Haley Kimball 7-5-13 P.M. Justice On August 6‚ 1945‚ the United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima‚ Japan. For decades‚ there have been feuds relating to the justification of the bombing. The United States was justified due to the surprise attack and bombing of Pearl Harbor which occurred three years before the bombing of Hiroshima. Therefore‚ it was necessary to stop the war because it saved thousands of American lives. Until then‚ the fight had never been on United
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Railroad Co. Andrew William Pence Liberty University Abstract Palsgraf was severely injured due to a blast that shook the railroad station. The unmarked package of fireworks that was dropped by another party boarding a moving train caused the explosion. The explosion caused large iron scales to fall on Plasgrof. As a result‚ Palsgraf sued the Long Island Railroad for the conductor’s negligence‚ whom she blames for pulling the commuter on the train. Which initiated the domino effect leading up to her
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disaster. Yet‚ as the oil continued to spill in the weeks following the initial explosion‚ U.S government officials and the general public began to realize the disastrous environmental effects that the spill would ultimately cause. The company’s lack of truthful communication led to distrust among the public. BP also failed to take responsibility‚ as well as proper action‚ during the aftermath of the rig explosion. In an interview with ABC‚ BP CEO Tony Hayward said: “Ah‚ this wasn’t our accident
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musical world is still seen today. George Harrison is an English multi-instrumental musician/songwriter‚ most well known for being lead guitarist in the Beatles. His greatest legacy in terms of his music career was his additions to the “Great Sitar Explosion”‚ where a plethora of American and British music was flooded with Indian sounds. Harrison’s first exposure to Indian music was small. “I went and bought a sitar from a little shop at the top of Oxford Street called Indiacraft - it stocked little
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from the Indian Oil Corporation’s oil depot to a pipeline. There were at least 40 IOC employees at the terminal‚ situated close to the Jaipur International Airport) when it caught fire with an explosion. The Met department recorded a tremor measuring 2.3 on the Richter scale around the time the first explosion at 7:36 pm which resulted in shattering of glass window nearly 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from the accident site. The fire was a major disaster in terms of deaths‚ injury‚ loss of business‚ property
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illegal practice can be extremely destructive to the surrounding ecosystem‚ as the explosion often destroys the underlying habitat (such as coral reefs) that supports the fish. Underwater shock waves produced by the explosion stun the fish and cause their swim bladders to rupture. This rupturing causes an abrupt loss of buoyancy; a small number of fish float to the surface‚ but most sink to the sea floor. The explosions indiscriminately kill large numbers of fish and other marine organisms in the vicinity
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Herculaneum. Pompeii‚ which is also known as “The Garden of the Fugitives”‚ is an important part of Ancient Roman history‚ because it has shown historians a vision of the Ancient Roman society. Historians now believe that the people of Pompeii died by an explosion of gas and hot mud brutally eliminated the residents. Before this‚ people believed that everyone died by suffocating from the ash. There is evidence that proves this. The ones that will be discussed are Pliny the Younger’s writing‚ the eruption of
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place on the evening of April 20‚ 2010‚ more than 40 miles off of the Louisiana Coast‚ director Peter Berg paints a picture of good‚ loyal workers caught in the crosshairs of bureaucracy‚ corporate meddling‚ and ultimately victims to an oil rig explosion which resulted in the deaths of 11 crew members and led to the largest oil spill and
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rate peaked in the 1960s at 2% which was projected to double after 35 years. (Rosenburg) Environmental Effects Environmental problems have always been man made‚ but never before on such a perilous scale. One of the worst impacts of population explosion has shown itself through global warming. “The coal and oil that have fueled the growth of industrialized countries have also fueled the warming of the Earth. Roughly 75% of the man-made global warming pollution currently in the atmosphere comes from
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planes. Also it can cause breathing problem due to high concentration of carbon and dioxide and sulphur gases found that erupt from the volcano. Pyroclastic flow is dense destructive mass of hot ash lava fragments and gases which are ejected in an explosion from a volcano and they travel at great speeds and destroy anything in its way. The image shows a pyrolcastic cloud. Lava can be disputed to be a secondary effect however in the eruption of Mount Nyirangongo 300 people were killed by lava travelling
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