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    President Harry S. Truman was just sworn in as the President of the United States when he got the appalling news about the newly made atomic bomb that Roosevelt has been planning to use to cease the war and that it could destroy a whole city within seconds. The bomb called “Little Boy” was not so little after all. This is the bomb that ended up killing over eighty thousand people who were in its proximity. On August 6th, 1945, President Harry Truman made a “difficult” decision to bomb Japanese…

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    New weapons, more deaths and too much fighting. Its a battlefield out there. Will Japan fight back with the same, new effective weapon we used? Back in World War Two the United States and Japan were going back and forth with each other. Japan was not giving up and was showing no clear sign of surrender, so the United States had to make a move fast. The atomic bomb was a good way to end the war because it saved over a million American lives and brought a quick end to the war. President Truman was…

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    1. Introduction This following report is about Toyota. Know as Engine or auto organization. This report will begin with organization foundation (Company Background) and furthermore nation foundation (Country Background). The report will also show some history about the company, then this article additionally will do give an account of PESTEL examination base on the picked organization and nation and took after by doorman's 5 powers on picked industry. This report has an account of key…

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    Shortly after the collapse of the Tang Dynasty, a new empire known as the Song Dynasty unified and implemented a new government that ruled the Chinese empire for roughly three centuries. At the time when the Song Dynasty took over, they faced a major challenge regarding the old aristocracy. Adler & Pouwels (2017) stated that the previous aristocracy provided a substantial amount of skilled men who were recruited to perform duties in the government properties. However, they were brutally…

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    Overview A 9.0 magnitude earthquake began on March 11th, 2011 at 2:46 PM and lasted 3 minutes (World Nuclear Association, 2016). The earthquake was centered 130 km off the shore of Sendai Myagi on the east coast of Honshu Island. Consequentially, the island to move four meters to the east and surrounding coastlines were subsided by up to one meter. The earthquake also created a tsunami reaching as high as 40 meters. At the time of the earthquake, there were 11 nuclear reactors operating in the…

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    advancement and other sources for the indigenous people. The word Ainu is compared with Kamuy for gods meaning people and human. In the thirteenth century, Ainu settled their traditions and culture in the Northern part of Hokkaido, Northern part of Honshu (the main island of Japan), and the Kuril Islands which are the Chishima for Japanese. The settlements of Ainu were called ainu mosir, which meant, the great peaceful land, and located near the ocean. Their method of earning was fishing and…

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    Preventive Measures in the 2011 Japanese Earthquake Disaster Summary The 2011 Japanese earthquake followed by the triggered tsunami and nuclear disaster caused severe damage to the country. The three major events cost billions of dollars of damage and the earthquake, rated 9 on the moment magnitude scale, is the largest to ever hit Japan and the fourth largest in the world; more than 10,000 of its people lost their lives. For such an earthquake and tsunami prone country, it was a devastating…

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    Europe: So at the beginning of the early modern era the european rulers were more aware and knew that there was other stuff out there so the rulers start sponsoring expeditions. In this portuguese led the way in this, an example of this kind of ruler was Henry the Navigator who sponsored many expeditions. The spanish king also sponsored a very important expedition, the one of Christopher columbus who discovered the americas. The theory of mercantilization spurred colonization. The spanish…

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    The Second World War took place between 1939 and 1945. On 7 December 1941, Japan attacked the USA’s naval base in Pearl Harbor. On 6 August 1945 and 9 August 1945, the USA dropped two atomic bombs on Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively, causing around 210,000 deaths in total. Japan had no choice but to surrender and it marked the end of the world war. The bombing had a disastrous impact on Japan and many people from different nations were involved in this event. It brought long term…

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    The decision to drop the bombs was not carried out by the decision of President Truman alone. When he succeeded the Presidency after Roosevelt died, he honestly insinuated to the press that he was not confident to take the highest position of the country. Much to his surprise presumably, when he was briefly informed about the Manhattan Project. Roosevelt did not share the secret project to Truman before he died. Nevertheless, Truman’s inexperience in foreign policy, urged him to seek advice from…

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