Trench warfare

What is Erika Gregory’s main argument? What is the conflict that her argument is responding to? What does the way she establishes the context/issue suggest about her underlying assumptions about nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons pose a threat to all life on the planet and future generations need to reduce the number of nuclear weapons to reduce the threat of nuclear war. The conflict is that although the cold war is over the threat of a nuclear attack occurring is still very possible and needs…

In “Take Your Choice,” Sakyo Komatsu tells of a man who is led to believe that he is choosing his own future. The man selects not a utopia, but a future that promises nuclear holocaust. Though his decision is part of a scam that feigns time travel, the author reveals that thousands of other unknowing victims of the swindle have chosen the same cataclysmic fate. Common sense seems to dictate that choosing a future of nuclear Armageddon is nothing but a daft decision. However, in Susan Sontag’s…

Though I am not a huge fan of symphony like music, I am a fan of movies. One of my all-time favorite movies would be We Were Soldiers, starring Mel Gibson. This movie is based on the book We Were Soldiers Once…and Young by Lt. Colonel Harold G. Moore. Both the book and movie are based around the first battle of the Vietnam War and depicts the soldiers, and battle, from both the Americans and Vietnamese point of view. I chose this movie because war movies are usually full of suspense, and…

the quote talks about miss Sasaki being crushed by books, it again portrays how mankind is being damaged by their own knowledge and by saying the Atomic 9Age, this is saying that this is only one of the times mankind will be in danger of atomic warfare in the atomic age. Another meaning this quote gives is that miss Sasaki is in a tin factor, representing old technology, which is being destroyed by this new Atomic technology. Another meaning is that how in the entering of the Atomic age, many…

In the 1940s, the atomic bomb was undergoing development and in August of 1945, the first non-test atomic bomb was dropped by a U.S. B-29 bomber on the city of Hiroshima in Japan and another was dropped, 3 days later, in Nagasaki. Some justify the attack because it spared the lives of many American and Japanese soldiers that would have been lost in an invasion of Japan, which was the alternative to the bombings. However, the cons outweigh the pros: the bombs caused mass civilian casualties,…

The Sniper and Cranes have differences that give two opposite ideas of the story. The main focus of The Sniper targets the civil war and the repercussions that follow it, whereas Cranes focuses on the loyalty one has to family and friends. The Sniper expresses the toll the war has taken on the soldier and how it affects him by giving detail about the feelings and thoughts he has about the war. The author wants the reader to know that the sniper is dedicated to his duty and does not think twice…

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie acts as a quintessential tip of hat to its predecessor anime series. Which is one of the most universally well-respected animated series of its time. Simply put the central plot of Cowboy Bebop: The Movie follows a terrorist bombing which releases a deadly virus to the mass population living on Mars. As a result the government has issued a 300-million woolong reward in order to capture the cold-blooded culprit that’s behind it. A legalized bounty hunter crew of the…

People generally tend to deceive others for the purpose of good or evil. In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick sets the novel in the near future. Here, a nuclear world war, given the name World War Terminus, just concluded a few years ago in the year 2021. The destruction left behind in the aftermath leads to a radioactive dust covering Earth, killing many different kinds of life forms. The purpose of the androids that were created were to replace their human archetypes’…

you unexplainably happy? Or would you simply spend it with loved ones in the place you cherish most? Ray Bradbury’s short story, “The Last Night of the World” highlights American citizens’ fear of the world ending at any given moment due to nuclear warfare during the Cold War. Although explicitly stated otherwise in the text, Bradbury cleverly addresses the fears of a nuclear attack by disguising them as a common dream among all of humanity in the short…

Yusef Komunyakaa is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished poets at truly capturing the emotions and experiences of war. His ability to write not only from the perspective of his own experiences, but to embody the viewpoint of others, gives a voice to those who saw a story in a different light. Komunyakaa himself served as a journalist in the Vietnam War and several years later, he began to write poetry remembering his experiences (Salas 34). His most famous anthology, Neon…