Little Boy

Around 8:15 am on 6 August 1945 a us B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay by its pilot Paul Tibbets dropped the first bomb (Little Boy) instantly killing 80,000 people.Three days later a second bomb (Fat Man) was dropped on Nagasaki killing 40,000 more. The reason we did this is the Japanese would not surrender and if we were to invade America would have lost a lot of soldiers.The bombs were being developed by a group of scientist known as the Manhattan Project at the time it was the largest collective scientific effort ever undertaken. involved 37 installations across the us, 13 university and a host of prestigious participants including nobel prizewinning physicist Arthur Holly Compton and Harold Urey. Directed by army chief engineer Brigadier…

Have you ever been on a team where you were the smallest kid? The same thing happens with the Little Dragon Boy. Anne Mccaffrey writes about a little dragon boy named Keeven that has to face many obstacles from size to bullying to become a dragon rider. Mccaffrey uses very strong conflict to develop the theme The theme of a little dragon boy is “It is not about the size of your body it is the size of your heart”. The theme of the Little Dragon Boy is “It is not about the size of your…

titles you will be hearing about are. “The Little Rock Nine”, “Life Without Limbs, and “The Lost Boys”. The First text that demonstrates perseverance is “ The Little Rock Nine”. First African American citizens were not allowed to go to the same school as other Caucasian citizens. People were upset and wanted to integrate the schools that previously were all white. The article states that the students who did this ( The Little Rock Nine) faced extreme racism when starting the school. They were…

Right Thing to Do Today’s generation is made to believe that you have to get an education and then work hard for the rest of your life to be able to achieve success and happiness. In Mark Twain’s “The Story of the Good Little Boy,” Jacob was raised reading books of good little boys and how happy they were. Jacob in turn wanted to become the “good little boy” he always read about but despite his various attempts in doing good, he met his ultimate fate. In Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal,” the…

Andrew Just last year, Dylan and I traveled to Haiti on a missions trip. As you may know, it's one of the poorest countries in the world. When we were beginning our descent on the airplane, I thought about how little roads and how poor the housing was. We drove through chaotic roads and rubble filled alleys, until we reached the orphanage. New Life Children’s Home is a safe haven for kids who lived in the mountains a couple miles north. These kids were neglected, sick, beat, starved, etc.…

On August 6, 1945, the nuclear weapon “Little Boy” was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, followed 76 hours later on August 9th by the detonation of the “Fat Man” nuclear bomb over Nagasaki (Yamazaki). Hiroshima lost 70,000 lives from the radiation blast, while Nagasaki lost 150,000 in the explosion of the bombs, which is around 220,000 lives lost (Novelguide Team). To the American people who were weary from the long and brutal war, such a drastic measure seemed necessary to end this terrible…

The “Fat Man” was the codename for the nuclear weapon used by the Americans against the Japanese on the city of Nagasaki on the 9th August 1945. The weapon was The bomb was 3,300 mm long and 1,500 mm in diameter it weighed 4,700 kg. It was named ‘Fat Man’ because it was designed wider and heavier than the other nuclear bomb dropped in Japan, ‘Little Boy’. How did the bomb work? The initial design for the plutonium bomb was based on using a simple gun design similar to the Hiroshima bomb. As…

On August 6, 1945, in response to World War II and Japan’s vicious attacks on the U.S., the United States launched the atomic bomb “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. 80,000 people died, and sixty percent of the city was destroyed. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, in which killed 70,000 people instantaneously and many more in the following weeks. These atomic bombs resulted in pure destruction and chaos for Japan and its people. Although the atomic bombs…

World War II was a testing ground for weapons the world had never seen before, with the most powerful weapons being the two atomic bombs dropped by the United States. The two bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man, were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively (“Avalon Project”). These bombs powered by nuclear fission caused destruction on a scale that had never been seen before. The bombs developed during the Manhattan Project were created in order to end the fighting of World War II. The bombs…

they realized their funds weren't sufficient. With the U.S.'s bomb nearly complete, most did not want it to simply "go to waste." With push coming to shove, the U.S. dropped "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, at 8:15 am. Three days later, "Fat Boy" delivered the same demise to Nagasaki. The effects, some seen and some unforeseen, battered the Japanese cities. In the explosions, citizens within range suffered staggering effects. Many suffered radiation poisoning, burns, and…