THE COLD WAR in the 1960’s * MAD Theory (Mutually Assured Destruction) * The Cuban Missile Crisis (Oct. 1962) * Why the crisis happened? (Khrushchev‚ Fidel Castro & Cuba) * Was JFK a hawk or a dove? * Impacts of the crisis: flexible response & trend toward détente * Missles out of Cuba * Missles out of Germany * Can’t invade Cuba with force. THE WAR IN VIETNAM * It was America’s longest war * Some numbers: $ 150 billion ($600
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touches the polygon on the inside in the middle of each side of the polygon. Similarly‚ an inscribed polygon is surrounded by a circle sharing the same center and goes through each vertex of the polygon. A sample of inscribed and circumscribed pentagons is shown below: [pic] Questions For this exercise‚ consider a circle of radius 1‚ and corresponding inscribed and circumscribed polygons with the number of sides n = 3‚ 4‚ 5‚ 6‚ and 8. A: For each n = 3‚ 4‚ 5‚ 6 and 8‚ what are the areas
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inflammation developed at abnormal rates for those in and around the World Trade Center during and after the attacks. 10 - Passengers aboard United Flight 93‚ which had been delayed‚ heard about the previous airplane attacks in New York City and at the Pentagon attacks and attempted to retake control of the plane from hijackers. As a result‚ the hijacker’s deliberately crashed the plane in a Pennsylvania field instead of at their unknown target. 10 Photos from the war in Afghanistan A victim is taken
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The events that occurred during 9/11 have played a monumental role in today’s America as normal. When planes crashed into the trade center‚ pentagon as well as the remote field‚ it finally coerced America open its eyes to the importance of the inhabitants and the Dharma (role) that we all play in this world. As said in an article‚ history is never concrete. From what we can tell‚ history always reflects the current things going on. After 9/11‚ historians started to think about changing the study
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September 11‚ 2001 was the deadliest day for New York. Thousands died because of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. Two planes crashed into the twin towers while a third crashed into the pentagon and a fourth into a field in Pennsylvania. Something this big could not have been decided that morning‚ it needed to be planned. All the people involved need to know what they were going to do. This meant they had to have some form of communication along the way‚ whether it
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Al Qaeda is a terrorist group that was founded between 1988 and 1989. The founders included Osama Bin Laden and Muhammad Atef among others with the same views. The name Al Qaeda translates to "the base" in the English language. Al Qaeda moves around the Middle East until it settled in Afghanistan. The group opposes the United States and other countries due to the counties not following Al Qaeda extreme views of Islam. Al Qaeda has allied themselves with other extremist groups with the similar agendas
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I believe film is called Ethos because it challenges the government’s credibility‚ and ethics because‚ it shows unethical behavior in government‚ the media‚ and corporations. The film reveals that politicians will say and do anything to be elected. This shows that we cannot trust the power that we elect into power because they are not looking for what is best for society. In addition‚ this proves that the people will be dishonest in gaining political power. It also reveals that the United States
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The Jacob Wetterling case is‚ at its core‚ a dispute over whether access to nonessential government files by the press‚ specifically investigative reports‚ or the privacy rights of individuals is ensured by the Constitution of the United States and without the realm of the state. The family of Jacob Wetterling‚ a young boy who was abducted and murdered in 1989‚ issued a lawsuit against the Stearns County as it prepared to release the opened state files to government watchdog groups and media coalitions
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military-would-be-unfair-and-hurt-troop-morale It has been a year since “don’t ask‚ don’t tell” was repealed‚ and by most measures the change has been a success. Gay service members say they feel relief they no longer have to live secret lives. Pentagon officials say that recruiting‚ retention and overall morale have not been affected. None of the dire predictions of opponents‚ including warnings of a mass exodus of active duty troops‚ have occurred. Many Gays are working side by side with their
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arc rod. DESCRIPTION OF BUCKYBALL: Bucky ball is an hollow‚ spherical or ellipsoid molecule composed of carbon atoms of pentagonal and hexagonal faces. The structure consists of 32 faces in which 20 are hexagons and 12 are pentagons. The interesting part is that no two pentagons share a same vertex. This structure resembles the soccer ball (football)‚ the structure is also called as truncated icosahedron. Fullerenes have been found to occur in nature. There exist different Bucky balls depending
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