Using Abraham Lincoln's movingly persuasive speech at the Gettysburg battlefield as a stylistic guide, Spend 12 or so lines trying to convince me to make a change in my life or to do something new. Your arguments can be mutually beneficial like taking a class field trip. Your arguments can be singularly embarrassing like dying and braiding my beard. Your arguments can be out of concern like improving physical and psychological well-being.
I need to be convinced. You need to convince me.
Barefoot Gen is a 1983 film on Japan after the U.S bombed Hiroshima. Similar to Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce, the movie is in a child's point of view on the war. Gen Nakaoka was able to survive the bomb but is now living in a devastating world. The movie demonstrates the reality of war and how difficult living was for the Japnese after the various bombs.
The movie isn't just about the bomb. It's also about the reality of war. People don't truly understand how bad these bombs were to the Japanese. In American, we never focus on the bad we've done, but about how good America is. We won the war! We sent Japanese people to concentration camps, but we gave them reparations. We had slavery but we eventually set them free. Americans are indifferent towards the effects war takes on other countries because it never is touched or talked about. The United States ruined the lives of the Japanese, and it's certainly forgotten. Barefoot Gen is a great reminder on the reality of foreign war that is often neglected in this country.
Go watch some anime Dier. It will enlighten your life. :)
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