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    given out in neutralizing sodium hydroxide  (NaOH) using different concentrations of Hydrochloric Acid.  Background Information:-  Substances that neutralize acids are called alkalis. An acid is a  substance that forms hydrogen ions (H+ ) when placed in water. It can  also be described as a proton donor as it provides H+ ions. An  example of an acid is hydrochloric acid (HCl)‚ Sulphuric acid (H2SO4)  etc. An alkali is a soluble base and forms hydroxyl ions (OH-) when  placed in water. It

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    A Swiss chemist named Dr. Albert Hoffman first produced lysergic acid Diethylmide –or best known as LSD in 1938 (Dye‚ 1992‚ p. 2). Hoffman discovered the drug while trying to synthesize a new drug for the treatment of headaches. He obtained the lysergic acid from the parasitic fungus that grows on rye plants known as ergot. From the lysergic acid‚ he synthesized the compound LSD. He used the compound to test for its pain killing properties on laboratory animals. Being that appeared totally ineffective

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    My design‚ like Pape (2003)‚ is going to look at suicide attacks but my area of focus is going to be from 1980-2015. This reason for the change is because I want to expand on the data collected by Pape (2003)‚ from the Lexis Nexis data base. Another area of change my research will have is on the properties collected from the data. As citied earlier Pape (2003) looked at three properties I’m only going to look at two. Pape’s main findings are supported by three general patterns he finds in an extensive

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    After a biological attack on the US that kills the President‚ a determined‚ female VP must make a world altering decision about starting a war that could devastate many. BRIEF SYNOPSIS Vice President SARAH MANN is honored with the Nobel Prize for Peace Induction. Her husband‚ DAVID‚ AADIL ASSID‚ a US Marine‚ and ROBERT SOULE‚ Secretary of Defense accompany Sarah. The center is attacked with a biological substance. Sarah‚ David‚ and Soule are rushed to the limo. Terrorist attack killing most of the

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    had been aware of a possible attack since the 1920s‚ though tensions did not begin to grow seriously until Japan’s 1931 invasion of Manchuria. Although the original plan was that the attack wouldn’t begin until thirty minutes after Japan had informed the United States those peace negotiations was at an end. They attacked with no formal declaration of war. The attack was conducted by Commanders Mitsuo Fuchida and Minoru GendaIt. There were two separate waves off attacks; the second wave being led

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    “On Sunday morning‚ 7 December 1941‚ with a devastating surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor by Vice Adrmiral Chuichi Nagumo’s carrier-based planes‚ Japan began her war against the United States.”1 On that Sunday the peaceful paradise of Hawaii was shattered. A surprise Japanese attack on the Island of Oahu and the fleet at Pearl Harbor was caused for one of the most devastating defeats in American military history. On this day a Japanese fleet of six aircraft carriers sat two

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    and one that most will likely never forget. The attacks on the World Trade Center in New York in September of 2001 spawned other‚ smaller terrorist events. While most paled in comparison to the desolation of the Twin Towers‚ these other attacks presented great harm and risk and sparked a new fear in the American people. One such event was the spread of anthrax through the United States Postal Service. Just weeks after the World Trade Center attacks‚ a man in Florida was hospitalized and diagnosed

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    of Infamy" On December 7 of 1941‚ Japanese airplanes attacked the naval base of Pearl Harbor with a horrendous attack. With this‚ the 32nd president of the United States‚ president Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚ gave his famous speech. Shortly after this‚ the British and United States declared war on Japan. Not so long after‚ Germany declares war on the United States. The attack of Pearl Harbor is to be said as the starting mark of America into the war of World War II. Now technically‚ the war

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    In 1941‚ the attack on Pearl Harbor and the fall of Hong Kong led to the declaration of war between Canada and Japan. The sacrifice of 2‚000 Canadian soldiers in the invasion of Hong Kong raised fear and rage against Japanese on the west coast. Along with several government policies which provide room for the entrenched racism‚ rationality is dissolved into violence and repression which pressures the government for the final detention. Japan was allied with Britain in the First World War‚ thus the

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    At 7.50am on Sunday 7 December 1941‚ the first of two waves of Japanese aircraft began their attack on the US Pacific Fleet‚ moored at Pearl Harbor on the Pacific island of Oahu. Within two hours of the attack‚ five battleships had been sunk‚ another 16 damaged‚ and 188 aircraft destroyed. The two attacks killed just under 100 Japanese but over 2‚400 Americans‚ with another 1‚178 injured. The Japanese were lead by Tojo and Yamamoto. Pearl harbor was a massive event in history that will always be

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