For Student Pressure

In a rapidly growing society like our own, it is difficult to prosper, and many students are under severe pressure to do well.  This pressure is a good thing and the competition has made America what it is today.  If we didn’t have enough pressure on students, our technology would not increase, Britain would take us over, and we would all be enslaved.  Everyone is being pressured, it is just a part of life.  Anyone with half a brain says that student pressure is good for our society.  I am currently a student and this pressure has caused me to write such a well written argument.

            The more pressure you have on something, the more strength it requires, and the more pressure we put on students, the more strength they will have.  Congressman Trian Burnbaugh approves of student pressure because of the boundless benefits it has on us.  There was not enough student pressure back in the 1940’s and World War 2 began.  If we do not keep up the pressure, history will repeat itself and many lives will be carelessly lost.  Everyone who is not pressured to do well in school fails.  If you cannot do well in school, then you cannot do well in life.

            Why even worry about the pressure students have to do well when there are too many 

people in a classroom?  With all these students in a classroom, there is not enough time for one

on one instruction.  Without student pressure we shouldn’t even have schools.  Student pressure

is obviously good because of the benefits it provides, and we cannot spare to end this simply 

because some people do not want to try hard on their homework.

The Atomic Bombs!

Finally, the Japanese Imperial Army has surrendered and the war in the Pacific is over. Nearly 250,000 Japanese lost their lives due to the atomic bombs called "Fat Man" and "Little Boy". The specifics were told by Mr. Chisholm in class, but their power was unbelieveable. The size of a bowling ball, to cause a catastrophy like that is one for the record books.

Random Pearl Harbor stuff...

This has nothing to do with the island hopping, but i just read an article on the Pearl Harbor attack from the Japanese perspective. Apperantly Japan did not only have airplanes during the attack. There were 5 submarines that were not detected by radar that sunk ships from underneath. Throughout the course of time, four out of the five Imperial subs have been discovered, but one was not! If you look into it, there is a screenshot that you can find( note it will take some time) of the last, missing submarine. I thought it was interesting so if you are bored, look it up. This is one of the subs.

Operation Cartwheel

Operation Cartwheel was an interesting event in the Pacific. I really got a kick out of the way the Americans got around the territory. They only went for their targets. There could have been a huge number of Japanese reinforcements on another island, but if there was not an airstrip, they were ignored. The U.S. had a mission, and did not let anything get in their way. Move to the Philippeans as fast as they possibly could.

Berlin: the end of the war

The war is finally over and the Nazi powers have fallen!! This is just another example that when the U.S. is involved, you can NOT win. During the battle, the Soviets just destroyed Berlin and took over the city very quickly. Personally, i think the heads of the Nazis were pussies. Suicide was just a way out of losing. In other words, they are just a bunch of "Sore Losers" for not fighting the war until the very end.

2X Extra credit WW2 Blog

During the war, my grandfather was a Merchant Marine. His major objective was transportation in Sherman Tanks over to North Africa. He worked with the native merchants for supporting the war effort. These shipment of tanks was a key part in the battles in N. Africa before the Axis Powers were forced to flee back through Italy. It's supprising that we just learned about this in class just a few days ago and my own family was a part of it.

Winter

Yesterday in class, the irony of the worst winters in history were at the same time as the invasions into the Soviet Union. If Hitler would have checked everything during the invasion and calculated all of his advantages, he would have known about the temperatures during that time. But twice during both invasions? To me it sounds like the U.S.S.R even has the weather to prevent the takeover. Hitler needs to think more about his plans or hire someone to make them because he is not doing a very good job.