Operation Crossroads

for the possibility of developing a hydrogen bomb. Then there was the boosted fission weapon “Item”. In a boosted fission weapon the rate of fission, which is already abundant, is intensified. Late, in 1952, “Ivy Mike” was developed and tested in Operation Ivy. Ivy Mike was the very first hydrogen bomb device ever made. However, this would not have been possible if there had been no atomic bomb testing in the…

The advantages of this case is the driver did not abide by the traffic rules. Because the driver in the traffic accident, has avoided the crossroads and traffic lights and is on the road because of traffic accidents caused by the improper driving. So the driver because of their own feelings of the cause of the accident is not involved in violation of traffic rules. The shortcoming of this case…

The Older Americans Act has undergone major transformations in scope and authority since it’s original passage in 1965. Large-scale responsibility for the operation of services has been difficult to keep up and obtain since the broad mandate of Title I of the act. The Older Americans Act has come into a crossroad since it cannot indefinitely maintain the expansion model it followed during the 1970s. Decisions about the direction the Older Americans Act should be made on the basis…

office, had a lot going for her and worked her way up from a vocational school with high recommendations from her professors. Her story would be typical of every potentially talented young manager that Japes encountered during his tenure at the Crossroads. Like most good-looking twenty-year-olds Cleopatra courted a boyfriend who pursued her wherever she went. Unfortunately, due to the circumstances surrounding many of the servers in that community, even at her humble earnings she became the…

disappointed each and every time; it takes two for communication to be insightful and have purpose. In his story, “Hills Like White Elephants,” Ernest Hemingway demonstrates a woman named Jig’s conflict of choice: whether or not she should have an operation that is insinuated as an abortion in order to keep her lover, referred to as “the American,” happy and maintain the relationship as it was before, or if she should go on with the pregnancy to keep herself happy. Talking without communication…

nonchalant and encouraging regarding the procedure, she begins to see that despite his words, he is really encouraging the operation. Both she and he are loath to discuss the impending operation, and things become increasingly more heated until, by the end of…

writer’s main idea by giving readers a sense of awkward silence between the two main characters. The train station; a place where passengers have to decide whether to continue their adventure together or to say goodbye. Like the nature of a train at a crossroads, the protagonists must decide what to do with their relationship. According to Leslie Fiedler, “Hemingway learned to write ‘through the eye rather than the ear’” (Poetry Foundation). Hemingway’s descriptive setting is to help readers…

Shekelhound ruled over the hotel division and all of its development for nearly two decades. He intimated, during the infamous poker games, that he planned to retire and this would probably be his last year of running the division. He was sixty-five years old with a number of health issues and he had a golden parachute worth one and a half million dollars. During one of his less sober moments, he divulged how much he liked traveling and managing the hotels so he thought maybe he would not retire…

with a few drinks. The setting of the story is placed in Ebro, Spain. At the beginning of the story the setting is at a train station in Ebro. By setting the story at the train station, Hemingway uses symbolizes the couple's relationship is at a crossroad. The girl points out how the hills on one side of the train station looked like white elephants. On the other hand, the other side of the train…

a train station somewhere near Ebro, which is a river in northern Spain, between Barcelona and Madrid. The couple is waiting for the train to Madrid at the bar and then the American man says to Jig, his girlfriend, “It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig” (Mays 592). Then Jig replies by just looking at the ground (Mays 592). This shows that the couple is having a private conversation you would not typically discuss in a public setting in the 1920’s. At this time in the 1920’s women were…