“Chances are, the genius representing you in the legislature won’t score 50 percent on the above test” (Moore 132). In a deeper outlook his sarcastic tone shows that he is confident enough about his argument to make jokes about it. He almost makes the reader feel like an “idiot” themselves for not knowing about the predicament our nation is in before reading his argument. Moore’s sarcasm is another way of being bumptious and knowing his stand on the argument is the right one and to push his audience to agree as well. Moore’s excerpt is well-structured from beginning to end.
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.
HistorySlavery was an institution that victimized as well as other cultures due to being in a controlled environment. Every suffered in their own way due to racial prejudice and fear of growing numbers. Masters which were also called Slave "owners" believed that treating another human being of another color like an animal was right. The children of the slave owners were being victimized as well due to following what their parent’s doings were right in treating another human being in such a manner. Slavery was so victimized that it still affects the society to the extent that black people blame the whites , and white people still agree that black people need to be slaves.
One cannot deceive oneself with good intentions because ones knows their real motivations in doing so. The most valuable knowledge one can acquire is that in order for others to respect one, one must first have self-respect. Didion states, “Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles
He is affected by racism, the great depression, and the laws of that time. As an African American Tom Robinson, life was filled with hardships. For example the constant racism he encountered. In To Kill a Mockingbird Scout overheard Miss Gates saying “Time somebody taught ‘em a lesson, they were gettin’ way above themselves, an’ the next thing they think they can do is marry us” whites didn’t even view blacks as humans at this time. Racism can also be shown in people through science.
Seeing as there are rules pertaining to humanity during war, was dropping the atomic bomb humanitarian? No, after dropping the bomb, 70,000 Japanese citizens were instantly vaporized and in the months and years that followed, an additional 100,000 perished from burns and radiation sickness. 4. How does Article XXII of Rules of Aerial Warfare relate to the case? The article states that aerial bombardment for the purpose of terrorizing the civilian population, of destroying or damaging private
Hitler aimed gradually to purify the German race, and this would be achieved by eliminating racial mixing, to create in von Shirach’s words “the perfect and complete human animal- the superman” the main obstacle to this as Hitler thought was the “eternal enemy”, the Jews. There is no historical topic that is protected to controversy, even the holocaust. There are three debates concerning this event. The first is whether it happened or not, the huge majority of historians accept that the evidence for holocaust is overwhelming. A small minority consider that the gas chambers were the creations of the Allied propaganda.
The pride of the Japanese was so great that it would not allow them to surrender and many of Japan's soldiers fought in a kamikaze style which they would go to the extreme of killing themselves in order to kill at least one enemy soldier. President Truman needed some method other than the Potsdam Declaration to force the Japanese to surrender, he found that in the atomic bomb. The use of the atomic bomb was believed to be the
This doesn’t mean we should all go out and be terrible people just so we will appreciate our good experiences, but rather that we should learn from our mistakes. Lance Armstrong’s view of life is similar to this; he says that sometimes life is fun, and great, and other times it is horrible, but whether good or bad our experiences make us stronger people. It is these experiences which give our lives meaning. Meaning and value however, are completely different issues. So how can the value of one’s entire life and worth be translated into monetary values?
It became the ultimate symbol of power, and the largest symbol of man’s desire to destroy one another without any resent to what the latter effects might be. The atomic bomb had been invented as a potential threat no less than 2 years earlier, where the Prime Minister of England and the President of the United States of America saw the potential threat that Germany posed should such a weapon be developed. By 1943, their advance in technologies prompted the Americans to kick up a gear and become Germany’s only real contender in the first nuclear race.