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    November 22, 1963 is a day that will forever be a mystery. This was the day that President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. The Warren Commission says that the killer was Lee Harvey Oswald, a Soviet defector who sympathized with the Communists in Russia and Cuba. However, many Americans believe that Oswald couldn 't have done this alone. Theories range from multiple gunmen, to the shots being fired from a different location, as well as those who agree with the Warren…

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    27. Cuban Missile crisis Around 1960, the U.S was planning to put a naval blockade in Cuba and they wanted to remove all of the nuclear warfare from the area and prevent further creation of these missiles. But a secret meeting between Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev led to an idea of placing multiple missile launch bases along the coast of Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S controlled Florida. When U.S air force planes had spotted these missile bases. While President Kennedy was working on…

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    instead. He later became a professor at the university, and went on to discover a lot more about astronomy. What were his discovery’s? When he was younger and had only just come out of university he helped Niccolò Tantaglia mathematically describe ballistics and the force of friction. Then after discovering more about moving objects he invented his first telescope in 1609 with 20 times the magnification allowing him to have a closer look at the moon. Then a year later published his findings…

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    Geography Of Iran Essay

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    and the Quds Force, the special operations unit.6 Iran possesses many imported weapons systems from various nations, and has established an in-house military industry, where they have developed a variety of weapons, to include tanks, artillery, ballistic missiles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), surface ships, submarines, and anti-ship cruise…

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    While there is the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) on mutually assured destruction (MAD) weapon as the result of international community to work on world peace and humanity justice, there is also a counter-argument on the necessary of MAD weapon such as nuclear weapon, which believes owning a nuclear weapon not only could protect one state itself, it also can promote peace, as no state could risk the possibility of destruction from the nuclear weapon. The justification of owning a nuclear weapon…

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    6.5 Creed Horse Case Study

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    mission-specific 6.5 Creedmoor has a relatively short case with a long O.A.C.L. that designed to maximize the usable powder capacity carrying heavier projectile weights. Compared to the previously popular .308 Winchester, the 6.5 Creedmoor has a better ballistic coefficient on the long range shooting. The 6.5 Creedmoor is relatively less expensive, has less recoil and wind deflection and carries most of its energy on the range. The supersonic designed cartridge maintains its accuracy past the…

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    Salinas Vs Texas Summary

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    Salinas v. Texas, 570 U.S. 12 (2013) Facts – Genovevo Salinas, the petitioner, who was not in custody or read Miranda warnings, agreed to go to the police station to answer questions regarding involvement in a murder. When petitioner was asked if ballistic testing would match ammunition casings found at the scene, he remained silent. Petitioner contended that the prosecutors’ use of his silence to indicate guilt violated his Fifth Amendment rights. Procedural History – The petitioner was…

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    Avis Bank Case

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    It started form a telephone call to Avis Banks’ mother form Keyon Pittman he said, “That yawl need to get down here,” and then he hanged to phone up. Keyon and Avis had got married only two years after be together. When Avis’ parent got to Jackson Ms. Form Vicksburg they saw yellow tape, polices, and people on the scene, they said, “they knew some was bad.” Avis Banks’ has been killed inside of the garage door, her pants was down, her neck was cut, and she had a lot of gunshot wounds to the…

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    killing five officers, wounding seven, and leaving a screaming crowd. After negotiation failed, the Dallas Police Bomb Squad Robot killed the gunman. The police investigated his house and found multiple weapons and gear. (Including: bomb kits, rifles, ballistic vests, etcetera.) “this was a mobile shooter who had written manifestos on how to shoot and move, shoot and move, and that’s what he did,” Dallas Mayor, Mike Rawlings said at a news conference. “as we’ve started to unravel this fishing…

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    Many things in our world anger me, but when I hear that our new President has just made it legal for mentally ill Americans to purchase guns, I go ballistic. The second amendment states that we are given the right to bear arms legally, but I think that our founding fathers did not mean that someone mentally ill is allowed to purchase firearms. Events occur all around the world that give evidence as to why firearms should not even be allowed to be purchased even by the average human being. The…

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