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    Truman had at the time I would have still dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. We had been bombing Japanese cities as early in the war as 1942. In 1945 we firebombed Tokyo killing more 80,000 people. In response to this Truman remarked, “Despite their heavy losses at Okinawa and the firebombing of Tokyo, the Japanese refused to surrender. The saturation bombing of Japan took much fiercer tolls and wrought far and away more havoc than the atomic bomb. Far and away. The firebombing of Tokyo was one…

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    When The Wind Blows

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    destructive and the nuclear bomb took up 4 pages of the graphic novel because it obliterates all other images. The first 2 pages were made up of all white and the tips of the corners where bright pink and by the end of the forth page it starts to reveal Jim and Hilda in there shelter. We also see the physical effect that the nuclear bomb had on the charaters Jim and Hilda because at the strat of the novel they used bright and clear colours and by the end of the novel when the nuclear bomb went…

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    In its simplest terms, the idea that it is presumed to be honorable or at least ok in the eyes of society to drop a bomb from half mile up in the sky onto an unsuspecting village inhabited by women and children if there is a chance that Al Qaeda is also living there. While at the same time it is considered unethical by some people to get up close and personal to do the “dirty work” of torture to acquire information that might be valuable and save countless American lives. This “distance” creates…

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    advantage in Peeta’s anger that could potentially do all of her dirty work if he successfully killed Katniss. Alma wanted Katniss dead because she wanted to avoid any opposition from Katniss that would cost her the chance to take control of Panem.…

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    Dunkirk: A Short Story

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    has taken over everything including family bonding time. “Carol got to work, those weeds won’t pull themselves. Dinner is over.” Marie said. Carol replied rudely, “Yes Mama.” “BANG” Carol went flying into the air. Her light, pink dress was torn. A bomb had hit. Carol laid still smoke was everywhere, grass was on fire, her home gone. “Dad, Mom,” Carol yelled, “Dave, where are you guys.” They were gone. She walked and walked over the remains of…

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    Abu Zubaydah disclosed a plot involving two individuals planning to detonate a radioactive dispersal device I.E. “dirty bomb.” Abu Zubaydah could not remember the names of the two individuals or if the plan was even feasible. Months later, Jose Padilla was apprehended planning such a plot but intelligence agent working on the case informed that information given about…

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    A Time to Kill is a 1996 American drama film directed by Joel Schumacher. The film involves the rape of a young black girl named Tonya Hailey. The heartbroken black father Carl Lee avenges his daughter 's brutal rape by shooting the two dogmatic men responsible for the crime as they are on their way to trial. The film takes place in the fictional town of Canton Mississippi, a town where conflict between whites and black is a major problem. Schumacher utilises language throughout the film to…

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    Nuclear Power is Not Worth It New technology and science that has been created throughout the past few decades has allowed the United States to use Earth’s natural resources for our benefit. Medicine, insect control, fertilizers and agricultural uses all have an advantage when it comes to nuclear power, but the most well known use is electricity. Gaining energy from nuclear power plants provides electricity for about 20% of the United States population, however, the negatives of this process…

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    it is nothing even close to what it used to be. It went from a great and beautiful city to a dirty bomb site filled with dust and huge piles of rubble. The community is now filled with rotting houses where the sides are shored up with wood, the windows are covered with cardboard, and the roofs are covered in iron. All the houses had these crazy garden walls that saged in all directions. Passed all the bomb sites, rotting houses, and rubble were these colonies of wooden dwellings that Winston…

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    about the death of his fellow troop member ”a lump comes to my throat” You feel anger, range then sad And shed some tears for this lad” There is also the theme of war where the author states that the soldier was killed in combat by a bomb ” killed in action by a bomb” 'Shame' by Sergeant John ‘BJ’ Lewis (37), Royal Air Force, Iraq (Operation Telic) 2008, taken from 'Heroes' This poem is about war and criticism, the author states how they carried on their duty as patriots and achieved their…

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