Guerrilla warfare

The viking attack on Paris in 885 was a splendid representation of medieval warfare. Where the two sides met beforehand in order to attempt a relatively peaceful solution, where the viking Siegfried asked, basically, for all the goods of the city and the bishop responded with the obvious ‘no’. The battles themselves were showing how the defenders of Paris held their city from the vikings for just long enough so that Odo could return with aid from the emperor to finally drive off the vikings.…

Atomic Bomb The congregation of the Atomic Bomb is possibly one of the greatest moments of triumph in American history. When president Truman decided to drop the A-bomb, he had to think very carefully about his decision. Truman was morally, politically, and strategically right in dropping the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The time is 1945, WWII. The ETO is wrapping up and finishing, but the Japanese are not going down without a fight. They continue to wage war against the U.S. even though we…

The Manhattan Project Have you ever wondered what would happen if the most dangerous bomb ever was created? Atomic bombs are made of many things and take a lot of effort. Tests were made in the U.S. The Manhattan goal changed and evolved quickly,and secrecy was valued so much cities were created.Japan was devastated by the two bombs created by the project.The Manhattan Project is a project to research new science and technology. The final goal of the manhattan project changed quickly. The…

The United States and Britain were not justified in bombing cities such as Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Pforzheim, Darmstadt, and Kassel which were bombed in Germany with a casualty rate anywhere from 10,000 in Kassel to 42,600 in Hamburg(OME). The USAAF and the RAF used strategic bombing in destroying what they believed to be military strong points, like industrial factories and military bases. The U.S believed that this would shorten the war by destroying all of there resources, the British…

I was born on February 28, 2001 in Kilmarnock, Virginia. I have a younger step-sister, Jolie and a little sister, Keira. When I was born I had a single mom working in Williamsburg, while my grandparents took care of me at home and an immature father cleaning pools in California. *Insert parent interview! However, my birth was not the only exciting thing to occur on this day. On February 28, in 1944 test pilot Reitsch pitched a suicide squad to Hitler, in 1953 Watson and Crick discovered chemical…

Article of the Week Response- Revision Everybody knows about how, in 1945, at the end of World War II, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan to force them to surrender. In current times, on the other side of the world, more and more Syrian refugees flood into places such as Greece, the United Nations, Jordan, Lebanon, and other countries. A question is now being addressed: How can we use technology to protect people? An article by Project Syndicate titled “Opinion: Our…

The world was on the verge of another world war with the axis powers on one side against the allied powers on the other side. and it all started with a scientist named Leo Szilard, who had the idea that splitting atoms would generate a huge amount of energy, he defected from Germany when Germany under Hitler started to persecute against their scientists. his idea of creating energy from splitting atoms couldn't be proven that it worked because he was splitting the wrong atoms but when he saw a…

The cold war was a war between America and its allies and the USSR also known as the Soviet Union. The war never got the point of any battlefield engagements. It lasted from 1947 to 1991 when the Soviet Union broke apart and many nations were formed from the broken alliance. The US and the soviets were neutral to each other until after World War II when both superpowers rose from the ashes of the war an got paranoid of their allies. In 1939 the Soviet Union engages in total war with the Axis.…

A current problem in french Polynesia is the radiation and the radiation tsunami left by the nuclear bomb testing. One solution to this problem is to evacuate to another island. According to Wikipedia, the text states that the island of Raiatea has a population of 12,545 and is the second largest island in French Polynesia. This shows that with the radiation tsunami coming the citizens of Mururoa are able to move onto Raiatea without causing overpopulation and problems for the people on Raiatea…

Journal entry 3 “The hab is now a bomb.” was the last thing we heard from Watney. In chapter five, he had to figure out how to eliminate either the oxygen or the hydrogen. First, he begins the chapter by reassuring himself of the time he has to survive until ares four can come. Watney then looks over the issue again. In chapter three, he created a room that was bound to end in a big boom. He discovered that if he eliminated all the oxygen (the hab would do its self), then he could safely stay…