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John T. Gibson Pure UtilItarianism is a moral theory formally published by the 19th century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham establishing utilitarianism as providing the greatest amount of utility (or pleasure) with the least amount of pain. Pure utilitarianism demonstrates an economical approach to individual morality. The three tenets that surround utilitarianism or hedonism, aggregation and consequentialism. (1) Hedonism reflects the only thing good for ‘us’ as an end is pleasure and the absence

Josh Harkins H American History Pd 2 Banks December 14th, 2016 The Atomic Bomb On the morning of August 6th, 1945 Japan was rocked by an unbelievably deadly weapon, a weapon no one had ever seen before. This weapon was none other than the atomic bomb, crafted by the United States of America. Ever since that day people have had two opinions about the usage of the atomic bomb in the Second World War. The U.S. either receives acclaim or a large amount of shame. While many historians agree that

The attack on Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941 will forever be immortalized in the words of President Roosevelt as “a date which will live in infamy”, yet the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima were far more deadly and carried greater geo-political implications. Many persons in the United States carried the burden of assisting in designing, deploying and eventually dropping the first and only nuclear weapons used in an act of war, yet Paul Tibbets’s experience is unique. As a Lieutenant

used for the bomb was made up of highly enriched uranium. The fuel was approximately one hundred forty pounds. The target case, barrel, uranium projectile, and the other main parts of the Little Boy bomb were transported to Tinian Island via the USS Indianapolis. The efficiency of this bomb was destitute. Roughly 1.38% of the uranium fuel had actually fissioned in the bomb. The explosive force of the Little Boy was equal to that of fifteen thousand tons of TNT. The use of the Little Boy bomb was to be

began performing again, he said that “Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger” (Newsweek). In March of 1961, he held a benefit concert at the Bloch Arena in Hawaii to raise money for the building of the USS Arizona Memorial, dedicated to those who lost their lives in the attacks on Pearl Harbor (Elvis Timeline). Throughout his career, Presley was known for putting on spontaneous concerts and donating all of the proceeds to charity (Culkins). His view on

Transcendentalism: Journals: 1) Spring for me means rebirth and warmth, but it also means being cold all the time and rain. Spring and I have a love-hate relationship. I do love the fact that Spring means that it is finally going to warm up, but I also hate Spring because it makes me feel like I should put my winter stuff away, but then the weather switches again so I am freezing under a blanket. I still wear some of my “winter clothes” longer than most people, but that is only because I become

From Isolationism to War Patrick Williams Dr. B.G. McDonald HIE 366 15 April 2011 On 7 December 1941, shortly after seven in the morning, Japanese airmen, amidst the cries of "Banzai", commenced the bombing of Pearl Harbour, leaving them to wonder if the Americans had ever heard of the 1904 surprise attack on the Russian Naval base at Port Arthur. In less than twenty-four hours after the Japanese aggression, United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt would

Argument 1: The Bomb Was Made For Defense Only The origins of the Manhattan Project go back to 1939, when Hungarian-born physicist Leo Szilard, who had moved to the U.S. in 1938 to conduct research at Columbia University, became convinced of the feasibility of using nuclear chain reactions to create new, powerful bombs. German scientists had just conducted a successful nuclear fission experiment, and based on those results, Szilard was able to demonstrate that uranium was capable of producing a nuclear

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL 9-505-038 REV: JUl Y 2 8. 201 0 ElIE OFEK Product Team Cialis: Getting Ready to Market It was early 2002, and Mark Barbato, the executive director and global product team leader for Cialis, knew he faced a daunting task: launching a medicine for the treatment of male impotence in a market with an established leader-Viagra. 1 Not only had Viagra been generating over $1 billion in sales annually for its parent company Pfizer for three consecutive years, but

DEFINING ISLAMIC WAY OF WARFARE AND ITS COMPARISON WITH AL QAEDA DOCTRINE A thesis presented to the Faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree MASTER OF MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE Military History by MAJOR INTEKHAB HAIDER KHAN, BANGLADESH ARMY M.S., Bangladesh University of Professionals, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2011 Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 2012-01 Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. REPORT