Should the United States Government pass laws that would prevent the production and sale of semi-automatic assault weapons? Recently‚ an interesting and heated controversy about the regulation of semi-automatic firearms has been taking place in the United States of America. This controversy has arisen because of recent tragedies that have occurred throughout the country. A couple of these tragedies include the mass shooting in a movie theatre in Aurora‚ Colorado‚ and the mass killing of twenty
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Religion | Assessment Task 2 | | Should All Nuclear Weapons be Destroyed | | Isabel | 10/19/2012 | | “All Nuclear Weapons should be destroyed” S ince 1945‚ when the first nuclear bomb was exploded by the Manhattan Project team in the US‚ nuclear weapons have proliferated across the globe. Currently‚ the US has about 7‚000 warheads and the nations of the former Soviet Union have approximately 6‚000. There are enough nuclear weapons in the world to destroy all civilization as we know
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Iron Age Hoplite Warfare brings about the First Democratic Societies in Archaic Age Greece‚ Following the Role of Monarchy‚ Feudalism and the Aristocracy As per the coverage in our course‚ in the Persian War‚ a Greek force from Athens set out to meet the invading Persian army at Marathon‚ and set them running. They were outnumbered by the Persians two to one‚ and the Persian army had been the biggest force the Greeks had ever seen. The majority of the killing took place while the Persians were
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1914‚ and ended on June 28th‚ 1919. The Great War‚ originating in Europe‚ was the first conflict labeled as total war in the world’s history‚ and it involved over 32 different nations around the globe. The Great War was unrestricted in terms of the weapons used‚ as well as the combatants involved. Not only soldiers‚ but civilians and regular working people were deeply involved in World War One. From manufacturing munitions to raising animals for food rations‚ the daily lives of people everywhere were
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Various dangerous and unique were weapons were used in WW1 which made the battlefield very brutal and many soldiers didn’t know how to react when coming across tanks or even heavy artillery and aircrafts that soared the sky’s raining havoc across miles of terrains and trenches. The effects were severe with many soldiers coming home with lost limbs and even emotional shock like ‘shell shock’ which affected the men’s brains making them hear horrors like screams of agony and the sound of gunshots and
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Should all nuclear weapons be destroyed? Today countries all over the world put a significant amount of their budget towards defense and the security along the lines of their borders. Governments all around the world have put great stress on the fact of continuously developing nuclear weapons; this is to help establish their strength over other weaker countries with none or little nuclear power. The first thing that comes to my mind when nuclear weapons are brought into conversation is the Hiroshima-Nagasaki
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“The thought of military grade weapons being given to the local police is madness” (Sgt. Rob Aponte quoted in Kachmar). GIving military grade weapons to local police is not something people think about daily. Most think if there is armored cars in their village would make their village safer‚ but is this really the case? According to the 1033 program‚ which was installed in 1997‚ more than 4.3 billion dollars of military gear has been given to local police across the nation senes 1997 (ingraham)
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had not allowed concealed weapons to be carried on campus. This entire predicament could have been averted had Collins been allowed to carry her gun onto campus to defend herself when the need arose. So what needs to change in order to prevent crimes like this on other college campuses? I believe that college campuses would be safer and better prepared to prevent crimes by allowing students‚ faculty and administration to carry concealed weapons. By allowing concealed weapons onto campus‚ it will provide
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Genocide‚ threats to the environment‚ and weapons of mass destruction are problems that the world has had to face. There have been many attempts made by the international community and its members to address and resolve these problems. Genocide is the deliberate extermination of a national‚ racial‚ political or cultural group. Weapons of mass destruction are the technology used in war that harms other nations and the environment. Both of these issues do great damage and should not go on ignored.
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Should every country have the right to possess nuclear weapons? On the 6th November 1945‚ a United States bomber flew towards the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The only cargo aboard that B-29 bomber was an atomic bomb – ironically nicknamed “Little Boy” - that was to be dropped on its target. At 8.15am and at a height of around 2‚000ft the bomb exploded above Hiroshima‚ taking 140‚000 lives with it. Most of the 140‚000 died instantly‚ horrifyingly the rest of the innocent civilians that were
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