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    More Americans have died during the Civil War than any other war. 620,000 soldiers died in the line of duty. Two-thirds of these didn’t die from wounds. They died from diseases such as typhoid and dysentery. Civil War medicine was not yet advanced enough to connect a lack of hygiene with an influx of disease. Lack of hygiene in hospitals and camps also contributed to the spread of disease. Placing a latrine downstream away from the clean water supply was sometimes also overlooked. Disease spread more quickly due to the foul water supply. The main killer during the Civil War, was dysentery. Victims of dysentery got severe diarrhea with passage of mucous and blood. This one disease accounted for 45,000 deaths in the Union army and 40,000 deaths in the Confederate army. That is 95,000 deaths in total from this one disease out of the 620,000 deaths from the whole war. That is 15% of all the deaths during the Civil War from one disease. Treatment for dysentery varied on who the doctor was and what supplies were available to the physician. One man who was admitted into a Philadelphia hospital for a complaint of a three month case of chronic diarrhea was treated with opium, aromatic sulfuric acid, and silver nitrate. All of these substances are harmful and toxic to the body. The man died two weeks after being admitted. Typhoid was the next biggest killer during the Civil War. Roughly 35,000 soldiers from each side of the war died from this disease. Typhoid is an intestinal…

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    1.How does Marcia call Luke? Eye Candy 2. How many bulls do Luke and his mother own? 9 3.What does PBR means? Professional bull riders 4.What day is it when Ira wakes up again? Sunday, February 6th, 2011 5.When did Ira’s actual war experiences begin? They began on October 2nd 6. What brought Ira to want to end things between he and Ruth? He got the mumps while he was in the hospital and became sterile because of it. 7.Where did Marcia talk to Brian for the last time? At the rodeo 8. What were…

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    The assigned article for this week of the gunstock checkering lab is titled "Stippling: Checkering's ugly cousin". The article is authored by Russell Corbitt, and originally appeared in the September 2006 issue of American Gunsmith magazine. Mr. Corbitt begins his article stating that checkering can be expensive. It may not also be practical on a firearm that will see it's share of field time (or be used and abused). One alternative is gripping tape, although it can be an eyesore. The other…

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    Learning Projectile Motion via Potato Launchers (Prompt 2) Launching Potatoes through potato launchers may seem like an ordinary activity that people do to have fun but principles of physics are present in this activity. Launching Potatoes through Potato launchers is an example of projectile motion, it also shows how gravity can impact acceleration. Projectile motion occurs when an object is thrown and it moves along a curve due to gravity. The only force that a project has during projectile…

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    made his way up to the top four years later when he built the world’s most capable liquid-fuel rocket (Neufeld, 2007). Wernher started out at the bottom of the army, but eventually became very well known world wide. Wernher realized he got himself into a job with responsibilities he did not want to take on. When he joined the rocket-building team in 1934, he had no idea their motives were to build a long-range ballistic missile. Trying to steer their attention in another direction, Von Braun…

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    Body Armor History

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    Starting off with the chain bodysuits in medieval times, body armor has evolved through many technological advances. During current military operations, Soldiers are suited up with bulletproof vests, and outer tactical vests with ballistic material for bullet resistance. The progress of body armor over many many years has gone all the was from animal skins, to chains covering a knight's body, all the way to ballistic vests, fully bulletproof suits, military helmets with bullet proof technology…

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    Essay On Arms Race

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    had a significant impact on technology and science, being the impetus for further development of nuclear weaponry, transportation forms, electronics, biological weapons, among many other aspects of the world during this time. Most significantly, the Cold War led to major advancement in weaponry, with a large percentage of all worldwide military spending being set aside for the development of nuclear weaponry. The beginning of the 1950s saw the development of the hydrogen bomb, today also known…

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    The Day After Analysis

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    the authors suggest that their research exposed the implausible irony that those who feared The Day After would benefit the anti-nuclear movement, may have assisted that cause by drawing media attention to the film (576). In 1983, the Cold War reached its highest level of tension since the Cuban missile crisis. Both international and domestic unrest generated a feeling of malaise in the United States (Judge and Langdon, 234). Internationally, Americans observed increased rhetoric from the…

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    Joint Force Disadvantages

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    maintaining a U.S. nuclear deterrence capability in terms of military utilitarianism is the opportunity cost of these forces with respect to conventional forces that are used routinely. However, the Nuclear Employment Strategy (NES) from 2013 indicated one-third less nuclear warheads than allowed under the NEW START Treaty would be an effective deterrent. The NES also recommended retiring one ICBM wing and reducing the non-strategic nuclear weapons from the Air Force. These savings would…

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    land-based missiles. Massive land based SS missiles came to symbolize the brutish aura of soviet nuclear arsenal. During the 1960s, the US and Soviet Strategic doctrines were moving in the opposite direction. While the US moved from heavy Titan to more accurate, solid-fuelled minutemen missiles, the Russians moved in the other direction with their massive SS-9s. SALT I, signed between Nixon and Brezhnev had two parts. The first was a treaty limiting the defensive capabilities of each side.…

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