Aerial warfare

Bioterrorism is a form of terrorism that holds a massive danger over anybody, with the power to kill millions in just days or months. Some various chemical weapons that can be used or have been include: Anthrax, Smallpox, Ebola, Plague, and Tularemia. Each one of these viruses contains the power to harm, severely disable, or kill a person. From Pneumonia to shock and paralysis the wrath of chemical agent produces much more torturous effects then a gun-wound in a war scenario. To put into…

the late 1800’s and it wasn’t thoroughly researched until the Great War. Since it’s refinement ricin has become an issue because of its global impact on the world through assassinations. For years many people have advocated for the use of ricin for warfare and assassinations. A small dose causes death in humans, it is odorless tasteless and undetectable. It is extremely dangerous and easy to make. Ricin is extracted from the castor oil plant beans. It is then purified. Ricin is classified as a…

Condition in the trenches were very bad during WWI. This essay will explain why soldiers had such trouble living in the trenches. Source A4 shows a severe case of trench foot. Trench foot was caused by soldiers not replacing their socks in wet and muddy conditions like trenches. Soldiers had frequent checks to determine early symptoms of trench foot. Although source A4 shows an extreme case of trench foot, implying he hadn’t been treated, it was usually found and proper action was taken. The…

From TV shows to textbooks, I have heard about the importance of air resistance ad nauseam. Mythbusters taught me about how air resistance prevents pennies dropped from the Empire State Building in New York from killing innocent people. My textbook taught me about the importance of drag in preventing Felix Baumgartner from reaching speeds that would physically break him. However, throughout my entire physics career, air resistance was never included in projectile motion. The concept of…

I choose to read this letter because it appealed to me because of soldier’s feeling toward the war. He started his letter to his wife, Roberta, by stating “Today is probably the worst day I have ever lived in my entire, short life” and when he continues writing it shows how depressed and questions his faith along his time in the Vietnam “I keep asking myself if there is a God, then how the hell come young men with so much to live for have to die.” One of the hardest things that soldiers…

Delbert Mann is the director of the 1979 version of “All quiet in the western front” movie and he is clearly a director that studied world war I very well as details ranging from extremely important to small minor details were included in the movie. The filming brilliantly captured the aspect of World War I and war in general. All the elements of the trenches were illustrated: the sand bags and trenches being in a curved shape like, huge rats crawling over and eating the unburied dead, the deep…

Throughout history there is always one prevalent factor which we as individuals are oblivious to. What? You might ask. It is how our government, peers, and even our loved ones tend to circumscribe us to limited information due to numerous reasons. Throughout this book you will notice the specific forms of how deception, racism, secret government experiments and extraordinary characters impact the theme of hidden secrets in various situations. Author Chris Abani an exhilarating African American…

Wars of any kind can not only affect the physical state of soldiers but they also greatly affect their emotional state. The Vietnam War was no exception and it is seen many times throughout the The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien how the events of the war change the character’s thoughts, actions, and feelings. As the novel progresses and more of the stories are told, it is seen how damaging the war is to characters such as Tim O’Brien, Mary Anne Bell, and Rat Kiley. Each of these characters…

The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, is a story about a group of soldiers in the Vietnam War. One of the characters by the name of Kiowa ends up dying in a field of sewage. While First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross believes it is his fault, a young soldier that Kiowa had grown close to also believes it is his fault as well. Their thoughts are both right, First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and the young soldier are the ones to truly blame for Kiowa’s death. While neither one of them meant to get…

1. The novel begins in Nazca, Peru, in the year 454 BCE, as a mysterious creature commands native Peruvians who worship him to bury themselves alive along with a mysterious object that continuously bleeds without stopping. Then, in the year 2006, Todd Maddox is hired by Richard Ridley to work in his company Manifold Genetics as a researcher of human regeneration, mainly focusing on the Hydra, a mythological creature that Hercules fought during the second of his nine trials. Then, archaeologist…