Rhetorical Analysis

Imagine that you are living during World War II. The Japanese are making this war longer and more deadly by the minute. If they don’t surrender, you have the risk of being taken from your wife and kids to a far away country to fight a war you just want to be over. Who knows if you’ll come back or ever see them again. This is the reality for many people during World War II. The war should have ended sooner, but the Japanese refused to surrender, it was considered dishonorable. At this point, there was only one way to end the war. Although it was horrible, it accomplished what was necessary to end things. The only way was to drop the atomic bomb. The United States should have dropped the bomb because it would have saved more people’s lives,

Imagine this, a day like every other day. It’s August 6th, 1945, the sun is shining, the hum of nearby businesses filling the air and the squeals of children playing in your ears. The busy town square filled with unknowing people. No one prepared for what was to come. Then it came. The American B-29 bomber Enola Gray dropped the world’s first ever deployed atomic bomb, nicknamed “Little Boy,” over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was dropped by parachute and exploded 1,800 feet above the ground. Instantly, 80,000 civilians were killed by the explosion, and tens of thousands were later killed by radiation and their injuries. The blast destroyed more than six square miles of the city and due to the intense heat of the explosion, fires ignited all over the city, consuming Hiroshima and lasting for three days, trapping and killing many of the survivors of the initial blast. 90 percent of the population was wiped out. A mere three days later on August 9th, a second American B-29 bomber dropped a second atomic bomb, “Fat Boy,” on the city of Nagasaki, killing an estimated of 40,000 people. Contradictory to the United States’ “reasons” for dropping the atomic bomb on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, their decision was unjustified and unnecessary.

Imagine a road. The horrid smell and images of bloodshed flash through your head as you try to focus on walking down this path. You soon come to the disgusting realization that you are walking upon dead soldiers. Trenching forward you approach a fork in the road. Surrounded by death you try to keep your head clear, and focus on making a clear decision. Seemingly both roads end in traumatic loss of human life. You soon realize you are on the path of war, the most destructive path in human history. The metaphorical road we walk upon is analogous to the pacific war, a war that became Americas focal point after the fall of the third Reich in Berlin. With this war came Harry Truman’s dilemma, to bomb, or not to bomb. The decision would be questioned for decades to come. The pacific war ended with the first and last atomic bomb to ever be discharged. Although whether Truman’s decision was the right one is arguable, you may find that through investigation of this war, many compelling reasons to use the atomic bomb jump out at you. To draw the conclusion that the Japan bombing was the correct decision, one must examine these five topics: Japan’s culture and values during world war two, Japan’s tactical military strategies, the culture of world war two, alternatives to bombing and the arguments that are against using the atomic bomb.

On August 6th of 1945 tragedy struck the city of Hiroshima, Japan. On this day in history, the plane given the name of “Enola Gay” dropped the deadly atomic bomb, weighing more than four tons, two thousand miles above this city. In an instant, this monstrosity of a bomb killed tens of thousands of individuals whom were within a five mile radius from the center of Hiroshima. This day in history is one that will always be remembered, for an upwards of 100,000 japanese citizens were murdered including innocent civilians and soldiers. Included in these casualties were wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, and children; some of which would never have the chance of leaving the womb of their mother. The topic of the Hiroshima bombing and its moral justification is debatable, but at the end of the day, in no way is the use of an atomic bomb justifiable or morally acceptable.

Before settling on the bomb as an endgame, Truman and his advisors vacillated between several options meant to swiftly gain the upper hand in the Pacific war and win Japan’s surrender. Using these unfulfilled plans, revisionist arguments revolve around the idea that dropping the bomb was a matter of

The dropping of the bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was one of the most terrifying moments in Japan’s history. The bombing was not triumph for the U.S., but a brutal slaughter. Japan lost many innocent lives, children and women, and the United States could have of invaded Japan, giving them a fair fight. In conclusion, many innocent people were attacked and killed, and the U.S. could have just invaded Japan with troops, instead of dropping an atomic bomb.

The immediate reason why the writer thinks it to be regrettable that America still avoids the reality of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is that president Obama happens to be the only American President to go to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki peace memorial. On the other hand, the remote reason why the author sounds in a regrettable manner is as a result of how Americans

This section contributes to the ideas of the text by explaining how even to this day, scholars are still troubled about this moral question regarding the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. "Scholars still debate whether the U.S. made the right decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Many people see it as a moral gray area. Some say it was right because it ended the war quickly instead of dragging it out for months or maybe years; others say it was wrong because it killed so many innocent civilians and caused too much long-term damage." (paragraph. 12) and also in paragraph 13 it explains in more detail the reasons why, "The U.S. decided to use an atomic bomb in order to speed up Japan’s surrender. U.S. leaders were fairly sure they could

The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were successful, but the lives were lost because of the impact of the bombs were awful. Keeping in mind, President Truman’s decision to use the atomic bombs was justified because if the bombs weren’t used at all the war would’ve prolonged with more lives lost. The days that the atomic bombs were dropped, will be remembered as the deadliest attack in human history. No one that was developing the bombs, didn’t know what they were missing with or what the impact could be like. When the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an article written by Michael Perry May and William J. Astore, both retired lieutenant colonel (USAF) and both taught at the Air Force Academy and the

This suggests that the American’s were not the only people involved in the brutal attacks and that Japan was almost, if not equally just as wrong in their actions (Asada, 30). Although the bombs may be viewed as morally wrong, it is not the first time that morality has been abandoned.

Scandal, bribery, and corruption: all aspects of everyday life, and sports. With countless scandals hitting the news every day, it is easy to see that sports “players” are no exception. With scandal comes crisis communication. Rhetors use strategic language and techniques to save face and restore image after a scandal. Apologia theory is a crisis communication concept which aims to categorize the strategies used in rhetoric to apologize, defend oneself, and restore an individual or organization 's image. Theorist have studied famous speeches and situations from Bill Clinton to Tiger woods, using apologia as the lens to understand how we react in times of crisis. In the case of the recent bribing scandal involving Eric Black, a Southampton

Nathan Donohue explains in his article, “Understanding the Decision to Drop the Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” that a high-ranking American official stationed in Japan, General Robert Eichelberger, wrote on July 24 of that year, “a great many people, probably 50%, feel that Japan is about to fold up.” This low morale, according to Donohue, was probably because “The war had already taken a great toll not just on the Japanese military but also on its entire domestic infrastructure,” after the firebombing of major industrial cities such as Tokyo. Eichelberger’s damning account goes directly against what so many Americans have been told about the Japanese people during World War II: that every man and woman and Japan were brainwashed into fighting to the death for the country should a land invasion had occurred, justifying the use of the atomic bombs to prevent hundreds of thousands of American

“What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.” John Hersey released his book Hiroshima nearly one year after the tragic bombing of the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Its purpose, to show America and the rest of the work what happened on August 6, 1945. At the time, the world wasn’t aware of the full effects the bomb had on the earth and the people there. Hershey accomplished more than just writing an entertaining book. He showed the world the unspeakable, horrendous acts that shook a city to it core and left thousands dead.

Around the world today there is always a horrible and horrific event taking place, killing many people. Hiroshima was one of these events that resulted in the killings of millions in Japan. John Hersey’s Hiroshima is based off of this historical event, and follows the struggles and sufferings of six people distubed by this event. Hiroshima is a great nonfiction novel written in order to help readers undertand the suffering people went through after the bomb.

In comparison with the 14 million lives that could have been lost in a direct land invasion of Japan, the two cities and several hundred thousand lives obliterated by the atomic bombs seem insignificant. Some objections to the use of these weapons include unfounded claims that President Truman, the President of the United States who assumed control after President Roosevelt died in 1945, wanted to use the bombs only to satisfy his own bloodlust, and the bloodlust of American citizens. But the clear presentation of the facts involved with Operation Downfall, which President Truman did have available to him at the time, should be enough to convince anyone of the almost paradoxical life saving power of the atomic bombs.