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atomic bomb was on July 16,1945 on Hiroshima, Japan . That was one of the reasons why I picked this topic. Another reason was that there is lots of information on the atomic bomb out there and the last reason is I wanted to know why the atomic bomb…

the end to the world's largest armed conflict. Many debates have surfaced over the ethics of such an attack. The bomb itself caused massive amounts of casualties while the unknown effects of radiation caused many more deaths amongst the survivors of…

unjustified! The use of atomic bombs was totally unecessary, inhumane, and irresponsible. The impact of conventional bombing of Japan, aswell as the impact of the a-bombs themselves on Hiroshima and Nagasaki show how most invalid the decision…

Life of a Slave Girl is a narrative that describes a young girls trails and tribulations while being an involuntary member of the institution of slavery. Jacobs, like every other victim of the atrocity we call slavery, wishes those in north would do…

Buried them alive, or push them into a fire, or beat them to death with clubs, or kill them by other cruel means." Wrote in a December 15, 1937 entry to the diary of a Japanese soldier in the 23rd Regiment of the 18th Division portraying the monstrous…

was ascending at light speed to become more than just a religion, but a world power. They had defeated the "heresies" of other religions, and had established a new set of disciplines for Christian belief at the Council of Trent. So, when the…

War with Prussia and Italy in 1866. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1996. Pp. xiii, 313. One nation. A single, unified nation powerful enough to plunge Europe and the world into two of the most devastating wars in history. That is the legacy…

us all, but already I hear stirs and murmurs coming from the street and even from the apprentice quarters of my own home. It has been an exhausting month for me and I would like nothing better than to sleep all day. However, here in Texcoco, the…

for their domination of southern and central Mexico, ruled between the 14th and 16th centuries. Their name is derived from Azatlan, the homeland of the north. The Aztecs also call themselves Mexica and there language came from the…

who dominated northern México at the time of the Spanish conquest led by Hernan CORTES in the early 16th century. According to their own legends, they originated from a place called Aztlan, somewhere in north or northwest Mexico. At that time the Aztecs…