The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is one of the most controversial aspects in the history of the United States because many people believe that it wasn’t a necessary action to take‚ in order to win the war. While others think that using the atomic bombs on Japan was essential because it saved many American lives. Others believe that it saved American lives because we didn’t have to invade Japan. Albert Einstein sent a letter to President Roosevelt
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noiseless flash ignites. Blinding every resident in Hiroshima‚ Japan‚ seconds later light falls into darkness‚ forever damaging the city I very much loved. The darkness turns to cold‚ not because of the weather‚ because of the emptiness of my body. My family had been lost in the rubble‚ I was trapped under the bookshelf that collapsed and crushed my bones. I lie motionless waiting for a sound. No sound ever came for me‚ the cold then came from the loss of blood‚ it just kept spurting out‚ until no
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LITERATURE TIMELINE Date | Literary Period | Authors/Works | 800-400 BC | This period was dominated by Homer and other Greek tragedians | The Iliad and The Odyssey by HomerOedipus the King by SophoclesMedea by Euripedes | 250 BC - AD 150 | Writers of the Roman Empire are most noted in this time period | Famous authors from this period: Virgil‚ Horace‚ and Ovid | 450-1066 | Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period | Beowulf The rise of haiku poetry Tale of Genji by Japanese writer Murasaki
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Timeline of materials technology BC • 29‚000–25‚000 BC – First pottery appears • 3rd millennium BC – Copper metallurgy is invented and copper is used for ornamentation • 2nd millennium BC – Bronze is used for weapons and armour • 16th century BC – The Hittites develop crude iron metallurgy • 13th century BC – Invention of steel when iron and charcoal are combined properly • 10th century BC – Glass production begins in ancient Near East • 1st millennium BC – Pewter beginning to be used in
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experiments from 1866 are "rediscovered" and confirmed by three separate researchers (one Dutch‚ one German‚ one Austrian). A British man (William Bateson) soon translates Mendel’s paper into English and champions the study of heredity in England. 1902 A human disease is first attributed to genetic causes ("inborn errors of metabolism"). (Sir Archibald Garrod‚ alkaptonuria) 1902 The chromosome theory of heredity is proposed by Sutton. Boveri recognizes that individual chromosomes are different from one
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colour instant film developed by Polaroid; Instamatic released by Kodak; first purpose-built underwater introduced‚ the Nikonos 1985: Minolta markets the world’s first autofocus SLR system (called "Maxxum" in the US) 1986: First picture of the earth from the moon. 1987: The popular Canon EOS system
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justified in dropping the atom bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945? On august 6th 1945‚ an atomic bomb named little bomb has been dropped on Hiroshima Japan‚ a blast which was over 6‚000 degrees Celsius where over 70‚000 people were killed instantly and over 20‚000 killed because of the aftershocks and sickness. (Bbc.co.uk‚2015) People’s eyes came out of their sockets‚ and peeled skin hung from their body. Their ashes left shadows on the wall and floors of Hiroshima. There were people who died in less
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an American aircraft dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima‚ Japan. This was the first atomic bomb ever used in the history of warfare. In the non-fiction book Hiroshima by John Hersey‚ first hand six survivors of this horrific event describe accounts of the bombing and its effects in vivid detail. The atomic bomb affected civilians of Hiroshima and the city’s environment in that people began acting irrationally‚ suffered from injuries and deaths‚ and it led to erratic environmental occurrences
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on why I feel you should not drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. First off let me start by saying that if you decide to proceed with the dropping of this atomic bomb you will be killing hundreds and thousands of innocent people. I am not sure if you understand the severity of dropping this bomb and the amount of people you will be killing and/or injuring severely. I would like for you to take the time to step back to look at this situation from all angles. What if Japan had decided to drop an Atomic
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“Now I am become Death‚ the destroyer of worlds’?” These were the word that Mr. Robert Oppenheimer used after the Manhattan Project was successful. Mr. Oppenheimer was one the scientist who help create the nuclear bomb that was later‚ dropped on Hiroshima. The bomb name was “Little Boy” which help end World War II. So‚ I believe that it was necessary to drop the bomb on Hiroshima because the war was still going strong and Japan wasn’t showing no sign of surrender. The war was costing a lot of American
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