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    A Rifle could shoot a bullet up to 1,000 yards–and were more accurate. However, until the 1850s it was nearly impossible to use these guns in battle because, since a rifle’s bullet had roughly the same diameter as its barrel, they took too long to load. (Soldiers sometimes had to pound the bullet into the barrel with a mallet.) In 1848, a French army officer named Claude Minié invented a cone-shaped lead bullet with a diameter smaller than that of the rifle barrel. Soldiers could load these “Minié

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    which is where the bullet comes out of varies in size, thickness, and barrel number depending on the type of firearm. The Breech (or the Back) of the gun either has a spring to make the gun fire, or is where the gun loads from. Earlier guns could only be loaded in the Muzzle and newer firearms load in the Breech with either magazines filled with cartridges or just a few bullets being put in the firearm at a time. The Hammer is the part of the gun that makes contact with the bullets primer which ignites

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    issues of respect, as well as uncompromising resistance to the oppression by the white nationalists. Although he was assassinated his influence politically as well as culturally seems to have taken roots years after his death. In his speech ballot or bullet he delivered one of the most empowering messages to the American population and especially to the African Americans. He wanted the people to vote for the person they felt would represent their rights and benefit them as black people. He was advocating

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    The year is 2016 the month is April the day is the 22nd. A young Youtuber named John Fox is metal detecting in the woods near a battlefield in Virginia. Then after finding some cool things like a civil war bullet, a coin, and a flat button he gets a very strong signal on his metal detector, it reads 90. When he digs it up, he finds a huge item wrapped in a cloth it looks blooded. He calls the cops to see if there have been in murders in the area lately. And you will never guess what he found out

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    For example, the flower struck by the bullet in the first stanza is then “bent double and so hung” (4) as if it was debilitated by the shot, whereas the bird in the following line merely resumes its path to “revisit her young” (5). Part II: Explication The main idea of this poem is the destruction

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    but before he left, he gave me a bullet to remember him after he left. The bullet had bronze or golden color, it was the size of my thumb and looked brand new. It’s important to me because that was all I had to remind me of him until he came back. The artifact is also important to me because I had never seen a bullet before, so it was interesting to actually have one to keep. That was all I had to remind me of him going,even though he’s back,yet I still kept the bullet to remember what happened. When

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    Technology and new inventions made things easier to do throughout the Civil War. The Civil War would’ve been much longer if it wasn’t for the new inventions and technology. Communication, new weaponry, battle tactics, and many other things helped the people of the Civil War a lot. If none of these things were invented then, maybe we wouldn’t have the technology we have today. Communication in the Civil War was very important. The telegraph was the main invention that helped the Union soldiers

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    “I Have a Dream.” California Collections, edited by Beers, Kylene et al. California Collections. 1st ed., vol. 9, Orlando, FL, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017, pp. 48-51. “Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet.” Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet, www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_ballot.html. Soueif, Ahdaf, “Cairo: My City, Our Revolution.” California Collections, edited by Beers, Kylene et al. California Collections. 1st ed., vol. 9, Orlando, FL

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    Today started as a normal day. I woke up at four to get ready for my shift. Being a doctor doesn't have the best schedule. You go in when they tell you and you can't leave until they say so. To me saving lives is worth it otherwise i wouldn't have dealt with college. On my commute to work i made my usual stop at the local coffee shop and continued on. As i was approaching the hospital my pager went off, it was my boss telling me that someone was going in for an emergency operation and that i was

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    Atomic Bomb Effects

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    bomb was called little boy the little boy atomic bomb was a gun-type weapon with a uranium core in the back of the bomb then close to the uranium core was a Hollow uranium bullet with is a bullet in the back on the bomb and then in the middle of the bomb is a Gun barrel which is a tube where the bullet travels when the gun bullet fires and then at the very top of the atomic bomb inside is a cylinder target witch is a target that enables you to detect and track images rolled into the cylinder it also

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