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    Harm of Nuclear Weapon

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    Good morning respected judges teachers and my dear friends I here today to speak on the topic dangers of nuclear weapons We all know that the effect of the nuclear explosion in hiroshima and Nagasaki can be felt even today the survivors tell us that no one should ever undergo what they have been through a nuclear explosion creates a living hell where the living envy the dead. A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions‚ either fission or

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    Krakatau Krakatau (Krakatoa)‚ is said to have created the worst volcanic eruptions in history‚ in 1883. Ancient Krakatoa formed in 416 A.D. and still exists today in Indonesia. That same explosion‚ in 1883‚ created 130 feet tsunamis‚ which destroyed 130 coastal homes‚ two docks (India and Australia)‚ and killed about 36‚000 people. It created very loud sounds and was heard as far away as Madasagascar‚ about 3‚000 miles away from Java‚ where Krakatau was. Some people even believe that it may

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    Krakatoa

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    INTRODUCTION The explosion of Mount Krakatoa is the fifth biggest eruption ever happened on earth. Krakatoa is a volcanic island located in between of Java and Sumatra. This volcanic island is located not far from the area where Indo-Australian plate subducts under the Eurasian plate. In May until 27 August 1883‚ the eruptions took place until it blew the island apart. There is still part of the volcano‚ Rakata‚ which was the highest peak of Krakatoa. The eruption happened because of the

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    understand and explain how the universe came to be formed. According to the Big Bang Theory about 15 million years ago there was a giant explosion that pushed all matter in space outward and as the matter cooled it created the universe that exists today. Prior to the Big Bang all matter of space existed in one spot in space and this extremely violent explosion started the expanse of the universe. There have been discoveries made

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    Report On Mt St Helens

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    March 27‚ after hundreds of small earthquakes the volcano produced it first eruption in over 100 years. Steam explosions made a 60-70 m wide crater through the volcano’s summit ice cap.

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    The welfare rights movement in the 1960s made basic income support available to more people than ever before. The decade prior to 1964 set the stage for the expansion of the pool of eligible individuals‚ but the explosion in magnitude of aid given during the movement itself allowed for substantial aid to reach those who were neediest. This substantive aid is what constitutes actual income support‚ rather than scant cash thrown at problem populations. Poor Blacks finally received the full aid they

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    Upon learning the town of Little Boston is rich in oil‚ Daniel Plainview makes a proposition to benefit the town and its citizens in return for drilling the ocean of oil beneath the town. After he begins drilling the oil‚ there is a horrific gas explosion that permanently deafens his adoptive son‚ H.W. Instead of taking care of H.W.‚ Daniel watches the oil well burn. Throughout the movie‚ a money-grubbing priest known as Eli Sunday consistently

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    Remoteness of Damages

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    Remoteness of damage / Foreseeability of damages Remoteness of damage relates to the requirement that the damage must be of a foreseeable type. In negligence claims‚ once the claimant has established that the defendant owes them a duty of care and is in breach of that duty which has caused damage‚ they must also demonstrate that the damage was not too remote. Remoteness of damage must also be applied to claims under the Occupiers Liability Acts and also to nuisance claims.   Remoteness of damage is

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    details the lives of Hibakusha (Translated to English meaning “explosion-affected persons”) before‚ during‚ and after the bombings. In the book Hiroshima‚ the aftermath of the bombings from the perspective of the Hibakusha was recorded 40 years in response to the initial devastation. Hersey writes‚ “A surprising number of the people of Hiroshima remained more or less indifferent about the ethics of using the bomb” (89). The explosion can be looked at in a number of different ways. Nakamura‚ a local

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    it happened and * Finally‚ I will tell you what the effects were and why it’s relevant today. Body 1 “What was Chernobyl”?: * April 26‚ 1986 in the early morning hours‚ an explosion rocked a thriving city near the heart of Ukraine. * Within days 150 nearby towns had been evacuated. * This explosion would become the beginning to the worst nuclear disaster in history. * Chernobyl’s power reactors were graphic reactors‚ not commonly used anywhere outside of the Soviet Union.

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