Culture in Horror Films Final Paper The Atomic Bomb‚ Mutations‚ and Aliens in Horror Films Horror films prey upon the mass’s deepest darkest and most vulnerable fears. Horror films can be broken down into an array of subgenres that prey upon different fears of society. From 1945 onward an explosion of mutations‚ aliens‚ and monsters have dominated aspects of horror culture that prey upon peoples fears of nuclear power and its consequences. The fear of nuclear power is the fear of the unknown
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devices can devastate a city. Nuclear weapons are considered weapons of mass destruction‚ and their use and control has been a major aspect of international policy since their debut. | http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/atomictest.htm | The First Atomic Bomb Blast‚ 1945The events that took place in a remote area of New Mexico during the predawn hours of July 16‚ 1945 forever changed the world.Even before the bomb was tested‚ a second bomb was secretly dispatched to the Pacific for an attack on the
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the decision that Harry S. Truman was guilty of crimes against humanity. I was not fully content with this decision‚ however‚ I am able to understand why the jury came to the decision that they made. First of all‚ the jury felt that even though bombing was required to end the war‚ the US could have dropped conventional bombs. We came to this conclusion since Admiral William stated that the conventional bombs "would have had a similar
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literally not a single civilian was killed in the bombings. Japan had declared that if the US invaded Japan they would face an army of 100 million which automatically drafted all of their citizens into their military. Now they were obviously mostly innocent people but you have break eggs to make omlets. A couple hundred thousand people died as a result of the bomb and radiation but again the estimates for the invasion were even worse. The dropping of the Atomic bomb‚ cruel as it may have been‚ was absolutely
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On the morning of August 6‚ 1945‚ a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over the industrial city of Hiroshima‚ Japan and dropped the first atomic bomb ever. The city went up in flames caused by the immense power equal to about 20‚000 tons of TNT. The project was a success. They were an unprecedented assemblage of civilian‚ and military scientific brain power-brilliant‚ intense‚ and young‚ the people that helped develop the bomb. Unknowingly they came to an isolated mountain setting‚ known as Los Alamos
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Battle of Midway: The Battle of Midway was fought on Midway Island and the area surrounding the Island‚ from the 4th to the 7th June 1942. The Battle of Midway was fought by the Japanese as their commander Admiral Isoroku Yamamotoan wanted to draw the US Pacific Fleet into a battle where he could overwhelm and destroy it‚ unfortunately for him the Americans managed to break the Japanese code so they knew exactly where the Japanese were and where they were going to attack next. During the battle
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What do you think of when the numbers‚ 1990’s are spoken? MTV? Internet? Clinton’s affairs? Great Economy? Or do you think about the hatred that people from other countries felt about us? The bombing of the World Trade Center is a perfect example of those who hate America and all we believe in. On February 26 1993‚ Ramzi Yousef‚ from Kuwait‚ drove a yellow Ryder into the parking garage of the nor building of the World Trade Center. When the bomb exploded‚ it was supposed to knock down the foundations
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Atomic Café Questions NOTE: This documentary combines authentic newsreels‚ military training films‚ advertisements and other footage from the early Cold War era‚ combined with speeches‚ radio broadcasts and actual music. Keep in mind that this documentary‚ produced late in the Cold War in 1982‚ was made to convey a specific political and social message. Some of the events are portrayed in such a way as to make the people of the 1950s seem foolish; thus‚ we can learn from this film‚ but we must remember
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main character(s) act a certain way. In the novel Hiroshima by John Hersey he describes the life of six different individuals who were effected by the atomic bomb in 1945. The setting of the entire novel is in Hiroshima‚ Japan. In the first chapter of the story the setting is in Hiroshima‚ Japan and follow the lives of the people before the bombing. Everyone is living their lives normally and are following through their regular procedures. This part of the setting shows the innocence of the people
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John Hersey’s journalist narrative‚ Hiroshima focuses on the detonation of the atomic bomb‚ Little Boy‚ that dropped on the city of Hiroshima on August 6‚ 1945. Although over one hundred thousand people died in the dropping of the bomb‚ there were also several survivors. John Hersey travelled to Hiroshima to listen to the experiences of six survivors. Hersey uses his book to tell the story of six of these survivors (spanning from the morning the bomb fell to forty years later) through a compilation
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