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The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a turning point in WWII. They led to the surrender of the Japanese and the victory to the Allies. The day that the Japanese surrendered will forever be remembered. However, the destruction and casualties in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki cannot be forgotten. Hiroshima and Nagasaki experienced massive destruction, and it led to years of disease and misery for the Japanese people following the war. After WWII and the creation of the atomic bomb, the world lived in fear of a nuclear attack ("The Atomic Bombings"). George Orwell’s 1984 references to the atomic bomb and to the society and life after WWII. Nevertheless, one must fully know and understand the bombings and the destruction

The First and Second Red Scare of the United States paved the way for a long standing fear of communism and proved to be one of America’s largest periods of mass hysteria. Throughout the years authors and analysts have studied and formed expository albeit argumentative books and articles in an attempt to further understand this period of time; the mindset held during this period however is shown to be completely different compared to now.

The parallels between the theme of the film and rising fears of communism and related topics of concern during that time are captivating. Communism was an ideology originating in the Soviet Union with the ideas of establishing a

The rise of the Soviet Union (USSR) as a new world superpower brought tension between the USSR and the United States. Although the 1950’s was generally nonviolent, confined to only minor conflicts, there was a threatening, looming tension between the two world superpowers. The tension reached its peak when the US completed its first successful hydrogen bomb test. A second, more powerful bomb was successfully detonated in 1954 by the US. Public fallout shelters were established in major cities, and bomb drills were practiced as frequently as fire drills today. The nuclear war that Lord of the Flies suggested was not out of the realm of possibility at its time of publication

The filmmakers’ main ideas are that the government misled and lied to the people of the U.S. so that they would believe that the atomic bomb would have no effect on their health and security, that we should question if the government should have lied to the American people, and to make us question whether or not the citizens of the U.S. would continue to be as naive as the people of the 1950’s.

Between the two novels, Paradise Lost and Frankenstein, there are many striking similarities. What makes these two books so wonderful to read is the author 's ability to write about the ultimate struggle; the struggle between God and Satan, or Good and Evil. The characters in Paradise Lost and in Frankenstein seem to be very similar to one another. God and Victor Frankenstein have many similarities. One of their similarities is that they are both creators of new life. The monster, Victor 's creation, also shows remarkable similarities, but not with God. The monster shows similarities with Satan and Adam. At first these characters seem very plain and tasteless, but as the stories go on and the characters become deeper beings, the interest

ideology of the primary characters that occupied the stage and the prevailing fears dominated American thought and

The atomic bomb left a devastating aftermath in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of world war two. Both bombs killed thousands of innocent Japanese citizens, left radiation on the land and in the few survivors. According to the report of the general advisory committee the hydrogen bomb is more extreme: “a weapon whose energy release is 100 to 1000 times greater and whose destructive power in terms of area is 20 to 100 times greater than those of the present atomic bomb” (pp. 5), a weapon at this

In an effort to capture the effects of paranoia of the Red Scare in 1950s America, The Manchurian Candidate is filmed with the intentional techniques of character-following shots, plays on lighting, and mise-en-scene. These film techniques are utilized to make the argument that paranoia can be used to control others with the use of force as one tries to make sense of the chaos around themselves. Throughout the film, audiences fall into a sort of confusion when trying to determine the characters on the side of good or evil. Just as the audience gets trapped in the confusion of the film, the American people fell into pandemonium during the Cold War and were forced upon by the government to be on the side of freedom and democracy or be forced

Concluding the Comparison and Contrast of both the films, the theme of both the film both differ from each time period it was filmed. The Sci-Fi theme of both the films could be that social fears of the era of the dates the films were both produced in. Such as the 1951 could correlate to the fear of communism in which the thing infiltrated their base and how the military could handle the situation in which they ultimately did and showcased scientists as greedy individuals. In the other hand, The 1982 would be the fear of the S.T.D. known as HIV which was an epidemic of the time in which

In 1956, America released Godzilla, King of Monsters! This “Amercanized” version of the original changed the theme entirely. It was no longer a film with a deeper, underlying message. It was now just a cheesy scary movie about a giant lizard. “The Americanized version of the film, issued in 1956, cut out all the atomic bomb references, slashed some twenty minutes of film and replaced it with ridiculous scenes of an American reporter, Steve Martin (Raymond Burr) racing about Japan chasing Godzilla. The American producers decided that the U.S. was not ready for a look at the destruction of Japan through the eyes of the victims.” (Chadwick) The monster also has a new origin story now. It was the Japanese’s fault. In this version of the movie, the origin from radiated sand is just left out. The film ends by Steve Martin saying, "The menace was gone, so was a great man. But the whole world could wake up and live again". This is a much more upbeat ending. In the original, it ends with a warning of continual use, and the “Americanized” version ends with hope. By changing the tone of the ending, it gives the audience two diverging perspectives towards nuclear testing from the two

This paper explains how the movie A Bug’s Life used sociological concepts to explain the challenges faced in an animated society of ants. They were overwhelmed with fear from the grasshoppers who constantly reminded them of their inferior class. Coming together and building relationships with one another was their only way out of their own demise. Stopping the grasshoppers from continuously using their race as a way to place them all within a low-class category. Despite their manipulative ways and social stratification uses, the ants came out on top while the grasshoppers felt the wrath of ants who had finally come together as a family. Unleashing their power, as one big family, onto the grasshoppers and reclaiming their home island.

This movie definitely displayed our thoughts and emotions dealing with the Cold War, right up to the very end. Our sentiments

Godzilla, Gojira in Japanese, is a monster we are all familiar with, but its context in Japan is frequently overlooked. Godzilla is thought of as a cheezy, poorly made dinosaur movie that ripped off King Kong. But in reality, Godzilla is a symbol of how Japan dealt with the aftermath of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and the Castle Bravo bomb in 1954. Breathing nuclear radiation instead of fire, created by the radiation of nuclear bombing, Godzilla shows the world how monstrous the American bombs were through a lens that everyone can relate to: film.

A metaphor, a figure of speech that gives symbolic meaning to an object, has been used many times throughout Ishirō Honda’s 1962 movie King Kong vs. Godzilla. Utilizing two of the most iconic monsters in cinematic history, Honda integrated these monsters to represent the cultural shift from their traditional society towards one derived more by technology. By highlighting certain characteristics shared between the monster and the culture, Honda showed how King Kong was the embodiment of the modern culture, while Godzilla represented the traditional culture.Furthermore, by observing key elements shown throughout the film, one will recognize the juxtaposition between each creature, the culture it represents, and the gradual shift from one culture to the other.