In my debate I was for debate 1 and I needed to make the audience believe that the bombing of Hiroshima was horrible and the men who carried out the plan should have been tried and hung in court. Our main points were that Hiroshima was already devastated and it wasn't necessary for the US to drop the bomb. That America had already demonized the japanese through propagandas making the americans think lesser of the japanese making it easy for them to kill thousands. Lastly that even those who created the bomb voted against the use of the bomb and only they knew that it would be a horrible decision that would ruin the already greatly wounded Japan.
Honestly I didn't do very well on this project, I zoned out whenever it was time to work and never actually physically contributed that much data or effort. I would just help them verbally telling them to occasionally correct something or maybe add onto a question or onto a statement. In the actual debate though I feel like I did a little bit better. I talked a fair share but non of it was very convincing and I often got tongue tied or brain dead. I think if I had not been rushed to spit out an answer I could have had more educated and correct answers than my sloppy ones. I think our opening and closing statements were done well only because they were prepared but we were horrible at coming up with answers and were unprepared to answer the well prepared team that we debated with. One thing that I did try to contribute was a response sheet and no one would help me with that so it never got serious and that would have helped a lot. So all in all it was my fault that I didn't do anything and I think I could have made it better if I had tried.
I learned that really it was one of the toughest wars in history and it was impossible to make the right decision. If I had been Truman I would have done the same thing, you can't make everyone happy so make your happy. The US was a little ambitious and cocky with their power and they may have been crude and evil but ti worked and thats what matters to me. Maybe the bomb could have been substituted but it was a war and it was time to end it.
This debate helped me practice my public speaking skills and having everything ready which I failed at and shows that I have a lot of work to do on both skills and that I should always try my hardest. I would have loved to be on the other side and that may have been why I wasn't working so hard because I think the bomb should have been dropped. I have always been a little patriotic and followed " the bigger the better" but learning about the horror caused it has made me a little less sure about it but I think everything they did was a good idea and that it happened and I shouldn't worry about but respect it and be educated correctly.
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