The Enola Gay is a B-29 bomber that was used in the bombing of Japan. It was flown by the pilot, Paul Tibbets who named the plane after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets. Tibbets flew the plane on August 6, 1945, carrying a bomb, nicknamed Little Boy that was a result of the Manhattan Project. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima and left tens of thousands of people dead (“Enola Gay pilot felt dropping atomic bomb was his duty.”). The dropping of the bombs, Big Boy and Little Boy caused a lot of controversy, because of the repercussions it left in Japan. Many thousands of people died or suffered injury as a result of the bombing. The pilot of the Enola Gay stated in an interview, “I viewed my mission as one to save lives...I didn't bomb Pearl Harbor. I didn't start the war. But I was going to finish it.” (“Enola Gay pilot felt dropping atomic bomb was his duty”). Many people consider Paul Tibbets a symbol of atomic warfare, but we must remember that he was a pilot following orders. He honestly believed that if he had not dropped the bomb, “It would have been morally wrong if we'd have had that weapon and not used it and let a million more people die” (“Enola Gay pilot felt dropping atomic bomb was his duty”). Tibbets said this in a PBS interview for the 50th anniversary of the event. The use of the Enola Gay in the Great War or World War I was controversial because of its use in the bombing of Japanese citizens, many of whom were not soldiers. Another controversy in which the Enola Gay is involved is known simply as the Enola Gay Controversy.
The Enola Gay Controversy was about putting the Enola Gay on display for a museum exhibit. Veterans groups wanted it on display. The Smithsonian had the bomber, but it was disassembled and many thieves ...
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...ependence” by abandoning its original purpose (Kohn, Richard, 1036).
The danger of misusing history in the case of the Enola Gay Controversy is leaving out an entire story. The argument can be made that a nationalistic history does not need to be complete, but a complete history is important. The museum as well as its curators for the Enola Gay exhibit was trying to fuse the two histories and the veterans were pushing a skewed nationalistic version of the history. In an effort to give a complete history, the history of the Enola Gay were used, skewed and misused because the museum was making an effort to make all of the groups happy, but the history of the Enola Gay is a controversial history, so making everyone happy was impossible. This is the reason that the original exhibit did not come into fruition because all of the parties could not agree on the history.
The place we call earth was changed forever on August 6, 1945 when, for the first time in history, we viewed the power of the atomic bomb. It all started when a US aircraft named the “Enola Gay” flew off from a small island in the Pacific Ocean with a clear path to Japan. The end result was the atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy being dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Those in the aircraft watched as the city, home for 350,000 people, disappeared into thin air. The bomb caused
The Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC."
It was a shock to all when it came out that Liberace was in a sexual relationship with a young boy. The relationship broke two norms, age gap and same gender relations. The relationship did not last long and soon after a court case arose between the lovers. There had been several problems and issues that occurred that drove the lovers to court. Since it had been one of the first court cases relating to gay relations, there were many problems with the ruling and jurisdiction in the case. Even after the case, issues still remained unsolved with the former couple. The court case of Liberace v. Thorson showed the some of the first known and initial problems with same sex relationship court proceedings before the LGBT equality movement.
Maddox, Robert. “The Biggest Decision: Why We Had to Drop the Atomic Bomb.” Taking Sides: Clashing View in United States History. Ed. Larry Madaras & James SoRelle. 15th ed. New York, NY. 2012. 280-288.
As expected, the Japanese denied Churchill's request. Two weeks later the Enola Gay was headed towards Japan with the atomic bomb on board. the bomb bay doors opened to the engola over Hiroshima at 8;15 am local time. Lightened by nearly 10,000 pounds, the plane lurched upward, then it seemed like a long delay and then a bright light filled the plane.
Jimmy Draper’s (2010) article “Gay or not?!”: Gay men, straight masculinities, and the construction of the Details audience” analyzes the representation of gayness in the magazine industry. This article specifically targeted and analyzed the relationship how gayness was used to help construct straight masculinity in the men’s lifestyle magazine known as Details.
This statement had caused a huge dispute between the SANBS and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance (GLA)
The American soldiers had begun using the method of island hopping, because the bomb was not available. The idea of dropping a bomb was that the war itself could possibly end at its earliest points. The dropping of the atomic bomb could also justify the money spent on the Manhattan Project (Donohue 1). With a quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt “This will be a day that will live in infamy”, Pearl Harbor was a tragic day for Americans. The United States had lost many soldiers, which they had claimed that they would eventually get revenge.
Atomic Bomb The use of the atomic bombs on Japan was necessary for the revenge of the Americans. These bombs took years to make due to a problematic equation. The impact of the bombs killed hundreds of thousands of people and the radiation is still killing people today. People today still wonder why the bombs were dropped. If these bombs weren’t dropped on the Japanese the history of the world would have been changed forever. The Atomic bomb took 6 years to develop (1939-1945) for scientists to work on a equation to make the U-235 into a bomb. The most complicated process in this was trying to produce enough uranium to sustain a chain reaction. The bombs used on the cities cost about $2 billion to develop, this also making the U.S. wanting to use them against Japan. “Hiroshima was a major military target and we have spent 2 billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history- and won.” (3) The bomb dropped on Hiroshima weighted 4.5 tons and the bomb used on Nagasaki weighted 10 kilotons. On July 16, 1945, the first ever atomic bomb was tested in the Jamez Mountains in Northern New Mexico, code named “Gadget.” The single weapon ultimately dropped on Hiroshima, nicknamed “Little Boy,” produced the amount of approximately twenty- thousand tons of TNT, which is roughly seven times greater than all of the bombs dropped by all the allies on all of Germany in 1942. The first Japanese City bomb was Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. An American B-29 bomber, named Enola Gay, flown by the pilot Paul W. Tibbets, dropped the “Little Boy” uranium atomic bomb. Three days later a second bomb named ”Fat Boy,” made of plutonium was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. After being released, it took approximately one minute for Little Boy to reach the point of explosion, which was about 2,000 feet. The impact of the bombs on the cities and people was massive. Black rain containing large amounts of nuclear fallout fell as much as 30km from the original blast site. A mushroom cloud rose to twenty thousand feet in the air, and sixty percent of the city was destroyed. The shock wave and its reverse effect reached speeds close to those of the speed of sound. The wind generated by the bombs destroyed most of the houses and buildings within a 1.
“The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky” (Johnson 1). Throughout World War II, the war was in pieces. The Germans were almost at world domination along with their allies, the Italians and Japanese. The Japanese and United states had remained at combat with each other since the bombarding of the Pearl Harbor ("U.S. Drops Atomic Bomb on Japan "1). There was abundant controversy as to whether the United States should have used the atomic bombs or not. There were many factors as to the argument relating to the atomic bombs leading to the United States final decision. Many people had arguments for the bombing and others had arguments against the bombings but it is still not determined if the United States made the right decision.
Although homosexuality is not a mental disorder in and of itself, gay men and other men who have sex with men can present with poorer mental health outcomes as a result of social discrimination, rejection, isolation and marginalization.3 4, 5 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gay men and other MSM are at increased risk for major depression, bipolar disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder, the common basis of which is likely homophobia.6 Sustained stress from this can also lead MSM to contemplate suicide or cope through substance use.7 Although providing appropriate mental health support for gay men and other MSM from a clinical perspective is similar to treating anyone else with mental challenges, it is critical to recognize the role that structural and social barriers play in exacerbating negative mental health outcomes among these individuals.
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Explaining how to challenge the discriminatory attitudes that remain rampant throughout the world, Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a recent article, quotes the incisive words of Archbishop Desmond Tutu: "We are all of equal worth, born equal in dignity and born free and for this reason deserving respect. . . . We belong in a world whose very structure, whose essence, is diversity almost bewildering in extent, and it is to live in a fool's paradise to ignore this basic fact."
David Thelen, “History After the Enola Gay Controversy,” JAH 82, no. 3 (December 1995): 1029-1035 https://troy.blackboard.com/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_17_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_369657_1%26url%3D (accessed February 15, 2014).
From the beginning of time, homosexuality has been, and continues to be an extremely sensitive and controversial topic among the masses. Individuals constantly find themselves lost in seas of chatter, participating in riveting debates regarding whether or not homosexuality is born or made. Every human being has their own set of values and beliefs, but both society and the church 's perspective of the issue have changed dramatically over the years.