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Andrew Jackson—our country’s seventh President and a decorated army general—is one of the most controversial figures in American history. Many praise him for his role in bringing about popular democracy and individual rights; however, Jackson’s role in the Indian Removal Act, his extreme racism, and his support for slavery cause many to question his legacy. Jackson’s involvement in the Seminole Wars is particularly disturbing since he not only authorized but actively encouraged the use of force against

Robert McNamara, former Secretary of Defense, gave 11 lessons on life during war in the documentary, “The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara”. Each lesson gave information that could be used strategically in a war. He came up with each lesson using what he learned as Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War, being President of Ford Motor Company, and an officer during World War ll. Lesson 1: Empathize with your enemy. Mr. McNamara experienced this lesson

resembled a barbershop quartet as they “experimented with one expression and then another, saying nothing though their mouths were often open” (Vonnegut 227). The night of February 13th to the morning of February 14th, 1945, Billy Pilgrim endured the firebombing of Dresden, which has come to be known as one of the worst bombings in history. More than 135,000 people were killed in the bombing and Pilgrim, along with a small group that took refuge in a meat locker, was one the few survivors of the bombing

“I think the issue is not so much incendiary bombs. I think the issue is: in order to win a war should you kill 100,000 people in one night, by firebombing or any other way? LeMay’s answer would be clearly “Yes.” (The Fog of War 34 minutes) - Firebombs killed up to fifty to ninety percent of people in sixty seven Japanese cities during the firebombing of Japan. (The Fog of War 41 minutes) -Quote from LeMay “If we’d lost the war, we’d all have been prosecuted as war criminals”. (The Fog of War

frontline soldier in World War II on the “106th Division”. He went to Dresden to scout out the German soldiers when he got caught and taken as a (PoW) prisoner of war on February 13, 1945. During his time of being a prisoner of war there was a firebombing in the area caused by the Allied nations, which caused Dresden to bust into incredible flames which ended up destroying the entire city and killing about 135,000 people in the area. Vonnegut wasn’t able to write about his experience for quite a

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an author of contemporary American literature who was a prisoner of the German Army. As a witness of the firebombing of Dresden, Germany, killing over thirty-five thousands people, he wrote the anti-war book known as Slaughterhouse-five. “He writes about the most excruciatingly painful things. In doing so, his science-fiction heritage is clear, but his purposes are very different: he is nearly always talking about the past, not the future. And as he proceeds, from his anesthetic

This tendency can perhaps be explained as an impetuous yearning for more direct involvement in the business of war, but is also a real reaction to that business, and Dickey’s transference of it onto a character that took a more active role in the firebombing of Tokyo is not so easily dismissed as fantasy as one might think when it is first revealed how little his experiences contribute to the creation of such a character. Ciardi’s poetry, in contrast, is not so outspoken or descriptive when it concerns

State of WW2 (Background) By 1945, the war between the Allies and Germany was slowly reaching its end. To the west, “Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s desperate counteroffensive against the Allies in Belgium’s Ardennes forest had ended in a total failure”. As well as in the east, it looked very hopeless for Germany(History.com Staff.). Meanwhile, the Western Allies began considering the use of strategic bomb to fight against Germany’s stubborn defense. “In January 1945, the Royal force began to consider

Angel Colbourne AMH-2020-02C 10/16/14 Critical Thinking Essay In this essay critical thinking skills will be used to answer questions about the atomic bomb. First, I will be discussing why the atomic bomb was developed. On December 21st, 1938, nuclear fission was discovered in Germany by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann. It should be noted that this was nine months before World War II. Many physicists immediately saw that nuclear fission could be used to make extremely deadly bombs. The idea of using

The two episodes of Confession Tapes, the Rafay-Burns Appeal website, and the response to King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg by Innocence International raise serious questions about the evidentiary basis for the convictions of Atif Rafay and Sebastian Burns, including the credibility of their taped confessions during the “Mr. Big” operation and the pressured testimony of Jimmy Miyoshi. The Rafay-Burns Appeal team has pointed out the following observations to me about the crime scene that point