LIBERTY UNIVERSITY A SUMMARY OF “PURE HISTORY SPECIALS: BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER” SUBMITTED TO DR. MICHAEL A. DAVIS IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COMPLETION OF HIST 222 BY CAROLINA PHILLIPS LYNCHBURG‚ VIRGINIA APRIL 3‚ 2014 A SUMMARY OF “PURE HISTORY SPECIALS: BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER” Pure History Specials: Breaking the Sound Barrier” is a history documentary found on hulu.com relating to American pilots during
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Was the Atomic Bombing Justified? The Atomic Bomb made a very serious statement at a time when the world was in disarray (“Manhattan”). World War II was one of the most destructive times in history causing over 50 million deaths and leaving behind mental and physical casualties of war. (“World War II”) It started in September‚ 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and continued on a destructive path through Europe. Britain and France declared war on Germany. Two years prior in 1937‚ the Sino Japanese
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and having an abortion is one of them. There are things in life that are very wrong‚ even when people try to justify it. Abortion is morally wrong because prevents a potential human being has a potential future like the rest of the world. Human life begins at conception‚ therefore‚ the fetus is an innocent human being‚ and therefore‚ killing the fetus is morally wrong. The fetus has a genetic code as any living species on earth‚ and during the fetus’s 18 weeks‚ it feels stimulations such as pain
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Breaking a Social Norm For my breaking a social norm‚ my friends and I wanted to do something creative that no one in my class would do. So in a couple of minutes of thinking we figure something creative. Our plan was to go to McDonalds and use the drive thru to order our order‚ but the catch is that I was supposed to walk to the drive thru with no car just me standing there ordering my order and when they said to pull up to the next widow I would just walk to the window and pay and walk to the
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which would pose a huge security threat to all the nations around the world. Another being the fact that Hussein supported the group responsible for the attacks on our country on September 11th 2001‚ which angered plenty of Americans and seemingly justified violence to be used. And also the fact that Hussein needed to be removed from power as he was a brutal dictator who was committing egregious acts of violence against his own people. Therefore a humanitarian intervention would be called for using
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Breaking through the Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gillman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” takes place in a large mansion on the outskirts of a small rural town sometime during the late 1800’s. The main character and narrator of the story is a young woman who remains unnamed. The narrator explains that she was brought to the mansion by her husband John who is a physician. John believes that the narrator has nervous depression and feels that she will be best treated using a method called the rest treatment
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of part (b) question (b) “Genetic engineering is ethically justified.” Discuss [10] Since the development of genetic engineering in the 1970s‚ scholars have questioned its ethical justification‚ claiming that it was playing God’ and was unnatural. Others claimed that humans have always altered their environment to benefit themselves. An example is that of genetically modified crops which some people believe can be justified for a number of reasons. The food has better taste and quality
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Was it Justified or Necessary for the Americans to Drop the Bombs? Introduction On August 6th‚ 1945‚ an American B-29 bomber named “Enola Gay” dropped the world’s first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan. The nuclear explosion killed nearly 90 percent of the cities population‚ killing 75‚000 people from the point of impact and thousands more dying from Radiation Poisoning later on. Three days later‚ on August 9th‚ a second B-29 bomber named “Bockscar” dropped a second Atomic bomb on the Japanese
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Taking care of others in a bad situation. Helping someone even though one has chores to do. In To Kill A Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ characters take action and show they are good in many ways. The definition of good is morally right. All of these characters show they are morally right in many different ways. Tom Robinson‚ Boo Radley‚and Atticus Finch‚ are all examples of good people because they stand up and help others instead of walking on by. Tom Robinson shows he is a good and moral person
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What was the most important short-term consequence of breaking the enigma code? One one of the primary causes of the end of World War two was the breaking of the German Enigma codes. Other short-term consequences lead to First‚ the decimation of the Italian fleet at the Cape of Matapan in 1941‚ due to intercepted Italian signals by Bletchley Park‚ the sinking of Scharnhorst in 1943‚ as well due to findings be Bletchley Park‚ and the greatest contribution— the defeat of German U boats in the Atlantic
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