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Machine Gun Great War
852 wordsWorld War I was called the Great War because so many countries were involved, and advanced weaponry was developed. The British and the Germans were the ranking pioneers in weapons development. The weapons that determined the outcome of World War I were tanks, airplanes, and very large guns called heavy artillery; the Germans ruled this area. The World War I fighters and bombers were not the greatest of planes, but they got the job done. The German C. I. airplane was used for reconnaissance and u...
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Government Of The United States Fort Sumter
1,034 words... attack (Hutchinson Encyclopedia). Repeated demands were made upon Major Anderson, and upon the President, for the relinquishment of Fort Sumter. All demands were refused. Finally, Major Anderson was summoned to evacuate the fort, for the last time. The Hutchnison Encyclopedia explains that, accordingly, on April 11 th, General Beauregard sent him the following communication: Sir: The government of the Confederate States has hitherto forborne from any hostile demonstrations against Fort Sumte...
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Death Row Inmates United States Constitution
877 wordsCapital Punishment has been part of the criminal justice system since the earliest of times. The Babylonian Hammurabi Code (ca. 1700 BC) decreed death sentences for crimes as minor as the fraudulent sale of beer. Egyptians could be put to death for disclosing the location of sacred burial sites (2. ). In this country, although laws governing the application of the death penalty have undergone many changes since biblical times, the punishment endures and controversy has never been greater. Howeve...
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Fully Automatic David Koresh
1,189 wordsIt started out easy enough. Over a hundred agents from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms would pack themselves shoulder-to-shoulder inside cattle trailers, and pull up to the front of the building in broad daylight. At the cry of "ShowTime!" The agents would pour out, divide into four columns, and storm the building. Some would surround the building, others would take ladders to the right side, go into the second floor with flash-bang grenades, and still others would storm the front doo...
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B 29 P 51
846 wordsA Simulated Journal for Chuck Yeager It is January of 1944, My 357 th fighting squad and I are stationed at Random Wood Airdome in a country called Suffolk, a little east of England. The Germans have the European coast from the North Sea down to Spain. Our forces have damaged the German Air Force (the Luftwalffe) but they are still highly dangerous. I found out yesterday that our unit would be receive a new fighter called the P- 51 Mustang built by North American Aviation. I heard it was a fast ...
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Lethal Injection Death Penalty
1,296 wordsCapital Punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty. In the United States capital punishment is legal in thirty-nine of the fifty states. Beginning in 1973, prison populations began an inevitable growth. There were 204, 211 inmates in 1973, and by 1977 the number of prisoners had grown to 285, 456, which later grew to 315, 974 in 1980. By 1976, it was clear that the death penalty had to be reinstated. America's twenty-one year experiment with capital punishment has resulted in a tota...
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Sappers And Miners Siege Of Yorktown British
384 wordsCreative Writing: Siege of Yorktown It was four oclock in the morning when my commanding officer awoke me and we were ordered to prepare to march. We had set up an extensive camp at Chatham in New York, we all believed that we would attack New York City. It turned out that we were marching on towards Yorktown. When we arrived at Yorktown the bay was full of French ships. Our army along with the French encircled Cornwallis. Cornwallis did not surrender, he waited for a larger British fleet to sav...
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Battle Of Bunker Hill Won The Battle
1,928 wordsThe Battle of Bunker Hill Boom, Bang, Crack! The sounds of muskets being fired, its ammunition ricocheting off rocks and splintering trees are heard all around. The pungent smell of gun powder stings the nose, and its taste makes the mouth dry and sticky. The battle is still young, but blood soaked uniforms and dead or dying men can already be seen, causing the fear of death to enter many of the soldiers minds. It is remembered that freedom is what the fight is for, so we must continue to gain i...
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Battle Of Bunker Hill Won The Battle
2,039 wordsBoom, Bang, Crack! The sounds of muskets being fired, its ammunition ricocheting off rocks and splintering trees are heard all around. The pungent smell of gun powder stings the nose, and its taste makes the mouth dry and sticky. The battle is still young, but blood soaked uniforms and dead or dying men can already be seen, causing the fear of death to enter many of the soldiers minds. It is remembered that freedom is what the fight is for, so we must continue to gain independence. The battle ha...
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Battle Of Bunker Hill Won The Battle
1,371 wordsThis is how the battle to be known as Bunker Hill began. On June 17, 1775 the Battle of Bunker Hill took place. It is one of the most important colonial victories in the U. S. War for Independence. Fought during the Siege of Boston, it was considerable encouragement to the revolutionary war. This battle made both sides realize that this was not going to be a matter decided on by one battle. The battle of Bunker Hill was not just an event that happened overnight. The battle was the result of stru...
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Russo Japanese War Gatling Gun
1,242 wordsa minute to approximately three and hurt his ability to defend himself while he loaded the awkward device. The shortcomings associated with these muzzleloader's were, in a large part, responsible for the style of battlefield tactics of the day. Smokeless gunpowder was the next major advancement to affect gun development. Smokeless gunpowder led to the development of cartridge bullets. These bullets enabled the lead shot to be pre-packaged with the gunpowder and dramatically shortened the time in...
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Battle Of Gettysburg Peach Orchard
2,330 wordsBattle of Gettysburg Introduction: Driving through Gettysburg people see statues and marking at different sites, if you re do not know much history you would still know that these markings are a symbols of fallen soldiers. These soldiers never really needed to die but the North and South could not work out their differences peacefully which caused a great war in U. S. history, The Civil War. One of the biggest battles fought during the Civil war took place in the small city of Gettysburg. The ba...
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World War Ii Methods Of Execution
2,101 wordsMethods of Execution One mans taking of another's life is generally seen as an unforgivable act which is punishable with death. When this is done as punishment however, it is seen as an honorary deed by removing this criminal from the world and making it a much safer place to live. With executions in mind, it is incredible what ingenious methods can be thought of by the human brain and the fact that the idea is centered around the murdering of one man does not even change how prodigious these in...
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16 Th Century 15 Th Century
1,155 wordsWrought-iron Military Technology military technology Wrought-iron breechloader's Partly because of the difficulties of making a long, continuous barrel, and partly because of the relative ease of loading a powder charge into a short breechblock, gunsmiths soon learned to make cannon in which the barrel and powder chamber were separate. Since the charge and projectile were loaded into the rear of the barrel, these were called breechloader's. The breechblock was mated to the barrel by means of a r...
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Eject Eject Galaxy Bomber Aircraft
914 wordsThe year was 1996 and the USA were at war with the Russians, because the USA tried to take over Russian land. The Russians had been threatening the USA. If they didnt back down they would bomb Colorado, one of the biggest cities in USA. It was a cool misty morning when we got the word. The Russians were about to invade the state capital. Now it was all up to me (Colonel Mustard, code-name Sunrise) and my squadron of 30 men and 12 F- 111 aircraft to stop it. We were the only base within a 1000 mi...
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Jose Arcadio Buendia One Hundred Years
981 wordsDeath is slow to visit Macondo in Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude, but once it does arrive, there is no stopping it. It moves into the community slowly at first, then gathers speed as it races across the one hundred years. When Arcadio Jose Buendia and Ursula establish Macondo, it is like a Utopia. Life prospers there with seemingly no end to it and representative of this idea is the fact that for many years there is no cemetery in Macondo. They come to this Utopia to get aw...
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Thomas Hardy Main Character
519 wordsThomas Hardy? s crude war Many war poems do not glamorize war. They show an honest look at the battlefield showing the irony, crudeness, and cruelty of war. Thomas Hardy communicates these ideas in his poems, ? Channel Firing, ? Drummer Hodge, ? and? The Man he Killed. ? In all of these, he shows how war is crude, not glamorous. In? The Man he Killed, ? Hardy shows the reader the irony of war. In this poem, the reader is shown irony of situation, where there is a discrepancy between actual circu...
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Saving Private Ryan Machine Gun
326 wordsSaving Private Ryan Director: Stephen Spielberg Produced by: Stephen Spielberg &# 038; Ian Bryce Staring: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, and Tom Sizemore Saving Private Ryan starts with a flashback of the Normandy invasion. Although this part of the film is not what the film is truly about it seems to hold the most significance. When the door of the transport opens the German machine gunners begin firing. The first few rows of men in every transport are instantly shot up. The rest of the m...
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Machine Guns West Germans
1,144 wordsTerrorism and Security in the Olympics Security is a fundamental notion in sports. Nowadays athletes are viewed often through the media, therefore they are recognizable. In the Olympics security measures must be taken to protect the athletes. There are many different nationalities involved therefore security has to be taken in order to ensure that there aren? t conflicting views that could possibly be damaging towards another team. But quite often it cannot be prevented. On the morning of Septem...
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Special Effects Star Wars
909 wordsPeople saw the news on the TV, hundreds of Star Wars fans lined up out side of movie ticket box office when Star Wars: Episode I- the Phantom Menace just starts showing in theaters. Star War fans waited hours in the line, just to get the movie tickets so they can watch this latest Sci-fi movie. The sneak previews of the Phantom Menace showed many spectacular computer generated scenes, graphics, and characters that gave me an impression that the movie was going to be a very good. Sadly, I was qui...
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