Ballistics

When a loved one dies, there are many things that can be done with the body. There is the choice of embalmment for a funeral, cremation, organ donation, or donating the body to science. It is apparent what happens when the body is embalmed, cremated, or the organs are donated to save a life, but there are endless possibilities for what happens to a body donated to science. So, what exactly happens when someone’s body is used to further scientific research? This question is exactly what Mary…

wrongful statements, furthering the bias the italian immigrants already faced. Furthermore aside from witness evidence ballistics evidence was supplied to prove the guns used in the crime were that of Sacco and Vanzetti. The evidence supplied was proved and disproved so many times that in a normal case it would have been omitted. In fact at one point there was suspicions that the ballistics evidence had been tampered with by the jurors. And while the Sweet Trail had conflicting evidence namely…

Leonard Peltier is an imprisoned Native American. He lived on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and was arrested after an incident on the property. May events lead up to his arrest. The first incident happened on February 27, 1973. Members of the American Indian Movement, or AIM, staged a seventy-two-day occupation of land called, Wounded Knee. Their mission was to protest injustices against their tribes, such as violations of the many treaties. The United States government responded with a…

Researchers should be involved in every aspect of the police organization, so long as they do not place the police officers or themselves in danger. Innovation is the key to improvement and sometimes an outside perspective is needed in the same way that we often need to take a step back or a break. These innovations include both technology and proposed structural/organizational improvements to police departments. The federal government in agreeance with this assessment started the National…

The Space Race between The USSR and The United States of America during the Cold War allowed the two countries to assert their dominance over one another. However, The US has not always had the goal of defeating the Soviets/Russians in outer space. The United States Space Program has changed in size, budget, and goals since the beginning of space exploration. Rockets as we know them today began in the mid-1930s in Great Britain as a means of anti-aircraft protection. However, Germany made…

During the cold war, many other countries were involved besides the United States and the Soviet Union. There were also wars happening during the cold war in other countries, such as the Korean war and the Vietnam war. In the article “Cold War,” it was said that the Soviets and Americans had very clear goals when helping different types of countries. The Soviets were preserving Communist rule in countries in Eastern Europe and backing up North Korea, while the Americans were helping and…

The Korean peninsula was originally occupied by Japan from as early as 1910 (Wikipedia, 2016). In 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and encroached on Korea (Wikipedia, 2016). The United States became wary of the Soviet Union taking over all of Korea and asked that operations be limited to the northern peninsula, which left the southern peninsula free for United States militia to occupy (Wikipedia, 2016). During the Cold War, North Korea copied a system of government similar to that…

The Sacco and Vanzetti case was one of the U.S’s first case with immigrants. After being accused of killing a guard and a paymaster, Sacco and Vanzetti were sentenced to death, after a seven-week trial convicting both of first-degree murder, though not being executed until 1927 (Frankfurter). Sacco and Vanzetti’s trial in the 1920s American’s view of Sacco and Vanzetti's criminality derived from their status as Italian-immigrants, Anarchist beliefs, and the country's social divisiveness, and…

that spinner cost?” The kid said “300 bucks” He was surprised at how much that spinner costs. The kid was spinning his spinner and shortly after Jenny Sparkles comes out of nowhere and smacks the Fidget Spinner out of his hand. The kid went BALLISTIC. Nicholas went on and found a $5 bill on the road. Then he says “I’m going to buy me a two liter of coke at Walmart!” When he got to Walmart he saw a poster…

and cause terror both fulfilled their roles V1 Flying bomb prevented the effective deployment of the Gloster Meteor , the first British jet fighter and the allies only operational jet aircraft during the second world war 2 and V2 an unstoppable ballistic missile raining down causing random destruction. Both weapons created psychological result and millions of dollars in material damage. It is estimated that several thousand people were killed by the missile. But many more as 20,000 people died…