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    “ The atom bomb was no ‘great decision.’ It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.” This quote was said by Harry S. Truman the first President who used an atomic bomb. The program that was able to create this monstrous power was known as the Manhattan Project. Creating this weapon was their main priority. The United States was in the midst of World War 2. The atomic bomb is considered to be the main factor that ended that war. It was a race against the multiple enemies

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    A fragile life is a story of an African American upper- middle-class family, who struggle with the metal illness, bipolar disorder, of their only child Mark. Mark id a graduate student of Germantown, Pennsylvania and holds a Master Degree from the University of Southern California. All the way up to college, his parents supported and gave Mark the best education to help them succeed in life. Regardless of all their efforts and good education, nothing could stop him from having psychotic episodes

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    On April 15, 2013 there was a horrific scene that occurred on the street in the city of Boston. This all happened while a widely recognized event took place which was the Boston Athletic Associations yearly marathon. Many people attend this marathon each year, in 2013 it is said that 38,708 entries were received to run in the marathon. With such a large amount of people attending this you can see why it would be important for a terrorists to plot an attack, such an attack would devastate and scare

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    Career Paper: Demolition Engineer

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    “Once they have gathered all the raw data they need, the blasters hammer out a plan of attack. Drawing from past experiences with similar buildings, they decide what explosives to use, where to position them in the building and how to time their detonations”. Some explosive engineers make virtual 3-D models to see how their plan works virtually, before it happens in reality. The next step is to actually "load" the support columns with an explosive that works for the corresponding material being destroyed

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    church compound. The high walls and steel gates reminded him of Kandahar Afghanistan. It loomed large more like a fortress than a church. Every part of the reinforced concrete and steel was normal and required. In the immediate neighborhood, the detonation of homemade explosive devices was routine. Children, extremists blew to bits in their schoolyard. Their only crime, they wanted the opportunities that a decent education would bring them. Just outside of town, a young married couple they burned

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    One and Done The thirty of us were all crowded in one of the many boats headed toward the beach. I was the only communications expert in the group, and the only 17 year old newbie. The rest of the squad consisted of infantry and one battlefield doctor. The sky had turned cloudy and the water was freezing cold. There was an eerie silence as my company’s hearts beat faster as land was in sight. The smell of ozone filled the air and punctured our nostrils. Suddenly, the silence

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    Waiting For Godot Essay

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    The atomic bomb signaled not only the commencement of the Cold War, but also a political divide between the communist ideologies of the Soviet Union and the democracy of the Western world. A fear of communism behind the Iron Curtain and nuclear annihilation spread throughout the US, while existential views regarding the meaning of life arose. Through their texts, composers subverted dominant Cold War paradigms to …….. ATQ……. Samuel Beckett’s modernist existential play ‘Waiting for Godot (Godot) (1953)’

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    The basis of the belief was articulated during a 1946 cable by U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan. As an outline of U.S. policy, the word originated during a report Kennan submitted to U.S. Defense Secretary James Forrestal in 1947, a report that was later utilized in a article. To describe Western policy toward the country within the Twenties. The word containment is associated most powerfully with the policies of U.S. President Harry S Truman (1945–53).First lets excogitate regarding the most purpose

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    charged fNDs clusters. The aim of this study is to show abilities of fNDs in tumor cells such as drug accumulation and retention time, tumor cell killing effect after clearance with comparing only drug. In this study, nanodiamonds were synthesized by detonation techniques and polyanionic polysaccharide sodium alginate (ALG) functionalized onto the positive charged NDs clusters via electrostatic interaction. Cis-diamminedichloro platinum (II) (Cisplatin, DDP), a potent antitumor drug was used and in this

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    Useless Factlets 229: Narrowly Missed Apocalypses North Korea has been acting pretty crazy lately, which I think has some people a little anxious. It's been since the fall of the Soviet Union that there was this much nuclear nervousness, which makes it a great time to clue you all in to just how close we've come to total annihilation. The Cold War was a pretty insane time. I remember some of it from my childhood in the 80s--the Soviets were pretty much the “boogie-man” from the 1950s-1990s. Go

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