Trench warfare

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…

In the memoir A Long Walk Gone, Ishmael Beah shares his memories of the Sierra Leone war. The war caused many hardships to the citizens of this country. It also caused a loss of innocence. Ishmael Beah embodies the loss of innocence by explaining life’s casualties before and during the war. Before the war broke out in Sierra Leone, Beah’s life was innocent. It is evident when Beah shares that he would dance and sing. Beah says that he loved to learn the verses of “I Know you got Soul by…

Telling a true war story is very hard, most of the time people can't actually recall every detail of their time in the war. In Tim O’Brien’s book, The Things They Carried, he goes over what it was like to fight on the front lines overseas in the Vietnam War. The physical and emotional stress and tension of being there, witnessing horrifically dramatic scenes made it very hard to physically remember what had happened there. Telling a war story is an art, you have to paint the images into the…

The Things They Carried Essay In the book The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, the soldiers carried many things during the war that were linked to the person they were. The story takes place in 1960’s during the Vietnam war, and is a collection of short stories by Tim O’Brien who was drafted into the war in his early twenties. The book is based on events and emotions that affected him during the war, and in the first chapter he writes about all of the things that the men carried in Vietnam.…

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…

The former prime minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher, in her eulogy to Ronald Reagan, praises him as she remembers his great influence and presidency. Thatcher’s purpose is to honor Reagan at his funeral. She adopts an intimate tone in order to express all the good that Ronald Reagan had done for the American people. Thatcher begins the eulogy by establishing extraordinary diction. In line 2, she says that she has “lost a dear friend”. The word ‘dear’ gives the audience a sense of how…

Criticisms of Japan Among the films in FCLT 306, The Wind Rises & The Grave of the Fireflies were my favorites to watch. Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata created masterpieces of animation, films that promote the beauty of life and examine the effects of war. In the aftermath of World War II, Japan had entered a new era, a time of American occupation and westernization. It was in this time that Japan created a new identity for itself. During the late 1980s, Japan had become one of the largest…

The President attempted to persuade his audiences by determining his credential as the President of the America. Obama used logos technique to persuade the crowd about what he was saying. He said “That’s my judgment as Commander-in-Chief. But I’m also the President of the world’s oldest constitutional democracy”. Bu using logos, he hoped to receive not only support from the citizens but also from the Congress because he believed “America acts more effectively abroad when we stand together."…

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.…

Immediately beginning world war 2, the United States was weak during this time. The U.S Army was stretched thin. Japan was deafting the U.S and Albert Einstein had moved to North America and discover the theory e=mc2. This theory help build the Atomic bomb to help the United States win the war. Thus causing a race to build the A bomb. In 1905 Albert Einstein made the theory e=mc2, however Glenn Seaborg was discovering a new radioactive material Plutonium which could also be used as a bomb…