...James Harold Doolittle Edmond Pukaj Spartan College of Aeronautics Abstract James Doolittle was a man with an outstanding resume in the American Air Force and one of Americas most well-known aviation pilots whose contributions in the Second World War was extremely crucial to increasing American morale. Doolittle also played a major role in creating new instrumentations to improve night flying and flying in hazardous weather. Doolittle broke and set many records in the aviation world and made the impossible possible with his extraordinary flying skills. Made himself a role model for upcoming generations of pilots. General James “Jimmy” Harold Doolittle was a very important individual in American aviation history. Many recognize Jimmy Doolittle as the individual responsible for coordinating the planes that took off on the aircraft carrier The Hornet, for the raid on Japan in the Second World War. James Doolittle was placed in charge of defining which plane to use for this mission. He decided on the B-25 plane determining that it had the highest potential to make the short take-off of the Hornet. Doolittle was known as being a daredevil, scholar, pilot and General. Doolittle’s particular expertise and passion was for flying. He is considered to be the American aviation pioneer. Although his flying expertise is what he is most commonly credited for his accomplishments far exceed this criterion (Daso, 2003) James Doolittle was born on December 14, 1896 in Alameda, California...
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...Critical Analysis of Sound from Selected Scenes in the Film Pearl Harbor The genre of the film Pearl Harbor is a combination of an action/drama/romance war film and was released in 2001. The film was directed by Michael Bay. Jerry Bruckheimer and Randall Wallace produced the movie. The screen play was also written by Randall Wallace. The film was ranked the sixth highest-earning picture of 2001. Pearl Harbor was nominated for four Academy Awards in 2001.Pearl Harbor was nominated best sound editing, best sound mixing, best visual effects, and best original song. Among the four awards Pearl Harbor took home the Academy Award for best sound mixing. The film was also nominated at the Golden Globe Awards for best original song and best original score. The score for Pearl Harbor was composed by Hans Zimmer. It is Hans Zimmer’s original score that will be the basis analysis for non diagetic sound presented in this paper. Both diagetic and non diagetic sound are of importance in this film. (Wikipedia). The film Pearl Harbor takes place in the 1940’s and continues on till then end of World War II. Pearl Harbor tells the story of two best friends Danny and Rafe through out the war and their love life over the course of the war. While in the military Rafe meets a navy nurse named Evelyn while getting his physical examination to receive his pilot wings. Evelyn and Rafe begin dating and eventually fall in love. While they are dating Rafe volunteers to fly and serve with the Royal Air...
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...1. What do you see as the author’s overall purpose in Farewell to Manzanar? The author’s overall purpose of Farewell to Manzanar was to explain that during World War II a place called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Manzanar is most widely known as the site of one of ten camps where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese American internees. One of the first families to arrive was the Wakatsukis, who were ordered to leave their fishing business in Long Beach and take with them only the belongings they could carry. For Jeanne Wakatsuki, a seven-year-old child, Manzanar became a way of life in which she struggled and adapted, observed and grew. For her father it was essentially the end of his life. At age thirty-seven, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls life at Manzanar through the eyes of the child she was. She tells of her fear, confusion, and bewilderment as well as the dignity and great resourcefulness of people in oppressive and demeaning circumstances. In April 1972, Jeanne and her family visited the ruins of Manzanar. She went because she wanted to find closure. Prior to her visit, she had doubts. She thought she imagined the whole thing because no one really heard or talked about it. She seldom talked about her experience with her family and friends. I suppose she wrote the book to educate us readers a time in United States...
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...to “another Pearl Harbor”, certain minority Americans were stripped of their rights. This uncertainty regarding Japanese Americans’ loyalty was amplified after the Niihau incident in which Japanese American Harada on the Hawaiian island of Niihau tried to assist the downed Japanese pilot Nishikaichi who was part of the Pearl Harbor mission. The duo terrorized the island, capturing prisoners of Niihau inhabitants and shooting a native. This event which stemmed from Pearl Harbor contributed greatly to the passing of Executive Order 9066, as according to a January 1942 Navy report, the event indicated a high "likelihood that Japanese residents previously believed loyal to the United States...
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... | |Topic: Pearl Harbor | |Standards: | |USII.7 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the major causes and effects of American involvement in World War II by | |a) identifying the causes and events that led to American involvement in the war, including the attack on Pearl Harbor; | |b) locating and describing the major events and turning points of the war in Europe and the Pacific; | |c) Describing the impact of the war on the home front. | | | |Objective: Learn more on attack of Pearl Harbor and what it looks like today. | |Materials: ...
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...Introduction “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan” (Roosevelt, p.1). This was the opening statement of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s address to the nation the day after Japan invaded American territory. Following the Pearl Harbor attacks, Roosevelt gave a powerful speech that was a call to arms and in his speech he expressed outrage towards Japan and confidence in the job of our armed forces. The speech was a request to declare war against Japan and to bring the United States into World War II. His use of rhetorical techniques effectively aided in grasping the attention of his audience and reminded the...
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...The United States were still under the Great Depression when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor killing more than two thousand people. Japan was at war with China before the bombing. The United States didn’t agree with the Japanese fierce behavior with China. The United States wouldn’t supply Japan with raw materials, such as oil. How did World War II impact the American culture? World War II started in September 1st in 1939 Britain, France, Russia and others were the Allies and Nazi Germany Italy and Japan were the Axis, the United States stayed neutral. On December 7th in 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service had sixty planes carrying about on hundred men who surprisingly bombed the military base at Pearl Harbor on the grounds of Honolulu,...
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...Has anyone thought about the impact of Pearl Harbor on America? Well maybe someone people should. Pearl Harbor is one of the most memorable events that has happen to America.”Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger”( US Historical Documents).The effects that Pearl Harbor had could still affect someone today. Most of the people in the world will always remember the date December 7th, 1941. Pearl Harbor attack was an ambush by Japanese bombers when, they traveled across the ocean to Hawaii’s naval base and attacked America. This attack eventually, led into World War II. The United States joined war with Europe to try and take down Japan. America had some major changes...
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...specifically World War II and the Cold War. A crucial part of World War II was the Japanese assault on the United States in Pearl Harbor : Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was a major US naval base … On 7th Dec. 1941 The base was attacked by 353 Imperial Japanese fighter planes, bombers, and torpedo planes … All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four sunk, over 2,000 died. The following day, December 8, the United States declared war on Japan (Stout). The aftermath of this bombing, aside from it ushering the United States entrance to World War II it guided for the misplacement of Japanese Americans to internment camps generated by Executive Order 9066 : “Executive Order 9066, issued on February 19, 1942, which allowed regional...
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...S. in WWII subsequently sparks the internment for Japanese residents in U.S., associated with the ferocious Pearl Harbor incident on December 7, 1941, where Japan deliberately and clandestinely assailed the U.S. military base, Pearl Harbor, causing the lives of more than 2,500 people, 1,000 more injured and damaged, devastate 18 American ships and approximately 300 airplanes. Immediately, with a rush of shame and animosity, President Franklin Roosevelt convinced the congress to declare war on Japan. Consequently, the U.S. government...
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...HIS-105 Contemporary U.S. History June 15, 2015 The United States has been serving as a police role for the entire world for many years now. This has been especially beneficial to the U.S. in terms of making allies and also aiding those countries in need. U.S. has been a backup country for many third world countries that look forward to receiving assistance from the United States in emergency situations. Military incidents involving the United States military internationally, over the past five years, has had some impact on the American public and how it affects the United States. The wars in Japan and Syria have brought about some controversy in foreign policy with the military acting as the world’s police. As China’s economic power has grown, its foreign policy has evolved. It now has greater political influence in regional and global affairs, and is increasingly seeking the exercise that influence. This evolution in China’s role in the world will impact the United States and Japan, two close allies. Understanding the character and trajectory of a reviving China is a crucial task for Washington and Tokyo, which is made more complicated by a plurality of views on China in and between the two allies. They came up with a strategic plan, and they launched it in late 2009. The plan is a blueprint to their long-term success for American Airlines that are based on five tenets. The five tenets are invest wisely, earn customer loyalty, strengthen and defend our global network...
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...and believe by some people, relatives are slaughtered. No, we are not referring to another event such events at Pearl Harbor or other atrocities. We are referring to the slaughter at Taiji Cove. More than 20,000 dolphins are killed or rounded up and sold around the world for aquarium display from this location each year alone. The smartest animals of the sea and our closest relatives; why kill them. In a season that last from September to March. The local government places a quota on rounding up dolphins and small whales 2,026 per season (Wakatsuk, 2014). Tiaji locals believe it is customary perfectly fine to kill the dolphin. According to CNN locals believe it is no different than killing other animals for meat. (Wakatsuk, 2014). Organizations such as Sea Shepherd are leading the way to end the practice and Japanese leaders that to continue only brings shame and dishonor about the image of Japan (Sea Sheperd, 2014). Reference Wakatsuk, Y. (2014). CNN. Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/20/world/asia/japan-dolphin-hunt/index.html Sea Sheperd. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.seashepherd.org/world-love-for-dolphins-day.html Slide 1 JAPAN Known for: Amazing Architecture Beautiful Sceneries Best Automobile manufacturing processes in the world Darker side to Japan • Not Event such as Peral harbor • Slaughter at Taiji Cove • >20,000 Dolphins killed o Food o Aquarium market across the...
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...kilometers, its special geographical location determines the importance of its strategic position.The island from San Francisco and yokohama, Japan, the United States are 2800 miles apart, in the middle of the Pacific routes between Asia and North America, so named midway island.In addition it is apart from the Pearl Harbor, 1135 nautical miles, is one of the important bases in the United States in the Pacific and transport hub, is also the portal and outposts in Hawaii.Midway island a but lost, the capital of the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor will be the other is in danger. Naval battle of midway in June 4, 1942, is a important battle of the second world...
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...racial inequalities and where women belong. They were ignored to some extent; women were still out of the picture as they were seen inferior which still also applies to African Americans who are still segregated. As the U.S. struggled through the Great Depression, minority rights were not addressed even in Roosevelt's New Deal. Positive changes were bought to American nationality during WWII, but even in the end certain groups still struggled for acknowledgment as there were limits. The benefits of WWII were contradictory; Ethnic minorities and women would witness the war to only be a relaxing period, only to realize they were forced to their old ways or even into worse problems after the war was over. As soon as the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor as a response to the American embargo, the U.S. transitioned quickly into mobilization...
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...Throughout the 19th century Japanese Americans had fluctuations, but the most unacceptable one was being put in internment camps unfairly. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Americans seemed to be getting attacked by the Americans. The Americans suspected that the Japanese Americans were associated with the adversary and being disloyal to the U.S. There was a speculation of the Japanese Americans giving out information about the U.S. military, but was never proven. Americans and the government were fearful about their new complication, and they all required immediate action. President Roosevelt then issued the Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. The Executive Order demanded the immediate evacuation of Japanese Americans with the excuse of “military necessity”. The quick decision of the government violated the rights of the Japanese Americans, and resulted in racial discrimination against them. The government did not have the right to intern many Japanese Americans because of their race. Many claimed that the Japanese Americans were a threat to the U.S., when...
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