Spiritual warfare

Personal Response There Will Come Soft Rains “War is hell.” If this is the case then what would nuclear war be. Wars can go on for years with million of deaths but nuclear war can last a few hours and kill billions. The short story “let there come soft Rains” depicts a future after the events of a nuclear war, more specifically it tells the story of a single house standing in the rubble of a city. I found this story…

Although I have read books and watched movies about WWI, I still had a lot to learn about this war. I knew little things about this topic, such as the war stopped before Christmas and restarted after New Year’s day. But, I always wondered why there was a truce over Christmas and was eager to learn more. I also knew that the German army was the strongest army in Europe and wanted to learn more about what made them so strong. After reading the book Truce by Jim Murphy I learned a lot more about…

Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 film, Stalker, casts a shadow over the present, which is what most pieces of science fiction do. The reason why the film is still so resonating to this day is because it depicts how deeply troubled people are by events that are yet to occur. In the matter of Stalker, the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 was what had not yet occurred. After the accident, however, the nomenclature of Tarkovsky became suitable in describing the aftermath because the real world eerily…

The book We Are Soldiers Still by Lt. Gen. Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway connects to the film American Sniper by Clint Eastwood. For example in We are Soldiers Still on page 1 it talks about during the war in Vietnam it was a gruesome and terrifying war and how no one was your friend even if they were a local in Vietnam. In American Sniper this guy named Chris Kyle went to a war over in Iraq to be a sniper for Navy Seals and to protect his comrades and the marines who were checking houses…

Even after Germany had been defeated by Allied powers in Europe, Japan was still fighting in the Pacific. In fact, in-between April and July, the country’s forces had inflicted Allied casualties that totaled about half of those that occurred during the three previous years during the war of the Pacific. Any demand the Allies made for a surrender was met with refusal. So, to combat Japan, military leaders discussed several different methods of defeating the Axis power. One option, “Operation…

The use of new technology of nuclear weapons by the United States defined the end of the World War II. The U.S. President Harry Truman had made an important decision in such action. Two Atomic bombs dropped on the Empire of Japan cities, one on August 6, 1945, on Hiroshima and another on August 08, 1945 on Nagasaki. This event shows how devastating nuclear weapons can be for the humanity and also, change the history of the world (Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - HISTORY.com, n.d.). The U.S.…

On 6 August 1945, U.S dropped the first bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The death toll reached around 135,000. The second bomb hit Nagasaki on 9 August 1945 (three days later). This time, the bomb killed as many as 74,000 people. (Mason, 2014, Para 1) The bombing was necessary because Japan would not have surrendered otherwise and this would have prolonged the war potentially creating an even worse fate for Japanese people, with an estimation of about five to ten million Japanese fatalities—a…

There are many events in history that stand to be crucial for new American citizens to learn about. This is because of how they impacted our world, both positively and negatively, and how we can learn from our predecessor's actions and decisions. The U.S. atomic bombings of the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki is one example. It is a very important topic because of the tough choices that it brought to the table for not just the U.S., but for the entire world. These bombings, how they came…

Liberty Leading the People and Guernica are two very famous paintings that display war in different subject matters. Liberty Leading the People is an artwork of the French Revolution by Eugene Delacroix. Guernica is by Pablo Picasso, and is about the bombing of the City of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The two paintings have similarities and differences portrayed in the artwork. The paintings have much symbolism and political messages about war. The paintings have many similarities and…

that warranted a novel way of thinking befitting of the emerging nuclear era. The engineering of the first nuclear weapons started in the United States in WWII with the Manhattan Project. The introduction of this WMD dramatically changed human warfare by increasing the level of destruction proposed by a single weapon and introduced the concept of mutually assured destruction. States are now more cautious when entering into a conflict because of this newly presented…