The Decision to Use Atomic Bomb How did Stimson perceive the viable alternative to using the atomic bomb? Use of atomic bomb in the war against Japanresulted many deaths of the Japanese people. However, Stimson perceived that the alternatives to using the atomic bomb would not be viable. This is because the alternatives would result to a great loss of the United States military. Moreover, it would result to a great loss of the Japanese army. As a result, the alternatives would not have avoided deaths. The alternatives would also prolong the war thus making it rather uneconomical. Therefore, according to Stimson the alternative to using the atomic bomb were not viable that is why United States decided to employ them to induce surrender.

On what sources did Stimson rely for information in arriving at the recommendation to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman?

Recommendations made by Stimson to presidents Roosevelt and Truman were based on consultation with the people concerned with the issue. One of the sources that Stimson relied on for information was General Grove. This person was to provide information on the progress of the project design for making the atomic bombs. The other source of information that Stimson relied on was the secretary of state and secretary of naval forestall. Moreover, Stimson relied on information from other members of the interim committee as well as members of the scientific panel. All these sources provided him with information that assisted him in arriving at the recommendations to both President Roosevelt and President Truman.

How did the “air of uncertainty” influence the choices made?

Air of uncertainty indicated no proof that any given bomb would explode when dropped from an airplane. This resulted to a problem of exploding a bomb at predetermined height in air. However, the atomic bombs had a higher chance of exploding when dropped from a plane than the other types of bombs. This made them to be preferable to the other types of bombs. Therefore, the “air of uncertainty” influenced the choices made by revealing that other bombs had a lower chance of exploding when dropped from a plane compared to the atomic bomb.

Which participants had the most influence on the reached decisions?

Several people influenced the reached decision. Participants who had most influence on the reached decisions were President Roosevelt and President Truman. Other individuals who had most influence on the reached decisions were the members of the interim committee including Stimson. Moreover, General Grove had a very great influence on the decisions of using the nuclear bombs in the war against Japan. This is because he was the one who provided the information on the progress of the project initiated to create the bombs. The other people who had most influenced on the reached decisions were the members of the scientific panel since they provided essential information and advisory to the interim committee.

Does the case study illuminate Charles Lindblom’s root or branch method?

The case study does not illuminate branch method. This is because the case study compares alternatives to the decisions made and the policies arrived at. Moreover, its analysis on the case study puts into consideration the viability of the alternatives to the arrived decisions. The case study also does not illuminate Charles Lindblom’s root method. This is because it puts into consideration the root causes of the decisions made like the “air of uncertainty.

However, with the development of so many search engines all over the world, the question still remains, which one is the best, and what is it that makes it so? This paper thus looks into an overall evaluation of search engines.

A search engine is an instrument that helps a person to find anything that he wants, just by typing in a few keywords in the search box. It helps to then locate those keywords and matches it with all the possible documents that have been uploaded on the World Wide Web servers for the purpose of returning them to the user.

Many search engines also have databases from which they return information back to the user. In today’s day and age, there are a number of companies gunning towards building such search engines because it has also formed a very lucrative business in the past decade alone.

Most people make use of search engines. now more so especially because this facility is available to them on their phones as well. Information on the go has become the most popular form of obtaining knowledge about anything. If one takes a survey of how most people learn new things or where they look for information, they will reply with “Google”, or “Yahoo”. These two search engines are two of the most popular and powerful engines in the world, on the internet. They have earned a brand status for themselves with time and in turn, generated a large amount of revenue for their respective companies as well. (Sherman, Chris)

Due to the importance and increase in usage of these search engines, a number of companies and firms have also opened up businesses in terms of content writing and copywriting articles on the basis of the keywords that are typed into these search engines. However, what is it that determines the basis for making a search engine one of the best? What is it that sets some engines apart from others and makes them stand out in a manner that people begin using the names as everyday verbs?

Some of the more obvious reasons for a search engine being able to reach its peak when it comes to people’s popularity are a simple and concise look and design coupled with ease of use.

Second Language Acquisition Affiliation Second Language Acquisition English is the most preferred second language in non-English speaking countries. Tutors are keen to develop inside class room activities and practices that increase the suitability of students to acquire a second language (Cook & Singleton, 2014). How significant are outside classroom activities in performing the similar task? Do outside classroom activities and assignments promote oral fluency in the L2 acquisition in non-English speaking countries?

In an argument by Ortega (2012) external classroom activities have equal significance in enabling students learn English as a second language. The author further asserts that the activities provide a non-educational environment from which a student may feel free and comfortable to acquire new language skills. In an experimental approach, Ruan & Leung (2012) provide data obtained from interviews collected from children in foreign countries. Out of 10 children, eight cited outside classroom activities are more important in L2 acquisition (Ruan & Leung, 2012). In addition, the students prefer outside learning activities since they develop personal and social learning experiences that increase the effectiveness of learning a second language (Ruan & Leung, 2012).

From the results of the experiment, the conclusion that students develop more oral fluency through outside classroom activities is developed. The activities also increase their ability to improve communication skills that they learn from the classroom setting (Ortega, 2010).

From the arguments presented, it is an accurate assertion that outside classroom activities have a significant role in enabling the learning and acquisition of a second language as internal classroom activities. In addition, classroom activities and assignments promote oral fluency in the L2 acquisition in non-English speaking countries.

References

Cook, V. & Singleton, D. (2014). Key Topics in Second Language Acquisition. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

Ortega, L. (2010). Second language acquisition. Critical concepts in linguistics. London: Routledge.

Ruan, J. & Leung, C. (2012). Perspectives on Teaching and Learning English Literacy in China. New York: Springer Science & Business Media.

This “Advertisement in the “Far East Economic Review” magazine in 1972” outlines and analyzed the ad which was published in this particular media, its style and strategies. This advertisement uses sexual appeal to attract potential customers to use the airline. The advertisement poem is based entirely on sexuality to attract customers to choose MSA for there are beautiful airhostesses waiting to serve them early in the morning. Not just that, the picture that accompanies the text, shows a very pleasant looking woman standing amidst the passengers who are all men. This too is hinting at some sort of sexual discrimination that the airline seeks to exploit in order to get new customers (Goffman, 1979).

Besides the critical sexist outlook of the advertisement, the poetry used in the advertisement is pretty catchy. Small verses are always helpful since the readers get them on their tongues quicker and they can relate to what they read when they are looking for a reliable service or product. The ad by MSA uses short verses, catchy words and sexual attraction to persuade customers to the airline.

Although the ad is about attracting all kinds of customers to MSA, the picture depicts a slightly different story. It shows customers who are well suited indicating that MSA would be a great service for professional elites. By doing so, it would attract customers who are at the wealthier side and can afford more airline visits. This is indeed a clever strategy by the airline.

That is again a very important aspect in the advertisement.

An object that is released freely, for example, moves towards the center of the earth with an increasing velocity. Similarly, an object thrown upwards moves with a decreasing rate before it comes to rest and then accelerates downwards. Newton hypothesized the existence of a force, the force of gravity that attracts objects towards its center, explaining the observation. The muscle acts in the same direction as the direction of motion of an object towards the center of the earth and thus increases velocity. However, it counters movements away from the center of the planet and therefore reduces the rate of the associated object (Agarwal 2011, p. 442. McGinnis2013, p. 22). In the absence of any other external force that could act on an item, the realized power is called acceleration due to gravity and is a constant for all objects within the earth’s surface and a limit of the earth’s environment (Chabay and Sherwood 2011, p. 6).

When a mass on a simple pendulum is displaced, it moves in a vertical plane, and for small displacements, the motion of the object assumes a harmonic motion. Newton’s second law of motion then explains the object’s move from an angular perspective, as shown below.

F=ma

This translates to the equation,

F=-again&nbsp.θ &nbsp.

For small values of θ, however, sin&nbsp.θ=&nbsp.θ and this changes the equation to F=-mg θ

Expressing force as a second-order derivative of angular displacement and eliminating m from both sides generates the following as the resulting equation of motion.

D2 θ/dt2 =-(g/L) θ

With the angular frequency = (g/L) 0.5, the following is the equation for the period.

(Serway and Jewett 2009, p. 448)

From the equation, a direct proportionality relation is identifiable between the period for an oscillation and the length of a pendulum, as shown below.

T=2πg-0.5l0.5

This can also be expressed as T2=4π2l/g

And

T2=(4π2/g) l

This allows for the graphical determination of acceleration’s value due to gravity from the gradient of the graph of the period versus length of the string used in an experiment. From the graph,

Gradient= 4π2/g

g=4π2/ gradient

Similarly, the value of g can be calculated empirically from the equation and for a single trial. The formula for determining g is as follows.