Lilian Sun Maczynska The Literary Imagination 20 August 2012 Arts‚ Man on Wire‚ and Bomb the Suburbs Pan to Houston‚ Texas at night. On an episode of Stephen Fry in America‚ produced by Andre Singer‚ standing on a stage in a dimly lit room‚ surrounded by Houston’s elite‚ actor and comedian Stephen Fry speaks of the importance of the arts. “Oscar Wilde quite rightly said‚ ‘All art is useless’. And that may sound as if that means it’s something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about
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Dropping the atomic bomb will solve nearly every problem we have. It would force the Japanese to surrender‚ shorten the war‚ save lives and money‚ and avoid us from asking the Soviet Union to get involved. The atomic bomb is already built‚ and not using it would waste all the money and time put into developing it. Releasing the bomb on Japan really would be in the best interest of the United States. The first benefit of detonating the bomb would be forcing the Japanese to surrender. The Japanese
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of the words “Little Boy” you think of innocence and incorruptibility‚ but the atomic bomb targeted for Hiroshima carrying the code name “Little Boy” was anything but‚ and was one of the last straws for Japan is World War II. The bomb caused massive destruction and three days later when another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki‚ Japan couldn’t take it and surrendered. If today I was asked to drop an atomic bomb on an enemy I would have to consider a lot before accepting the mission. When the U.S
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The Introduction There is a huge problem spreading across this nation. It ’s affecting adults and children alike. It is our nation ’s newest epidemic; it has even been compared to other epidemics such as cigarette and drug abuse. The epidemic is obesity and it is sweeping the nation. Americans are now considered to be the fattest people on earth. The worst part about this epidemic is not how it is affecting adults but how it is affecting families. The growing number of overweight families
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Under the Bombs As my first extra credit assignment I had the opportunity to watch “Under the Bombs”‚ directed by Philippe Aractingi. The movie became available to the public in 2007‚ embodying some of the events of the 2006 Lebanon War. The main character of the movie is a wealthy Lebanese Muslim by the name of Zeina Nasrueddi. Although she is from Lebanon‚ she lives in Dubai with her husband and son Karim. Due to complications within their marriage‚ Zeina and her husband send their son to stay
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vapours. The nose would run‚ ostensibly flushing out viral infections. The Company published advertisements in the ‘Pall Mall Gazette’ and other newspapers on November 13‚ 1891‚ claiming that it would pay £100 to anyone who got sick with influenza after using its product according to the instructions provided with it. Mrs Louisa Elizabeth Carlill saw the advertisement‚ bought one of the balls and used it three times daily for nearly two months until she contracted the flu on 17 January 1892. She claimed
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In the except from Maxine Clair’s “Cherry Bomb”‚ the adult narrator relates significant memories from her fifth grade summer. Through the narration of her private box and her cherry bomb‚ Clair is able to capture the youthfulness and innocence of childhood summers.In the beginning of the first paragraph‚ emphasis is put on the immaturity and youth of the fifth grade narrator in her memories. “Life was measured in summers” is a form of generalization that a child who has yet to experience the stressfulness
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are not deemed to have been innocent because they may have supported the Imperialist Japanese Government‚ then neither was those who died in the World Trade Center or any Americans‚ because they support the U.S. Government! Yes‚ the Japanese did bomb the U.S first but didn’t more than half of the America people tell them they weren’t right for doing it on pearl harbor ? So if their wrong‚ what makes it okay for the United States? The United states was mad because Japan came to their land and killed
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The Use of the Atomic Bomb The Manhattan Project was a secretive project created by the government to get ahead in the push for a nuclear bomb. After its completion‚ the atomic bomb was secretly tested in the New Mexico desert. The bomb was a success and next came the hardest decision of Harry S. Truman’s life. He was president at the time and he had to decide whether or not the bomb should be dropped. He had to account for the civilian’s lives‚ but also had to think about the outcome of the war
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civilian and military. Careful consideration of the first-hand accounts “Making Balloon Bombs” by Tanaka Tetsuko and “Playing at War” by Satō Hideo reveals the true extent of the total indoctrination and militarization of the education system that took place and the effects those practices had on the children of that era. In her statement‚ Tanaka Tetsuko describes her experience making paper for the so-called “balloon bombs” for the military as a student. She begins her narrative by describing her samurai
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