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    soldiers on the battlefield: robots. These metal bodies are not the only elements that will potentially become part of the military; advanced bombs and flying drones are also working their way into the picture. Why would the military want to take these steps towards a futuristic and metallic future? Exponential advances in technology such as robots, bombs and drones, could significantly decrease and even eliminate soldiers involved in direct combat, resulting in improved health and military costs

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    Dillow’s focus on bomb making falls short of the mark Clay Dillow’s October 2015 article in Popular Science “To Catch a Bombmaker” explores how FBI forensic skills have been developed since 2003 to benefit United States forces fighting bomb making foreign insurgents. Dillow tells the story of how a small lab at the Marine Corps Base at Quantico has used FBI analytical data to link more than 2,700 suspects to possible terrorist activities, adding more than 350 people to the terrorist watch list.

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    1949 the first nuclear atomic bomb was dropped known as the “First Lighting.” It was dropped on the testing site in Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan. This nuclear bomb was produced by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) also known as the Soviet Union. Igor Kurchatov was the director of the scientific soviet nuclear bomb program. There were two practice rounds two weeks prior to the explosion. During these two weeks period the Special Committee on the atomic bomb sent Lavrentii Beria to go and

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    On April 3rd of 1996 in Lincoln, Montana, Ted Kaczynski was arrested and sent to court. Pleading guilty, Kaczynski was addressed as a “Domestic Terrorist.” Serving four life sentences for transporting, mailing, and use of bombs, and also murder of 3 people, Kaczynski was also added another 30 years after his life sentences, no parole, and barely missed the death penalty. No one ever saw this coming in Kaczynski’s life. From an early age, his parents pushed him for academic success. At the age of

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    Can the bombing of Dresden be justified? Dresden was Germanys 7th largest city at the time of the war. Historically, Dresden had been northern Germany’s cultural centre – a city filled with museums and historic buildings. The Frauenkirche Cathedral was one of the world’s famous buildings. Dresden was also an extremely important industrial area, which was something that the allies really did not want, but before February 1945 Dresden was a peaceful country and there were not any threats from the

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    This event happened on April 15, 2013 in Boston Massachusetts. Two brothers by the names of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev decided to place two pressure cooker bombs amidst the crowd of marathon runners. Only two seconds apart, the two bombs went off along the finish line on Boylston Street. Leading up to the event there was the conflict in the middle east, which is where both the brothers were born, and they wanted a way to get back at the United

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    police station they may keep white folk safe but they oppress us and make us a second class citizens. Just because they don't want to be the same social ladder as a black man. So we must act’’ I agreed on everything he said . My task was to drive the bomb truck into the station if I become a martyr so what i

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    I choose the quote by Norman McLaren about animation with a segment from Waltz with Bashir starts from 35:50 to 37:31. Like McLaren’s (1995) argument, “animation is not the art of drawings that move, but the art of movements that are drawn” (p.62), Waltz with Bashir is exactly corresponding with McLaren’s opinion. The difference that we could distinguish animation from a drawing is the movement in it. Therefore what we really should look more into an animation are the moves instead of the frames

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    Arthur Harris reliably believed in Douhets theory, he "... believed that bombing may and would by itself somehow destroy the enemy's morale and his can to continue" . Harris was apparently ignorant to the $64000 have an effect on of saturation bombing. Harris believed that there can be no real defense against bombing, "Having got through the bomber are ready to bring such destruction that the state would merely surrender the struggle and sue for peace" . Saturation bombing did not impact the morale

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    were a lot of law enforcement personnel involved in the case. Investigative techniques were used to link the suspects to the Bombing. Investigators had evidence to prove who set off the bombs during the marathon. Surveillance cameras showed two of the suspects. Dzhokhar was carrying a bag and a phone. The bombs were set off seconds away from each other. Two of the suspects were found by the police because they hijacked a car while using a gun and when the suspect escaped he went into a gas station

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