What are some tragedies and triumphs in History?(Events, issues and people)?

Question

Events like Pearl Harbor, any war and 9/11.

Issues like abortion

People Like Wilma Rudolph and Martin Luther King Jr

Answer 1

My favorite triumph (at the moment) is the British Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Battle of Britain in World War Two.

On June 18, 1940 Britain stood alone -- Hitler had over run Europe, crushing every nation that had picked up arms against the Nazis. The German air force (the Luftwaffe) had destroyed everyone that dared take to the air against them. The Poles, Holland, France, Norway...all had fallen one-by-one.

That evening the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, spoke somberly to the people of England, "The Battle of France is over," he said. "The Battle of Britain is about to begin, upon this battle depends the survival of civilization."

The battle began slowly in July and no clear edge could be seen. Yet the German Luftwaffe far out paced the RAF in fighter planes and bombers; in fuel and ammunition; in pilots and training; and possibly most importantly -- their aircrews were battle trained, tested and hardened.

Yet the rag-tag group of British fighter pilots -- from Britain, Ireland, Australia, Poland, Canada, America and far flung points of the British Empire -- held the Nazis in check. Daily they flew their fighter missions doing what damage they could to the far larger Luftwaffe.

As July turned into August the situation grew more desperate. The Germans began throwing more bombers and fighters at England. Hitting the airfields, the radar stations, the ports and cities. The RAF -- critically low on pilots to begin with -- were losing them at a rate they couldn't replace.

It came to a head on August 13, 1940, what would later become know as Eagle Day. Everything the Luftwaffe had that day they put into the air. Wave-after-wave of bombers and fighters head out over the English Channel towards Britain.

The RAF responded. They had two of the best fighter planes made during WWII -- the Spitfire and the Hurricane. With these the far out number RAF pilots tore into the formations of Nazi aircraft.

It is said that at the peak of the battle Winston Churchill arrived at the RAF's Fighter Command (a central control for the British air force) unexpectedly. He asked what the RAF had in reserve. The head of the RAF, Hugh Dowding, turned to him and quietly said "Nothing."

Against impossible odds the RAF held that day. Luftwaffe bomber formations were pounced upon and decimated. For the first time in the history of air combat an attack group of planes didn't get through to their target. One Spitfire pilot recalls that day "as the most vicious aerial combat ever to occur."

That night, back in France, at the German airfields, countless planes failed to return; bombers limped back to base shattered and never to fly again; planes touched down with half their crews dead or dying. Never again would the Nazis launch an air strike of this size again.

Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the RAF gained the upper hand. The battle would drag out for another bloody month, but Hitler's plans to invade England were over.

Of the handful of exhausted and hard pressed RAF pilots that stood alone against the entire might of the Nazi Luftwaffe, Churchill would later say, in front of the House of Commons, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

Bacuase the RAF held, the Germans were stopped; the United States would enter the war; and be able to invade and liberate all of europe from ports in England.

Answer 2

The greatest tragedy in history is easily WW II. The Russian Revolution was another great tragedy, especially because of all the hope people had for it. WW I was another tremendous tragedy, as was the influenza epidemic that followed it, which killed more people than the war did.
As for triumphs, medical science has had some amazing successes. The development of the germ theory led to sanitary operating rooms, which greatly reduced deaths from surgery. The discovery of anesthesia (ether in 1846) was also especially important, as was the discovery of vaccines for viral diseases like smallpox and measles. Current genetic research is also galloping ahead, as is brain research, with fruitful results.
Music is a human achievement of the first order, as is all the arts.

Answer 3

None of them has anything to do with tragedy


Tragedy has nothing to do with 9/11 from an American perspective.........

Read the followings and you decide for yourself




A tragic hero is one who, on his own volition, attempts to attain or protect a value despite the fact that he knows he is risking his life to that end and loses his or her life during that risky struggle for the value which he sees to be higher than his or her own life.

Read carefully and decide if it is the suicidal bombers or the Americans experienced a tragedy

Let me sort out the characteristics of tragedy for you:
He should be well informed about his situation.

He should deliberately attempt to accomplish a virtuous act.

He must be sane to risk his life in exchange of the value he seeks for.

He must lose his life or a precious asset in his life or he must suffer at the end of his action.

If somebody tells you something different about what tragedy is, just spit at his or her face...


If you have any further question to ask, just ask me....

"Nietzche and Hegel are "nobodies" for me in this respect" ....


Aristotle as far as the poetics is concerned is not even a "nobody"

Tragic flaw is misjudgement or miscalculation. It is a slight error which wouldnt otherwise make a tragic person a base one. But a true tragic hero doesnt need to have a tragic flaw at all. Does Antigone have a tragic flaw? NOOOO... What about Oedipus? NOOOOO...

Answer 4

I keep in innovations those prices...they are from the lavatory Stossel interview, astounding? i imagine he's completely sane. What, merely because he adheres to the structure, he's insane? i recognize that's no longer a person-friendly component to be a constitutionalist in in the present day's present day society, regrettably, notwithstanding that's American as American receives. "is it no longer authentic that each and every one it takes for evil to triumph is for strong adult males to do no longer some thing" authentic, yet what we've executed is of direction the incorrect component. how are you going to argue that's no longer? Ron Paul also further up the point that we've ousted Saddam, yet at the same time have borrowed $10's of billions from China to provide Musharraf; a military dictator who overthrew an elected authorities. ....is that an act you imagine is sane?

Answer 5

Tragedy: Obama getting Elected. Triumph: Obama's second term coming to an end!

Answer 6

On June 18, 1940 Britain stood alone -- Hitler had over run Europe, crushing every nation that had picked up arms against the Nazis. The German air force (the Luftwaffe) had destroyed everyone that dared take to the air against them. The Poles, Holland, France, Norway...all had fallen one-by-one.

Answer 7

When Ronald Reagan told Gorbachev to tear down the wall.

Answer 8

heres a bit of useless imformation, did you know that for every war that has been started, the country who started it has lost fact.