In the reading “The Scientists in Society”, Julius Robert Oppenheimer brings up a few valid points about science. He states that science has changed the way that humans live, and that science is universal in the sense that its nonnational and any man can do it. I feel like science and math, more than anything, are both universal because every human can learn it. Also, I believe science will never die out, because there is always more for the human race to discover about the past or the future.
Reading Progress of Japan, seeing the two different perspectives of the atomic bombing of Japan was remarkable. The first line of the American textbook reads, “The Japanese are defeated”. That just shows, in my opinion, how the Americans thought at that time. They didn’t care if thousands were killed, as long as their enemy was defeated. That’s all that mattered. Also that it only mentions the amount of Americans that died during the U.S. army’s battle through Japan. These textbooks were so bias to the American point of view and didn’t want the children reading them to feel for the Japanese since the Japanese were the United State’s enemy. In reading the Japanese version, adjectives like unsparingly and horrible were used to describe what the U.S. did to the Japanese. I believe it is beneficial for a reader to hear both sides of a story, either to make their side more valid or to know what the other side believes in.
