rich and poor, who did nothing wrong. They lead normal lives all the way up to the dropping of “little boy”, however once the bomb dropped , it is apparent that their lives were never going to be the same way again. As for reviewing how good the book…

The Bombing of Hiroshima is the first-hand account of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. It was written by Yamaoka Michicho in order to express her opinion on the use of the atomic bomb. She believes that using the atomic bomb was inhumane and inexcusable. She intended for this to be seen by the Americans; to inform them of the pain and tragedy that they caused when they dropped the atomic bomb. Michicho writes about the effects of the bomb on ordinary citizens, who had done nothing to provoke…

writer and journalist wrote a popular non-fiction book named, Hiroshima. A book written to reveal, specifically to Americans the horrific disaster the first atomic bomb used in human history, brought to its victim, Hiroshima, Japan. As an non-fiction book, Hersey had the responsibility of remaining an unbiased narrator. Creating a great debation whether or not, Hersey effectively pursued a flat style of writing throughout the writing of Hiroshima. After reading the book myself, and further…

The horrific events that transpired on August 6, 1945, caused immense trauma to the Japanese citizens affected by the bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A year after the explosion, many survivors were trying to regroup when John Hersey was approached to by the New York Times to do an article on the events that occurred in Hiroshima. Hersey decided to use the opportunity to gain a humanistic perspective on the events that transpired. From interviewing those who had experienced the traumatic…

The atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The bomb was created and dropped to defeat Japan and Defend the United States. There have been many debates on whether the bomb should have been dropped or not. The bomb should have been dropped because it saved many American lives, Japan had a warning to surrender, Japan did many bad things to the Chinese and the Americans and America has had enough. President Truman ordering for the atomic bomb to be dropped…

Japanese may have been defeated but that doesn’t mean that they were ready to surrender. In samurai warrior culture that then defined Japan, surrender wasn’t an option” (Atomic Bomb: Why did President Harry S Truman Order the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). In other words, Japan would fight to the death against all odds until the last men stood. President Truman couldn’t bear with seeing the war with Japan continued because all that…

been bombing civilian and industrial cities for almost a year which alone caused many more deaths than the bombs. Also, the operation to invade the Japanese mainland would have ended in a bloodbath of millions of civilian deaths including those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the Americans had already planned to bomb those industrial cities months before. It was fair for the Japanese to fear occupation but anyone could tell that the germans and the americans were some of the nicest…