i had to write this essay.... i went kinda crazy.... the atomic bomb over Nagasaki
Paige Mostowy
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Nagasaki 1945
The photograph of the atomic bomb exploding in Nagasaki is essentially very impersonal. When you look at them image, you don’t think of how many people were killed or how many buildings were destroyed. You think, “Man that’s big.” The fact that the United States was the only country to ever unleash a nuclear weapon on another countries says a lot about the morale that speaks for us as Americans. There are so many different people that are pro-life, anti- abortion, pro- abortion, anti- war, and pro- choice. And we took that away from them. Everyday” normal people” don’t realize what war does. People don’t seem to understand the severity that over 150,000 people were killed. You hear that and think, ‘that’s sad’, but you don’t think of it again until you see a picture of Anne Frank, or a women holding her deformed child because of what radiation has done to them. The fact that we “won” World War 2 because of an atomic bomb is disgusting. The United States already had Japanese Americans in “internment camps” to be politically correct, yet weren’t we Nazi’s then? Caging people for who they were, working them to death, which is exactly what the United States was fighting against? Isn’t America supposed to be where people go for freedom? Isn’t this supposed to be a country that was founded on being able to be who they are and not punished for it? Why is it seen as generally ok when it doesn’t affect United States citizens. Turning your head so as to not see the truth? Why don’t we walk through Nagasaki and see what these people went through, see what we have done?
Rough Draft Image
Nagasaki 1945
The photograph of the atomic bomb exploding in Nagasaki is essentially very impersonal. When you look at them image, you don’t think of how many people were killed or how many buildings were destroyed. You think, “Man that’s big.” The fact that the United States was the only country to ever unleash a nuclear weapon on another countries says a lot about the morale that speaks for us as Americans. There are so many different people that are pro-life, anti- abortion, pro- abortion, anti- war, and pro- choice. And we took that away from them. Everyday” normal people” don’t realize what war does. People don’t seem to understand the severity that over 150,000 people were killed. You hear that and think, ‘that’s sad’, but you don’t think of it again until you see a picture of Anne Frank, or a women holding her deformed child because of what radiation has done to them. The fact that we “won” World War 2 because of an atomic bomb is disgusting. The United States already had Japanese Americans in “internment camps” to be politically correct, yet weren’t we Nazi’s then? Caging people for who they were, working them to death, which is exactly what the United States was fighting against? Isn’t America supposed to be where people go for freedom? Isn’t this supposed to be a country that was founded on being able to be who they are and not punished for it? Why is it seen as generally ok when it doesn’t affect United States citizens. Turning your head so as to not see the truth? Why don’t we walk through Nagasaki and see what these people went through, see what we have done?