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  2. Kamikaze - Wikipedia

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    A kamikaze aircraft crashes into a US warship in May 1945. Kamikaze (神風, pronounced [kamiꜜkaze]; ' divine wind ' [1] or ' spirit wind '), officially Shinpū Tokubetsu Kōgekitai (神風特別攻撃隊, ' Divine Wind Special Attack Unit '), were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in ...

  3. Kaiten - Wikipedia

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    Various suicide craft were developed in the Japanese Special Attack Units. For the Navy, this meant Kamikaze planes, Ohka piloted bombs, Shinyo suicide boats, Kaiten submarines, and Fukuryu suicide divers or human mines. The Kamikazes were somewhat successful, and the second most successful were the Kaitens. [3]

  4. Takijirō Ōnishi - Wikipedia

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    From the left, Deputy Chikanori Moji, Yoshio Kodama, and Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi. In February 1945, at Tainan Shrine in Taiwan. Early in the Pacific Campaign of World War II, Ōnishi was the head of the Naval Aviation Development Division in the Ministry of Munitions and was responsible for some of the technical details of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 under the command of Admiral ...

  5. Matome Ugaki - Wikipedia

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    Matome Ugaki (宇垣 纏, Ugaki Matome, 15 February 1890 – 15 August 1945) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, remembered for his extensive and revealing war diary, role at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and participation in one of the final kamikaze sorties hours after the announced surrender of Japan at the end of the war.

  6. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Wikipedia

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    Proactivity is about taking responsibility for one's reaction to one's own experiences, taking the initiative to respond positively and improve the situation. Covey postulates, in a discussion of the work of psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, that between stimulus and response lies a person's ability to choose how to react, and that nothing can hurt a person without the person's consent.

  7. Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots - Wikipedia

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    The names of the kamikaze pilots are written on paper within her womb. [1] It was erected in 1955 thanks to donations collected by Tome Torihama, who ran the Tomiya Inn frequented by the pilots, and who sought to redeem their memory after the war. [3] Stone lanterns dedicated to the pilots line the approach to the museum.

  8. Human communication - Wikipedia

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    Human communication can be defined as any Shared Symbolic Interaction. [6]Shared, because each communication process also requires a system of signification (the Code) as its necessary condition, and if the encoding is not known to all those who are involved in the communication process, there is no understanding and therefore fails the same notification.

  9. History of communication - Wikipedia

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    Human communication was initiated with the origin of speech approximately 100,000 BCE. [1] Symbols were developed about 30,000 years ago. The imperfection of speech allowed easier dissemination of ideas and eventually resulted in the creation of new forms of communication, improving both the range at which people could communicate and the longevity of the information.