Trench warfare

DBQ: Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan The decision President Truman had to make regarding dropping a fission bomb onto Japanese cities in order to end the war would have been too hard for most of us to handle. America was weary after 4 years of almost total war with Germany, Italy, and Japan and the war needed to end. At this point, Japan was alone and dragging its feet after many losses. From the history we know, the decision was justified as it ended a devastating war with no end in sight…

true or possible. Both definitions, although close to each other are much different upon closer look. I argue that the gray zone is more in line with the second definition rather than the first, but the gray zone just like the term of Unconventional Warfare is a complex term, hard to define, and therefore challenging to understand fully. Either way, the two paradoxes I chose to speak about from this article are “Gray zone…

Dropping the Ethical Bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima “Japan was already defeated and dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary" (IHR). These were not the words of a leftist author, or world renowned historian. Nay, these have been the recorded words of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe and future president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower. “Dropping the bomb” does not relate to the hundreds of tons of hellish fire bombs that laid waste to Tokyo and Osake. It…

Thousands of people join our military and risk their lives to fight for their country. After many years of fighting in war soldiers are no longer who they used to be. When they return home they are looked at, treated badly, and are not given the treatment needed to recover. The struggles and obstacles these veterans face on their journey home and once they arrive forever face. In the epic poem, Odyssey by Homer, it shows the obstacles a soldier has to face on their journey. Odysseus and his men…

Tim O'Brien's novel “The Things They Carried” used his personal experience fighting in the Vietnam War, his father's stories from war as well as others experiences to express his message to civilians that life in a war and post war are not to be glorified or desired. Much of the material in the work has been drawn from O’Brien’s experiences because he felt so close to his stories, because of this, he dedicated the work to his characters—Jimmy Cross, Norman Bowker, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders,…

They’re lots of post apocalyptic movies Out there. One of these is Carol Amens “last Testament”. This is the story of a small town that survives a nuclear attack ,and how the people in this town deal with the fallout. Another good apocalyptic movie is “dawn of the Dead” The story of some people who have to survive the zombie apocalypse in a mall in Minnesota. These are two different movies with two different types of apocalypses, but while these two moviess are very different they are also very…

The dropping of atomic bombs is Hiroshima and Nagasaki was one of the most catastrophic bombing is history. It resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and the destruction of more than half of the cities infrastructures. Nonetheless Harry S. Truman and his advisors saw it as the only way to lead Japan to an unconditional surrender. While this is simply the opinion of the United States Commander in Chief and his advisors, there is a lot of controversy as to if it was truly a necessity in…

Tim O'Brien uses various types of rhetoric to introduce and familiarize the hardships and travesties of war with those who have never experienced it in his novel The Things They Carried. Bringing new light and perspective to a story told before, O’Brien uses his narrator, the flexibility of truth, and repetition to assist his story telling. In the beginning of the novel, we are introduced to a character named Tim O'Brien, sculpted from O’Brien’s personal experience as a Vietnam veteran…

I am Avery Anthony, a scientist at Ex Machina Labs, super human testing. You're probably wondering what happened, i’ll tell you. I was fascinated by the the dragonfly so I started to test it on NOV. 26 2023. 1:16 am. I removed the DNA for a dragonfly and dropped it onto a fire ant. wings in 6 hours 47 minutes, it flew around the room for 2 hours 35 minutes before it died due to overdose. The next day. As I wrote down notes, I tipped the DNA on my foot. It began to form my new body. That is why…

The theme throughout the four pieces of literature is humans can be the object of their own self-destruction. In “By The Waters Of Babylon”, John realizes that the “Place of the Gods” is merely a part of human civilization that has been destroyed by other humans (page 8). It says on page 7, “When gods war with gods, they use weapons we do not know.” This refers to humans fighting against each other and ultimately eradicating mankind. In Teasdale’s poem “There will Come Soft Rains,” it talks…