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Argumentative Essay On Pearl Harbor War

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Natalia Chavarria
August 4, 2015
Pearl Harbor, 2001
War Film, Drama
Michael Bay
Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale

The Truth

The assault on Pearl Harbor was a shock military strike led by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States maritime base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 . The assault prompted the United States' entrance into World War II. It was planned as a preventive activity with a specific end goal to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from meddling with military activities the Empire of Japan was arranging in Southeast Asia against abroad domains of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. Pearl Harbor was attacked by 353 Japanese military …show more content…

In the midst of the turmoil, a crowd of energetic Islamists, calling themselves the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, raged the U.S. Government office in Tehran on November 4, 1979, catching many representatives and holding them prisoner, requesting the arrival of the Shah. The temporary government fell in a matter of seconds from that point, when Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan and his bureau surrendered. In spite of the fact that the new Iranian government initially expressed that the prisoner takers were just understudies following up on their own, it joined in requests for the arrival of the Shah. The vast majority of the prisoners were held until mid …show more content…

The author Kathryn Stockett used his own experience to write the book. The main difference is the time period. Kathryn was born on 1969, and her similar experiences illustrated in the book took time in 1960. Ten years later not much had change, The author express how her nanny was closer and portray the character of a Mother. The film is able to get to the viewers and think deeply about how things and rules have change, specially racism to maids in this case. Balancing and connecting two lives that are very similar in the movie such as Skeeter, Costantine, Mae Mobley and Abilene Clark. Its an eye opening movie, specially for teenagers, to value the history and events that happened 55 years

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