common injuries of war and has been referred to as the "signature injury". Since 2001‚ 10 to 20 percent of soldiers have experienced a traumatic brain injury (Writer). The most common cause of TBI in war zones is the increasingly large amounts of blast attacks. TBI is associated with psychological‚ cognitive‚ and physical impairments. TBI can result in difficulties with concentration and memory; "problems participating in social communications; disorganized verbal expressions; diffluent speech; word-retrieval
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seems to be pointing out that society can commercialize even death and destruction‚ selling ’atomic lotion‚ for hair fall-out’ (1.8-9)‚ and creating tourist attractions such as the ’Atomic Bomb Explosion Centre’ (7.47)‚ containing mementos of the blast. The poet’s evident disgust at this commercialization appears to be one of the underlying messages in the poem‚ as it is made especially clear in this verse: "Here atomic peace is geared to meet the tourist trade Let it remain like this‚ for
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in which he lived in. In this particular short story‚ the reader is presented with a post-apocalyptic world‚ more precisely the post-apocalyptic city of Allendale‚ California. It is highly possible to assume that the city was destroyed by an atomic blast. The story was written in 1950‚ during the years of the atomic bomb‚ Bradbury was contemporary with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945‚ and therefore he lived in an era that was dominated by the everlasting fear of an imminent nuclear war
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In the novel The Things They Carried‚ author Tim O’Brien builds the emotion that various soldiers had during the Vietnam war specifically Rat Kiley’s emotion. The feeling of pain‚ grief‚ sorrowness‚ joy‚ and unity. O’Brien uses diction‚ anecdote‚ symbolism and imagery to better establish the tone and build the relationship between the members of the unit. O’Brien goes in depth to each war story he presents using these rhetorical devices to better explain the story to the reader. Firstly O’Brien
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red smoke to show our position and identify friendly from enemy. the jets flew in for the attack on the Taliban machine gunners and used two missiles to take them down and finished the fight. we ran back behind a tree line to avoid the missile blasts the blast rang throughout the treelines about 200 feet from our position and silenced any further contact for the
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According to boomerinas website “The hippie movement was a rebellion against laws that forced people to blindly follow orders that made no sense” hippies fashion was not just a look‚ in the 60s hippies fashion was a way to express how they feel without all of the hatred and fighting. Hippies were peaceful protesters against laws that they felt were not fair. Hippies fashion was a rebellion against unfair laws and a conservative culture. The hippies were protesting against political problems and
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be because we all are sleeping for over the years or may be not wrong If I say we all are like zombies…..alive but DEAD. I have heard of someone that Pakistani nation is like “frustrated people with smiling faces”. Depression‚ Load shedding‚ bomb blast‚ corruption (my favorite one) and many more evil habits are now running in our blood. AND more important we all are becoming part of it and PROUD of it. I never will try to have my driving license legally‚ why? Well because my uncle can do it in three
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on Beatty with the flame thrower and Beatty tempts him‚ “Go ahead now‚ you second hand litterateur‚ pull the trigger.” (Bradbury 119) Beatty is a mirror of that cynic inner voice. When Guy hears that sentence he has a choice to doubt himself or blast through that voice on his continued trajectory. Guy took the
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Section A Multiple choice (17 marks) Do NOT Write on this section of the paper. Answer ALL questions in the table provided at the start of Section B Question 1. Which of the following best describes the structure of metals? A lattice of A. alternating positive and negative ions B. positive ions surrounded by freely moving electrons C. molecules held together by covalent bonds D. atoms held together by covalent bonds Question 2. Which of the following is not a property of most metals
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heated to a very high temperature in a blast furnace. Iron-makers found it difficult when going through this procedure because it was challenging for them to produce pure iron without any impurities. In 1709‚ Abraham Darby developed a blast furnace that used coke as a type of fuel to smelt iron. Darby’s invention removed more metallic impurities from the iron ore‚ which produced a more pure iron. "The use of coke also allowed the construction of larger blast furnaces capable of producing greater quantities
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