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    deterioration in the terms of trade,” and, “Victorian imperialism” and its “confiscate(ing) local fiscal autonomy” (289-290). This conclusion should be no surprise as Davis makes a point of grounding his efforts in both “environmental history and Marxist political economy” (15). I found his arguments made based on environmental history more compelling than those grounded in Marxist theory did. These arguments, however, remained insufficient to convincingly make his case. There are some distracting (if not disturbing) inaccuracies in Davis’ work which no doubt exist to empower his narrative. The phrase “Maxim and Gatling guns effectively eradicated the last indigenous resistance” is a powerful one, but when one speaks of the 1870’s it is a false one. The Gatling gun was in very limited service during this period while Maxim did not invent his machine gun until 1884 and its entry into service began even later. He similarly asserts Qing China refused to build railroads or telegraphs due to “fear of their becoming weapons of economic and ideological penetration,” and that “it took months for accurate reports from China’s outlying areas to find their way to Beijing” (64). In fact, the traditional Chinese messenger service allowed for the rapid movement of information throughout the empire, and despite conflicting perspectives of officials and bureaucrats, telegraphs appeared in 1870, a school for telegraph engineers and operators opened in 1876, and, railroads…

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    Weapons in the 19th Century In the early 19th century war and conflict were common amongst different regions and groups of people. War and fighting was a dreaded event as it took long periods of time and caused injury and death on both sides of the fight. Technology was constantly increasing and new advancements in warfare were always surfacing; some meant to improve fighting tactics and others were intended to end conflict at a faster rate. In the 19th century Warfare was changed tremendously…

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    Civil War Weapons Throughout the Civil War, many weapons were used. The Civil War marked an era of advancements in both weapons and technology. Guns made the Civil War as brutal as it is and caused the deaths of thousands of Americans, but without them many problems would have arisen. Crime would be everywhere on the streets and slavery would still exist. The Civil War shaped our country for the better, and made us the great nation that we are. Before the war, soldiers had used muskets to…

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    Blacksmithing History

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    swords, knives, bayonets, and lots of different types of guns, including infantry rifles, dueling pistols, and repeating carbines. As history advanced, blacksmiths began to make fewer weapons as they could be made by machines. After the industrial revolution, blacksmiths were barely ever called upon to assemble weapons. However weapons were still getting better. Fewer knives are used as you can get mass produced ones and they could be easily replaced by a gun, however some clients want handmade…

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    Growing up, I never knew much about politics. However, more recently, I have researched on who I want to vote for in the upcoming presidential election, as well as having a US government class. To discover my political ideology, I took three surveys: The Pew’s Research Center’s Political Ideology Quiz, the Nolan Chart, and I Side With. I have determined that I am a strong liberal and will join the Democratic Party. I believe that we need gun control, the death penalty should not be allowed, more…

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    Essay On Dangers Of Guns

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    The Dangers of Guns Do you ever think about how quickly your life can be taken by a simple shot from a handgun? Do you know many innocent lives are taken daily by guns? Death by a gun is a huge ordeal in America. Thus far in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive, 10,843 deaths have occurred all over the Unites States due to gun violence. The number of children killed, ages 0-11, due to a handgun has reached 583 deaths. Today, many people have access to guns. Some who own a gun use it…

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    War on Guns There is not a year that goes by without an innocent life taken by gun violence within the United States. Each year we constantly argue the idea of whether we should ban guns or reinforce tighter restrictions on guns, especially with the NRA (National Riffle Association). Often as usual we never ensure a decision and the topic slips up again when another instance occurs. Many has brought up ideas such as securing our schools with the same weapons that we are fighting to ban. Arming…

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    As the audience studies the photo deeper, we see that the father is teaching the-what seems to be-two-year-old daughter how to hold a gun that she can barely wrap her tiny hands around. Society has a tendency to judge someone by their own actions, as well as their influences on others around them. Upon instinct, the audience is drawn to anger towards the father for putting a gun in the toddler’s hands, as well as towards the mother for not doing anything to prevent or stop the father from…

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    The M9 Case Study

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    1981 the Army began by inviting several pistol makers to submit their 9-mm pistol to compete for a contract. Every pistol was to satisfy a list of definite requirements and had little leeway in others. With these requirements not being clear to the pistol manufactures every submission in 1981 was immediately rejected. The Army realized their requirement were not only too strict for a custom military made firearm but in disqualifying the commercially available guns they weren’t prepared to host a…

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    Would Concealed Carry Deter Violence on Campus? How many people do you see every day that carry a gun on them? I am betting that you don’t see anyone besides police officers. If people get into a car crash and the driver was drunk, do we blame the car? No we blame the driver so what’s the different with guns. Gun are not the problem that we are having, it’s the people that give guns a reputation. People carry guns not to cause or even seek to find trouble, but just that slim chance that your…

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