...The Manhattan Project was morally incorrect, and may have seemed like it was for good cause, but ultimately lead to violence and death. The intentions were to end the war, but it did much more than that. Causing over 150,000 deaths and many more injuries. It all started when nuclear scientists in Germany discovered the secret to splitting the uranium atom. This enabled weapons of mass destruction to be made, but first scientists needed to learn how to harness the power of the splitting of the atom, and convert it into a destructive force. Nazi Germany was first to start research on creating a bomb capable of destroying whole cities. Word got out, and the U.S. government knew they had to finish creating a bomb before Germany or else it could...
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...Tanmay Bhanushali Year 10 Historical Paper “Great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint” Leo Szilard - Hungarian-born Physicist and main scientist to oppose the atomic Bombings This was spoken in an interview titled “President Truman did not Understand”. This was between a US news reporter and Leo Szilard the key figure among the scientists opposing the use of the bomb. The interview was in August 15, 1960. Why was their so fierce Opposition? In what Way did Truman Not Understand? These answers lie in the depths of the controversy about the Atomic Bomb. Introduction The atomic bomb was a topic of major controversy but the main debate was about the necessity of the atomic bomb. Many say that the atomic bomb was dropped because it would save millions of American lives. However at that period the Japanese were also at the point of surrendering. Huge amounts of incendiary bombs were used in large-scale cities against japan. Many of the scientists in the Manhattan Project were disturbed about it. The incendiary bombs reduced much morale from the Japanese army and crippled the will power. However this small cripple made Japan even angrier because these incendiary bombs were used on innocent civilians and not the Japanese army. Many think that it was necessary to use the Atomic Bombs because Japan attacked America first and not the other way around. It is a fact that when Hitler attacked Russia he expected Japan to attack from...
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...instantly after the first atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Japanese still refused to surrender to Allied forces. On August 9, 1945, with the dropping of the second atomic bomb in Nagasaki, where eighty thousands people were vaporized, Japanese surrendered unconditionally and the World War II ended (“The Decision to Drop the Bomb” 5-6). But was it a right decision of Harry S Truman to end the war with two atomic bombs? Becoming the president of the United States on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman faced with a decision of unprecedented gravity in his life: dropping the atomic bombs in Japan to end the World War II. It was just a matter of opinion whether his decision was right or wrong. But at the time the bombs were dropped, most Americans as wells as Allied forces accepted President Truman’s decision and agreed that the atomic bombs were necessary to end the war quickly before the disastrous invasion of the Japanese mainland could occur. But after that, many people started questioning about President Truman’s decision to order the dropping of the atomic bombs. They believed that dropping two atomic bombs to destroy two cities of Japan helped America generally and President Truman specifically accomplishing several things. Most obviously, it was a way of Americans to revenge Japanese for the bombing of Pearl Harbor and for the atrocious treatment of American prisoners of war. Also, an atomic bombing of Japan was also...
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...Phillip Mose AFS 102 Rahwa Meharena African American woman as you all know have it the worst in this country that we live in. The United States of America has downgraded blacks in general from when the first African slaves were force into the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 to social inequality today. At the same rate, so did females, blacks harsher than whites. Females faced sexism everywhere they went. Females were portrayed to be just housewives sitting at home watching the kids and cooking dinner. As it’s bluntly known, due to the fact that black women had to fight for both racism and sexism, black woman in America have it worse. For a long time America had fought within each other due to the fact that we are all racist. All in a sense that no matter how civil we get there will always be a dispute between races, class, and overall social stratification. America is at this point where people are put into a system that ranks them from the top to the bottom. With that being said, with all the commotion of equality and inequality our country still shows love and peace to all. It might not be the love and peace we want but it’s enough to where if it’s done right, people from the lower class have a chance to live the American Dream. La June Montgomery Tabron is an African American woman who is a CEO of The Kellogg Foundation, she states, "In so many ways, my own journey illustrates the power and impact of what is possible with the right conditions.”...
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...What, if any, do you consider to be acceptable justifications of state violence? Violence is seen and argued on a global matter, the idea of acceptable justifications for state violence is a continually debateable topic. State violence is morally never acceptable because we are prohibited to harm or kill the innocent. Although there are conditions under which most people, even those who think state violence is not acceptable, may agree that state violence is the only alternative if there is a catastrophic threat, imminent danger, no other alternative and against a greater evil to a community. These are the 4 conditions of supreme emergency that can be used to justify the Hiroshima bombings if it was an act of supreme emergency or just an act of terrorism. A State is the organization which has the monopoly of the use of violence. There are two major forms of this. One is against other states, which we call war. The other is the organized violence against its citizens practiced by almost all States. There is the symbolic kind, the fascist architecture, thought control through propaganda, giant parades and nationalist music. There is also the development of penal and legal institutions which often divides up the population into the free and the imprisoned (Macfarlane 2007). The Hiroshima bombings would come under violence as war, where the U.S. bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan with the acute effects killing 90,000–166,000 people (Rezelman...
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...Jay Hughes Professor Vincent Ferraro World Politics 12/06/2012 “Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam" which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.” This was vocalized by President Harry Truman in his famous speech where he declared the bombing on mainland Japan and, educated the American people of the capabilities their military had. Developed by a group of American scientists, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 10th 1945 respectively. These are the only two times that these bombs have ever been used to inflict damage on other countries but, physicists estimate that both bombs only used about 1/10th of 1% of their total capacity. From a moral standpoint, dropping the atomic bomb was the right thing to do because it ended up preventing millions of people from being killed by military warfare. Politically, it was also the right thing to do because it strategically helped end the war and, reminded the rest of the world of the supremacy of the United States as a Hegemon and militaristic power. If put in the position of President Truman, after careful analysis, I would choose to only drop one atomic bomb on Hiroshima. First, with the Japanese unwillingness to surrender, the United States was ready to commence with a...
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...that's also called a hack. The word is used more often in the former than the latter sense, probably because ugly solutions are more common than brilliant ones. Believe it or not, the two senses of "hack" are also connected. Ugly and imaginative solutions have something in common: they both break the rules. And there is a gradual continuum between rule breaking that's merely ugly (using duct tape to attach something to your bike) and rule breaking that is brilliantly imaginative (discarding Euclidean space).Hacking predates computers. When he was working on the Manhattan Project, Richard Feynman used to amuse himself by breaking into safes containing secret documents. This tradition continues today. When we were in grad school, a hacker friend of mine who spent too much time around MIT had his own lock picking kit. (He now runs a hedge fund, a not unrelated enterprise.) It is sometimes hard to explain to authorities why one would want to do such things. Another friend of mine once got in trouble with the government for breaking into computers. This had only recently been declared a crime, and the FBI found that their usual investigative technique didn't work. Police investigation apparently begins with a motive. The usual motives are few: drugs, money, sex, revenge. Intellectual curiosity was not one of the...
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...Trump 1 I’ve decided to do this leadership profile assignment on the Donald Trump for several different reasons. First off real estate is my profession and it’s what I truly love and believe in. Also, I feel with the current economic situation that we are in; it would be a very interesting subject to report on. Since we are in the worst economy since the Great Depression and a terrible housing market, it would make it more interesting. However, there are some people like Donald Trump that are taking advantage of the economy and thriving and growing their business. Also, Donald has experienced his own rough times before. In the early 1990’s, he was billions upside down and on the verge of losing everything. Consequently, he worked his way out of it and has grown his business since. He has ventured into new businesses and has gone main stream into television. Since the Trump Organization operates in many different aspects of real estate including everything from: purchasing, brokering, and leasing, etc. I feel it would be excellent topic to do this assignment on. Donald has had many major accomplishments in his life and has plenty of failures as well. Most recently, he is known for his reality show “The Apprentice.” His show he is both the host and the producer. Each week contestants are given a task and if you are successful you will get to stay another week. If you team loses, one of your members will be brought back into the board room and someone will get...
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...report will go over the benefits and downsides of nuclear weapons, and will examine specific examples in order to determine whether they have had a positive or negative effect in the number of worldwide-armed conflicts. Nuclear weapons were first created in the form of a bomb, during World War 2. They were the product of extensive research, known as the Manhattan Project, funded by the United States government and under the direction of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the military supervision of General Leslie Groves. Created by means of atomic fusion and fission, they were intended to give the US the upper hand in the war and mark the beginning of American hegemony in the world. The atomic bomb was tested on July 16, 1945 at Trinity site, in New Mexico. After a successful explosion, the bomb was ready to use against Japan and end the war in the Pacific. Officials agreed the attack had to be powerful and shocking so the world would see the United States was in control; the city Hiroshima became the target due to its size and importance. However, Leo Szilard, in conjuncture with other scientists who worked in the Manhattan Project, signed a petition urging not to use the bomb – they warned there was no limit to its destructive power and predicted it would open the door to a whole new era of destruction. The first atomic bomb, codenamed “Little Boy”, was...
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...to become more than what she was. Go out and conquer the world and do not let anybody tell you that you can not do something. When she started Princeton, she was intimidated, but she did not let that hold her back. She joined a club and filed a complaint that changed the school. In her book, she writes "If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be. And knowing that the poor and minorities are disproportionately the victims of crimes, I'm loath to view the adversarial process of the law as class warfare by another name" (Sotomayor, 203). I believe this quote shows part of who she is and why she is well respected. Sonia cases show the relevance of this quote from baseball to same-sex marriage. Sotomayor is willing to fight for people to be treated equally and to have justice. She is known for her work ethic. Her work ethic and passion have gotten her many places. However she has had three presidents nominate her for different levels of being a judge. And to now Sonia is a Supreme Court Justice I believe that says a lot. She is willing to fight for what she believes in...
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...ACCT632-04 MS Business Analysis Using Financial Statements Spring 2016 Individual Project Name: Shenqian Duan Date: April 3 2016 Adelphia Communication Corporation Executive Summary: Adelphia Communications Corporation was founded in 1952 with a $300 license by John Rigas,-(Founder), Willaim T. Schleyer (Chairman and CEO), Ronald Cooper (President and COO) and Vanessa Wittman (EVP and CFO) in the town of Coudersport with its main headquarters at Greenwood Village, Colorado. The company is to Cable Television and Internet Services Provider with 275 employees. Their slogan says that “Get. Watch. Do What you want.” Adelphia backed $2.3 billion worth of personal loans to the Rigases. Rigas Management commingled Adelphia funds with family funds causing Adelphia to fund non-corporate projects, such as personal loans, real estate transactions (Purchase of Manhattan apartments for private use and Purchase of land for a private golf course), cash advances to the Buffalo Sabres, and $252 million to pay margin calls, or demands for cash payments on loans for which the family had put up Adelphia stock as collateral. The Rigases used Adelphia’s line of credit for personal purchases. The Rigases doctored financial records at Adelphia and created sham transactions and phony companies to inflate the firm's earnings and to conceal is mounting debts. Upon realizing the extent of funds taken, Tim Rigas “limited”...
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...forgive them, and still remaining partial to France for how reliable an ally they’d been, the US had no choice but to fall in line with the allied powers again. History cemented the choice which already seemed obvious enough to make, and this would have resulted in the US joining the allied powers eventually even if we had not been provoked by the Japanese. Finally, there is the actual circumstances of the war itself, and the morally wrong approach of the axis powers. The United States saw Hitler attempting to conquer the world, and we knew that he must be stopped. Hitler was angry about the Treaty of Versailles, and the irreparable damage it caused Germany after WWI, so he had a thirst for revenge that could only be quenched by “teaching Europe a lesson.” (The Editors). This bloodlust combined with the terrible systematic killing domestically culminated in a true monster, and this made it easy to justify going to war. Adolf Hitler was an evil man with dastardly intentions, and he would have made it easy for Americans to justify war. Having proven why this conflict was crucial for the US to partake in, it is now interesting to examine exactly what might have happened if we did act on any of these factors drawing us closer and closer to war. Had the nation entered this conflict earlier when Great Britain, France, or any of our other eventual allies did, the war may have been won sooner in Europe. Less troops on both sides would have lost their lives, including both Axis and Allied...
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...for the creation of a large means leaving the artifice of the urban park (2). city behind and entering into an innocent green world, a vestige of A Cleansing Landscape the original Manhattan that existed For some, the new park would prior to the rise of the city. For increase adjacent property values urban environmental historians, and provide a leisure ground for though, there are two serious probrides in well-appointed carriages. lems with viewing the park in this way. Most of the city elite, though, First, Central Park is not nearly as offered less self-serving argunatural as it may appear. Far from ments, at least publicly. A large predating the rise of Manhattan, green space would not only cleanse the landscape is very much a product the air of dangerous smoke and of the mid nineteenth-century city. miasmas, it would convince the As such, Manhattan’s “front lawn” overworked sons and daughters of can be read as a primary source, a Puritans to leave their homes and unique window on Victorian views offices, get out in the sunshine and of nature as well as the politics of fresh air, and indulge in healthclass, ethnicity, gender, race, and giving leisure. Even more, the park neighborhood. The second probwould draw workers and immilem is that the surrounding city of grants away from “dissipating” Manhattan is not nearly as artificial and “uncivilized” leisure practices,...
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...INTRODUCTION A Climate Repair Manual Global warming is a reality. Innovation in energy technology and policy are sorely needed if we are to cope BY GARY STIX Explorers attempted and OVERVIEW ❊ New reports pile up each month about the perils of climate change, including threats to marine life, increases in wildfires, even more virulent poison ivy. ❊ Implementing initiatives to stem global warming will prove more of a challenge than the Manhattan Project. ❊ Leading thinkers detail their ideas in the articles that follow for deploying energy technologies to decarbonize the planet. 46 mostly failed over the centuries to establish a pathway from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the icebound North, a quest often punctuated by starvation and scurvy. Yet within just 40 years, and maybe many fewer, an ascending thermometer will likely mean that the maritime dream of Sir Francis Drake and Captain James Cook will turn into an actual route of commerce that competes with the Panama Canal. The term “glacial change” has taken on a meaning opposite to its common usage. Yet in reality, Arctic shipping lanes would count as one of the more benign effects of accelerated climate change. The repercussions of melting glaciers, disruptions in the Gulf Stream SCIENTIFIC A MERIC A N and record heat waves edge toward the apocalyptic: floods, pestilence, hurricanes, droughts— even itchier cases of poison ivy. Month after month, reports ...
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...When war broke out, there was no way the world could possibly know the levels of severity that the war would escalate also. Fortunately one country saw and understood that Germany and its allies would have to be stopped. America's involvement in World War 2 not only contributed in the eventual downfall of the insane Adolph Hitler and his Third Reich, but had also came at the precise time and moment. Had the United States entered the war any later the consequences might have been worse. Over the years, it has been an often heated and debated issue on whether the United States could have entered the war sooner and thus saved many lives. To try to understand this we must look both at the people and at government's point of view. Just after war broke out in Europe, President Roosevelt hurriedly called his cabinet and military advisors together. There it was agreed that the United States stay neutral in these affairs. One of the reasons given was that unless America was directly threatened, they had no reason to be involved. Thus, the provisional neutrality act passed the senate by seventy-nine votes to two in 1935. On August 31, Roosevelt signed it into law. In 1936, the law was renewed, and in 1937, a comprehensive and permanent neutrality act was passed. The desire to avoid "foreign entanglements" of all kinds had been an American foreign policy for more than a century. Even if Roosevelt had wanted to do more in the European crisis (which he did not), there was a factor too often...
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