The Claw of Archimedes is a weapon that he is said to have designed in order to defend the city of Syracuse in a siege. The claw consisted of a crane-like arm from which a large metal grappling hook was suspended. When the claw was dropped onto an attacking ship the arm would swing upwards‚ lifting the ship out of the water and possibly sinking it. Archimedes may have had it inspired by his law of the lever: How did it work exactly? After using heavy stones to drive back the Romans from the bows
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Weapons Training by Bruce Dawe essay attempt In the poem‚ Weapons Training Bruce Dawe uses language forms and features to show war in an unfavourable light. Weapons Training is known as a anti-war poem. He uses dramatic monologue by an angry‚ racist drill seargent who expresses Bruce Dawes views on war through the use of rhetorical questions‚ structure‚ onomatopoeia‚ and racist and sexual language. Firstly‚ in Weapons Training it is obvious onomatopoeia is used to show exaggeration and to set
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years. It took the lives of about 9 million troops and more than 6 million civilians. World War I was originally called the Great War. Picture Weapons of World War I Several developments led to the awful bloodshed of the Great War. Military drafts raised larger armies than ever before. Industries arose to equip those armies with advanced weapons. Each nation believed it was fighting a war of self-defense. Government propaganda whipped up support by making the enemy
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challenges facing the Pentagon’s most expensive weapon system‚ The F-35 joint Strike Fighter: accepting delays‚ cost overruns‚ criticism‚ and outright public embarrassment or take a loss now and spend more money in the current aging fleet of legacy aircraft which is just as costly but with less criticism. I. Introduction: A. An analysis of the U.S. Department of Defense budget woes and issues reveals challenges facing the Pentagon’s most expensive weapon system‚ The F-35 joint Strike Fighter:
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2 SEP 2002 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GREEK AND ROMAN WAREFARE The main difference between Greek and Roman warfare was the formations that they fought in. The Grecian armies all used the phalanx as a fighting formation while the Romans used the maniple. The phalanx was one mass formation that consisted of infantry eight deep. The maniple formation was actually a group of formations in a checkerboard pattern. Each maniple consisted of about 120 men and when employed in Italy‚ the Romans used thirty
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deadly weapon during the world war I David Seo Mr. McKenzie Oct. 28‚ 2010 Thesis: Poison gases should be banned from the battlefield because they have fatal and catastrophic effects on humans‚ the nature‚ and they were not as effective as other weapons for winning the war. Poison gases had many deadly effects on human bodies. Chlorine‚ phosgene‚ and mustard gases were mainly used (First World War). “Deficiencies of chlorine were overcome by phosgene and they were used mixed with equal
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The Effectiveness of Submarine Warfare in World War I Plan of Investigation The selected topic for this investigation was: To what extent did submarine warfare in World War I help the central powers? I chose this topic because World War I is sometimes a misunderstood war in that the specifics of such a war are not always well known. So I took it upon myself to understand the war better myself and investigate the details of the war. I did a little research on World War I and found that submarines
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present; there are still debates as to whether or not they actually came to the Americas before Columbus. Some believe that the evidence of the presence of the Nordics is more admissible than that of the West Africans. The Norse (also known as the Vikings) got their name from the language they spoke‚ ‘Old Norse’. They were originally from Scandinavian countries. It believed that they came to the new world for several reasons such as; the fact that it had a rich supply of salt to preserve their goods
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Weapons of World War 2 The Karabiner 98k was a German rifle introduced into general service in 1898. It was manufactured by the Mauser armory in huge quantities until it became obsolete after WWII. The 98K is a bolt action rifle that holds five rounds of 7.9mm on a stripper clip. It was the primary German infantry rifle in both world wars‚ and was noted for its excellent accuracy and effective range of 800 meters. For this reason it continued to be used with a telescopic sight as
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We today revel in the idea that we are living in a world of science and science can work wonders for us. It is true that science has revolutionised modern life. What our forefathers‚ half a century ago‚ could not even dream of‚ we have that at our beck and call. Electricity is a wonder and what it is doing would have appeared to be a fairy tale for our forefathers. A button is pressed‚ the room gets flooded with light; the fan moves‚ the A.C. cools or warms the room‚ water is boiled or cooled
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