Ballistics

I had barely finished transplanting the last of the day lily roots when I heard a vehicle pull up to the curb. I turned to find my husband and one of his coworkers getting out of the truck. "Look what we rescued in Wyoming," my husband announced as his employee winked at me. "Seriously?" I asked. "I thought we were getting a puppy in a few months." Someone had stolen our little dash hound out of our backyard, leaving us and the children devastated. Our friends' dog was expecting…

and went inside to find his wife. He heard their wedding song playing, so he followed the music upstairs. His wife was in the shower, but then you see it was with another man. Nikki was cheating on Pat with another high school teacher. Pat went ballistic and began physical harming the man while he was still in the shower. Nikki was standing in the shower with the other man’s blood flowing everywhere. Nikki uses the incident as a scapegoat for not contacting Pat. She would say she was scared and…

While historians have debated about Henry VIII’s controversial decision to split England from the Catholic Church, the opinion that Henry was not the one to instigate the process is a rather unknown fact. Anne Boleyn, as a young and healthy girl, planted the ideas for divorce in Henry’s head for a promise of a male heir. When the Catholic Church refused Henry his annulment, Thomas Cromwell suggested a complete break from the Catholic Faith. Nevertheless, while others suggested his major acts as…

Jong-UN had scheduled to have a long-range ballistic missile and a nuclear weapons test to be conducted some time in the year 2016. When the order for the weapons testing became public knowledge many countries ordered North Korea to cancel the test. The country that pushed the hardest to get Kim Jong-UN…

1. Term: Communes/1958 Definition: A group of collective farms. Significance: The people had to give up all of their property so that everything could be owned and controlled by the commune. Everyone had set targets they had to meet and keep a certain level of production. 2. Term: Great Leap Forward/1958-1960 Definition: Mao’s attempt to modernize China’s economy by developing agriculture and industry. Significance: Families were divided into communes and they could no longer own their own…

The novel, The Things They Carried, teaches valuable morals and presents themes that are unusual to find in a war novel. War can teach a person many things and has a variety of stories that contain said morals and themes. In war, there is a lot of death. In Vietnam, especially, casualties on both sides grew higher and higher with each passing day. The narrator and author, Tim O’Brien, shares his stories regarding death no matter how gruesome or disturbing. All of the soldiers had a different and…

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes”, a famous quote from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes series; the series that inspired hundreds and thousands of curious readers to make the fictional concept of solving a crime using powerful substances into a real and tangible science that can be applied in real life. This elaborate discipline is called forensic science, and has become a large part of law enforcement and due process of criminal…

electricity efficiently. While scientists had theorized about graphene for decades, it was first produced in the lab in 2003. Because it is virtually two-dimensional, it interacts oddly with light and with other materials. Researchers have identified the, ballistic transport of charges, bipolar transistor effect and large quantum oscillations.[5] Technically, graphene is a crystalline allotrope of carbon with 2D properties. In graphene, carbon atoms are densely packed in a regular sp2-bonded…

him into a death spiral of terrible choices that is causing his guilt to become larger and larger. In Macbeth William Shakespeare shows how guilt can trouble characters in the play through their actions and dialogue. Guilt causes Macbeth to act ballistic and worried throughout the play. In Macbeth, Macbeth’s tragic flaw is ambition. His one and only desire is to become the king of Scotland.…

According to William Schneider Jr. in The University of Texas and Dallas; Anti ballistic missile (ABM) Treaty of 1972 was terminated by U.S and Russia. Weapons of Mass Destruction should be illegal because many american lives can be lost, they also are very expensive , and america is already in a lot of debt and if other countries are more advanced they have the ability to bully the U.S. There are three different types of weapons of mass destruction: chemical , nuclear , and biological.…