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    Within hours the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the armed carjacking of a sport-utility vehicle in Boston’s Allston neighbourhood spurred speculation about a possible connection between those crimes and the marathon bombing. Police pursued the stolen vehicle and Improvised explosive devices were thrown at the police, as many as 300 rounds were exchanged, and a police officer was shot and wounded watertown identified as one of the two suspects in the bombing, was seriously wounded by explosives and multiple gunshot .Tamerlan Tsarnaev was taken to a hospital and was pronounced dead. In the early morning hours a resident whose house was several blocks from the shoot-out went to his backyard to check on the boat that was parked there. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in the boat Police soon arrived, and after a short standoff Tsarnaev was taken into custody. On April 22 federal prosecutors charged him with having used a weapon of mass destruction in the marathon attacks. After a two-week trial, on April 8, 2015, Tsarnaev was found guilty on 30 counts in connection with the bombing; 17 of those charges carried the possibility of the death penalty.(Boston Marathon bombing ) The manhunt The Boston Marathon Bombing is meaningful to our history because it is an act of terrorism done on americans soil by an islamic terrorist . The two brothers…

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    in the same circumstances. Question 9 The heading of offences involving criminal negligence, and section 220 states that, “every person who by criminal negligence causes death to another person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable”. It would be difficult to charge Barnaby Rudge due to the developmental disability of functioning at the same mental level as an eight-year-old child would not make him liable for his conduct. Hence, unless the court were willing to overlook this, it would…

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    Why Was He Honored?

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    There are many different definitions of honor. Honor-high respect; esteem, My definition of honor is when you are looked upon by many and the majority of people have appreciated what you have done no matter how big or small of a deal it is. Accomplishments- Nobel had an extraordinarily innovative mind, from which new ideas poured. His genius was bolstered by steely determination to succeed and a huge capacity for hard work. These were driven by bitter memories of the poverty his family…

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    and fearless. Throughout the first chapter, O' Brien repetitively uses the word “carried.” In the beginning when O' Brien uses the word “carried” it to refers to the taking of the object from one place to another and the holding of the physical items. The soldiers “carried M-14s and CAR-15s and Swedish Ks and grease guns and captured AK-47s and Chi-Coms and RPGs and Simonov carbines and black market Uzis and .38-caliber Smith & Wesson handguns and 66 mm LAWs and shotguns and silencers and…

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    granted the okay to do business there. It is mandatory that they possess the appropriate flight and navigational tools such as radars, radios among other necessary tools which must be present and functional. This also applies to the plane’s relevant mechanical aspects as well as the landing apparatus, satellite navigation system among others. All these systems must be run through a diagnosis to ascertain their efficiency before the aircraft is allowed to fly. These processes help with the…

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    Whenever the word nitro comes up it turns to something explosive. In chapter 5 it is mainly about nitro compounds and it explains what is and how it works based on the molecular structure. Nitro compounds are indeed explosive. Gun powder can be considered one of the earliest items to be referred as a fire chemical component. The gun powder components are known to be all reactive products which cause the reaction of an explosion. Nitro compounds are highly reactant and is stabled by a molecule…

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    performance, though their exact ideological background will be hazy without more context. But we cannot understand the bomb in Chelsea without more information. It seems random, without a script. So we wait for the cliff notes of the play, whether it comes from the perpetrator or the police and continue to wonder what the significance was. As the official wonders: “So the question is: Is the location significant, in terms of motive? And we don’t know that 23rd Street has any particular…

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    Over 40% of suicide bombers are female and come from all over the world (Pape). The most common areas where suicide bombers are present are Russia, the Middle East, and parts of Africa. That isn’t to say that bombers aren’t in other places because they certainly are. These are just the most common areas. Suicide bombers can be anywhere for any reason. Since suicide bombers are no longer living they can’t be asked as to what their motives were. However, countless people speculate as to what…

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    3. Occurrence of the Accident/Incident The freighter SS Fort Stinkine which is a cargo ship arrived at Bombay on Friday, 12 April, 1944 No one in the Dock area was aware about the dangerous cargo which she was carrying. Normally a red flag has to be flagged to indicate the explosive but avoided due to war time.Emergency A certificate has been issued by the Dock yard higher officials to unload it in priority basis. Unloading of the ship commenced immediately. However while unloading the lube…

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    Guns and Lives Introduction Gun control is one of the biggest debatable and emotional issues in the United States. Gun violence is a serious problem in multiple cites of the United States. There are citizens that believe there need to be gun control laws and citizens that believe there should not be gun control laws. Is America the most violent when it comes to controlling guns? The whole purpose of the gun control law is to constrain or control the sale, purchase, transfer, or possession of…

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