Lower Manhattan

successes. Misa treats each step in the process as equal, and even goes out of the way to explain utter failures, such as Ernest Lawrence’s attempt at efficient electromagnetic separation to produce uranium-235. This inclusion of all efforts towards the Manhattan Project shows how the process thrived on trial and error. The working and reworking towards a solution was the ultimate factor in the timely inception of the bomb. Else, however, directed his documentary in a way to only focus on the…

Your majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am very humble for such a prestigious award. I feel very honored to be standing in same place as Mr. Carter, DR. King Jr, and Mr. Nelson once stood. Compared to them, my achievements are slim. This award stands as the testimony to our greatest encouragement that we are not simply the fuel for such…

Charles Maland, a University of Tennessee professor of American film studies, has written a great deal of books that evolve around the history of film. Books like Time and The Nation, which talked about James Agee life as a movie critic during the 1940’s. His article, Dr. Strangelove (1964): Nightmare Comedy and the Ideology of Liberal Consensus discussed how he examined the Ideology of Liberal Consensus. It also discussed how the culture of America responded to the Liberal Consensus’ radical…

The Bombs Shouldn’t Have Been Dropped Fat Man and Little Boy, the two bombs used to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Americans weren’t justified to drop the Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Atomic bomb explosions were so big it completely leveled out Hiroshima and Nagasaki there were about 9 buildings still standing after Little Boy hit Hiroshima and about 7 buildings standing after Fat Man hit Nagasaki. The Americans knew the bombs would completely wipe out the whole cities of…

The atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are responsible for the deaths of approximately 210,000 people that occurred in a matter of minutes. There is no doubt that its people might still have some kind of grudge towards the American public. War is war regardless of how it is conducted but the use of a weapon that is capable of wiping out an entire population is a little too extreme – especially used on innocent people and especially when its damage is still casually appearing. Japan was…

The death of thousands in a moment; the power that was held in possession by the United States to end war. On August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Japan killing thousands of people in the city of Hiroshima (Dudley 119). Prior to dropping an atomic bomb, Japan failed to respond to the proposed ultimatum for the country to surrender. Harry S. Truman became the President of the United States after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945 (Dudley 119). In 1945 Harry S. Truman argued…

help with the Manhattan Project. Also, he was in charge of where it would happen, so he proposed that a new town would be created not made, this town was later named Los Alamos. “"He's a genius. A real genius... Why, Oppenheimer knows about everything. He can talk to you about anything you bring up. Well, not exactly. I guess there are a few things he doesn't know about. He doesn't know anything about sports.” Said the General Leslie Groves.”(PBS) To get people to help with the Manhattan…

The constellation that I have chosen is the Phoenix constellation. The main reason as to why I chose this constellation is because I personally find the Phoenix to be a beautiful creature. Both in its real form and starry form, with it's majestic wings and marvelous colors. The constellation itself is considered to be a minor constellation in the southern sky. The name given to the constellation because of the magical bird, the Phoenix. It was discovered by a French muggle called Johann Bayer,…

Throughout Unbroken and the various dehumanizing events of war and conflict, citizens relate and make sense of these activities in different ways. Nations perform isolation events and force humans to feel dehumanized when they are desperate to protect and defend their country. Concentration camps, slavery, nuclear bombs, and torn away from your home all relate to the conflicts of war. Imprisonment and forced labor was a major and common way to dehumanize the enemy in order to feel superior.…

In World War II, an atomic bomb was released by the United States, striking and devastating parts of Japan. This action made by the U.S. government was immensely criticized by the public eye. In class, we read the three texts, “Robert Oppenheimer Speech”, “A Petition to the President of the United States”, and “The Decision to Drop the Bomb”. All of these pieces of writing discuss the topic of how and why United States decided to drop a nuclear bomb over to Japan. The three seem to have a the…