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    2017 Bryant Langheim Essay 2 Theodore John “Ted” Kaczynski (The Unabomber) Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski came to our attention in 1978 with the explosion of his first homemade bomb at the University of Chicago. Known as "The Unabomber," he mailed or hand delivered a series of bombs to multiple universities and airports that killed three people and injured twenty-four more. Along the way, he caused fear and panic, even threatening to blow up airplanes in flight. Even though…

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    When the students would be walking out of the school that's when Harris and Klebold would start the massacre. The thing that was wrong with that was the bomb did not detonate so they had to carry out the attack by walking into the school and bassically shoot anyone in there way. When the students realized that this was not a prank they decided to take cover in the library but soon figured out it wasn't…

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    may 14, mothers day a lot of angry white people blocked off a greyhound bus carrying black and white passengers through rural Alabama. The white passengers threw rocks and bricks, and sticks and broke windows with stuff like axes and pipes and then they threw a fire bomb through a broken window and the barricaded the door so they could not get out of the bus, but shots from the police and other people got them to move out of the way, but as soon as the freedom riders got out of the…

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    The Columbine Massacre

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    wrote about this plans in his diary (Biography, Eric Harris). Over a span of a couple of months, Harris designed 7 big propane tank bombs. The first step in his plan was to plant a “decoy bomb” three miles away from the school to divert police. Next, they would detonate a bomb in the cafeteria. The plan was to kill more than 600 students in the lunchroom with the bomb and wait at the exits with guns to shoot anyone trying to escape (Cullen, “Depressive”). They wanted to kill over 2000 students…

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    Invisible Yet Deadly

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    around the globe have developed different yet effective methods of harnessing the energy produced by the radiation ushered in an era commonly known as the atomic age. For military use, nuclear energy could be used to create atomic bombs. The trinity test and the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 to end World War 2 displayed to the world how this energy could be used for military use. Not long after, Russia developed the Tsar bomba in…

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    The Haymarket Massacre

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    The jury was made up of businessmen, clerks and relatives of the deceased policemen. One witness of the bomb being thrown said he saw Spies light the fuse of the bomb and threw it at police, while another said that he was just lighting his pipe (Salt Lake Herald). August 20, 1886 the jury decided that seven out of the eight men would get the death penalty, while the Neebe, the last one of the tried men, got life in jail. The government didn’t allow for freedom of speech, freedom of press,…

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    Plutonium Research Paper

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    and the project under need of supplies to begin work. General Leslie Groves started looking around for people to help design, create, and build parts to a bomb that nobody even knew how to build. But, as most of the Manhattan Project would turn out to have to work as, things had to be built before tested and created before designed. The bomb would need many parts: • A steady supply of explosive material – either plutonium or uranium • Places to make this…

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    Jenkins has all the needed supplies for the winter. Although it may not be the an ideal type of winter, but nuclear bombs would devastate the world and create an unbearable winter ; it is vital that people prepare correctly in order to survive Surprisingly in a nuclear winter, it is not very bright out, as Dr Jenkins described as he gazed at “The red sunset, with narrow,…

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    As viewers walk through the art gallery on the Southeastern Community College campus, there are multiple compelling pieces of art that have an amazing meaningful story and purpose just below their surface appearance. The piece of art that I chose to write about is “Little Bunnies V ‘With No Forest to Call Home, The Bunnies Had Nothing Left to Lose.’” by Abby Spangel Perry. Out of all of the pieces of art in the gallery, this specific one speaks volumes to its audience. Why this piece? Why would…

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    Billy Pilgrim Thesis

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    a large array of jobs. One night, the city is firebombed by the Allies and almost all of the city is destroyed and the inhabitants killed. The only survivors seem to be Billy and the rest of the POWs who were kept in an underground meatlocker. The bombs incinerated nearly 150,000 people. Soon after, Russians reach the city and Billy is sent home. Billy finishes optometry school in Ilium. He marries Valencia Merble, the daughter of the school’s founder. After another nervous breakdown, Billy…

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