The claim that I will make in my this rebuttal is that if the dropping of the atomic bomb was a good or bad thing to do after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. My reasons of making this claim is that a whole lot more people died in the atomic bomb, 2,335 soldiers and staff approximately died in Pearl Harbor which is a lot of lives, even one life could mean a lot, but in Japan the number of deaths of 90,000–146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000-80,000 in Nagasaki which is nothing compared to Pearl Harbor
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What Soldiers Carried The soldiers from Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried all had to carry something during their service in the Vietnam War. O’Brien expresses these objects in his novel through the perspectives of Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and himself, detailing their characters from what they carried both physically and symbolically. Initially, Jimmy Cross, the lieutenant of O’Brien’s company, brought with him memorabilia from a girl he loved named Martha and the responsibility of his
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About a War Story The short story “Where Have You Gone Charming Billy” is about a new soldier in the Vietnam War. The author Tim O’Brien was a soldier in the Vietnam War and now he writes war stories. In his story, he tries to get you to understand different things about war. One of thing he wants you to know about war is what it's really like. Another of the things he tries to show you in his story is what it was like being there during the war. Another thing he shows in his story is that soldiers
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The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a story that takes place during the Vietnam war. As the reader, we’re shown how the physical items a soldier carries can weigh them down. Yet, we’re shown that mental struggles will almost always outweigh the physical struggles because they can’t be put down. The author uses specific stories, details, diction and the setting to make the story effective and keep the reader’s attention. As the reader, we use these details and context clues to form a conclusion
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No matter what situation you find yourself facing, you will always know that however the outcome, you can always find valuable lessons from the crisis at hand. This is exactly the case with Hot zone by Richard Preston. Hot Zone is full of many different crises that could have possibly lead to horrendous outcomes. These crises all had the potential to end with a positive outcome or all hell could have broken loose. The Ebola virus especially has the potential to kill hundreds, if not thousands, if
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Good Evening Dr. Anttila and Class, Smallpox is a devastating form of infectious disease characterized by fever and a peculiar skin rash that develops gradually leaving survivors with permanent scars over sizable areas of their body, particularly on their faces, and blindness in some when it affects their cornea. It plagued the earth for centuries killing millions of people worldwide until 1977. The cause of the infection is a poxvirus known as the variola virus. About 30% of people who contracted
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Although Western allies eventually decided against the further use of chemical weapons, this disregard for civilian lives would be further demonstrated by both sides throughout the duration of World War II. For example, Hitler utilized the "Blitzkrieg", a German term for lightning war, against Europe in an effort to force their surrender. The idea was to relentlessly bomb a single target until they submitted, a tactic which shortened campaigns and preserved the lives of soldiers, but the collateral
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World War I was commonly referred to as “The Great War” because of all the death that has happened but also the generation we lost in the process. World War I happened between the years 1914 through 1918; this involved all of the countries of the world even though some were neutral. Inside of the fight of the war the soldiers suffered greatly through the trenches. All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque gives us an account of the war from a soldier's perspective of World War
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Bioweapons (BW), germ warfare is the deliberate use of bacterial infections, fungi or toxin agents to kill or incapacitate, humans, animals or plants. It can be directed to an individual, group or an entire population. In history, a close link, between war and infectious disease has been identified. It is easily prepared and inexpensive to produce. Anthrax is a popular method that is a fatal disease of warm-blooded animals (sheep, Cattle) it is spore forming and transmissible to humans affecting
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Chemical Warfare is a war involving toxic chemicals as weapons. Chemical Warfare is a different from a Nuclear or Biological Warfare. Nuclear Warfare involves weapons such as the atomic bomb used in Hiroshima, biological warfare is where infectious items such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi are used to eliminate plants or humans, but our main topic is chemical warfare and this types of wars use toxic chemicals to damage your sight, your body system, and to cause death. All of the chemicals used
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