Kamikaze

to contribute to something else that help them. Narrator uncle was in military because this obligation in Manchuria. Narrator also spends most of his second year of junior high in Pyongyang working on the airfield with his classmates. It used for Kamikaze planes that are being flown from Manchuria to the mainland. While they are doing airfield they suffer from dysentery and diarrhea. Most people working on the airfield like working there, because they get three meals a day, which most of them…

From then onwards, Ken developed a strong sense of hegemonic masculinity which provoked his father a positive attitude towards him. Consequently, Ken was also well respected within the school environment where his peers labelled him as a “Kamikaze”. Kamikaze is a form of special attack unit where Japanese pilots were trained to crash their plane into the enemy (Samuels, 2005). This means that Ken is considered by his peers as a person who is risky and dreadful. However, the compulsion Ken…

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Northern Okinawa. Allied forces were able to corner Japanese forces on the Motobu Peninsula as additional Allied forces landed on the opposite side of the peninsula. The Allied forces would have to fight continuously against a constant bombardment of kamikaze attacks. Simultaneously, the 96th Infantry and the 7th Infantry moved across southern Okinawa going head to head with fierce resistance respectively. After clearing area known as Cactus Ridge and The Pinnacle Allied forces moved to the next…

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Japanese man’s honor, his family, and his name for all eternity. It was better to die a merciful death in battle, then to come home a failure. Multiple positions in the Japanese army involved instant death upon attack, including a position known as a Kamikaze pilot , who shared great honor and feelings of pride in defending the Japanese culture. “. . . Japanese fighting men did not surrender, even in the face of insuperable odds” (Powers). Positions like these showed the United States just how…

Offred throughout the novel, like when Serena is cutting the flowers in her garden. “She was aiming, positioning the blades of the shears, the cutting with a convulsive jerk of the hands. Was it the arthritis, creeping up? Or some blitzkrieg, some kamikaze, committed on the swelling genitalia of the flowers? The fruiting body.” (pg.…

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