Hardy/What Did You Do In The War, Grandma

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Laurence/Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki

As I read this article i felt a growing sense of dread at the destruction the atomic bomb would bring. Reading the article, I can understand the intense preparation and patience put into that one flight to drop a single bomb. What i found most vivid was how the author described the evolving cloud of color that was born from intense destructive light. He described it's evolution from the skyward purple flame pillar that topped into smoke that spread out into its mushroom shape. The contrast between the destruction that the author knew it would bring and the ethereal beauty that they witnessed at Nagasaki made me feel in awe.

Orwell/Shooting an Elephant

I found this story to be rather depressing all the way through. He told how he despised his own people's unfair culture. From having no choice about policing in India, he hated imperialism and wondered how it was upheld in the country when the people influence officers like him to shoot an elephant to avoid looking a fool. Though the situation is different, this is the same as when friends pressure others into doing something they don't want to do. Though, Orwell had to deal with hundreds of pressures instead of a few.

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first blog, left more mental scars