Torpedo

grey upper body which aids them when trying to blend in with rocky coastal sea floor and their name derives from their white underbellies. Their powerful tails can propel them through the water at speeds of 24km/h due to their extremely streamlined, torpedo shaped bodies. Such force is produced…

Midway Speech ______________________________________________ Hello, thank you for attending this update. I'm Frank Knox, the Secretary of The Navy of the United States. Yesterday, probably one of the most important Naval battles in the war so far took place. Attempting to destroy the remaining aircraft carriers, the Japanese Navy attacked the island of Midway. However, an intelligence team under the command of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz was able to decode the Japanese fleet codes about a month…

David Foster Wallace’s essay “Authority and American Usage” is a book review on Bryan A. Garners “A dictionary of Modern American usage”. Wallace begins his review by stating that he believes Garners dictionary to be very good, however the only way for him to explain the magnitude of why Garners dictionary is good is to delve into the underlying strife involved in the politics of lexicography. He explains that there are “Usage Wars” which are silent wars fought in the introductory pages of…

In early 1915, Germany had a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare which meant they could torpedo and sink armed merchant ships but not passenger ships. They broke this policy on march 24th 1916 by attacking a French cross-channel passenger ferry called the Sussex. 50 people died and even though no US citizens were killed, the attack caused president Woodrow Wilson to declare that if Germany continued with this behavior, the US would break diplomatic relations with them. In 1915, the first…

Hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, is a controversial method of extracting gas and oil by injecting liquids at high pressures into the ground to force open fissures. Although fracking has been around for over half a century, it still remains a very debated topic and for good reason. Fracking has the potential to create jobs, reduce dependence on foreign oil sources, and lower taxes, among many other positive effects. However, fracking is also dangerous to the environment is…

The cook attempts to detonate the submarine’s missiles before being shot by Ryan. The Konovalov fires a torpedo at the Red October, but the submarine cleverly outmaneuvers it. The torpedo then returns and hits the Konovalov, sinking it. This gave reason for the Soviets to believe that the Red October had been sunk by the Americans, though they still remained skeptical. Captain Ramius and Ryan then…

In the dialogue “Meno”, Plato uses the characters, a slave, Meno, Anytus, and Socrates to answer the question, “What is virtue?” The slave and Meno did reach a state of Socratic aporia or confusion on this question. Even though they still do not know what virtue is, but at least they now know that they do not know. Where as Anytus, who enters toward the end of the dialogue had a minor role in trying to find the meaning of ‘virtue’. But his role did have significance in regard to Anytus’s…

The bow had become non-existent from the first torpedo, the second struck midship on the starboard side neighboring a fuel tank and powder magazine. The subsequent explosion split the ship straight down to the keel, knocking out all electric power. Within minutes she went down swiftly by the bow, listing…

from the museum and was never seen again. The final major conspiracy theory on why the Titanic sunk was that a german torpedo was launched at it from a hidden submarine out in the ocean. The only issue with this theory was that the war with germany did not start for another two years after the sinking of the Titanic, meaning that there was no reason for a secret german torpedo launching submarine to be out in that part of the ocean waiting for the…

should not go together. The need to mix both is avoidable. The messages these fast food companies are sending are degrading women and have double inappropriate meanings. Take for instance, the Quiznos Ad for toasty Torpedo sandwiches. “The oven demands that Scott makes a foot-long Toasty Torpedo and – I quote – ‘Put it in me, Scott” (paragraph 11). This is unacceptable and heartbreaking. Is mixing both sex and fast food really necessary? These advertisements do target young people both male and…