birth to many well made and useful weapons. The most important and manageable of these weapons are the sword‚ bows and crossbows‚ and axes. These weapons each have differ- ent uses and styles making them convenient for many tasks. Swords are normally depicted as only a knightly weapon‚ but were also used by commoners for many a duel. Of course they were mostly a knights weapons as they used them in battle for "hewing‚ slicing‚ and stabbing" (Renaissance Weapons). Some of the later types of the sword
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Tavaski Gordon December 12‚ 2013 HS 251 Unit 9 Paper Biological Weapons Production Biological weapons are deadly materials manufactured from pathogenic organisms (viruses and bacteria) or synthetic deadly substances that are used to deliberately affect the organic procedures of a host i.e. human or animal body. These substances primary function is to kill or injure the host. Biological weapons can be used to harm vulnerable organisms such as humans‚ animals or vegetation (Biological Threats
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structure‚ leading to painful bleeding from every orifice in their bodies (Hoffman). The use of nuclear weapons has been described by many as sheer madness‚ and something that if used is the equivalent of global suicide. The use of nuclear weapons violates international treaties‚ humanitarian laws‚ and is above all immoral. The only option to solve for this atrocity would be to ban all nuclear weapons now and forever. In the early 1930’s key discoveries regarding the fission of atoms are made by Enrico
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have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act. 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
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“The Wandering” by Maureen Hayes and “The Leaving” by Budge Wilson are two stories that took place in major cities in Canada in the late 1900s. Both stories showed love and caring traits between the daughter and the mother‚ and they demonstrated their traits through their actions when under external and internal conflicts. First‚ the protagonist from both stories faces external conflict with family “The Leaving” was taken place in Nova Scotia in the 1960s. At that time‚ female members of the family
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Military is part of our society today‚ but its roots are in ancient history. Weapons are needed for the military because they need fire power. In addition‚ soldiers are needed in order to have an army to use those weapons. Military soldiers and weapons have been used to make enemies of a society go away. Enemies are always the targets because they want to hurt the society forcing the society to fight back. In the military‚ the soldiers must always respect their leaders in order to succeed. The military
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Leaving Home Essay by lemon2x • August 7‚ 2012 -Essay on play Leaving Home -Playwright is David French In a society where children are not close with their parents‚ there should be more of an effort on the parents’ part to establish a close bond between parent and child. In the play Leaving Home‚ Jacob Mercer shows that he is not a good father by the way he insults his children‚ how distant he is from his children‚ and how little respect he has for his children. Jacob Mercer is not a good father
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In World War 1 the strategy that the generals adopted is known as attrition. What this means is a process of using up current supplies before buying new ones. A war of attrition is when an army has to fight with the men and supplies it has at hand until it runs out. If one nation has more than the other‚ the outcome of the war will be in his favor. Though this was abandoned later on in the war. Before they began to attack a countries artillery would bombard the enemy. What this means is attacking
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Ancient siege weapons Onager (siege weapon) 1. A round stone (often clay balls with combustible substance in them‚ which explode on impact and burst into flames) is put in the pouch and the arm is winched down. 2. The onager’s framework is made out of two beams from oak‚ which curve into humps. In the middle they have quite large holes in them‚ in which strong sinew ropes are stretched and twisted. A long arm is then inserted between the bundles of rope; at its end it has a pin and a pouch
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think some people and most weapons should not apply to the 2nd Amendment‚ the number of people hurt or killed by assault weapons has decreased since they restricted the availability of it. According to the Bureau of Alcohol‚ Tobacco‚ Firearms‚ in 1993‚ the year before the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994‚ the number of the 19 assault weapons banned by name under current law they traced back was 8.2%. The ban went into effect on 13 September 1994 and the number of weapons they traced back was
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