...“Bring back conscription” believes that going to military should be compulsory because of the benefits which bring to the individual and society. On the other hand, Dennis De Souza (2010) argues in “Conscription? No way!” that people should not be forced into conscription because it might not be necessary and there are always other alternative services. Firstly, both of these authors agree that when people take conscription, they will be taught self-discipline and a number of useful life skills such as teamwork and leadership. Blythe supposes that people can test themselves throughout the physical and mental challenges. Whereas, De Souza argues that the army has interesting recruitment such as ‘Join the Army and see the world’ or ‘ Learn a new skill in the Army’ but does not mentions about any negative things such as killing people or being killed. In the second argument, Blythe claims that people can gain practical job-related skills which will be taught by top professionals and these skills will be useful in the real life after military services. From De Souza’s point of view, he states that focusing on building a strong army can lead to the unnecessary threats to the country’s neighbors and it might end up triggering a war between the countries. Thirdly, Blythe also states that conscription is gain more knowledge and have wider perspective, he supports his idea that it lead to “a more tolerant society”. On the other hand, De Souza emphasizes that the army should upgrade the condition...
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...Eric Rolenz Mrs. Derksen English 100 31 October 2012 Keeping People Safe: Gun Safety There I was, holding it in my hands. The black plastic stock felt good in my hands, and the trigger was smooth. I had just won my first BB gun at a Pheasants Forever banquet the day before, and was now holding it ready to take aim at the pop cans my dad had set up for me. Before he allowed me to load it he explained to me how to use it correctly. He said to me, “Always have the safety on until you are ready to shoot, and keep you finger off of the trigger. Now pull the bolt back and place a BB in the chamber. Pump the forearm 10 times. Aim down the sight and place the front sight in the middle of the V of the rear sight. Make sure it is level across. Push the safety off and slowly squeeze the trigger.” I had just shot a gun for the first time. On that day I learned how to shoot a gun, be safe, and also respect the gun for what it can do. Over the years, I have learned from my dad and numerous friends how to shoot a gun. Shooting a gun is easy once a person learns how to shoot one. Being accurate on the other hand takes practice, and the shooter must keep practicing in order to stay proficient. Every detail from how a person holds it to how they pull the trigger comes into play when trying to be accurate. To hold a gun correctly, one must use either their left or right hand to hold right behind the trigger. The thumb wraps around the top of the stock while the other fingers...
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...Excessive gun control laws will not prevent crimes and accidents involving firearms. Gun control advocates are attempting to allow more gun control laws to be enforced due to school shootings and other gun involved crimes; however, gun control laws will not prevent these catastrophes. Criminals will break the law despite the fact that there are laws to prevent them from doing so. Furthermore, guns have been around for ages, and have always been a useful tool for the settlers, armies, and people that are in danger. Guns protect the average gun owning citizen from intruders into their home and also their country. Gun control laws are not going to prevent criminals from killing or committing more crimes with firearms; therefore, the average American should be permitted to own firearms to protect themselves and their families from harm's way. More gun control is not needed, education about guns and gun safety is necessary to prevent accidental gun deaths. Statistically ever since people have been taking more firearm courses the accident rate has went down tremendously; for example, since 1930 ,when gun safety courses became popular, the annual number of firearm accident deaths has decreased 81%, while the U.S. population has more than doubled and the...
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...The search for "gold, glory and God" led many Spanish conquistadors on a dangerous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. Because of the distance and danger, many explorers chose a large sailing ship called a galleon to make the trip. In Spanish, Galedn means "armed merchant ship" making it the perfect name for these ships that Were used by the military and for trade. Galleons had a large storage capacity holding anywhere from 500 to 2000 tons of goods. This space was useful for carrying raw products like sugar, gold, silver, tobacco and coffee from Spain to the New World. The boats usually had at least two gun decks containing between 70 to 100 guns and they could carry 200 to 400 sailors. While the ships were a good size for the journey, explorers...
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...ground-breaking tools and devices were invented such as steam engine, telegraph, usage of electricity or telephone. Besides these inventions that were used to improve the every-day life, there were also many others that were used in the World War I. To this group belong machine guns, barbed wire, tanks, dreadnoughts, submarines or mines. The usage of the technology had a big impact on the proceedings and the result of the World War I, because they virtually represented the power of each side participating in the conflict, influenced the morals of both soldiers and civilians and, what is vital, played a big role in the most important events of the War such as the creation and the breach of the stalemate on the West, the naval warfare, or Gallipoli campaign. Machine guns and barbed wire were very important for the course of the War due to the fact that they were part and parcel of the trenches, which were the direct cause of the failure of the Schlieffen Plan. The trenches formed a line from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier with France. That closed the door on free proceedings on the Western front, because barbed wire and machine guns enabled very effective defense, whilst the capturing of the trench was virtually impossible. The attackers had serious troubles with passing both the no-man’s land and the barbed wire. The defenders could easily kill all of them with machine guns. The best example of the trench warfare and the usage of barbed wire and machine guns is the battle...
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...WOT Blitz that actually existed. *leopard 1 -Mouse is all about angles, angle your Mouse! Also do the side-scrape hack. Not angling your mouse will result in 0 cheese and dead mouse. See Angling section. (not fishing) -Mouse is heaviest tank in the game, and weighs ~50 tons more than the second heaviest tank, the JGPZE100. It also accelerates faster than most other tanks. I'll give you a minute to comprehend that. -Speed limit is 20, but the acceleration makes for maintaining such a speed even going up hill (so Mouse could beat an e100 in a race up a small hill), and Mouse will never go above 30, even slipping down the biggest slopes, as not to break WOT Blitz Physics engine. -Gun used to be the weakest gun on a tier 10, until recent update made the rof on the main gun just as fast as the e100 rof on that gun. It also has a weak penetration, but is adequate when aiming for weak-spots on enemies. -Mouse is BIG. Mouse is HEAVY. Pray someone rams you. Or bumps you. Or scrapes you. Or touches you. They won't even scratch your paint, but they will receive much damage. -Need team. Protect team. Have at least a couple of friendlies behind you. Help where help is needed. -Most people who use Mouse are not good...
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...Abstract In recent year’s biometrics have started to make a major positive impact in our nation’s police departments. Biometrics is a technology that can make police departments safer, more effective and more efficient by saving time and money. Biometrics uses a person’s biological markers such as fingerprints, palm prints, facial features, and iris information for various uses. This paper will discuss how biometrics is applied to police technology such as smart guns, iris scanners, fingerprint scanners, and facial recognition systems. This document hopes to provide police departments with enough information to make an informed decision on bringing biometric technology into their units. This document will also touch on amendment rights pertaining to biometric technology in order to make departments aware of how this technology pertains to a citizen’s civil rights. Biometrics is rapidly advancing in our society and police departments need to be aware of how beneficial this technology really is. Biometrics: How Are Police Departments Utilizing This Technology? Biometrics is defined as using inherent human characteristics as a form of identification and access control. There are more than six billion people on our planet and each one can be identified as different by their biometric characteristics (Baker, 2011). With that many people out there police officers now more than ever need a quick and accurate way to identify suspects when working the field. The way they...
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...Q1. Summarize, in your own words, what “digital fabrication” is and how it is different from traditional manufacturing tools and technology. What is a digital fabrication? Digital fabrication is the process that merges designing, construction and production that come together at one level. In other word, it is the process of translating digital design into physical objects that is tangible. Digital fabrication is going to allow individuals to design and produce tangible object and that can be by using the new technology that appears in last several years, which is the three dimensional printer along with the three dimensional software programs that help them to do their work more easily by using this technology. Digital fabrication becomes more useful in business areas because using this technology can increase the production line in inventory and that will help firms to be more efficient when they are using this technology which is (3D printer). On the one hand, the digital fabrication adds value for the consumers. Thus, the consumer no longer needs to buy from stores because today, three dimensional printer can do for those consumers what they wants in short time of period, if they owns their three dimensional printer. As an example, if a consumer has an own 3D printer and want to design and print his or her own Mug. He or she goes through several steps. The first step is the designing which the consumer design his or her own mug using the 3D software program such...
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...December 7, 2012 Gun Control Obviously, guns have been a very big part of our history but because it was use inappropriately gun control was created. Guns are weapons that can take a life in an instant (“Does Gun Control…”). Guns have been part of American society since the arrival of the first European settlers (“Topic Overview…”). Arms in this country are part of our history, part of our culture. It has been passed down, generations to generations, as just an important part of who we are (“Topic Overview…”). Prior to the civil war, gun control laws were enacted in the slaves states principally due to the fear of firearms in the hands of free blacks and slaves who might rebel against their masters (“Special Interview…”). In the 1960’s after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, gun control became a major subject of safety. Certain individuals cannot handle firearm safely, and some individuals choose to use firearms inappropriately. Our society has passed laws regulating the ownership and use of firearms, and more legislation is being considered (“Special Interview…”). Throughout history violence has plagued the human race. We have passed laws to protect society, but the violence continues. Laws attempt to change human behavior, but laws are not able to change human nature. Laws are not enough to protect people from aggression. Xiong 2 While gun control advocates contend that guns leads to crime, injury, and...
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...misidentify a fellow police officer as the criminal and attack the officer, who unfortunately was not in a bite suit. A bite suit is protective clothing the trainers wear when training their dogs to attack. Since the officer was not wearing protective gear, he suffered many lacerations and received multiple stiches. As the night continued, I was able to watch another training scenario involving Taser guns or stun guns. Unlike the dog, this technique worked flawlessly. The officer was able to take down the accurate perpetrator in a proficient manner and no fellow officers were injured. On this particular night, there was an accidental injury that doesn’t happen often involving the canine. However, this introduced a couple of questions. Does this happen frequently and do situations like this happen often on the actual job? In the world of law enforcement, there are many tools used on a daily basis by police officers. A few examples include handcuffs, firearms, pepper spray, batons, radios/walkie-talkies, flashlights, Tasers, radars, LIDAR, and cars/motorcycles. Many of these tools have been around for a very long time, even from the beginning of law...
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...Tactical Operations Tactical Operations unit is an elite team that are trained to perform high-risk operations that fall outside of the abilities of regular officers, including serving high-risk arrest warrants, explosive devices, hostage rescue, counter-terrorism, and engaging heavily-armed criminals. They are often equipped with specialized weapons including assault rifles, submachine guns, shotguns, stun grenades, and high-powered rifles for snipers. They also have specialized equipment including heavy body armor, entry tools, and armored vehicles. Throughout this paper we are going to give a general overview of these tactical teams. Tactical teams were developed from a number of cases in law enforcement history that came to a head in the 1960’s. The Los Angeles police department realized it needed a team specializing in high risk situations. This realization came from an examination of the way in which the LAPD handled the Watts Riots which resulted in six days of over three thousand arrests. The LAPD and other police departments also needed a way to combat sniper attacks such as the sniper incident in Austin, Texas in 1966 in which the only people capable of returning long range fire were civilians armed with hunting rifles. An LAPD officer name John Nelson introduced the idea of a specialized police unit to an Inspector Daryl Gates. Gates built the original SWAT team with 15 four-man teams. Each of the men originally involved in SWAT were volunteers from patrol officers...
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...Guns, Germs and Steel Page 1 GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL: The Fates of Human Societies By Jared Diamond, 1997 About the Author: Jared Diamond is a professor of physiology at UCLA School of Medicine. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and was awarded a 1999 National Medal of Science. He is also the author of The Third Chimpanzee. SUMMARY The book asks and attempts to answer the question, once humankind spread throughout the world, why did different populations in different locations have such different histories? The modern world has been shaped by conquest, epidemics, and genocide, the ingredients of which arose first in Eurasia. The book’s premise is that those ingredients required the development of agriculture. Agriculture also arose first in Eurasia, not because Eurasians were superior in any way to people of other continents, but because of a unique combination of naturally occurring advantages, including more and more suitable wild crops and animals to domesticate, a larger land mass with fewer barriers to the spread of people, crops, and technology, and an east-west axis which meant that climate was similar across the region. The book is well written and contains not only information about the history of cultures around the world, but excellent descriptions of the scientific methodologies used to study them, from how archeologists study the origin of agriculture to how writing evolved to how linguistics can trace the movements of peoples across huge geographic...
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...Workplace Violence Case Study Walaa Essam, Group 52F ESLSCA Business School Workplace Violence Case Study Introduction This case study addresses the problem of workplace violence by analyzing two actual incidents which took place at two renowned multinational firms, which are “DaimlerChrysler’s Toledo, Ohio, assembly plant” and “Lockheed Martin”. The purpose of this study is to help finding a useful managerial tool to decrease the potential for future workplace violence that may lead to loss of life and unnecessary monetary loss. Managers are not necessarily equipped to develop appropriate measures to effectively deal with violent issues. Given the proper tool, managers can often work wonders. But we first need to look at how we define the problem of workplace violence. Generally, people think of workplace violence solely in the context of physical assaults or homicides. Many mental health professionals consider such a definition too narrow, and instead define workplace violence more broadly, such as "any verbal or physical assault or any violence that occurs in the workplace even if its source is not related to the work environment or any abusive, threatening, intimidating, or assaulting conduct against a co-worker whether physical or verbal. Such conduct can be seen in the form of shaking fists, throwing objects, destroying company property, written or verbal threats, swearing, insults, condescending language, hitting, shoving, pushing, kicking...
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...stay poor (Lusted 31). Our society has been like this ever since slavery and trying to have everyone change and stop this completely is nearly impossible. People that are African receive a lower income and higher poverty rate than white people do (Lusted 81). When it comes to law enforcement, racism and discrimination are just as bad. Some people think that cops are innocent in this situation, that may be true. Some cops may ask people to get out of their cars based on behavior and not race (MacDonald). That may be true and there are some cops that do follow that. There is some situations where racial profiling is okay to use. More than half homicides were gang related in 2001 (MacDonald). In situations like crimes that serious it can be useful to use racial profiling, but on the roads and pulling people over for no reason isn’t...
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