Hand grenade

government contract to produce over 100,00 No. 36 hand grenades per month. For those of you who have no idea who Frost & Woods was, here is a brief synopsis: For over 116 years they were known as one of the largest manufacturers of durable farm implements in Canada. In fact, the company was considered one of the most technology advanced firms of their time. So, it wasn’t a surprise that during the second world war they were awarded a contract to produce grenades as well as artillery shells…

road where the two civilians are standing. The sniper witnesses the female civilian had over a grenade to the young boy. The young boy…

A Risk Worth Taking After a long day at work my entire body aches with pain, It felt like somebody wacked me in the stomach with a baseball bat, as I rode my bike home with my paycheck in my hand I watched out for broken bottles, stray bullets, and gang members on the street ,as you can imagine this is a terrible neighborhood. As I walked into an ally I see my home a small green tent covered with tears, mud, and even a knife sticking out the side, I walked in side and sat on my inflatable…

about. Between the K.G.B. and the mind control hotdogs and brainwash soda, it's pretty crazy. So, one day, the U.S.S.R. Комите́т госуда́рственной безопа́сности agents were bored and they had there beating sticks, grenades, and they had there s.w.a.t gloves, so they decided to hit grenades and catch them with their swat gloves. So then the Комите́т госуда́рственной безопа́сности agents came up with an idea, why not turn it into a sport. But first, they had to ask Riff Raff, the Supreme Leader of the…

dangerous it is during a war because you wouldn’t even know how you died. The speaker was thankful for the fact that the hand grenade that landed next to his foot did not explode even though it was meant to be, “Again, thanks to the dud / hand grenade tossed at my feet / outside Chu Lai. I’m still / falling through its silence” (31-34). If the poet had vaguely wrote that the hand grenade didn’t explode when it was next to the speaker, then the reader wouldn’t had felt how great this event was…

explains that the man he killed, he did not hate him, nor did he see him as an enemy but feared him for reasons he did not know why. O’Brien supports his explanation by saying “The grenade was to make him go away-just evaporate-and I leaned back and felt my mind go empty and then it fell up again. I had already thrown the grenade before telling me to throw it. (O’Brien 811)” The author’s purpose is to amuse the audience with a tale that he, himself, still has internal conflict with. The author…

the definition hand grenade is a grenade or explosive shell that is thrown by hand and exploded either by impact or by means of a fuze.(dictionary.com) The United States manufactured over 87 million grenades for use in close quarter fighting.(World War 2 Weapons)There also was the "home made" grenade known as the molotov cocktail that was perfected by Great Britain. (World War 2 Weapons) Meanwhile, the Germans…

In the short story written by Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried," O'Brien writes about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. He writes about the items soldiers carried on their backs and on their minds. This is similar to other wars such as the Gulf War in 1990. However, the technology, geographical features, and the politics of the two wars have several differences. There are similarities between Vietnam and Iraq: In both conflicts, there was pressure…

Science And Technology In The 1940’s Have you ever wondered how technology and science got so advanced? Many different items that we use today started from something that may seem small, such as, medicine, cell phones, and even irregular things like guns and bombs. Linus Pauling once said, “Science is the search for truth. It is not a game in which one tries to beat others.” While not a game, it is fought like one. Scientists have developed weapons and strategies to progress their performance…

The adrenalin that is pumping through your body with every rapid heartbeat allows for the necessary actions to take to stay alive. Without even thinking you are able to pull that trigger or throw a grenade without a second guess. Marlantes explains later in his story how to make things easier to kill you give the enemies different names and think of them as anything less than humans; “I didn’t kill people, sons, brothers, fathers. I killed “Crispy…