Firebombing

Was it necessary to drop the bomb ? Kal-El Rivera 4B Imagine you or your loved ones being incinerated right before your eyes in a matter of seconds.ceasing to exist destroying you at the molecular level. A mushroom cloud so strong and so powerful stretching over the cities horizon 40,000ft in the air a blast with the calculated amount of power of 20,000 Tons of TNT explosives detonating upon the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With one Intent, one main goal to end this dark period of time in…

Poetry in the past years has become a focus on the craft and skill of what the poet is able to use while writing, which can create very beautiful poetry. However, a very strong form of poetry is the kind that relate to people and look into humanity of people along with their psychological state. A poet that was best at doing this is Galway Kinnell. Galway Kinnell is an exceptional poet that grew up in and lived in Rhode Island. He died in 2014 at the age of eighty seven years young. He had…

helpful in destroying Germany in both wars, though they were mostly designed by the Germans themselves. Zeppelins were also created by the German army engineers. These large lead balloons could also drop bombs and carry people, and led to more firebombing and small bombings of the Western Fronts. However, they were replaced by fighter planes and specially designed bombers. A famous example of fighter plane would be Manfred von Richthofen, or “The Red Baron”. The Red Baron was German fighter…

The Second World War: Collective Memory and History- Historiographical Essay: Judt, T. “The Past is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Post-War Europe.” In Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past, edited by J.W. Muller, 157-83. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. First Paragraph- Judt’s Main Arguments: Tony Judt’s essay The Past is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Post-War Europe details the immediate post-war European past that failed to face the…

In many countries, hate speech has had laws set against it because they believe that it leads to violence, but in the United States it is considered a form of free speech so it is allowed with no limits. As part of the Constitution, freedom of speech is sometimes used so that people are allowed to express their opinions and say as they pleased. Many Americans want to ban hate speech from being a part of the First Amendment because they believe that it causes and provokes violence against others.…

Writing is an art that has been around for many centuries. From the bible, to world renounced novels and screenplays, the work of writers has transformed the world of art and words. There are many influential writers whose names carry great meaning because of the uniqueness of their writing craft. One such writer is Kurt Vonnegut Jr.; “Vonnegut was an American original, often compared to Mark Twain for a vision that combined social criticism, wildly black humor and a call to basic human decency.…

“It would have been morally wrong if we’d have had that weapon (the atomic bomb) and not used it and let a million more people die.” stated Colonel Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay. (Document L) The Enola Gay was the plane that dropped the first atomic weapon on Hiroshima. The Colonel was saying that if they had not dropped that bomb, it would have killed more of their men (the Americans), which would have been morally wrong because you are supposed to do what’s best for your team or army.…

9 to 0 The Brown vs. the Board of Education case challenged the racial segregation in public schools in Topeka, Kansas. After the Plessy vs. Ferguson case, the “separate-but-equal” doctrine accredited to racially segregated schools. Linda Brown, an African American third grader, had to walk a mile to her school when a white school was only blocks away. There were eighteen white schools to four black schools in her neighborhood. Topeka NAACP leader, McKinley Burnett, gathered plaintiffs for the…

The Third Effect of War Throughout human evolution are species has always been at war with each other. This drive to kill and conquer can be caused from many different factors but the end is always the same, which is the physical and emotional effects left on the population. The physical effects include: death of people, maiming, physical loss of property, and economic loss. The emotional effects include: mental loss of family, mental feeling felt after war, and the emotional loss of everything…

Kurt Vonnegut’s unique and preposterous novel Slaughterhouse-Five was peculiar in the sense that it was evoked by misleading ideas, abstract humor, and visual imagery to display post- modernistic style- in it of itself reflecting the fractured psyche of the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim. It was a combination of a unique blend of being fiction and nonfiction. Vonnegut 's novel engrossed postmodernism because it had no limits, it is free and associates with dissonance. He is living his act, never…