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Bailey Gillen Robert Whitley History 132-620 12 June, 2017 Primary Document Review: Yellow Journalism: Sinking of the Battleship Maine Yellow journalism helps the media control politics in the United States. By avoiding crucial facts and isolating information that they want, the media can use this journalism tactic to skew the public’s perception of reality. As messed up as this seems, it also falls as the duty of citizens to be careful of what news they believe when they are searching for truth…

destroy the world are know as super volcanoes. Super volcanoes are determined by past explosion and this volcano can be located in the United States called Yellow Stone. Their criteria also depend on the volume of an eruption, for a super volcano the eruption must be more than 240 cubic miles of pumas and ash. There had been three super explosions that fit the criteria at Yellow Stone. The dangers of a super explosion from yellow stone would release a pyroclastic flow that would sear the land.…

The Deepwater Horizon incident was caused by the failure of a cement base of the drilling-well. An explosion occurred due to the combination of: a faulty base, the flow of high pressure gases, and mechanical problems. A safety mechanism called the “blowout preventer” uses drill pipe to seal off the well in events like this. This preventer also failed, allowing for the oil spill to continue to leak. It was found that a nitrogen foam based cement was used in constructing the drilling-well base.…

Once the suicide bomber(s) pulled the pin on the device, in a spilt second after the two masses collide creating an uncontrolled chain reaction as the masses once together become a supercritical mass, the explosion releases energy in the form of a blast wave, thermal radiation, and nuclear radiation. A tremendous amount of energy released in a nuclear detonation, temper­atures of tens of millions of degrees develop in the immediate area. At these temperatures, everything near ground-zero…

levels of radiation compared to the first people that were on the scene. Before all of these people affected, however, were the people living in Chernobyl. They were affected the greatest out of anyone because they were so close to the site of the explosion and they were not evacuated from the city until 36 hours after the incident. The government did very little for the people of Chernobyl and actually tried to cover up the incident altogether. The disaster of Chernobyl has altered the view…

the most famous known volcano, possibly of all time. This extremely powerful volcano sits overlooking the ancient city of Pompeii and present day Naples. Its namely recognition is normally dedicated to the eruption in 79 A.D. This eruption was the explosion that destroyed the ancient city of Pompeii in Italy. The last Vesuvius eruption was in 1944 and it is believed that the volcano is due for another eruption in the near future. Vesuvius is the only active volcano in all of mainland Europe.…

Each chapter is relate to the events of the various moments after the atomic explosion. In chapter one, the author mentions about six main characters. He describes about the daily activities, the relationships of the six main characters in a few minutes before the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. It also tells about the distance from the explosion to victims’ places. This part ends with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima by the planes in the sky…

On August 6, 1945 the American military deployed a B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb. The bomb dealt catastrophic results, as it detonated in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion was devastating, as it managed to wipe out a large majority of the city’s population. The amount of people pronounced dead was estimated at around 80,000. The rest of the population would die later on due to radiation exposure. The American military felt it was necessary to drop a second atomic bomb on…

Mining safety should and needs to be practiced and used everyday while down in the mines and as discussed later in this paper it will be shown how Massey Energy disregarded a lot of the regulations. Finally, we will see how the aftermath of the explosion effected others and the cost and benefits to stockholders. The Upper Big Mine Disaster Monday, April 5th 2010 is like any other day that the miners for Massey Energy Corporation in southern West Virginia. Around…

(2)According to Chris LaRocco and Blair Rothstein article 15 billion years ago there was an explosion called the Big Bang that created the universe. This explosion contained all the matter and energy of space. Unlike other explosion like a bomb that throw fragments outwards the Big Bang filled in the space with particles of the embryonic universe. Before the Big Bang galaxies were clustered together but the explosion created space and foundation for the universe. Edwin Hubble is the brain behind…