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    Michael Levin says he agrees on torturing terrorists for information in his essay, “The Case for Torture”. He addresses his arguments by giving a few hypothetical scenarios of terrorist attacks. One of the examples is, when there is an atomic bomb in Manhattan which is going to explode very soon, the US got the guy who planted it and need to get the location of the bomb and method to disarm it. The guy will prefer death to failure, so, the US has the only way to get information from him —…

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    An atomic bomb, uses an atom to disperse nuclear energy, and then creates an explosion from two to around 15 square miles. Hiroshima was the final destination for the bomb known as little boy. Hiroshima was the beginning and the end of the war for the us. Hiroshima was originally a fishing village, but then grew into one of japan’s biggest and most major cities at that time. Since Hiroshima was originally a small fishing village it grew because the area it was located proved to be a very…

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    Ultimately, war is evil. Harry Patch, the last living soldier from the first World War, once said, “War is organized murder; and nothing else.” The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are perhaps one of the most criticized while simultaneously being one of the most defended moments in the history of the world. Regardless of the outcome, the United States did what they had to do to end the cold-blooded fighting that plagued the world for over half a decade. On August 6, 1945 the United States…

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    Parcc Practice 2 Ever since the very beginning of time humans can find both sides for an argument for about every subject. The atomic bomb is no exception. The atomic bomb would cause mass destruction but would lead to a quickened end to the war. The decision to drop the bomb was contemplated by many officials and was influenced by many more people who wrote to them. This paper will discuss the effectiveness of multiple writers and their common strategies such as considering the lives of the…

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    A common description of writing frames it as a simple instrument of communication, a conversation between one and many. Strinati corrects this view, arguing that a work of writing is much more than a way of communication and that writing is influenced by the countless events and circumstances preceding it. While this is certainly correct, it is possible to expand this claim. Writing is intimately tied to history, both in the past and in the future. At a basic level, writing requires…

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    Danger UXB episode 1, Dead Man's shoes begins with a royal army officer attempting to remove the fuze from an unexploded Bomb. After striking the locking ring with a hammer and chisel the bomb begins to tick and explodes. Later Lt. Brian Ash arrives at the 97 engineering company where he is informed that they are now a bomb disposal company. After meeting a few of his fellow officers and moving into his new quarters Lt. Adam Pringle gives him a class on the General High Explosive bombs, which…

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    It was an average, hot day in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Home to the Japanese army’s Second General Headquarters, yet also home to 280,000 civilians, 43,000 military personnel, and 20,000 Korean forced laborers (Gray, Paul, and Kunii). Everything had been running accordingly, adults going to their jobs, school children assisting in the cleaning of the streets, until they saw a foreign object, hurling at them at a fast speed. It exploded before anyone had the chance to choke out the work ‘bomb’…

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    Unit 731 Research Paper

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    Covert bio warfare Unit 731 Was the research gathered by unit 731 enough to justify the pardoning of all its scientists? Sources This investigation focuses on the medical and scientific achievements made by unit 731, compared to the horrific actions taken to achieve them, and then compares them to the scientific unit of europe and how they were dealt with, more effectively or not. Upon investigating further into the unit I found some interesting information, first person account from…

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    Tony Stark: A Real Hero

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    I have a question for you. Who is your favorite MARVEL hero? There are many many heroes to choose from. Such heroes are in teams like the Avengers and Fantastic 4. Iron-man Iron-man is actually a billionaire named Tony Stark. He assembled a team called the Avengers. Many villains aren’t very fond of Tony such as Whiplash, Doctor Doom, Ultron, and a ton of others. Tony has built various types of armor to fight these villains, although it usually winds up destroyed or heavily damaged after each…

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    People in Hiroshima early knew that the bombing could get closer to their place, but they did not get any idea about the new type of boom. On August 6th 1945, when everybody was doing their daily activities, a single atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. With a noiseless bright flash, the city turned into a rubble masonry. A hundred thousand people were killed, uncountable number of wounded people, more than half of the doctors in Hiroshima and injured most the rest and the…

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