Firebombing

2, 3, 5, and 150,000+, these are each important numbers surrounding the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan. Two stands for the number of bombs dropped, and three was the number of days in between each of the bombs dropped. Five stands for the number of days it took the emperor of Japan to agree to surrender, and 150,000+ is the number of people who instantaneously died at the dropping of the bombs. Each of these numbers must be carefully considered while deciding if the United States was…

He wonders if the two atomic bombs were necessary because the cities were already partly destroyed from the firebombings. As a result, he thinks that he was behaving like a war criminal because his actions were immoral. However, he thinks that these actions would only be seen as immoral if they lost the war but moral if they won. I believe that this lesson displays…

I am doing Medgar Evers for my black history month report. I think he is an interesting civil rights activist. He also had a fascinating life. I thought it was worthy to write a paper about Medgar Evers because I did not know anything about him at the start of this project. He was worth my time because I learned a lot. Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi. His full name is Medgar Wiley Evers. He went to the U.S Army in 1943. He fought in World War 2. He received an…

Use of the phrase “So it goes” (Vonnegut) is so frequent that is becomes annoying, and even frustrating. In the book, this phrase typically appeared after a tragedy or a devastating event was described, such as after the firebombing or when Billy Pilgrim’s comrades were killed during the war. This aloofness toward death stems from the Tralfamadorian idea that one does not die, but exists in other parts of his or her life, with everything happening all at once. During Billy…

Dresden From February thirteenth to the fifteenth nineteen forty five roughly 35,000-135,000 people died in the bombings of Dresden. The bombings killed more than the atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but were not as devastating as them combined. Looking back seventy years the main question people ask about the bombings is: was it overkill? The answer is yes. The nearest battle field was eighty miles from Dresden. During this time Dresden was a civilian city whose only war effort was…

social satire, black humor, autobiography and moral philosophy to explain a powerful antiwar message (Vonnegut and Ludwig). Through the characterization of Billy Pilgram and his experiences in World War II, Vonnegut uses his own background from the firebombing of Dresden, Germany to explore the psychological effects of war on the average soldier in Slaughterhouse-Five. The air raid upon Dresden, Germany in World War II took place during February 13-15, 1945 (Vonnegut). Prior to this,…

During World War II the world was advancing quickly in the realms of science specifically, science that had to do with weapons, the largest of these advancements was the creation of atomic bomb, this is undeniably the deadliest weapon in human history, the splitting of the atom, the smallest substance of matter, can cause an unimaginable amount of destruction. Since the bombs creation the world has generally come to the consensus that it is unethical, and immoral for a country to use it against…

There is no doubt about the Jackals reading’s intended purpose. To put it simply, Han Sorya is trying to drum up Korean pride and Kim Il-Sung’s communist ideology. On the surface, Sorya appears to have written a touching story about a mother’s devotion to her dying son. But dig deeper and the underlying message is clear. This response paper argues that the Jackals reading is strategically designed to promote the “eternal struggle” rhetoric. Thus, by extension, Jackals is nothing more than a…

Unified fire-bombing of the city. In the midst of all that repulsiveness, demise and devastation, time is taken to punish one person. Another example of human foolishness, as recorded in Vonnegut’s novel, shows itself in the outcome of the Dresden firebombing which was “utter destruction” and “butchery inconceivable”. Vonnegut views that the remaining parts of the city took after the surface of the moon and that the Germans set the surviving POWS to work, breaking into storm cellars and…

The Fog of War is an American film that documents the life, as well as times, of Robert. S McNamara, a former United States Secretary of Defense. In the film he illustrates his observations and experience with modern warfare (Errol, 2003). The title “Fog of War” is derived from a military concept that tends to depict difficulty that arises when making decisions especially when faced with conflict. The term Fog of War comes into mind when watching the film. It refers to the uncertainty that…