Expository Essay: The Bombing Of Hiroshima And Japan

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Expository Essay Scared. Somber. Hopeless. That is how the people of Hiroshima felt on August 6, 1945, at 8:15 am, when the bomb was dropped. In order to recover from the horrors of the bombing of Hiroshima to grow a more hopeful future and learn from your past you need to reflect, think about what you did wrong, and figure out what you need to do differently. A few ways you can learn from your past mistakes are by thinking about what went wrong and figure out what you need to do differently. For example, summer of 2016 there was a high adventure campout on the border of Minnesota and Canada for my Boy Scout troop, and on the last night a storm blew through, knocking down a tree and that tree fell on my best friend’s tent, killing him, another female leader, and pinning two others under the tree for six …show more content…

For example, the people of Hiroshima or Japan as a whole, realized that their actions have consequences. What I mean by that is that Japan decided to bomb Pearl Harbor and because of that the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki to retaliate. As the war was still on and Hiroshima was bombed, so many lives were lost, they reflected on the situation and decided to start new, withdraw from the war, and hope for peace in the future with the United states. “Japan was defeated, they, of course, were deeply disappointed, but followed after their Emperor’s commandment in calm spirit, making whole-hearted sacrifice for the everlasting peace of the world---and Japan started her new way.” (p.65 Hiroshima, by John Hersey) So, in order to learn from your past mistakes and to grow for a more hopeful future, you need to reflect, think about what wrong, and figure out what you need to do different. If you do that you will go through life not afraid to do things that might make you relive the situation. Don’t just block out your problem, try to fix it. If you fix your problems, life will be

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