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Naval Operations During The Civil War
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At the beginning of the Civil War in 1861, there
was little reason to suspect that the United
States Navy would play a very big role in the war.
The Confederate Navy had absolutely no navy, nor
did they have the ability to create one. The south
did not contain a single plant that could create a
marine engine. (Carrison, page # 17) The
government of the Confederate States got underway
in the spring of 1861, totally unprepared from a
naval standpoint to uphold the independence it had
declared. (Co...
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U S Navy World War Ii
2,464 words
... torpedoes against merchant ships was
demonstrated, virtually all submarines were fitted
with one. After the war the Germans were the first
to realize that the gun and its mount created a
great deal of hydrodynamic resistance and that, in
any case, radar and the use of the submarine on
the surface. So they got rid of there guns, as
follows several other navies. By the late 1950 s
there were virtually no deck guns left. Although
curiously, the Peruvian Navy still remains a gun
on its Dos de Ma...
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Organizing Function Of Management
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Organizing Function of Management There are two
contrasting approaches about how organizational
function of management can best be accomplished.
One is the traditional approach emphasizing that
organizations should try to sell themselves with a
positive image. That is, one that avoids most, if
not all, of the harsher realities in any
organization. The second contrasting viewpoint is
one I have called the Realistic View. The major
difference is the RV presents a more complete
picture of future wo...
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U S Government Legal Definition
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Personal Legal Perspectives What are the
differences among lost, misplaced, and abandoned
property? Abandoned property is possession
intentionally disposed of or else voluntary
relinquishment of property. Abandoned property
goes to finder. Lost property is possession
unintentionally left by its proprietor or
involuntarily parting where owner had no intent to
part with it and doesnt know where it is. The
finder of lost property holds it as a bailee, in
trust for the benefit of the true owner. Mis...
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Discrimination Against Women Sexual Harassment
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Does The Military Continue To Have Sexual Does The
Military Continue To Have Sexual Harassment And
Discrimination Does the Military Continue to Have
Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Against Women
in the 90 s? Yes, the military does have sexual
harassment and discrimination against women in the
nineties. Firestone and co-researcher Richard J.
Hours analyzed a 1988 DOD Survey of men and women
in the military and found that 51. 8 % of men and
74. 6 % of women reported either experiencing or
kno...
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United States Navy O Neil
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Women in military positions is an issue that has
been very controversial for many years. Today, the
typical occupational field of female service
members is mainly administrative or medical but
filmmakers are attempting to show otherwise. In
the 1997 hit movie G. I. Jane, directed by Ridley
Scott, one female whose determination reaches
heights beyond anyone s expectations smashes this
image of females in the military. The portrayal of
women in the movie G. I. Jane not only suggests
that women can...
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Billy Budd Captain Vere
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Thesis Statement In the novella Billy Budd,
Melville uses ordinary people of his day to
highlight the social injustices of the time
Melville and the Social Injustices of His Day
Herman Melville was a common man. He never went to
college, and he never had the things that most
writers of his day had; for in that time, writing
alone was not normally enough to sustain you.
While his contemporaries were lawyers, doctors,
clerks, businessmen, politicians, and other
white-collar workers, Melville learn...
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Seven Years War 18 Th Century
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The Wooden World An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy
N. A. M. Rodgers The Wooden World is, as the
subtitle suggests, a study or description rather
than a history of the Royal Navy during the period
of the Seven Years War, 1755 to 1763, while also
drawing evidence from the whole period from 1740
to 1775. Rodger pays very little attention to the
actual events of the period. Rodgers purpose in
writing the book was to test and compare the
traditional view of the eighteenth century Royal
Navy; vicious di...
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Four And A Half Hampton Roads
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Civil War Monitor vs. Merrimack The battle on
March 9, 1862, between the USS Monitor and the CSS
Merrimack, officially the CSS Virginia, is one of
the most revolutionary naval battles in world
history. Up until that point, all battles had been
waged between wooden ships. This was the first
battle in maritime history that two ironclad ships
waged war. The USS Merrimack was a Union frigate
throughout most of its existence, up until the
Union Navy abandoned the Norfolk Naval Yard. To
prevent the Co...
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Four And A Half Hampton Roads
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The battle on March 9, 1862, between the USS
Monitor and the CSS Merrimack, officially the CSS
Virginia, is one of the most revolutionary naval
battles in world history. Up until that point, all
battles had been waged between wooden ships. This
was the first battle in maritime history that two
ironclad ships waged war. The USS Merrimack was a
Union frigate throughout most of its existence, up
until the Union Navy abandoned the Norfolk Naval
Yard. To prevent the Confederate Navy from using
her ag...
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Greek City States Won The War
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? Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of
the war between the Peloponnesians and the
Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke
out, and believing that it would be a great war
and more worthy of relation than any that had
preceded it. This belief was not without its
grounds. The preparations of both the combatants
were in every department in the last state of
perfection; and he could see the rest of the
Hellenic race taking sides in the quarrel; those
who delayed doing so at once hav...
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Sun Tzu Peloponnesian War
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Just before the Peloponnesian War began, Pericles
of Athens and King Archidamus of Sparta provided
net assessments of the comparative strengths and
weaknesses of the two sides. Evaluate their
projections. A study of the strategies and
projections of King Archidamus of Sparta as
compared to those of Pericles of Athens reveal
Archidamus understanding of the superiority of
land power as a basis for success at sea in the
ancient Mediterranean as well as Pericles naivet
as to this tenet. Background T...
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U S Navy World War Ii
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Wouldn? t it be fun to ride a torpedo, or drive a
nuclear reactor around underwater? In this
research paper I am going to illustrate the
ingenious submarine. The submarine is one of the
most important strategic and tactical weapons
systems of the 20 th Century, and this importance
will increase in the 21 st Century. The tiny,
leaking, creaking, and unsafe submarine boats of
the 1890? s, displacing under two hundred tons and
carrying a handful of men and a few torpedoes have
grown into massive, s...
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