as the first ¨modern¨ war in history‚ and this is characterized by American weaponry. Early weapons used in the Revolutionary War were self muzzle-reloading weapons which were slow and insufficient. While the ¨modern¨ weapons used in the Civil war were Springfield rifle to Colt revolver to 12-pound howitzer‚ there was a great advancement of weapons from flintlocks to bolt-action rifles. Civil War weapons evolved ever since the last American War‚ with the addition to cartridges onto firearms which
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Weaponry The high renaissance has many weapons ranging from swords to bows. They were used to protects oneself and family‚ but they were also used for war. Most of these weapons were easy to make out of everyday tools you use. The weapons most commonly used were known as the mace‚ longbow‚ and longsword. They are most commonly known for their great work in battles. The mace was essentially a giant hammer that could be used as a deadly brute force weapon (1). Their are two types of maces there is
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advantages. Gen. McClellan fully appreciated the potential for this new weapon of war and expanded Union Artillery by 900 percent. The abilities of artillery would show the amazing killing power of modern ordinance ever changing its place on the battlefield. Now these modern factories were producing new weapons at a rate never seen before‚ thanks to the industrial revolution to cause death and destruction on a modern scale. Weapon advancements ended the old ways of war due to their killing potential
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No matter what a person is doing they will be bombarded by it. From watching TV to reading a magazine‚ its presence makes itself known. Commericals and ads encouraging people to buy more products and bigger homes are everywhere in the world and are impossible to ignore. Many people have questioned whether owning more items and bigger homes actually increases a person’s happiness. Some go to the extremes to make themselves happier such as being a minimalist living in a tiny apartment to owning a mansion
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Today violence is everywhere. It i s always seen on our television programs‚ we hear about it on the radio and teens are participating in it on a regular basis via video games. Many parents today are trying to blame the change in our media system. Teenagers of our generation are confronted with so much violence in their everyday lives whether it’s inside the home‚ or not. Unlike in the 1940’s many hardworking parents find it difficult to control everything their children see on the streets‚ or watch
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Karina Zepeda November 21‚ 2014 Mr. Allen What Would I Do If I Were President When it comes to being the President of the United States‚ it is THE most important and stressful job you could have. The fate of the country is in your hands. Of course you have the help of others like your cabinet‚ the House of Representatives‚ and congress‚ but in reality as the president‚ you are blamed for any problems that the country faces. You are the face of what the country undergoes‚ and there are so many pressures
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In this project I will be investigating and explaining what stops the less developed countries from developing‚ so I will be looking for the following different factors; • Colonisation of Bolivia and Dubai. • Problems in the countries. • Bolivia and Dubai how are they trying to develop. • What is stopping them from developing? Also I’m going to try and make a conclusion to make this much easier to understand. Colonisation is the deed and effect of colonising or establishing in a land of those
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The Possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction In today’s society‚ we‚ as a global community have the mutual goal of world peace. No country should hold any weapons‚ whether nuclear‚ biological‚ chemical or radiological weapons of mass destruction. They trigger unnecessary wars and events‚ are extremely dangerous and the overall reputation of the country with the possession of weapons of mass destruction is ruined. The society‚ the environment and the economy of the country is basically destroyed
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If I get an opportunity to replace myself with any one in the world then I would like to replace myself with Mr. Bush‚ the president of America. Mr. Bush is responsible for portraying negative image of America as an enemy of humanity by doing wars against Muslims only on the basis of religious discrimination. Mr. Bush is the murderer of nearly one hundred thousand innocent citizens of Afghanistan and Iraq while trying to fight against only two persons Usama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein on one side
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both fiction and nonfiction‚ the death of a character profoundly affects one or more of the other characters in the work. In his memoir Night‚ Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel describes how he watched his father die an agonizing death in a Nazi concentration camp‚ near the end of World War II. Elie also describes how his father’s torment and death affected him‚ transforming him into a hollow shell of a person. When Elie and his father arrived at the camp‚ the older man‚ already greatly weakened
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