Trench warfare

Tim O’Brien’s story, “The Things They Carry” published in 1990, centers on a group of soldiers in the Vietnam War. The soldiers are under the responsibility of Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. With Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, he carries his love for Martha and it distracts him from his duty. In the end, he tries to forget Martha because he thinks it is his fault the Ted Lavender dies. Each soldier carries something different from each other and the story revels to as to why. Respectively, each soldier…

Hiroshima by John Hersey is a historical nonfiction book that tells the stories of six survivors of the devastating nuclear bomb dropped on Japan on August 6th, 1945. Each character feels the effects of the bomb directly and has to deal with the changes in their formerly ordinary lives, along with the misery and hysteria, and the mysterious radiation sickness that follows the devastating nuclear explosion. This book was mostly written to dispel derogatory views of the Japanese in America during…

Imagine going back in time, putting yourself in the shoes of the Hiroshima civilians in 1945. It’s a normal day, but suddenly a bright flash passes. You see the people around you disintegrate, disappearing from the world. One second they’re here, and the next, not even a single trace. The only thing that kept you alive was the walls of two buildings. August 6, 1945 is a day that will remain in our hearts forever. There were many places we traveled in Hiroshima, but to me the Peace Park was the…

A single bomb detonated in the sky in 1945, instantly shattering tens and thousands of innocent lives . Below the forming mushroom clouds, deforming people screamed for one another, as the atomic bomb descended towards the cities of Japan. However, 72 years have passed by, but our world still contains thousands of dreadful weapons to threaten each other. In addition, fewer people are aware of the dark past, where so many suffered against. However, such violence caused a need for politics of…

The last interview which Mahatma Gandhi gave to Margrate Bourka White in the early afternoon on 30th January, 1948 was on “His persistence in his theory of non-violence in the event of a nuclear attack on a city.” The Mahatma’s reply was that if the defenseless citizens died in a spirit on non-violence, their sacrifice would not in vain; they might all pray for the soul of the pilot who had thoughtlessly sprayed death on the city. This was the last message of compassion to mankind. Gandhi had…

Cold War Response Children ducked under desks awaiting a nuclear explosion that would never come, adults spent time constructing shelters that would never be used, and militaries fortified for a war that would never shed blood. Constant tension hung in the air for countries all over the world facing the fears of communism and nuclear war. The United States was built upon the principles of freedom, the nation’s fate depends upon the decisions of three Presidents. As the looming threat of…

The decision of dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was one of the most controversial issues of the 20th century. Little Boy and Fat Man were the two atomic bombs that were used against Japan in August 1945. They were created for the Manhattan Project in 1942, which was a secret military project to produce the first U.S. nuclear weapon. The U.S. decided to build and use nuclear weapons, as they feared the Nazi Germany might build one before them and use it during World War II.…

On August 9th, 1945, the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the city of Nagasaki. The following paper will argue that the atomic bombing was truly a disaster. The paper will provide its own definition as to what a disaster is. Following, possible objections to the thesis will also be addressed. This paper will analyze the disaster of Nagasaki by providing brief parallels to the disaster of Lisbon and the Chicago fire. The disaster of Lisbon and Nagasaki both demonstrate how disasters…

On August 6, 1945 at 8:15am, an American B-29 bomber plane dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The devastation was unlike anything seen before. The city was flattened immediately. 8,000 people were killed as a result of the bomb and another 35,000 were injured. Japan still didn’t surrender. Three days later, another nuclear bomb was dropped by the Americans on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Afterwards, on August 15, 1945, Japan finally surrendered. World War Two was over.…

“I am a witch hunter if the witches are Communists…”Actor Adolphe Menjou declared during an investigation on Hollywood workers. Looking at the events that take place during the playwright The Crucible, we see many similarities between this fictional story and the “Red Scare” that took place in the 1950s. There are many parallels between the story in The Crucible and the real live events of the “Red Scare.” The “Red Scare of the 1950s” has often been considered to have quite a lot of resemblance…