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    My overall view of the decision to drop the atomic bomb is that it should not have happened, mostly because the information that I learned supported them not to have to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima or Nagasaki. First of all I learned that they chose Hiroshima because it had not been bombed yet by fire bombs or anything; but all along they been having naval blockades and been firebombing Japan. The Japanese basically wanted to surrender. It’s been said that they have called surrender but no…

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    truck to create the explosion when they are driving off. This scene is a turning point because it demonstrates that Thelma and Louise cannot turn back from their life of crime and have accepted a criminal identity; subsequently, completing their character arc. Some interesting aspects of mise en scene in this particular scene is Thelma wearing sunglasses, it is set during the daytime in a deserted area, the truck driver’s American flag cap, the truck, and the fire from the explosion. The scene…

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    The First Atomic Bomb

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    The early morning of August 6th 1945, American planes dropped the bomb on Hirosima around 8:15 am. The loud explosion of bomb was followed by falling buildings, fires, dust, smokes and darkness. A great scar on the land, still burning, and covered by a heavy cloud of smoke, was all that was left of a great city (Gutenberg 13). Japanese officers were unaware of the reason for the explosion and burning down of Hirosima up until Washington announced their action about 16 hours later. The bomb was…

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    enriched uranium would slide down a tube into another piece or enriched uranium. The collision caused the uranium to reach critical mass, the mass required to sustain a nuclear chain reaction, and release a massive amount of energy in the form of an explosion. Using the collision of plutonium in the gun design would simply melt. The plutonium variation of the bomb involved a soft ball sized piece of plutonium with explosives placed…

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    Apollo 13 Analysis

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    no idea they would soon be fighting for their lives. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise ran into trouble after just over two days in space when an explosion damaged their spacecraft (“Apollo 13”). What started out as an expedition to collect lunar rocks, then turned into a race against the clock. The unexpected explosion triggered an urgent response from mission control, back on Earth. Suddenly, it was up to them to work out a way to ensure the crew’s safe return home (“Apollo…

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    miles off the southeast coast of Louisiana an explosion occurred on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig resulting in the death of eleven members of the crew, and started the leaking of oil that was in the well. This event would go down as the largest marine oil spill in history and leave many people asking, “How did this happen?” The metaphorical finger has been pointed over the years at BP Oil Company as they were the current owners at the time of the explosion, but there were also outside factors…

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    kirana stores to purchases their items/products /goods. This later changed to bigger shops run by one man with a few employees and all the work was done manually. Department stores came into being. Beginning in the mid-1990s however there was an explosion of shopping malls. Where customers interacted with professionals and not with just one single person (the owner). (Ms. Vidushi Handa, Mr. Navneet Grover).Consumers can have a wide range of choices of goods. With great offers, discounts Growth…

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    volcano has “had an eruption of magnitude 8 on the Volcano Explosivity Index (VEI)” (Program, 2015). The VEI is a commonly used scale that ranks eruptions from 0 to 8. It uses multiple characteristics of an explosion to give it a classification. The volume of ejecta (the products of an explosion: ash, pumice, and lava) and column height are the most commonly used criteria. Volcanoes that measure on the VEI scale as 7 and 8 eruptions are normally explosive and they tend to unleash 100 to 1000 km3…

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    nuclear reactors worldwide has been damaged over the course of the past 25 years, and this damage would not have happened if the plant had used up-to-date technology in place of using ceramic conducts which provoked the overheating and posterior explosion at Fukushima’s reactors in 2011. Moreover, it would be almost impossible that happen an accident like Chernobyl because subsequent technological innovations and improvements have made nuclear plants safer, and also safety standards at Chernobyl…

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    Tom Munnecke a leading expert in the health information technology wrote an article in his personal blog, titled “Nothing is Missing”, where he goes to argue that there are limitations on language and gives the solution to this limitation. Being published in Munnecke’s personal blog, his targeted audience would be for those in the same health information technology field or similar interests with the purpose of persuading that there are limitations on language and though there are limitations…

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