Destroyer

The bombing of Pearl Harbour on the 7th of December, 1941, was the decisive moment that made the United States of America join World War Two. During and after the Japanese bombed Hawaii, America responded to the attack in different ways many times. The United States responses varied in effectiveness but all ended by turning in U.S. favour. [[EVENTS]] The U.S naval officials placed in Hawaii decided that the best response, at the time, was to fire at the Japanese bomber planes and submarines…

In 1991, steroids were banned from Major League Baseball and in 2003 testing of the Major League Baseball players began. I think steroids should be let back into Major League Baseball because steroids can help with some medical injuries such as strained muscles or even broken bones, steroids would also give the sport more of an edge like Major League Baseball fans are looking for and because it is also wrong for people to think steroids are a bad thing when they have not experienced it.…

Plato’s work, The Trial and Death of Socrates has been and still remains a compelling piece of writing in Western Philosophy. In The Crito, the laws are the main focal point in all of Socrates arguments against leaving the city of Athens. He outlines the beliefs that he lives by and because of those beliefs chooses to not go against them, lest he risk tarnishing his psyche and reputation. Even when the Socrates does not speak for the laws, it is evident from the dialog that upholding the laws of…

Coates writes about the racist and violent acts that African Americans endured in America. Present day, people do not feel that racism exist, but the tales of murdered black bodies suggest otherwise. Black bodies are being destroyed and their destroyers are being left unpunished. Coates directed the book towards his 15-year-old son, who is now aware of the situations he will/can face as a black male. Coates’ questions how freely a person can live in a black body, but to live in a black body the…

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” (J. Robert Oppenheimer) was what was said by one of the leading scientist in the United States’ process of creating the atomic bomb. During the second World War, desperation to win and end the war led to an international rush to make the first atomic bomb. The bomb was the weapon that was thought to be the weapon and the key to winning any war. In the United States’ effort to create this atomic weapon, the Manhattan Project was founded by…

During World War II, the United States was going through many changes and challenges. This was not only happening in the United States but also in Europe. Some of the themes of World War II were the revolutionary change. During this era, we invented nuclear weapons which changed the way we fought wars. Nuclear weapons were used during the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Conflict was another theme during this time. Nearly all of the world became involved in the conflict. The United States…

Faulkner has similarity with Wordsworth too because of his love for nature. Wordsworth believed in the power of nature to bring people out of their miseries especially those defeated in life. Faulkner does have comparison with Wordsworth especially in ‘primitivism” and “Stoicism” but Faulkner does not have the serious philosophical tone displayed by Wordsworth. He presents his love for nature in a more simple, realistic and comic manner. Both of them admired rural life and hated urbanism and…

poor, or disadvantaged men, supported this notion of the state for it encourages ambition and envy, guised as opportunity for social mobility as long as the work hard within the system. Rousseau described the creation of this institution as the destroyer of natural liberty, and “eternally fixed the law of property and inequality… [and] subjected all mankind to perpetual labour, slavery, and wretchedness.” For these laws ensured cemented social classes and created little opportunity for…

Gilgamesh, the eponymous protagonist of the epic poem Gilgamesh and the king of the large ancient city of Uruk, is a military hero who completes a series of quests during the span of the book, triumphing over his enemies. Despite the fact that Gilgamesh is very cruel to his people, the epic still considers him a “hero.” His murderous, violent nature does not dissuade the epic’s author from almost revering him as a great leader. The Mesopotamian definition of a “hero” was one who excelled in and…

World War II was a six year battle between Europe the United States against Japan and Germany. Many authors have written about the events of this war and in effort to help readers to understand the horrors of this conflict. Herman Wouk, a Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote several novels set during World War II including, War and Remembrance. Wouk, aiming to create a novel that was neither entirely fictional or historical stated that he wanted his readers to “remember what happened in the worst world…