Introduction –
This section will describe your topic and your reasons for choosing it. Tell the reader what you know (or did not know) and what you want to know. Why are you writing this paper? This section should answer the following questions: Why did you become interested in the topic you chose? What personal connection helped you to pick this topic? Describe the situation that led you to decide to research this topic.
INTRO> I know that I love food and I want to be a chef when I grow up I also know how to make food that not only is good for you but also tastes good. I would like to know how to make more food as well as different kinds of food. I would also like to learn more about how to prepare food in different ways. I am writing this paper to show people why I love food so much I also want to learn more about food so that I can better appreciate the thing that I love so much. I became interested in this topic since I was 7. I would always help my dad make dinner and it was just a nice bonding experience. The personal connection that helped me to pick this topic awas making dinner with my dad when I was little. I want to be a chef when i grow up so in order to do that I need to learn more about the food I will be cooking as well as learn more ways to prepare my food.
Getting started –
This section will show how you began your research. What process did you use to conduct your research? What types of searches did you try and how did they turn out? Show the steps you took in your thinking/brainstorming. For example, you will describe what sources you began with and how these led to further sources. Another significant part of this section is the introduction of the expert interview. You will describe who you decided to interview and why.
Searchings & Findings –
This section of the ISearch project will focus on the major sources of information you discovered during your research. This is the story of your hunt for information. Essentially, this major portion of your project should answer the question: What did you find and how did you find it? Evaluate each of the individual sources you found. Discuss how the information you found may have answered your questions, or raised new ones, or pointed you in different directions. Share your thinking. Include your opinion on sources and the information you discovered. One of the sources is also the interview, so include the significant information learned through the interview. You may wish to include an audio or a video of the interview. Remember, the “I” in iSearch means that you must be an interactive, reactive participant. It also means you must make direct references to the important ideas from your sources and incorporate these direct quotes from the text of your sources into your project.
Conclusions –
Reflect upon the entire search experience, not only what you got out of it, not only what you have learned, but how this search has changed your life. Summarize your travel, your journey, your quest for the holy grail of knowledge on a topic with which you were nearly consumed. Overall, you will answer the question: What do you now know about searching for information that you didn’t know before? To answer this question, you will describe those findings that meant the most to you. What are the implications of your findings? How might your newly found knowledge affect the way you act or think in the future?
Works Cited
This section will include all your references. Remember you must give proper credit to the individuals who created the ideas or compiled the data on which you based your research. The minimum requirement is six (6) sources and you must use MLA style in creating the works cited page. One of those must be a primary source – a personal interview. The interview must be with a credible expert. The MLA works cited page should be posted and labeled on your wiki next to your final multimedia I Search project.
For the works cited page---There are many reliable online tools for formatting works cited entries.My favorite is http://www.bibme.org/ because students can enter the url or the ISBN number and the citation is automatically created. There are others listed below. http://citationmachine.net/http://www.easybib.com(This one also auto formats based on URL, ISBN)
Planning your time 1: – Decide on topic; submit your topic proposal to your teacher
Your topic proposal should include why you want to research this topic and what you know about the topic
2- Decide who you will interview and set up a time to do the interview; write 10 questions you will ask; 3 – Find and take notes on all four (three plus the interview) sources; post your sources and information about at least three of the sources; conduct interview with your expert: record it or take good notes. 4- Decide which Web 2.0 tool you will use to create your project. 5– Include the final information from your sources (all 4) in the project; include the transcript (or recording) of your interview; 6 – Create your MLA works cited page with Noodle Tools. 7- Present your project.
Two killed in 140-vehicle pile-up on foggy Texas road
Aftermath of the 100-vehicle pile-up
Two people have died and scores were injured after a pile-up involving at least 140 vehicles on a foggy motorway in the US state of Texas.
More than 80 people were taken to hospital and at least 10 seriously hurt, local media report.
It happened on Interstate 10 near Beaumont, about 80 miles (130km) east of Houston, on Thanksgiving morning.
Rescuers scrambled to pull survivors from miles of wreckage, which left mangled lorries on top of each other. 'Catastrophic'
A man and woman died after their sports utility vehicle was crushed by a tractor trailer.
Police identified them as Debra Leggio, 60, and Vincent Leggio, 64. They were Texas grandparents driving to Mississippi to celebrate their 42nd wedding anniversary, New York's Daily News reports.
Emergency services did not initially realise the scale of the carnage because of the dense fog.
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office Deputy Rod Carroll said: "It is catastrophic. I've got cars on top of cars."
He said uninjured drivers and passengers had gone to the aid of others while authorities sorted through the wreckage.
"It's just people helping people," he said.
"The foremost thing in this holiday season is how other travellers were helping us when we were overwhelmed, sitting and holding, putting pressure on people that were injured."
The motorway's eastbound lanes were reopened later on Thursday after more than eight hours.
This is a tragic story of 140 cars slamming into one another at highway speeds. With the fog dense in Texas the drivers could not see the car infrotn of them so they were not able to slow down or even turn out of the way of the huge wreck. The heart breaking story is that there was a 60 year old couple who were on their way to Mississippi to celebrate their 42 anniversary of their marriage. The good that came out of this though was the fact that the drivers that weren't hurt were helping The injured drivers. Heartwarming yet heartbreaking. Triumphant yet tragic. Hot and vold. Together yet divided. Young but old. Loved but hated.
Introduction
It all happened so quickly. At 7.55am on Sunday 7 December 1941, the first of two waves of Japanese aircraft began their deadly attack on the US Pacific Fleet, moored at Pearl Harbor on the Pacific island of Oahu. Within two hours, five battleships had been sunk, another 16 damaged, and 188 aircraft destroyed. Only chance saved three US aircraft carriers, usually stationed at Pearl Harbor but assigned elsewhere on the day. The attacks killed under 100 Japanese but over 2,400 Americans, with another 1,178 injured.
... the attacks had been slowly brewing for years.
Although swift in execution, the attacks had been slowly brewing for years. The US had once looked upon Japanese ambitions with a level of sympathy, even indulgence. Hit hard by the Great Depression of the early 1930s, however, Japanese disillusion with party government grew and moderates gave way to militants. In 1931 Japan occupied Manchuria in northern China. Over the decade conflict intensified and in July 1937 war was declared. As Japanese aggression increased, its relations with the US deteriorated.
Occupied Manchuria was rapidly exploited with the establishment of heavy and light industries. This was a practical necessity for Japan. Lacking in natural resources itself, the search for alternative supplies underpinned foreign and military policy throughout the decade and led to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War.
On top of practical economic considerations, early military success and an inherent sense of racial superiority led Japan to believe that it deserved to dominate Asian politics. As with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, this combination bred an aggressive and neo-colonial foreign policy, the 'Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere'. Higher birth-rates and economic considerations required more land; the gene-pool justified it. Top
Relations with the US
Photograph of a briefing of Japanese pilots before the attack
... Japan knew that a full-scale invasion of South-east Asia would prompt war with America.
This posed real problems. Although officially neutral, there was no doubt where American sympathies lay. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had already strained the sinews of neutrality by supplying Britain with money and arms under the 'lend-lease' agreement. The Tripartite Pact meant that supplies to Japan would indirectly be helping Italy and Germany; further embargoes followed.
For Japan, embroiled in a long war with China, these were disastrous. Considering its very survival under threat, Japan intensified the search for a permanent alternative. The most obvious target was South-east Asia, rich in minerals and oil. German success in Europe in 1940 had orphaned French and Dutch colonies in the region and they became the focus of Japanese attention.
While occupying French Indochina in July 1941, Japan knew that a full-scale invasion of South-east Asia would prompt war with America. It needed a mechanism to buy itself sufficient time and space to conquer successfully crucial targets like the Philippines, Burma and Malaya. The attack on Pearl Harbor was that mechanism; merely a means to an end. By destroying its Pacific Fleet, Japan expected to remove America from the Pacific equation for long enough to allow it to secure the resources it needed so desperately and hoped to crush American morale sufficiently to prompt Roosevelt to sue for peace. Top
It doesn't add up. In 1941 America was not ready for war. With US forces queuing for arms alongside Britain and Russia, Roosevelt knew he needed more time to build America's military capacity. If war was to come, he wanted Japan to be seen to be the aggressor, but Roosevelt was in no hurry.
Furthermore, he saw Germany as America's main enemy. This 'Europe first' strategy was affirmed with Churchill at the Arcadia conference in late December 1941. Roosevelt had already pushed neutrality to the limit and had assigned warships to accompany convoys in the Atlantic. War with Germany was only a matter of time: why choose to fight another with Japan? Even when European conflict came, it did so only on Hitler's invitation after he gratuitously declared war. Top
American myopia
However hard you look, there is little evidence of anything more than blushing cover-ups of previous blunders. The real crime was one of incompetence on a huge scale. After all, the US had broken Japan's diplomatic codes and could sometimes decode messages faster than the Japanese themselves. The problem was not raw data, but its interpretation, evaluation and communication: it had to be used properly. This did not happen.
The real crime was one of incompetence on a huge scale.
The administration and military were both guilty of a staggering lack of co-ordination between Washington and Oahu, and between different services. Japanese messages were decoded by the army and navy on alternate days and all too often one service failed to properly communicate their new intelligence to the other. And it wasn't just codes: on the day of the attack, Japanese aircraft were spotted by American radar. No action was taken: they were assumed to be a flight of B-17 bombers due in from the mainland.
It's not as if America wasn't warned. In January 1941 Ambassador Grew in Tokyo passed on intelligence that stated that Japan was planning the attack. It was disregarded. Warnings from military personnel in February and July were overlooked, largely because they recommended massive transfers of aircraft to Oahu, aircraft that America simply did not have. War warnings from Washington to Hawaii ten days before the attack were virtually ignored. Team USA was proving pretty dysfunctional.
This American myopia stemmed from complacent disbelief that Japan would mount such an attack, especially before declaring war. Yet any study of Japanese history demonstrated that pre-emptive attacks such as this were almost standard operating procedure. Instead of concentrating on what Japan could do, the US tried to guess what it would do. It guessed wrong. Top
The aftermath
Although Pearl Harbor started the Pacific War, a war that Japan would lose badly, the attack itself was no failure. The Japanese wanted to cripple the Pacific Fleet and give them the space to invade South-east Asia. They did: Japan won every major battle until Midway in June 1942. By that time it occupied territory from Manchuria to the East Indies, and from India's borders to deep into the Pacific. The attack on Pearl Harbor bought Japan the space and time it needed.
Although only chance saved the American aircraft carriers, their survival was a major blow. However, the primary problem with the attack was the planning. Had Japan focused beyond the fleet and targeted the crucial shore facilities and oil reserves, it could have inflicted far greater and more lasting damage. As it was, of the ships damaged or sunk on December 7th 1941, only three - the Arizona, Oklahoma and Utah - were damaged beyond repair, and Utah was already obsolete. Japan gave America the chance to rebuild its fleet and re-enter the fight with brand new kit.
Operationally brilliant, the attack was nonetheless strategically disastrous.
Even worse, rather than crushing American morale as planned, the attack united the country behind Roosevelt and behind war. Americans were incensed by Japan's failure to declare war until later that day: the sneak attack fuelled American determination to fight on, even in the face of the setbacks of early 1942.
Pearl Harbor and the invasion of South-east Asia showcased Japan at its best - capable of massive daring and painstaking preparation. Operationally brilliant, the attack was nonetheless strategically disastrous. Never again would Japan have the opportunity to act with such forethought and planning. It got itself the short term breathing space it wanted, but also a war against both Britain and America. To invite such confrontation was the result of courage, optimism and (possibly) madness on a massive scale. Japan lost. Faced with American military and economic might, it could never really win. So why all the conspiracy theories? Maybe because some just cannot accept that on the day, in round one, their boys were beaten by the better team. Top
Find out more
Books Scapegoats by Edward L Beach (1995). A revisionist account. The Way It Was: Pearl Harbor, the Original Photographs by Donald M Goldstein et al (2001). Personal accounts and photographs of the attack. Day of Infamy by Walter Lord (1957, 2001). The first classic account of the attack At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon W Prange (1991). The definitive history of Pearl Harbor Day of Deceit: the truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor Another revisionist account by Robert B Stinnett (2001) Infamy: Pearl Harbor and its aftermath by John Toland (2001). Pins the blame on Washington. Top
About the author
Bruce Robinson is a professional journalist who graduated with a first class degree in History from Cambridge University, specialising in English Social, Political and Economic History from 1300 to 1600. Top
Such warships were sunk in the great catastrophe that was the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. 71 years today those crazy Japanese decided to wake the sleeping giant that was the United States of America. Thousands of men were killed trying to save their brethren. Hospitals that day had and enrollment number that had never been reached before. The Oklahoma had men trapped in the hull trying to fight for their lives when it was hit with a torpedo. The ship then capsized so sailors on the outside had to try to cut holes in the bottom to get them out. They could not reach them in time. The Arizona got hit with three torpedoes before it went down taking all of its crew with it. Kamikazes flew their planes till they ran out of ammo then they flew straight down into ships and nearby buildings. Thankfully none of the air craft carriers were docked so none of them were damaged. They way we used our ships in war was forever changed. It was now the age of the aircraft carrier.
response #6
i love my freshman year there is not much that could make it any better. my nickname is william nipples because i have small nipples. for some reason all or most of the seniors love me. i make the best chicken wings. im having a lot of fun.
This section will describe your topic and your reasons for choosing it. Tell the reader what you know (or did not know) and what you want to know. Why are you writing this paper? This section should answer the following questions: Why did you become interested in the topic you chose? What personal connection helped you to pick this topic? Describe the situation that led you to decide to research this topic.
INTRO> I know that I love food and I want to be a chef when I grow up I also know how to make food that not only is good for you but also tastes good. I would like to know how to make more food as well as different kinds of food. I would also like to learn more about how to prepare food in different ways. I am writing this paper to show people why I love food so much I also want to learn more about food so that I can better appreciate the thing that I love so much. I became interested in this topic since I was 7. I would always help my dad make dinner and it was just a nice bonding experience. The personal connection that helped me to pick this topic awas making dinner with my dad when I was little. I want to be a chef when i grow up so in order to do that I need to learn more about the food I will be cooking as well as learn more ways to prepare my food.
Getting started –
This section will show how you began your research. What process did you use to conduct your research? What types of searches did you try and how did they turn out? Show the steps you took in your thinking/brainstorming. For example, you will describe what sources you began with and how these led to further sources. Another significant part of this section is the introduction of the expert interview. You will describe who you decided to interview and why.
Searchings & Findings –
This section of the ISearch project will focus on the major sources of information you discovered during your research. This is the story of your hunt for information. Essentially, this major portion of your project should answer the question: What did you find and how did you find it? Evaluate each of the individual sources you found. Discuss how the information you found may have answered your questions, or raised new ones, or pointed you in different directions. Share your thinking. Include your opinion on sources and the information you discovered. One of the sources is also the interview, so include the significant information learned through the interview. You may wish to include an audio or a video of the interview. Remember, the “I” in iSearch means that you must be an interactive, reactive participant. It also means you must make direct references to the important ideas from your sources and incorporate these direct quotes from the text of your sources into your project.
Conclusions –
Reflect upon the entire search experience, not only what you got out of it, not only what you have learned, but how this search has changed your life. Summarize your travel, your journey, your quest for the holy grail of knowledge on a topic with which you were nearly consumed. Overall, you will answer the question: What do you now know about searching for information that you didn’t know before? To answer this question, you will describe those findings that meant the most to you. What are the implications of your findings? How might your newly found knowledge affect the way you act or think in the future?
Works Cited
This section will include all your references. Remember you must give proper credit to the individuals who created the ideas or compiled the data on which you based your research. The minimum requirement is six (6) sources and you must use MLA style in creating the works cited page. One of those must be a primary source – a personal interview. The interview must be with a credible expert. The MLA works cited page should be posted and labeled on your wiki next to your final multimedia I Search project.
This is a PDF file with latest MLA stylehttp://image.mail.bfwpub.com/lib/feed1c737d6c03/m/1/Hacker_MLA2009Update.pdfThis PDF booklet is from this site which has examples, sample papers-http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_o.htm
For the works cited page---There are many reliable online tools for formatting works cited entries.My favorite is http://www.bibme.org/ because students can enter the url or the ISBN number and the citation is automatically created. There are others listed below. http://citationmachine.net/ http://www.easybib.com(This one also auto formats based on URL, ISBN)
Planning your time
1: – Decide on topic; submit your topic proposal to your teacher
2- Decide who you will interview and set up a time to do the interview; write 10 questions you will ask;
3 – Find and take notes on all four (three plus the interview) sources; post your sources and information about at least three of the sources; conduct interview with your expert: record it or take good notes.
4- Decide which Web 2.0 tool you will use to create your project.
5– Include the final information from your sources (all 4) in the project; include the transcript (or recording) of your interview;
6 – Create your MLA works cited page with Noodle Tools.
7- Present your project.
Two killed in 140-vehicle pile-up on foggy Texas road
Aftermath of the 100-vehicle pile-up
Two people have died and scores were injured after a pile-up involving at least 140 vehicles on a foggy motorway in the US state of Texas.
More than 80 people were taken to hospital and at least 10 seriously hurt, local media report.
It happened on Interstate 10 near Beaumont, about 80 miles (130km) east of Houston, on Thanksgiving morning.
Rescuers scrambled to pull survivors from miles of wreckage, which left mangled lorries on top of each other.
'Catastrophic'
A man and woman died after their sports utility vehicle was crushed by a tractor trailer.
Police identified them as Debra Leggio, 60, and Vincent Leggio, 64. They were Texas grandparents driving to Mississippi to celebrate their 42nd wedding anniversary, New York's Daily News reports.
Emergency services did not initially realise the scale of the carnage because of the dense fog.
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office Deputy Rod Carroll said: "It is catastrophic. I've got cars on top of cars."
He said uninjured drivers and passengers had gone to the aid of others while authorities sorted through the wreckage.
"It's just people helping people," he said.
"The foremost thing in this holiday season is how other travellers were helping us when we were overwhelmed, sitting and holding, putting pressure on people that were injured."
The motorway's eastbound lanes were reopened later on Thursday after more than eight hours.
This is a tragic story of 140 cars slamming into one another at highway speeds. With the fog dense in Texas the drivers could not see the car infrotn of them so they were not able to slow down or even turn out of the way of the huge wreck. The heart breaking story is that there was a 60 year old couple who were on their way to Mississippi to celebrate their 42 anniversary of their marriage. The good that came out of this though was the fact that the drivers that weren't hurt were helping The injured drivers. Heartwarming yet heartbreaking. Triumphant yet tragic. Hot and vold. Together yet divided. Young but old. Loved but hated.
Introduction
It all happened so quickly. At 7.55am on Sunday 7 December 1941, the first of two waves of Japanese aircraft began their deadly attack on the US Pacific Fleet, moored at Pearl Harbor on the Pacific island of Oahu. Within two hours, five battleships had been sunk, another 16 damaged, and 188 aircraft destroyed. Only chance saved three US aircraft carriers, usually stationed at Pearl Harbor but assigned elsewhere on the day. The attacks killed under 100 Japanese but over 2,400 Americans, with another 1,178 injured.Although swift in execution, the attacks had been slowly brewing for years. The US had once looked upon Japanese ambitions with a level of sympathy, even indulgence. Hit hard by the Great Depression of the early 1930s, however, Japanese disillusion with party government grew and moderates gave way to militants. In 1931 Japan occupied Manchuria in northern China. Over the decade conflict intensified and in July 1937 war was declared. As Japanese aggression increased, its relations with the US deteriorated.
Occupied Manchuria was rapidly exploited with the establishment of heavy and light industries. This was a practical necessity for Japan. Lacking in natural resources itself, the search for alternative supplies underpinned foreign and military policy throughout the decade and led to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War.
On top of practical economic considerations, early military success and an inherent sense of racial superiority led Japan to believe that it deserved to dominate Asian politics. As with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, this combination bred an aggressive and neo-colonial foreign policy, the 'Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere'. Higher birth-rates and economic considerations required more land; the gene-pool justified it.
Top
Relations with the US
This posed real problems. Although officially neutral, there was no doubt where American sympathies lay. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had already strained the sinews of neutrality by supplying Britain with money and arms under the 'lend-lease' agreement. The Tripartite Pact meant that supplies to Japan would indirectly be helping Italy and Germany; further embargoes followed.
For Japan, embroiled in a long war with China, these were disastrous. Considering its very survival under threat, Japan intensified the search for a permanent alternative. The most obvious target was South-east Asia, rich in minerals and oil. German success in Europe in 1940 had orphaned French and Dutch colonies in the region and they became the focus of Japanese attention.
While occupying French Indochina in July 1941, Japan knew that a full-scale invasion of South-east Asia would prompt war with America. It needed a mechanism to buy itself sufficient time and space to conquer successfully crucial targets like the Philippines, Burma and Malaya. The attack on Pearl Harbor was that mechanism; merely a means to an end. By destroying its Pacific Fleet, Japan expected to remove America from the Pacific equation for long enough to allow it to secure the resources it needed so desperately and hoped to crush American morale sufficiently to prompt Roosevelt to sue for peace.
Top
An ill-prepared America
It doesn't add up. In 1941 America was not ready for war. With US forces queuing for arms alongside Britain and Russia, Roosevelt knew he needed more time to build America's military capacity. If war was to come, he wanted Japan to be seen to be the aggressor, but Roosevelt was in no hurry.
Furthermore, he saw Germany as America's main enemy. This 'Europe first' strategy was affirmed with Churchill at the Arcadia conference in late December 1941. Roosevelt had already pushed neutrality to the limit and had assigned warships to accompany convoys in the Atlantic. War with Germany was only a matter of time: why choose to fight another with Japan? Even when European conflict came, it did so only on Hitler's invitation after he gratuitously declared war.
Top
American myopia
However hard you look, there is little evidence of anything more than blushing cover-ups of previous blunders. The real crime was one of incompetence on a huge scale. After all, the US had broken Japan's diplomatic codes and could sometimes decode messages faster than the Japanese themselves. The problem was not raw data, but its interpretation, evaluation and communication: it had to be used properly. This did not happen.The administration and military were both guilty of a staggering lack of co-ordination between Washington and Oahu, and between different services. Japanese messages were decoded by the army and navy on alternate days and all too often one service failed to properly communicate their new intelligence to the other. And it wasn't just codes: on the day of the attack, Japanese aircraft were spotted by American radar. No action was taken: they were assumed to be a flight of B-17 bombers due in from the mainland.
It's not as if America wasn't warned. In January 1941 Ambassador Grew in Tokyo passed on intelligence that stated that Japan was planning the attack. It was disregarded. Warnings from military personnel in February and July were overlooked, largely because they recommended massive transfers of aircraft to Oahu, aircraft that America simply did not have. War warnings from Washington to Hawaii ten days before the attack were virtually ignored. Team USA was proving pretty dysfunctional.
This American myopia stemmed from complacent disbelief that Japan would mount such an attack, especially before declaring war. Yet any study of Japanese history demonstrated that pre-emptive attacks such as this were almost standard operating procedure. Instead of concentrating on what Japan could do, the US tried to guess what it would do. It guessed wrong.
Top
The aftermath
Although Pearl Harbor started the Pacific War, a war that Japan would lose badly, the attack itself was no failure. The Japanese wanted to cripple the Pacific Fleet and give them the space to invade South-east Asia. They did: Japan won every major battle until Midway in June 1942. By that time it occupied territory from Manchuria to the East Indies, and from India's borders to deep into the Pacific. The attack on Pearl Harbor bought Japan the space and time it needed.Although only chance saved the American aircraft carriers, their survival was a major blow. However, the primary problem with the attack was the planning. Had Japan focused beyond the fleet and targeted the crucial shore facilities and oil reserves, it could have inflicted far greater and more lasting damage. As it was, of the ships damaged or sunk on December 7th 1941, only three - the Arizona, Oklahoma and Utah - were damaged beyond repair, and Utah was already obsolete. Japan gave America the chance to rebuild its fleet and re-enter the fight with brand new kit.
Even worse, rather than crushing American morale as planned, the attack united the country behind Roosevelt and behind war. Americans were incensed by Japan's failure to declare war until later that day: the sneak attack fuelled American determination to fight on, even in the face of the setbacks of early 1942.
Pearl Harbor and the invasion of South-east Asia showcased Japan at its best - capable of massive daring and painstaking preparation. Operationally brilliant, the attack was nonetheless strategically disastrous. Never again would Japan have the opportunity to act with such forethought and planning. It got itself the short term breathing space it wanted, but also a war against both Britain and America. To invite such confrontation was the result of courage, optimism and (possibly) madness on a massive scale. Japan lost. Faced with American military and economic might, it could never really win. So why all the conspiracy theories? Maybe because some just cannot accept that on the day, in round one, their boys were beaten by the better team.
Top
Find out more
BooksScapegoats by Edward L Beach (1995). A revisionist account.
The Way It Was: Pearl Harbor, the Original Photographs by Donald M Goldstein et al (2001). Personal accounts and photographs of the attack.
Day of Infamy by Walter Lord (1957, 2001). The first classic account of the attack
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon W Prange (1991). The definitive history of Pearl Harbor
Day of Deceit: the truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor Another revisionist account by Robert B Stinnett (2001)
Infamy: Pearl Harbor and its aftermath by John Toland (2001). Pins the blame on Washington.
Top
About the author
Bruce Robinson is a professional journalist who graduated with a first class degree in History from Cambridge University, specialising in English Social, Political and Economic History from 1300 to 1600.Top
Such warships were sunk in the great catastrophe that was the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. 71 years today those crazy Japanese decided to wake the sleeping giant that was the United States of America. Thousands of men were killed trying to save their brethren. Hospitals that day had and enrollment number that had never been reached before. The Oklahoma had men trapped in the hull trying to fight for their lives when it was hit with a torpedo. The ship then capsized so sailors on the outside had to try to cut holes in the bottom to get them out. They could not reach them in time. The Arizona got hit with three torpedoes before it went down taking all of its crew with it. Kamikazes flew their planes till they ran out of ammo then they flew straight down into ships and nearby buildings. Thankfully none of the air craft carriers were docked so none of them were damaged. They way we used our ships in war was forever changed. It was now the age of the aircraft carrier.
response #6
i love my freshman year there is not much that could make it any better. my nickname is william nipples because i have small nipples. for some reason all or most of the seniors love me. i make the best chicken wings. im having a lot of fun.