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On 06 August 1945 an American Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber named Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb named Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A massive blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT destroyed four square miles of the city and immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people. And three days later another bomb, named Fat Man, was dropped on the city of Nagasaki; killing nearly 40,000 more people. In the following weeks and months tens of thousands of people died…

collects piles of debris covering the mountain. Since the expedition’s start, climbers have removed more than 13 tons of garbage from Everest,” (Source 2, paragraph 2). This exemplifies that organizations like Eco Everest Expedition are vigilant with the trash left on the summit of Mount Everest. These organizations share the same concerns as Sir Edmund Hillary. They have collected 13 tons of garbage, which shows their determination to keep Everest clean. Overall, Sir Edmund Hillary and Eco…

is a rainy season and dry season. the weather is it goes rainy and then it get’s hot. The abiotic that lives there is african wild dog, blackmamba, caracal, ,chacma, egyptian mongoose,roots grasses,fruit,and bark. Weighing up to 6000 kg 6.6 tons and measuring up to 3.3 m 10 ft. at the shoulder the African elephant is the world’s largest land mammal. It is characterized by its highly dexterous trunk, long curved tusks, and massive ears combination of the upper lip and nose, an African…

bad. Generally, PZ III and IV had achieved a balance. They had done their best to serve, so PZ III and PZ IV did not lead to the fall of Nazi. Development stage three: In the second half of war.(1943-1945) Model: Pz.Kpfw. V Ausf.D Crew: five Weight (tons): 43 Engine power (hp):…

In the United States, of 324 million people, there is more than 700,00 tons of garbage produced daily. That is enough garbage to fill almost 60,000 garbage trucks. In 2013, Americans developed 254 million tons of garbage and that is horrifying. In countries such as New Zealand, Ireland, Norway, and Switzerland produce mostly municipal solid waste. Municipal waste comes from homes, schools, hospitals, and businesses, these are things we use every day that gets thrown away. With all of the…

My Autobiography I was born in West Fargo, North Dakota on September 21, 2004. First I’m going to tell you about my family. My family members are me, mom, dad, and my sister. Me and dad LOVE to hunt and fish. My mom enjoys running and staying fit. And Taylor, well, she doesn’t do anything, really. However, we are not alone in our family. We have two cats. One of them is a boy named Opie. He is very cute and gets very frisky at night. The other cat which is a girl named Abby, is a very scared…

ancestors.” These statues were made of stone by the native tribes of Easter Island. Travel.nationalgeographic.com reported that the Moai are stone figures carved into head and torso shapes. An average Moai figure stands 13ft tall and weighs at least 14 tons. The largest Moai statue, “El Gigante” stands at 71.93 ft. tall and is weighed in somewhere between 145-165…

The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, this is also one of the seven modern wonders of the World. In the past years, there are more than 850,000 ships and 250 million tons of cargo that had passed through the Panama Canal. The United States began building the canal in 1904 and completed in 1914, after France unsuccessfully build a canal through the Isthmus of Panama in 1800s. The canal is a man-made waterway, when they were constructing the Panama Canal there were…

Imagery that Shelley uses to show how he created the monster and how much work it takes is very clear. Victor had been working on this for almost two years. He says “For this I had deprived myself of rest and health” (Shelley 43). Victor has put tons and tons of work into building this creature. The use of imagery in this passage describing how he felt when trying to build this creature, makes the readers understand how much time and effort victor has put into this. When the creature started to…

The Story of Plongeur and the Polluted Waters It all started when scuba diver Plongeur, decided to go swimming. She was walking to her favorite lake, in which she hadn’t been to since last spring. When she noticed something was wrong. The lake wasn’t clear and as pretty as she had remembered, instead it was all black and there was trash floating in the water. She was disgusted at this discovery so she had to put it to a stop! She quickly threw on some regular clothes and a pair of chanx…