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    turns right again into the wrist then into the thigh of the Governor. After all of this,, according to Figure 2, the bullet stays in pristine condition after causing seven wounds including two broken bones. However, the chief consultant in wound ballistics for the U.S Army says that, “Under no circumstances do I feel that this bullet could hit a wrist and still not be deformed. We proved that by experiments” (Hinrichs). Also in order to complete the shots accomplished, Lee Harvey Oswald must had…

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    Since the beginning of the Cold War in 1947, tensions had been gradually increasing between the Soviet Union and the United States. However, in 1962 tensions reached an all-time high when the United States found evidence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In this tense period, the entire world held its breath fearing global disaster. The Cold War at times threatened to become a direct confrontation between the superpowers. Looking back, a victory in terms of the Cuban Missile Crisis alludes to…

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    The Cold War was a time of peace. A peaceful war that kept mankind on a brink of self-destruction through means of a nuclear holocaust. Although, there was never a conflict to break out. Mankind never wiped itself out and the Soviet Union collapsed. Following the Cold War, there has been a significant draw down of warheads and nuclear weapons remain a highly debated topic. To support this debate, one side favors the continued stockpile of nuclear weaponry. The validity and necessity of nuclear…

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    Cold War Dbq

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    When World War Two came to a close, the Soviet Union turned quickly from a wartime friend to a massive threat in the eyes of the United States and its allies. The Americans and the British were concerned due to the Soviets establishing left wing governments in eastern Europe. Their fear was that the Soviets would not stop at any point, leaving Communist parties rising to power against the democratic nations of Western Europe and beyond. The Soviet Union had been successful in taking over many…

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    Operation Grand Slam

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    destination Bodo, Norway. Grand Slam was planned to spend 9 hours in air to cover more than 3,800 miles in distance, with 2,900 miles of unauthorized transgressing the Soviet airspace. The core mission was to photograph Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile sites that were currently in operation and plutonium-production facilities and shipyards where nuclear submarines were being…

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    recordings were picked by a policeman who had his microphone stuck in the “on” position. They believe that three shots were fired from the Texas School Book Depository and one from a grassy knoll. In 1982, The National Academy of Sciences a Committee on Ballistic Acoustics to re example the acoustic evidence. However, they did not find no data. I believe that there was a second shooter, that the CIA is also trying to cover up. Based on the position of Oswald and his gun, it had to be impossible…

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    extreme degree. We only now know how close there was to a nuclear war since the Soviet, U.S. and Great Britain have since declassified all their information showing that at one point the Soviets were right about to launch an ICBM (Inter-Continental-Ballistic-Missile) at the United States starting a massive nuclear fallout for most of the…

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    Heidi Toffler Concept

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    III. TOFFLER’S CONCEPT Famous futurists like Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler have quoted that, “a military revolution, in its fullest scene, occurs only, when an entire society transforms itself, forcing its armed forces to change at every level simultaneously from technology and culture to organization, strategy, tactics, training, doctrine and logistics” Alvin and Heidi Tofflers' scenario portrays a world once bisected into First Wave (agrarian) and Second Wave (industrial) powers changing…

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    The art of the Dadaists became like an instrument of ballistics that hit its audience with a bullet of shock. They transformed artwork into obscenities and destroyed the aura of their creations. This section continues on by talking about how in paintings the image allows the viewer to contemplate on what they…

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    Alzheimer's Research Paper

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    Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys your ability to think and your ability to remember certain events. A person who has Alzheimer’s will eventually not be able to complete simple tasks. Currently, Alzheimer’s is the ranked as the sixth leading causes of death in the United States. Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia. Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning, which includes, thinking, remembering, and reasoning. Other dementias include…

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