Analysis the article from foreign Affairs (April 1945), The Campaign in Burma by Horace S.
Sewell. And answer the questions bellow. 2.5 pages. In your analysis you should address each of the five major points listed below in one form or another.
a. Author: Who is the author? What is their background?
b. Audience: Who is the audience for the piece? How does the type of audience impact the ways in which the product takes shape?
c. Purpose: Why was the piece produced? Is the piece effective in achieving its purpose? What factors help it and what factors hinder it?
d. Tone and Language: What is the tone of the source? How is the tone and the language related to its overall purpose? What can the tone tell us about the author or his/her relationship to the audience?
e. Significance: This is the most important element of your analysis. Why is this source important? Why should scholars use this source when making historical analyses? What can this source tell us that other types of sources might not be able to do? (most important)
Question(s): What options faced American officials in 1945 regarding the dropping of the atomic bomb?
The Demoralization of Free China, 1943-1944
* "The Honan Famine" in Theodore White and Annalee Jacoby Thunder out of China, 166-178
* "Doomed Men, The Chinese Army" in Theodore White and Annalee Jacoby Thunder out of China, 132-141
- Finish Cold Nights
April 6: Film: "China in War and Revolution"
* Drafted to the Kobe Shipyards", "the War Effort" in Under the Black Umbrella, 123-138
* "Volunteer and "Human Torpedo" Japan at War, 306-319
- Factories of Death, 239-311
The Japanese Home Front and the Struggle Over Ending the War
*"Thank God for the Atom Bomb" in Paul Fussell, Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays, 1-28
-Start Hiroshima
The Atomic Bomb and the Surrender of Japan
*"Mansei" in Under the Black Umbrella, 139-147
*"Shattered Lives" in John Dower Embracing Defeat 48-64
*"Reversals of Fortune" in Japan at War, 407-419
*Matthew Allen, "Wolves at the Back Door: Remembering the Kumejima Massacres," in Islands of Discontent, 39-64
- Continue reading Hiroshima
Surrender, Guilt and the American Occupation of Japan
- Finish Hiroshima
Ending One War and Beginning Another in East Asia
* Hideo Kobayashi, "The Postwar Economic Legacy of Japan's Wartime Empire" in Japan's Wartime Empire, 324-334
- Factories of Death, 313-361
*"Victory as Defeat" in Yeh Wen-hsin, ed. Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond (Berkeley: University of California Press) 2000
*"Victory and Civil War" in Theodore White and Annalee Jacoby, Thunder Out of China, 279-297
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