The media puts this image in children’s heads that there is something fun about having a gun and also that it gives you power and you can control people with it. This is most definitely the wrong message to give out to children, and with gun education in schools students can be taught the practicality of gun use. Similarly to being taught the reality, being taught gun education in schools disappears the glamour surrounding children are exposed to and brings forth the consequences of gun use and abuse. By removing curiosity children have in guns we will see a decrease in the misuse of firearms and media influence as well as stronger boundaries in gun use. Secondly, by having
Cold War and Communism Back during the time when there was a threat of the nuclear war, I can imagine it being a scary time. Just like any other danger that we could be faced with, it is very important to be prepared. Who would not be afraid of some brighter than the sun, that could also burn your skin, knock out windows, knock down signs, and could throw you into trees. The video showed how serious the threat was. The video was very informative.
week 1 Individual Cold War and Communism To consider what it would have been like to live under the threat of nuclear attack brings to mind mass hysteria. I would imagine that living under this type of threat would have been very scary. To not know when or where this kind of attack would happen would make people live in fear. I cannot truly imagine what the people then felt like or the fear they had to be living in. To know each and every minute of every day wondering if this could be their last day.
The Oklahoma City Bombing case was looked at as a sort of a theater to McVeigh and the other patriots. They wanted to convey a message to the government that would change the way things were being run and laws were being passed. To impose a powerful message there had to be grandeur, or in the words of McVeigh, a “body count”. If there were to be no body count, the terrible act would seem much less horrifying. People would have seen the explosion as the loss of a building, and not as the graphic act of terror that it is.
Cold War and Communism The “Duck and Cover” short civil defense film released by the government to act as a public safety service announcement in 1951 educated many Americans how to react in a case of a nuclear attack. By wats National Reactor Station). The public needed the knowledge of the threat of nuclear war was real and by having the government aid in the production of “Duck and Cover” it opened the eyes to Americans that a threat of a nuclear was possible. Living under a nuclear threat must have been terrifying for all Americans especially children. Living in fear of a nuclear threat back in the 1950s is somewhat like today with the threat of terrorism.
I do agree of dropping the bomb because it did save a lot of lives. Franklin Roosevelt was trying to find a way to end the war very fast. Then Truman had to end Roosevelt’s idea of winning the war fast. Truman wasn’t looking for a way to not use the atomic bomb. The United States wanted to end the war fast because we wanted the lowest amount of casualties.
If children are never taught how to properly use a weapon, it can turn into a dangerous tool. I believe there should be classes in school to teach kids the history of guns and weaponry, and also the rewards and major effects that a gun can have on a life, home and country. Rather than teaching kids to be naive to the truth of weapons. I believe a curious mind desires the unknown and what is off limits. If guns aren't properly used they can be misused and dangerous.
This fear fuels the need to be armed, which hasn't changed in many years. Even though Obama and a part of the American government is trying to reduce the gun laws extent, and prevent more incidents, as school shootings. It is still happening. Because, as the gun law is at the moment, there are very few precautions, which can stop such incidents, metal detectors will not last in the
I think sexual education should be taught in high school. Although this can be a very controversial topic among parents and educators there are many solid reasons why this is important knowledge for teens. Students need to be aware of the risks of Sexually Transmitted Infections. There are many kinds of STIs, and high school kids need to be aware of all of them. They need to know the short and long term effects of these infections, which are the most common and which are the most dangerous, and the difference between viruses and bacterias.
This isn’t case with as this arms race progressed it became clear about the catastrophic dangers nuclear warfare would bring if the weapons were ever deployed. Seeing the fact that during this period the world was brought to the very brink of annihilation in 1962 but in spite of that the world survived that fearful time and has made significant progress in peace from this period of time to the modern day. So it can be said that bizarrely the nuclear arms race didn’t make the world a more dangerous place as one would assume but rather pushed the world to more peaceful times. On the other hand people’s reaction towards the view at the time i may hold some truth as destructive potential of nuclear war never ceased during this period. The horrific power shown by these weapons when used on Nagasaki and Hiroshima didn’t cause others to be fearful of the USA’s weaponry and to stop production of new weaponry but rather ironically increased it.