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    The Space Shuttle Disaster

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    NASA in the space program and has been on two missions. Ellison S. Onizuka was a specialist. He attended the University of Colorado. He completed his Bachelors of Science and Masters of Science degrees in engineering in 1969. Onizuka was in the Air Force R.O.T.C program until 1978, when he was selected by NASA. He completed a year long training to be eligible for…

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    Why Do Aliens Exist

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    The notion of extraterrestrials has been a big concept around the world. Most people believe that Area 51 is a military base where scientist carry out experiments on aliens, fake the moon landing, and many other conspiracies. After overlooking the wonders and conspiracies of both aliens and Area 51, articles show that there has not been any real evidence to prove that aliens exist. Many people believe that aliens exist or that they have visited earth and are being tested. In 2011, an article on…

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    Scorpion Case Study

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    Scorpion Recce Jet – Textron AirLand Unveils The Air Beauty Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder. — Captain Edward V. 'Eddie' Rickenbacker, USAS In the race of falcons, new bird with all its devastating beauty and efficiency confront itself. The king of techs in airforces, USAF announced that it had signed a unified research and developed a settlement (CRADA) with Textron Airland, under which the service is going to conduct an airworthiness assessment of Textron’s scorpion…

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    In the year 2020, there was a young man named Cooper Armstrong, he is 25 years old and is enlisted in the United States Air Force. His grandfather was Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. He was inspired by his grandfather to become an Astronaut. He had a dream to land on Mars and become the third man on Mars. He had big dreams but no one ever noticed him. Cooper was always picked on in school about being an Astronaut and wanting to become President of the United States. Even now…

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    collides with base and is brought to an abrupt stop. 5.Missiles retain the kinetic energy from the work done on the arm. This kinetic energy launches the missiles at the target. Objects fall toward Earth because of the force of gravity. Acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/s2. If a bowling ball drops from a roof, after the 1st second, it travels 9.8 m/s. A second later, its velocity is 19.6 m/s. After falling for 10 seconds, its velocity is 98 m/s or about 219 miles per hour! • A force is a…

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    Japanese Imperialism

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    surprise attack on the US Naval Base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It caused many deaths and ships to be destroyed. A day after the attack, U.S. declared war on Japan which led them into WWII. How did Japanese Imperialism lead to the attack? How is the relationship between Japan and America in the 1800s? What really happened on the day of actual bombing? Ultimately, the day of the attack by the Japanese is important because Americans…

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    excellent positions for defense, but they stretched over a 12-mile perimeter making it hard to cover with the army. Spreading the units to thin could cause for an easy defeat. Instead, Col. Paul L. Freeman stationed lower on the hills, around the base of the hills, to get a tight perimeter on three sides of the town that spread over a mile outside of the town. Infantrymen dug into the sides of the hills using them as shelter and cover. They spent 10 days making improvised structures,…

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    This force is responsible for the order we experience on earth on the things surrounding us. God is the creator of the universe and controls what goes on in the world. If things were happening on their own as Russell explains, how can one explain the seasons, phenomenon like rainfall, wind and air? Perhaps one may attribute these to science. But who gives these scientists the knowledge to conduct these…

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    attempt of the US. After failure of US, the Soviet started to support Castro regime of Cuba. On other hand, Soviet bought sugar export of Cuba –Soviet did not need to buy sugar of Cuba- and guarantee for intervention of US. On January 1962, General Edward Lansdale described plans to overthrow the Cuban Government in a top-secret report (partially declassified 1989), addressed to President Kennedy and officials involved with Operation…

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    protests in the 1980s saw unusually high levels of female participation. The protests saw women engaging with politics on the extremely important issue of US nuclear missiles being stored on British army bases. A whole new generation of women now felt confident enough to attempt to blockade a US Air Force base, as Jill Liddington argues. This can be identified as another potential turning point for feminist progress. Greenham was symbolically significant, as it seemed to give many women a new…

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