Tuesdays With Morrie

People hurt other people; that is just a fact of life. There are always going to be people out there that do not see eye to eye with others. But why do conflicts always arise? Why are people mean to each other? Maybe they were having a bad day. Maybe someone made them upset. Maybe someone threatened them in some way. Tuesday’s with Morrie attempts to answer this question.

Tuesdays with Morrie is a book about an old man with ALS who tells the world what he learned throughout his life. His old student, Mitch, visits him every Tuesday, and they talk about different aspects of life: family, death, emotions, and culture. Morrie talks to Mitch about culture and how he should not buy into everything society tells him to do. He says not to strive

There are many reasons as to why President Truman made such a drastic decision. “President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end.” ("Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima"). The US was threatened by the Japanese because they said they were going to kill many American men. In an effort to save lives, Truman reacted harshly and dropped the bombs on them. Although, that was not the only reason why they dropped them. “First, of course, was to bring the war with Japan to a speedy end and spare American lives. It has been suggested that the second objective was to demonstrate the new weapon of mass destruction to the Soviet Union,” ("Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima"). Trying to end the war is not an example of being threatened because there was no “warning of probable trouble”. Asserting dominance could go either way. On one hand, if Russia gained dominance without the U.S. asserting the upper hand, they could have posed a threat to the US, and that was why Truman dropped the bomb. On the other hand, there could have been no threat and the US just wanted to show off. At the end of the day, the dropping of the atomic bomb was both because of America being threatened, and because of other selfish reasons. It is not completely true that

I did not want to believe him. I did not think he was truly sorry if it took me crying in order for him to realize how much he hurt me. I do not think he felt threatened by me. It would be kind of hard for him to be threatened by me physically, seeing as I was this teeny little girl compared to him and his tall stature. I could have threatened his ego; he certainly was more well-liked in the class than I. After all, it all started as a back-and-forth joke that did not mean much. Even when I tried to give him a taste of his own medicine, it never had the same effect on him. His status in the classroom surely could not have been jeopardized by any lame comeback I could give. Case in point, not everyone is mean because they feel threatened. Sometimes the are mean because they just want to