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    Oklahoma City Bombing It was an early morning in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. People arriving to work and people still on there way. At 9:02 a.m on April 19, 1995, that all changed very quickly. A rental truck packed with explosives detonated in front of the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. The explosion was so powerful it blew off the north side of the wall. 911 was flooded with call. Emergency responders responded very quickly. They arrived on scene to…

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    my body tensed up, and a lifetime of anxiety shook me to my core. Traveling via the subway is an effective way of getting from point A to point B; however, my unfamiliarity with the subway system made me overwhelmingly nervous. Throughout elementary school and middle school, I walked to and from school with my mother alongside me– supporting me and shielding me from the surrounding world. It was a simple ritual: we would walk to school together and when school was over, she would be…

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    On February 20th 2003, The Station nightclub in caught on fire. Four hundred people had come in the club to hear the band Great White play, when fireworks set off by the band’s manager caught fire to the foam board on the stage. (NFPA, 2006). In the end 100 people lay dead. That makes it the fourth most deadly nightclub fire in the history of the US. The massive amount of deaths can be blamed mostly to the fireworks being to close to the soundboard, the facility being over packed, and the lack…

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    Flight 93 Research Paper

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    events that took place on September 11th, 2001 were the deadliest day in US history. The total amount of people who perished that day was 2,996 people. Among the fatalities, forty- four of them were aboard United Airlines Flight 93 departing from Newark, New Jersey to San Francisco, California. United Flight 93 was one of the four hijacked airplanes that was used in the terrorist attacks. If it was not for the passengers aboard who decided to take matters into their own hands, the terrorists…

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    having a basketball team would affect a city ? Pittsburgh is in need of another sports franchise because, it would enhance the city and add value as well as pride to the city. Having a basketball team would help bring revenue to our city. People would travel all over the country to see the high level competition. It would allow more job opportunities because they would need employees to work at the games. We will also have top basketball players living in our city which would attract fans to…

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    Gerda Taro and David Seymour. In the year 1936, he was well known for his portrait / decisive moment of the ‘Falling Soldier’ who was shot dead. When World War II started, Capa was in New York because he was escaping Nazi persecution but had moved to Europe during this war. During this war, Capa had to move from different parts of Europe because he wanted to capture different scenes of the war he was the only ‘enemy alien’ photographer during this period. His most famous work during this time…

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    Mulrine, that “traditional investigative methods, such as the use of informants, tips from local communities, and targeted intelligence operations, provided…for investigations in the majority of cases, while the contribution of NSA’s bulk surveillance programs to these cases was minimal…playing an identifiable role in initiating, at most, 1.8 percent of these cases” (Mulrine, Anna). She goes on, with a quote from a source saying “’it can’t justify the gathering of these millions of records when…

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    Patriot Act Pros And Cons

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    September 11, 2001 was an extremely sad and memorable day in the United States history. A terrorist group attacked major United States cities in a joint effort to destroy our way of life. On that day, 3,000 innocent Americans lost their lives as a result of terrorism. This attack was the first catastrophic terrorist attack on American soil in many years. The Unites States decided to act and went after terrorist organizations abroad and implemented laws in America to defend our freedoms.…

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    Swot Analysis Of Asos Plc

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    In 2013 £1.5 in current assets was used to cover every £1 in current liabilities however in 2014 £1.4 in current assets was used to cover every pound in current liabilities this proves that ASOS is financially comfortable judging from the liquidity rates over the past 2…

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    works are the Sex and the City novels which were adapted from the columns by the same name that she wrote for the New York Observer between 1994 and 1996. Candace was born to Camile Salonia and Calvin L. Bushnell in 1958 Glastonbury, Connecticut. Her father was something of a celebrity in her town having been an inventor of the Air Cooled Hydrogen Fuel Cell that the Apollo space mission of the 60s depended on. She can trace her ancestry to Francis Bushnell an immigrant from Berkshire, England…

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