Bomber

World War II was a time when humans waged war against each other in the hopes of winning dominion over one another. Whether it was evil, territory, people, or racial tendencies, the fabric of war covered the world in a bloody scarf of destruction. After the United States entered the war, it proposed a way to execute strategic pinpoint bombing on high value military targets. These raids become the source of reflection and controversy. Some concluded that the bombing of civilians was deplorable…

though he belongs to the Muslim religion. After Yunis became a suicide bomber, Omar Yussef became more displeased with the idea of martyrdom when the narrator states, “To kill oneself in one of these bombings was always unfathomable to Omar Yussef […]” (Rees 191). Omar Yussef thinks this way because he is a strong believer in leaving behind a legacy that will help improve the world. He does not see how becoming a suicide bomber is helping anything because it only creates more violence. When Omar…

On the 12 of November 2015, a horrific terrorist attack destructed Beirut, Lebanon, killing 43 civilians and over 239 wounded. A would-be suicide bomber, who survived the attack told investigators that he was an ISIS recruit who himself, and three others had arrives in Lebanon 2 days prior to the attack; the three other bombers were killed in the explosion. The explosions were within 150 meters of each other, and five minutes apart from one another leaving shattered glass, blood and chaos all…

Precision weapons have been around since the Civil War and have been evolving ever since. Ever since the development of such weapons, soldiers have been more effective in the battlefield, while also reducing collateral damage. Everyday more and more precision weapons are being made and used around the world. In today’s wars, precision weapons are a normal thing, which have made wars much cheaper and quicker. The development of precision weapons has changed the outcomes of many wars throughout…

1. In Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the theme of violence is portrayed through the shadow, Ged, and the dragons. In Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, the theme of violence is portrayed through the war, the firefighters and the society. 2. “For he hungered to learn, to gain power” (Le Guin). Le Guin has Ged saying this near the beginning of the novel to show that Ged really wants to gain supremacy over others. This is emphasized later in the novel when he attempts to…

Inhumanity: Then and Today What makes a human has been argued upon for unmeasurable amounts of time but there are some points commonly agreed upon. Of course humans are the sole species that have ability of speech (Choi para 10), but humans are the only animals that can express emotion through means such as laughing and crying (Burton para 3-4). Humans also are the only living creatures that can have beliefs and reasoning, which in a way helps explain the subject of the Holocaust. In World War…

“The battle of Midway can be understood by two inextricably connected events: the destruction of an entire American air arm [the Torpedo bomber massacre] by Japanese fighter pilots which moments later led directly to the demise of Japan’s own carriers.”(Hanson, p.342) The American forces stationed at Midway consisted of B-17s bombers attacking the Japanese invasion fleet, which unfortunately failed to score a single hit on the Japanese fleet. Once positive confirmation of the Japanese…

It was July sixteenth, at 5:29 a.m. A luminous explosion was resounding over the black scorched sand in Los Alamos, Mexico. The dirt screamed death and destruction, warning the world never to take the path of nuclear weapons. This was the testing of an atomic bomb, a model for a bomb that may demolish the innocent souls of those living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The building of the bomb to detonate on Japan is a point of much controversy. Many claim that America will unjustly murder…

champion in 1934 also Louis’s talents caught up with his ability to punch extremely hard. (Biography.com editors). Joe was called the “Brown Bomber” after the knockout of a German boxer called Max Schmeling in 1938 then later was known as a national hero and created a record after 12 years of holding on to championship.The Brown Bomber had 25 defenses for the title which is also a world record, three knockouts in first round. (Biography.com…

wasn't used to bomb the death camps because the camps were at least 2000 KM in Germany territory and “Douglas SBD Dauntless” has a maximum of 1795KM. This means the plane will crash before it gets to the Death camps. (“ Douglas SBD Dauntless, Best Dive Bomber of…