On August 6th‚ 1945‚ at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time‚ an American B-29 bomber‚ Enola Gay‚ drops the world’s first atom bomb‚ over the city of Hiroshima. Upon the explosion of the bomb‚ Approximately 80‚000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast‚ and another 35‚000 are injured. At least another 60‚000 would be killed by the effects radiation poisoning and starvation from the fallout. Despite of the great effort of the Air-force through the use of the atomic bomb‚ Japan refuses to surrender.
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The Black Plague killed more than 20 million people that was about one-third of the population in Europe at that time. During the late 1340’s in Europe‚ 12 trading ships arrived at a port after a long journey through the Black Sea. The people who gathered on the docks to welcome the ships were met with a horrifying surprise: most of the sailors aboard the ships were dead‚ and those who were still alive were very ill. Strangest of all‚ they were covered in mysterious black blisters that oozed blood
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to adulthood are peaceful; they can violent transitions as seen in Richard Wright’s The Man Who Was Almost a Man and Joyce Carol Oates’ Where are You Going‚ Where Have You Been. These two stories reflect how males and females are represented differently in society through the protagonist violent transition to adulthood. The Man Who Was Almost A Man by Richard Wright is about a young adult named Dave who wishes to own a gun because he believes it will make him a true man. When Dave obtains the
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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Manager The position that a manager holds is important in any company. From the performance of the staff to the continued quality of the product‚ the buck stops with management. Granted‚ specific details of the job description vary depending on the type of business. There are basic duties‚ however‚ that fall under every manager’s responsibility‚ regardless of the industry. * Recruiting‚ training and motivating staff * Keeping up to date with licensing legislation
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2012 Arnold Friend’s Identity in Joyce’s “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” In the story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” Joyce Oates portrays Connie as a beautiful young woman that is being coerced by a man‚ whom she doesn’t know‚ to come outside and go for a ride in his car. Who is this man that calls himself Arnold Friend? What does he represent? Looking at the things that Arnold Friend says and does will help to discover who he is. Oates equips Friend with many characteristics
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Entrepreneurial Development Tara Anand Kumar INDEX * Success company – Flipkart.com Akul Singhal – 1011330 * Failure Company – Atkins Nutritionals Inc Tara Anand Kumar – 1011327 * Turnaround company- Dish Network Inc. Abhisekh Tripathy – 1011328 * Conclusion SUCCESS COMPANY FLIPKART Flipkart is an Indian online shopping company headquartered in Bangalore‚ India. Flipkart was established by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal both
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going according to plan there are often blames and guilty consciences for the problems going on. Take family for instance‚ if a family has uneducated and bad-mannered kids‚ there are the parents to blame. And if the parents lose their minds because of the bad children that they spawned to earth‚ the kids are to blame. But who takes the most responsible for the suffering in the family? In the book Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’neill‚ a disastrous family is portrayed. Everyone in that family
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Helen Palsgraf‚ Respondent‚ v. The Long Island Railroad Company‚ Appellant [NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL] Court of Appeals of New York 248 N.Y. 339; 162 N.E. 99; 1928 N.Y. LEXIS 1269; 59 A.L.R. 1253 February 24‚ 1928‚ Argued May 29‚ 1928‚ Decided Facts: The plaintiff Helen Palsgraf was standing at the platform station of Long Island Railroad Company after buying her ticket and waiting for her train. Suddenly‚ a man carrying a package rushed to catch another train that was moving away from the platform
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Tiffany can tell how the time was passing by looking at how long Mila’s hair is. A beautiful orange-yellow coat of good-looking long straight silky fur. Tiffany runs her fingers through it‚ but they get stuck in the little whorls and eddies of strands. She notices the seasons passing through it. In spring her fur was like a soft fuzz of baby leaves but then it became stubbly and itchy and stiff in the summer. Shiny and glossy it became in the fall‚ with the color of a bright new copper penny‚ and
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to it‚ one for home and one for anywhere that was not home...." The first quote is from “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ written by Joyce Carol Oates. It is in reference to Connie‚ who is a teenager. She is no longer a girl‚ yet she is not a woman. She would leave home she looking one way and arrive at her destination another way. 2. She would have been a good woman . . . if it had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her life." The second quote is from “A Good Man Is Hard
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