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Reading This Article Neutron Stars
569 wordsIn November of 1999 an article about cosmic cataclysms appeared in Time magazine. A cosmic cataclysm is also known as a gamma-ray burst. These gamma bursts cant be seen with the naked eye and they release more energy than our sun releases in its whole lifetime. As of now, no one is really sure whats causing these large blasts. Hopefully this will change as astrophysicists meet to discuss the blasts and as satellites are launched into space to capture the phenomenon. Even though no one is positiv...
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Physical And Environmental Effects Of A Nuclear War
1,316 wordsImagine the heat of millions of degrees, the immediate destruction of thousands of acres, and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of lives. Now imagine all of that times a thousand. There you have a nuclear war, the explosion of a thousand or more nuclear bombs on the earth. That is what is estimated would be a nuclear war. All of that power packed in relatively small (considering the power they unleash) bombs. The results of a nuclear war would be devastating. It would be devastating to the hea...
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Atomic Bomb Atomic Weapon
1,484 wordsThe atom bomb is one of the most important discoveries in modern day science. Countless scientists worked relentlessly on the project and their efforts opened the door for present and future exploration of the atom. Just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Urged by Hungarian-born physicists Leo Szilard, Eugene Winner, and Edward Teller, Einstein told Roosevelt about Nazi German efforts to purify Uranium- 235 which might be used...
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Tet Offensive Viet Cong
1,272 wordsIn the mid to late 1960 's the Vietnam Conflict was greatly controversial. This is mainly due to the fact that it was an undeclared war and was being fought with unclear objectives. It was fought mainly by Viet Cong guerillas and the NVA from the North and by the USA and ARVN from the south. Throughout the conflict it appeared as if the South was prevailing; up until one climatic battle that turned out to be a failure militarily; it is known as the Tet Offensive. The Tet Offensive started with d...
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Gods And Goddesses Millions Of Years
720 wordsMillions of years before man was created, there thrived a planet much like Earth. Its inhabitants were the creators of the universe and the masters of all that lived. These beings were later called gods and goddesses. For millenniums these gods and goddesses lived at peace with each other, living off of their own creations. Then from the ashes of the fallen beings rose one god, said to be the most viscous, ruthless, and evil god to have ever risen. His name was Memnoch, often referred to as Memn...
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Tragedy Of The Commons One Of The Worlds
1,031 words... direct correlation with global warming. Global warming is a tragedy that our world faces and we all add to it each day in many ways some of which you probably don't realize. We are invading our common resource of the air and atmosphere of our world through this neglect. This process is destroying many things including the coral reefs of our world. Through the destruction of the reefs is invading the Environmental rights of those who need the reefs to thrive. One of the most harmful effects t...
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Bull Fighting Left Hand
870 wordsThe Bull Fighting BULL FIGHTING The immediate reaction of many non-Spanish people to bull fighting is that it is sick, animal killing, unmoral entertainment. To many others around the world, though, bull fighting is a sport which involves courage, skill, and power, in a struggle between man and beast. This purpose of this paper is not to discuss the moralities of bullfighting though, it is to give some information on a sport which is loved by many throughout the world. A bull fight, or corrida d...
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Cuban Missile Crisis U S S R
1,258 wordsCuban Missile Crisis When given the opportunity to write a research paper on any conflict or battle during recent American History, one has a number of options: World War Two, the War in Vietnam, and the Korean conflict to name but a few. However, I have chosen a brief period of two weeks during which the very existence of the United States was seriously threatened. To most of my generation the Cuban missile crisis is nonexistent. No one tends to look at non-physical actions as ones of any impor...
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Nuclear Power Plants World War Ii
1,568 wordsIn civilization there have been few individuals that leave a legacy of ideas that have impacted on society forever. Albert Einstein the German-born scientist was one of the gifted few. Despite being one of the greatest thinkers ever to grace the world with his presence, Einstein flunked out of grade school miserably (Poole). He was a terrible English student, because of his poor grammar skills (Poole). At one point a teacher actually told Einstein? s parents that he was mentally challenged. He w...
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000 Tons Of Tnt Atomic Bomb
1,006 wordsQuestion: What did you learn about Nuclear Weapons from reading this book? On August 6, 1945, approximately 70, 000 Japanese lives were ended within a matter of seconds. The United States, under command of President Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson, dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. After reading author John Hersey s book entitled Hiroshima, it made me ponder about what would go through my head if I were on Hiroshima soil. What actions might I take? What would I do to sur...
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Mont Blanc Relief Explosion
299 wordsHundreds Dead In Explosion At 8: 45 AM, 6 Dec 1917, at the height of WWI, the Belgian Relief vessel Imo, through human error and negligence, collided with the French munitions carrier Mont Blanc in the narrowest part of Halifax harbor. Sparks generated by the collision ignited benzol stored on Mont Blanc s deck; the burning liquid then seeped into the holds, where it lit 2766 t of picric acid, TNT and guncotton. At 9: 06 the munitions ship blew a mile high in the worlds greatest man-made explosi...
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Hard To Find Sense Of Humor
667 wordsHard to Find It is said that a close friend is hard to find. Webster says that a friend is one attached to another by affection or esteem. But I believe there is more to a close friend than this definition. Trustworthy, caring, sensitive, loyal, considerate, fun, kind, a sense of humor, and always there for you are all ways to describe a close friend. It s true that finding a person to fit all these descriptions can be a mighty difficult job, yet all of these adjectives are important to me. I be...
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Atom Bomb Make Injured
491 wordsHiroshima is a book about human existence. There is several main characters in the book. The book goes through each of the persons lives from the day the Atom bomb was dropped until approximately one year later. The characters range from a clerk that works in a tin factory, a Dr. that owns his own hospital, a tailors widow, a German priest, another young doctor that is a member of a hospitals surgical staff and, a Reverend. Each of these people dislike the Americans that their country is at war ...
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Waiting For Godot Vladimir And Estragon
1,124 wordsWe as people do not take comfort in the strange and forbidding. Because of this, we try to find explanations or personal connections to everything in our experiences. It thus follows that any theatre goer will make an attempt to put the work in front of him or her into familiar terms, much to the dismay of a one Samuel Beckett. His attitude towards critics who attempt to impose values and ideas onto his work (on of utter contempt) is well documented. But he seems to give us no other choice by pr...
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Mount St 000 Acres
213 wordsMount Saint Helens Mount Saint Helens, A volcanic peak in the Cascade Range, Mount St. Helens is situated in southwestern Washington State. Dormant since 1857, it erupted on May 18, 1980, in one of the most violent volcanic eruptions ever recorded in North America. An explosive steam eruption on March 27, 1980, was followed by alternating periods of inactivity and minor eruption. A severe earthquake on May 18 opened a crack along the mountains north side. The north slope fell away in an avalanch...
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Life After Death Day Of Judgment
769 wordsAll Judge Whom Judge Whom? All religions must deal with the idea of life after death. Whether their belief is that there isn? t life after death or they simply believe that everyone continues life somewhere. Two of the major religions in the world believe that there is life after death and that you must believe in God to receive everlasting life. One of the key aspects of everlasting life is Judgment Day. That is the day that God returns to the world and grants entrance to Heaven to all who have...
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Chemical Warfare Chemical Weapons
1,244 wordsHow many people were killed or injured in WWI due to chemical weapons? According to the Chemical Weapons Convention web page 1, 400, 000 people were affected by chemical weapons. The most serious casualties were in Russia with 475, 000 injuries and 56, 000 killed. The problems of chemical warfare are upon us yet again. Saddam Hussein is currently trying to avoid weapon inspections by the United Nations. After it has been discovered that he used weapons during Desert Storm, can we risk confrontat...
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U S Army University Of California
881 wordsManhattan Project The Einstein Letter Leo Szilard, like many other foreign-born physicists in the U. S. who had fled fascism, knew Germany was conducting nuclear research. Having learned the Germans had banned the export of uranium, he believed the Germans were developing an atomic bomb. Fearing what would happen if Germany developed a nuclear weapon, he urged Dr. Albert Einstein to convince the American government to support nuclear research. On August 2, 1939, a month before Germany invaded Po...
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Light Mariner Albatross
510 wordsIn the year of 1772, a blessing to the genre on literature was born into the world. His name was Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His wark's include such pieces as Kubla Khan: Or, a Vision in a Dream and Christabel. Another creation his, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, when placed in the correct 5 light, appears to follow the life of a Christian convert. The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, Merrily did we drop Below the kirk, below the hill Below the lighthouse top The Sun came up upon the left O...
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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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