The reading, “The Biggest Decision: Why We Had to Drop the Bomb,” by Robert James Maddox, explains the process taken in for the Americas to decide to drop the two newly discovered atomic bombs over the Japanese homeland cities of Hiroshima and three days later Nagasaki. Americans should be well informed on this information. This is a perfect article for this class because it marks a very important milestone in our nation’s history. The Japanese were a strong powerful enemy of the US during the end of WWII. “The Japanese had more than 2,000,000 troops in the home lands, and were training millions of irregulars” pg.
12-14-12 Hiroshima Book Essay On December 7th, 1941 the Japanese troops attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor located near Honolulu, Hawaii. As a result of the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a telegraph to the Japanese commander asking him to surrender. After waiting quite a while President Roosevelt ordered the atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima and then on Nagasaki. He issued this order because the Japanese general hadn't surrendered to their threat. Upon the bombing of the two cities, the Japanese citizens that lived near the explosion had been through a devastating and horrifying experience.
Since the propaganda became a no brainer to many Americans, Citizens immediately began to apply in the army. This event lead to a drastic turn in the war, as the Allied powers were losing the war. The U.S. began to win battles, the Allied powers began to gain the upper hand on Axis powers. After years of war, the U.S. finally avenged Japan by dropping the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan. Then dropping the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, leading to Japan's
Papaw didn't want to be a coal miner so he dropped out of hihgh school and joined the army for two years. After his discharge he and Grandma Rita knew they didn't want to live around the mines. So like lots of other young couples they took off to earn a living in Washington, D.C. Papaw decided he wanted to be a police officer and was accepted into the police academy. He became a park police in Prince Georges County in Maryland. I remember him telling me about the Martin Luther King riots that happened in Washington, D.C. on April 4, 1968.
Isoroku Yamamoto was born on April 4th, 1884 in Nagaoka, Japan. He attended many schools for military training making him a military genius. He was also sent to the United States to study at Harvard University, where he learned that America would be hard to take on during the war. Japan attacked the United States because President Roosevelt froze the Japanese assets and had Japan withdraw its military forces from China and French Indochina in 1941. When planning the attack on Pearl Harbor, he thought a surprise blow would force the U.S. to negotiate peace.
It would be difficult to deal with not being able to have that sense of accomplishment after having it for so long. This scenario is easy for me to relate too, as I have seen this first-hand within my own family. My dad in the past two or three years had his business go bankrupt. As well as, getting laid off from his next job at Lowes (indefinitely), and then was without work at all for about six months. In my eyes he has
It took a counseling session that I learned that Sergeant First Class Crutchfield was serious about America’s sons and daughters. I told him that I was not able to do the job, and he needed to find someone else to lead these Soldiers. As he looked at me, he had all the Soldiers gather outside-in formation. I looked at all of them standing there, and he said, “So you don’t want the job to take care of America Soldiers. Now you tell them that to their face that you quit.
A Veteran’s Life Have you ever thought about joining the military? Which branch, what job, how long? These were my questions before I stood in front of the recruiter. The recruiter is the person you talk with that helps you through the process of getting into the military. After choosing my job and getting the specifics of my contract, I was married to the military for 3 years.
The next technique that I will be showing is repetition. Repetition is when something is repeated to give a much stronger affect, throughout this poem Wilfred Owen repeats that he hates the war due to the weather and the lies they were fed about war. I am going to talk about is “but nothing happens” in this poem this quote comes in four times in stanzas one, three, four and eight. The hatred in this quote is that they are waiting for the government to come and collect them, they are waiting for the bad weather to end but most of all
Furthermore, ordinary people like me have to struggle for our livelihood living in a militaristic country such as Burma because of factors like government terrorism. We have to struggle for our livelihood as the junta terrorizes us in every aspect leading us to fear our every move. Since my father could not accept the military government’s administration, he tried to oppose it as much as he could. Thus, when he decided to move to America in 2001, it was for political reasons as much as it was for economic reasons. That was the last I heard from him till 2004.