Why were virginia and new york so important for ratification?

What is the main idea of this excerpt? 1.1.3

The belief that war often drives civil modifications to a society is based upon the evidence that in times of external conflict, a society is forced to abandon long held discriminatory values to:

Nhis essay about the atomic bombing of japan during world war ii, a student has used statistics he found in an article in the online archives of the irish times. the article is from may 5, 1997, and is called “cancer finding in hiroshima.” there is no author given. how should the student cite this source using mla citation format?