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- 3061: Black Powder
- ... was supposedly found by the Chinese during this time.Shortly after with the founding of guns, did black powder find fame. This black powder was used to make an explosion causing the bullet inside the gun to fire out. As of late this discovery has come to great use in this country were firearms and fireworks are considered to be the rights of citizens. One importance is that black powder is ... surface was made actually to increase as the burning progressed, with a resultant acceleration in the rate of production of the gases. Second, the use of the slower-burning cocoa powder, which permitted improvements in gun design. When reacted the powder has different percentages in which the products are formed in the combustion. It produces 42.98 per cent of its weight of gases, 55.91 per cent solids, and 1 ...
- 3062: Articles Of Confederation
- ... make war and peace, sustain an army and navy, coin money, establish a postal service, create admiralty courts, and settle disputes between states. Thus, the power vested in Congress allowed it to operate with moderate control over the states. Another successful point was in the allowance of equal votes in Congress for each state and the decree that most decisions be decided by majority vote. However, through these articles, the United ... of Confederation. Although, some states opposed a radical change in governmental form , it was inevitable by 1787. The Articles of Confederation provided effective management of expansion for the United States. It also gave Congress ample control over guidance of the country. However, The Articles were insufficient in several important matters. Without an executive branch the country lacked a clear, decisive leader. The Congress had no power to lay and collect taxes ...
- 3063: How Can Drug Trafficking Be Co
- ... deal to finance the overthrow of the Honduran elected government. Also in 1984, three men in a boat tried to smuggle over one-hundred and fifty million dollars to the United states but the border control caught and arrested them. In 1985 two men flew cocaine to the United States and used the money to buy arms which they flew back to Costa Rica to give to a CIA agent for ... 13 people that were caught wouldn't speak because they were told if they did their families would be in great danger. (www.bordercontrol.com) The Drug Enforcement Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, The Border Control, and all the other sections of government has given an effort and has really tried and has cut down on drug trafficking. With the new technology and the state-of-the-art defense systems the ...
- 3064: Internet History Report
- ... of different packet switching schemes were tried and TCP/IP is what grew OUT of ARPANET, not what started ARPANET. During most of the seventies, the protocol was generally referred to as just the Network Control Protocol or NCP. The term Internet was probably first applied to a 1973 research program that culminated in a demonstration system in 1977. It demonstrated networking through various mediums, including satellite, radio, telephone, ethernet, etc. using packet switching. And this formed the roots of the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). But it was not until 1983 that all nodes on ARPANET were required to use TCP/IP to connect to it. Also in 1983, the Department of Defense moved ...
- 3065: Lincoln's Battle With His Cabinet
- ... considered himself the President's superior, and blandly offered to assume the executive responsibility. He entered the cabinet with the thought of becoming the power behind the 2 Presidential chair and openly opposed Lincoln's control of the Union. This made Lincoln's position as Chief of State exceedingly difficult and hindered his communication and control of the military. As time passed, however, Seward recognized Lincoln's capabilities and gave him complete loyalty (Simmons 174). This could not be said of Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln's first secretary of the treasury ...
- 3066: Ebola Virus In Depth Report
- ... the outbreak provoked a response, Kikwit General Hospital was short of barrier nursing supplies and disinfectants. The current outbreak resembles earlier African out breaks, in which the first cases were found in hospitals where infection control mechanisms were not in place because of economic controls. Ebola virus was spread to health workers in contact with body fluids, and also from patient to patient by the reuse of unsterilized needles. Secondary transmission ... to the equivalent paramyxovirus genes. The reason for the extreme pathogenicity of these agents is not understood. Virulence varies among strains; series of the current strain in Zaire by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that it resembles the one that caused the outbreak in 1976. Past outbreaks have been contained by identifying cases and introducing simple measures to prevent direct contact with body fluids and to ...
- 3067: Civil Affair
- ... two sides basically beat each other up over and over again, but neither side really had the advantage. This lasted until, in the 1980's, the guerillas rose up in one last attempt to take control of the country. When this failed both the guerillas and the government realized that peace was needed. Peace was finally reached and the civil war in El Salvador finally ended. Throughout the duration of the ... Menchu 3). The Indians were looked down upon and were considered sub-human. These Indians moved into the highlands so they could have their own land, but the government moved in and tried to take control of the land. The Indians wanted to keep their culture in tact and this lead to many Indians becoming involved and interested in the guerilla movement. Rigoberta Menchu and her family were Indians, who lived ...
- 3068: Lord Kelvin
- ... would give a demonstration of this to his students. At one end of the lecture room he would suspend a large block of wood like a pendulum and at the other he would have a gun. By firing the gun at the block of wood the bullet would become embedded in an unrealistic collision passing momentum to the combined block of wood and bullet. By measuring the amplitude of the oscillation, the momentum and speed ...
- 3069: Abortion and Euthanasia: A Significant Difference
- ... euthanasia? With all aspects considered, it is definitely very possible for one to sanction active euthanasia, and at the same time remain conservative in regards to abortion. It is possible that the dilemmas of birth control and birth selection can extend to the problems of death selection and death control whether by the individual or society. However, the theories of birth and death are by far two very separate concepts. It is true that birth must occur for death to happen, yet the rationalizing behind ...
- 3070: Psychological Perspectives
- ... does not even remember. The learning perspective is another area of psychological study that is also broken up into two parts. Although the term learning is the main basis for psychologists to explain, predict and control behavior, the meaning of learning is different to psychologists, with different beliefs on how learning affects behavior. Both behaviorists and social - cognitive theorists believe that environmental influences, learning thorough repetition, and reinforcement are the core ... contemporary perspectives that psychologist use today are varied yet the same in so many ways. Many of the perspectives agree that behavior is as complex as a living organism that has many different influences which control it. Just as many similarities that psychologist use in order to try and decipher how the mental process works, as well as what makes people behave in certain ways, there are just as many differences ...
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