...Degraffenreid October 15, 2013 Engl 111 Professor Drake Tank Man On June 5, 1989 an unknown man from Beijing stood in front of a column of military tanks. This was the day the Chinese military had suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 by force. This photograph was taken by Jeff Widener of the Associated Press. This picture is considered one of the iconic images of the 20th century. But there has been a repurposed image of the tank man that has yellow ducks instead of military tanks. The rubber duck has become very popular in Hong Kong Harbor. The author of this photo is unknown. It was published on June 5, 2013 on the Chinese micro blogging website Weibo, and has received so much attention that Chinese authorities have banned the term “big yellow duck”. What has not been told is that the government in china still does everything to keep the event in mystery, pretending it never happened. Looking at both of these pictures there has been a meaning change to the photo “Tank Man” because there was a switch of military tanks and rubber ducks. In both photo there is similarities and differences. In the Jeff Wiedener Photo “Tank Man”, there is a man who was protesting at Tiananmen Square while the military where going down the street. This unknown man, some saying his name is Wang Weilin, walked in the middle of the street and stopped in front of a line of military tanks. In a result of that these tanks had stop and tried to move around him and he wasn’t letting...
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...A tank is a large type of armoured fighting vehicle with tracks, designed for front-line combat. Modern tanks are strong mobile land weapons platforms, mounting a large-calibre cannon in a rotating gun turret. They combine this with heavy vehicle armour providing protection for the crew of the weapon and operational mobility, which allows them to position on the battlefield in advantageous locations. These features enable the tank to have enormous capability to perform well in a tactical situation: the combination of strong weapons fire from their tank gun and their ability to resist enemy fire means the tank can take hold of and control an area of the battle and prevent other enemy vehicles from advancing, for example. In both offensive and defensive roles, they are powerful units able to perform all primary tasks[which?] required of armoured troops on the battlefield.[1] The modern tank was the result of a century of development from primitive armoured vehicles, due to improvements in technology such as the internal combustion engine, which allowed the rapid movement of heavy equipment required to construct armoured vehicles. As a result of these advances, tanks underwent tremendous shifts in capability during the World Wars of the 20th century....
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...The Water Tank Adopted from The Management Accountant’s Guide to Fraud Discovery and Control by Davia, Coggins, Wideman, and Kastantin. You are the auditor for the Bluebird Corporation. The Bluebird plant, located in La Crosse, Wisconsin, comprises many buildings which house general and administrative services, manufacturing operations, and shipping, receiving, and warehousing functions. Bluebird’s management has recently become sensitized to the corporation’s vulnerability to fraud, after hearing of experiences elsewhere, and you are instructed to devote some of your time to searching for evidence of it. On day, in compliance with management’s request, you make a random selection of payment transactions. The first one you select for examination is a $5,000 payment that was made to Aztec Company. You retrieve the purchase order that required the work that was done and find that it called for the following: 1. Drain 5,000 gallon water tank atop Building 12. 2. Scrape and clean interior surfaces of the tank. 3. Rehabilitate surfaces as may be necessary. 4. Coat all interior surfaces of the tank with Z-26 Sealant, and elastomeric waterproofing and rust proofing compound. 5. Refill tank with 5,000 gallons of water. 6. Perform and complete all work during the plant vacation shutdown period August 1-14, 2004. Required: Consider the possible common frauds that could be perpetrated in this situation. Which seem more likely? Assume that you suspect a shell payment...
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...Storage Tanks PRODUCT CODE QUALITY AND STANDARDS PRODUCTION CAPACITY MONTH AND YEAR OF PREPARATION PREPARED BY : 303701005 : IS 12701:1989 : 9000 tanks of 500 L, 750 L, 1000L and 5000L. : January, 2003 : Small Industries Service Institute 4th Floor, Harsiddha Chambers, Ashram Road, Ahmedabad-380014. Phone Nos.:27540619, 27544248, 27543147 Fax No.: 079-7540339 E-mail sisiabd@gujl.guj.nic.in INTRODUCTION Roto Moulded Plastic Water Storage Tanks are made from Linear Low Density Polyethylene/Low Density Polyethylene. These tanks are light in weight therefore, it is easy to fix them at the place of choice. These tanks require no painting, no rotational moulding, product is formed inside a closed mould rotating biaxial in two plains perpendicular to each other. In batch type-rock-N-Roll type Rotational Moulding machines, frame of the machine is turned in a primary axis while mould is rotated in secondary axis. As rotational moulding does not involve any injection pressure and high shear rates, this process offers certain basic advantages over other processes and techniques of plastic processing. a) Complex parts can be moulded without need for post-assembly. b) Low machinery cost relative to production capacity. c) Double walled items can be produced. d) Ease of colour and material change. e) Multiple product and multi colours can be moulded at the same time f) Minimum wastages. g) High production capacity on selected parts. h) Production design freedom. These tanks keep water...
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...destruction was the tanks. Tanks were modified with firepower in the form of machine guns, then cannon. A tank is a heavy armored fighting vehicle which carries explosive weapons. Tanks are essentially weapon platforms that make the weapons mounted in them more effective by their cross-country mobility and by the protection they provide for their crews. Tanks A) ’’Began of the 20th century when the armored fighting vehicles began to take practical form.’’ (Encyclopedia Britannica). Armored vehicles such as tanks started to build before World War I....
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...“Fish Tank” by Andrea Arnolds “Fish Tank” is a film directed by Andrea Arnold and starring newcomer Katie Jarvis and Michael Fassbender. It chronicles teenage angst in poverty-stricken Britain. Anytime I watch movie I always go by the rule that first 10 minutes of a film must do something to draw me into the story. If I think of going to the bathroom or being hungry, chances are I will not enjoy it. I bring this up because in Mia's world, things were taking such and immediate turn from the start that I no time to think about anything else because I became genuinely interested in what the will happen to this girl. The film is loaded with amazingly memorable characters. The film stars eighteen-year-old Katie Jarvis as fifteen-year-old hip-hop dance enthusiast Mia Williams. Mia is a girl who is so fed-up with the world around her she's at war with it. She's friendless, has a younger sister whom I'm quite certain is possessed by Satan, and a mother who's a drunk, a hussy, and would just as soon slap Mia as look at her. She's a volatile girl in a volatile world. Within the first two minutes we learn a ton about Mia as a person. She makes a phone call to her friend -- a friend we find out quickly - Mia has lost to a falling out because she can't control her temper. After the phone call, she jogs to the same friend's house, and throws rocks at the girl's dad to ensure he leaves a message for his daughter. Immediately after this, Mia gets into a fight with a group...
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...it). The M35 2½ was what was needed to move those vast supplies when and where necessary. On the other hand, the M4 Sherman (in most of its variants, except for the British Firefly and quite possibly the Easy-Eights) was vastly inferior in combat capabilities when compared to most other medium tanks, and definitely all heavies. The M10 3-inch GMC, and the far better 76mm armed M18 Hellcat were fine vehicles but suffered heavily from the US Army Tank/Tank Destroyer doctrine, where only Tank Destroyers could engage tanks while tanks should avoid tank to tank combat, usually leading to disastrous consequences since the Germans failed to follow said doctrine. All this nonsense was finally scrapped and the M26 came to be. So, let's head to the T34. Revolutionary is an understatement when applied to this magnificent piece of Soviet engineering (hold your shots, Christie fans!). Just to mention some of its characteristics we could say that it was fast, well armed, well protected, reliable, simple, sturdy, easy to build, easier to maintain, sporting an amazing ground pressure ratio, easy to man by crudely trained Siberian draftees, economical, and to top it all handsome as hell. The first tank to have an all-aluminium diesel engine, which made it far less prone to burning at the first strike that the M4 Medium, Ronson, and provide a fantastic power to weight ratio (some 16 HP per tone in the early models). Wide tracks, coupled with large, rubber rimmed steel wheels and a fine (not spectacular)...
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...patterns do you observe based on the information in Table 4? The greater amount of Dissolved Oxygen (ppm), the greater number of fish observed. 2. Develop a hypothesis relating to the amount of dissolved oxygen measured in the water sample and the number of fish observed in the body of water. When there is more Dissolved Oxygen (ppm) in the water, the number of fish observed increases. 3. What would your experimental approach be to test this hypothesis? My experimental approach would be to replicate at least 5 “ponds” using aquatic tanks. Each tank would contain a thermometer to track the temperature and ensure all tanks maintain the same temperature. Each tank would also contain the same amount of fish to begin with (per say, 50 minnows). I would then have each tank contain a different amount of Dissolved Oxygen to test the hypothesis. I would track daily the amount of fish that remain in the tank, removing dead fish as they pass. Once each tank reaches a steady number of fish for three consecutive days, I will conclude the experiment documenting the amount of living fish that remain. This would become my data for the experiment. 4. What would be the independent and dependent variables? The independent variable (what changes) would be the amount of Dissolved Oxygen (ppm). The dependent variable (the effect of the independent variable) is the amount of fish observed. 5. What would be your control? The most important control in this experiment would be temperature. To...
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...decides to take the boy to a green and living place outside the devastated city. In addition, the man creates a cart for the boy, which the boy rather sees as a tank. On their way to the place, the boy spots an old, rusty tank, which fascinates the boy. The man becomes more and more irritated by the boy’s admiration of things connected to war, which culminates in the man becoming angry with the boy. When the elderly man wakes up after a nap, the boy is gone. The man finds him saying ”Gotcha!” while seated in the tank’s turret pointing towards him. 2: Characterization The young boy was born in the latter half of the Second World War. We can extract this piece of information because of the short story’s title (1951), and because the boy has not gotten any birthday presents in the first six years of his life, which means that the boy turns 7 years in the short story. The boy’s nationality, name and birthdate are also unknown. The boy’s mother was a refugee, who probably delivered her baby to the old man because she feared for her life. The young boy has lived his whole life in a cellar in a shattered city. Therefore he cannot remember much if anything nothing from the war. This is why he does not have the same view on soldiers and tanks as the old man, who takes care of him. The boy admires the soldiers and the tanks, like many male children do at that age, and he has examined them closely, ””Black and red is the engineers,” interrupted the boy seriously...” (p. 3, ll 88-90)...
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...ancestors had shared with him during his childhood. Patton went on to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 15th Cavalry Regiment on June 11, 1909. He married Beatrice Ayer on May 26, 1910. A few short years later Patton would represent America in the Olympics in the first Modern Pentathlon where he finished fifth overall. With a passion for fencing, Patton would continue to study French Sword drills and would later be appointed as an instructor of swordsmanship while attending the Mounted Service School as a student. Patton’s determination to excel would not go unnoticed and he would continue to progress in rank. He also was appointed as the first member of the United States Tank Corpse. Patton took command of the...
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... | |2 |Alex La Guma, Time of the Butcherbird. (a) When the government trucks had gone, the dust they had left behind hung over the plain and smudged | |3 |the blistering afternoon sun so that it appeared as a daub of white-hot metal through the moving haze. (b) The dust hung in the sky for some | |4 |time before settling down on the white plain. (c) The plain was flat and featureless except for two roads bull-dozed from the ground, | |5 |bisecting each other to lie like scars of a branded cross on the pocked and powdered skin of the earth. (d) In the distance a new water tank | |6 |on metal stilts jutted like an iron glove clenched against the empty sky. (e) The dust settled slowly on the metal of the tank and on the | |7 |surface of the brackish water it contained, laboriously pumped up from below the sand; on the rough cubist mounds of folded and piled tents | |8 |dumped there by officialdom; on the sullen faces of the people who had been unloaded like the odds and ends of furniture they had been allowed| |9 |to bring with them, powdering them grey and settling in the perspiring lines around mouths and in the eye sockets, settling on the unkempt and| | |travel-creased clothes, so that they had the look of scarecrows left behind, abandoned in this place. (f) This was no land for ploughing and | | |sowing; it was not even good enough to be...
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...root cause is that the GM company has a unreasonable design of their gas tank on the collisions GM C/K pickups, the report shows that this pickups’ gas tank was too close with the bumper, it only 25 centimeters long. This is dangerous because that will cause explosions if there is any strike. A safety design should be place the gas tank on the top of axle or add on a shield between the gas tank and bumper. Further, the report also shows that the gas tank design was used for trucks manufactured between 1979 and 1987, and the fact is GM knows about their design problem but take no measure to fix or recall their cars because that will cause more cost. At the Moseley case happens, there are at least 130 other lawsuits involving the design of the gas tank GM need to faced. So the major issue of this case in this point is that whether the gas tank design and placement were defective and because that explosion case after their pickup was struck on the side by another vehicle. And those assumptions were proved by the GM engineer who is testified that GM company hidden the knowledge of this dangerous safety defect, but GM try to block his testimony because they had known for years and refused correct it for fear of alerting the public. Moreover, the provided videotapes of GM’s own crash tests between 1981 and 1983 showed that it’s truly dangerous when the pickup was stuck on the side by another vehicle its gas tank broke open. b. Interest Car buyers, Medias and the other car manufactory...
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... 1951” “Happy Birthday, 1951”, is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut, 2008, which begins in media res. The story is about a young boy and an old man, who is not the father of the boy. The boy was given to him as a baby, by a refugee woman. They have lived in the ruins, for 7 years, after a war and have survived by collecting things they could find or steal. One day soldiers find them and order some documents filled out. For this he needs the boy’s unknown birthdate. The boy selects a day, and becomes entitled to have a birthday and presents. The man makes a present, a cart, for the boy, but also gives him a day away from the war. The boy likes his cart, which he calls a tank. The day away from the war becomes a day to a place the boy never has been before. At the trip he sees some soldiers and a tank witch the man does not like. 2. Characterize the boy and the old man There is not mentioned much about the two characters, we do not know their age, nationality, names or birthdays. What we know is they live by themselves, poor, in the ruins after a war. “… the old man and the boy had lived in the ruins for seven years without documents …” (l. 10-11). They survive on things they steal or dig out of the cellars of the ruins. “But the old man and the boy had found all three for the digging in the catacombs of cellars beneath the shattered city, for the filching at night.” (l. 12-14). The boy is around 7 years old, no real parents, as he was given to the old man by...
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...ProHeat 2X ® USER’S GUIDE 8920, 9200, 9300, 9400 SERIES 3 Safety Instructions 4 Product view / Accessories 5 Assembly 6-17 Features / Operations 17-18 Maintenance 19-20 Troubleshooting 21 Consumer Services 22-23 Replacement Parts 24 Warranty Thanks for buying a BISSELL ProHeat 2X® We’re glad you purchased a BISSELL ProHeat 2X heated formula deep cleaner. Everything we know about floor care went into the design and construction of this complete, high-tech home cleaning system. Your ProHeat 2X is well made, and we back it with a limited one-year warranty. We also stand behind it with a knowledgeable, dedicated Consumer Services department, so, should you ever have a problem, you’ll receive fast, considerate assistance. My great-grandfather invented the floor sweeper in 1876. Today, BISSELL is a global leader in the design, manufacture, and service of high quality homecare products like your ProHeat 2X. Thanks again, from all of us at BISSELL. Mark J. Bissell President and Chief Executive Officer 2 16 IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS When using an electrical appliance, basic precautions should be observed, including the following: Read all instructions before using your PROHEAT 2X®. To reduce the risk of fire, electric shock, or injury: ■ Do not immerse. ■ Use only on surfaces moistened by cleaning process ■ Always connect to a properly grounded outlet. ■ See Grounding Instructions ■ Unplug from outlet when not...
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...December 21, 1945) was a United States Army general, best known for his flamboyant character and his command of the Seventh United States Army, and later the Third United States Army, in the European Theater of World War II. Born in 1885 to a privileged family with an extensive military background, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute, and later the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He participated in the 1912 Olympic Modern Pentathlon, and was instrumental in designing the M1913 "Patton Saber". Patton first saw combat during the Pancho Villa Expedition in 1916, taking part in America's first military action using motor vehicles. He later joined the newly formed United States Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces and saw action in World War I, first commanding the U.S. tank school in France before being wounded near the end of the war. In the interwar period, Patton remained a central figure in the development of armored warfare doctrine in the U.S. Army, serving in numerous staff positions throughout the country. Rising through the ranks, he commanded the U.S. 2nd Armored Division at the time of the U.S. entry into World War II. Patton led U.S. troops into the Mediterranean theater with an invasion of Casablanca during Operation Torch in 1942, where he later established himself as an effective commander through his rapid rehabilitation of the demoralized U.S. II Corps. He commanded the Seventh Army during the Invasion of Sicily, where he was the first allied...
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