Kamikaze

The act of taking one’s life, ruining your career or social position or one who attempts these actions are all a way of defining suicide said by Merriam Webster. Intolerably pain how most people who try to commit suicide see life while death as there solution (“suicide”). Maybe for them it is their solution. There are many different views on suicide from different cultures and religion. Some ancient Greek philosophers condemned the practice, but others considered it okay in cases of shame,…

The aggressive ping ding of bloated raindrops on the tin roof muddled our minds. Diving recklessly through the air, thousands of plump little kamikaze pilots assaulted the ancient cinder block building. Suddenly, a flood of electric energy breached the solid blackness, with a deafening crackle in hot pursuit. No, this is not the beginning of a low-budget horror movie or gritty crime thriller. This is the end of a long day at a leadership training course for teenagers. I was Assistant Senior…

boundaries and guns were necessary just in case of an outside attack. Even though there were electric wires keeping the internees in, these fences and snipers in towers also double as protection for any enemies such as kamikaze pilots attempting to penetrate the grounds. The kamikaze pilots were taught to be upstanding soldiers and give everything for their missions and country as well as the ultimate sacrifice; their own lives. No man, woman, or child was to get in the way or prohibit them from…

Was America justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? On August 6th, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. It was the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in combat, against civilians. Between 40,000 and 60,00 people died instantly, and many more would die in the aftermath, either due to their injuries or radiation poisoning. It also resulted in an increase in cancer and birth defects in the region. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped…

World History offers many historical leaders to discuss in terms of merit and effectiveness. From Ramesses the Great to Hammurabi, from Julius Caesar to Liu Bang, or from Winston Churchill to Ronald Reagan each offered something more to the treasure trove of antiquity. Some achieve greatness through idolization, some by terror, and most by a usually uneven combination of both. The Mongols of the Post-Classical Era assimilate into that final category. With storied leaders such as Chinggis and…

which caused the ship to be serious damaged to the point that the ship almost sank that day (Swopes). Luckily, the US Navy was able to tow the ship back to Pearl Harbor for repair. The third time was in April 11, 1944 in the battle in Okinawa where a kamikaze plane crashed onto the deck of the USS Enterprise. Once again though, the ship miraculously survived a hit and was forced back to Ulithi for…

A Normandy-type amphibious landing would have cost an estimated million casualties. Truman believed that the bombs saved Japanese lives as well. Prolonging the war was not an option for the President. Over 3,500, Japanese kamikaze raids had already wrought great destruction and loss of American lives. The President rejected a demonstration of the atomic bomb to the Japanese leadership. He knew there was no guarantee the Japanese would surrender if the test succeeded, and he…

Emile Durkheim (April 15, 1858- November 15, 1917) was a French sociologist, social psychologist and philosopher. Durkheim’s influential study, Suicide (1897), was a study of suicide rates in different social populations including Catholics and Protestants. This study pioneered modern social research and served to distinguish social science from psychology and political philosophy. Emile Durkheim was the first to use the term social integration .Durkheim wanted to understand why some people…

Japan Paper: The Bombing of Pearl Harbor From the Japanese Perspective World War II was the result of many countries attempting to obtain what did not belong to them. Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi political party, was attempting to forge a massive German empire out of the German homeland and surrounding territories. The Japanese were attempting to create a massive empire that fanned out in all directions from the mainland islands. With these attempts at gain, massive amounts of…

attack that would leave the Japanese disoriented as they attempted to discover which attack was real. As the United States armies further weakened Japanese forces in the Battle of the Philippine Sea and the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Japan shifted toward kamikaze warfare and intense island fighting. Iwo Jima and Okinawa proved to be battles with extremely high casualties, and despite further saturation bombing in Tokyo, Japan refused to surrender. The inability to force Japan to surrender in these…