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Overview of Remote Sensing

long time. In the 1800s, "cameras were positioned above the Earths surface in balloons or kites to take oblique aerial photograph...

Iraq War and Weapons of Mass Destruction

his underwear, is humiliation enough. Of course, the primary controversy is not how the war plays out on television, but the idea...

History of Juvenile Boot Camps

2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Studies, 2007). One must perhaps also look at the fact that the United States has been at war in Iraq for several years now and th...

Military Technology and New Personal Defense Weaponry

of the M16s with the M4 which is a newer carbine (Cox, 2007). "The Army started buying M4s in the mid-1990s but mainly reserved th...

The History of Basketball

It was in 1892 that the rules were first developed (Bellis, 2007). At first the ball that was used was a soccer ball and it was es...

Weapons in WWII

submachine gun, with the common one being the MP40 for German soldiers (Heitmann et al.). With further development they finally "G...

Chemical And Biological Weapons: Dangers Posed To Human Existence

in 1984 with the implementation of its first agent. "Irans motives for seeking nuclear weapons stem from its rivalry with Iraq, f...

The North Korean Crisis

ability to add to these resources, the Yonbyon facility in North Korea was estimated at having sufficient resources and capacity t...

History of Des Moines, Iowa

It was during this year that "John Dougherty, an Indian Agent at Fort Leavenworth, Ks, recommended that a military post be establi...

History of Public Administration

served in the Revolutionary War and employed them in civil service positions in the government (Highlights in the History of Publi...

Escalators

history of the escalator, the earlier patent was used in many places. The problem it seems was that there was not the use of elect...

Nuclear Weapons Control and Foreign Policy

positions within the government (44). This group does not take the issue lightly. Being physicians they know that the consequences...

Technological Differences Between Vietnam War and the Gulf War

troops in the field; it "provided additional firepower to troops engaged on the ground," it extracted troops from engagements when...

Haunted America by Patricia Limerick

people who eventually fought each other had prior history together. "Before whites and Indians would feel inclined to fight each o...

Ballet

of her toes), wearing the bell-shaped white tutu that is, for many, the enduring image of the ballet dancer" (Webb, 2006; 41). ...

Gun Control in Kansas

engage in crime far more often without fearing for their lives from the victims. This is emphasized even more when one understands...

The United Nations: History.

the purpose of establishing ways to settle crises peacefully, prevent wars and codify "rules of warfare" ("History of the United N...

Punishment and Crime

Criminologists, sociologists, and even psychologists often agree that specific factors in the lives of an individual determine the...

The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

Middle East and Oil

itself was followed by an oil embargo (Stanislaw and Tergin, 1993). Although the Yom Kippur War was won in a matter of days by Isr...

Treaty of Versailles and Propaganda

during the first war. This brief government was doomed to failure from the beginning, it can be said in hindsight. Consider that...

Warfare and the Connection Between Tactics and Weapons

the "queen of the battle", this was not necessarily the case in all warfare. During the first years of this countrys history, for...

Unconventional Weapons Sought by North Korea

out that she is a sovereign country with the right to arm herself as she sees fit. Others, however, perceive this direction as a ...

International Politics and Terrorism

Biological weapons have become increasingly popular within terrorist organizations since the 1990s because they can reproduce micr...

Bomb and Hiroshima II

In five pages a book review of The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II by Herbert Feis is presented in an examination of the a...

Weapons of World War II From Rifles To The Atom Bomb

What led to the evolution of such a deadly means of irreversible destruction. If World War I was the war to end all wars ....

U.S. Approach to Biological and Chemical Weapons

In five pages the worldwide necessity of biological and chemical weapons is analyzed with U.S. policy emphasis. Five sources are ...

Cold War Outcome and the Impact of Nuclear Weapons

In five pages this paper discusses how another World War was prevented by the inclusion of nuclear weapons by the Americans and th...

Origin and Status of the Chemical Weapons Ban Treaty

In four pages this paper examines the Chemical Weapons Ban Treaty from its 1993 introduction by President George H.W. Bush to the ...