...The Alamo was a battle in 1836; it was a huge step in the Texas revolution. On September 16, 1810 Mexico won their independence from Spain and claimed all the land that Spain owned, including Texas. Texas was then opened for colonization offering cheap land to new settlers. However in 1833 the Mexican general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was elected as the new president of Mexico. Before long the new president had turned Mexico into a dictatorship and began raising taxes, as well as making unreasonable laws. Within no time many colonist began to threaten to revolt against the way Santa Anna was ruling them. This sparked an interest in Texas, they wanted to be free and independent from Mexico. (The Alamo) Texas really struggled while trying to gain independence. Though they were originally part of the Spanish empire, they had been slowly leaning towards independence for quite some time. Settlers from the USA had been arriving in Texas since Mexico first gained its independence. Some of the immigrants came from settlement plans that had been approved. Others were squatters that had arrived to claim the land that was unoccupied. Differences in the culture, economic...
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...Battle of the Alamo On February 23, 1836 the battle of the Alamo began and ended on March 6, 1836. The battle of the Alamo was fought over many issues like Federalism, slavery, immigration rights, the cotton industry and above all, money which wasn't the things that the Alamo wanted. The Santa Anna's went against the Alamos . The battle was fought against General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's who was the enemy. The battle of the Alamo took place in San Antonio. On the first day of the battle in February 23, 1836. Mexican dictator, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and his troops arrived in San Antonio and began the siege preparation at the Alamo. Travis immediately sent a request to Gonzalez for help. In February 24, 1836 Travis assumes overall command of the Alamo after Bowie becomes too sick to serve as a commander. Santa Anna ordered a unit of gun to be constructed on the west side of the river. In February 25,1836 the two hour engagement occurs when Santa Anna's troops attempt to occupy Jacales located near the southwest corner of the compound. Members of the garrison venture out and burn the Jacales this night. Santa Anna's soldiers constructs a unit of guns on the South of the Alamo in order to attack them. James W. Fannin...
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...Hancock’s film captured many aspects of the real Alamo. The film portrayed many actual events of the battle, so I would say that the movie is mostly historically accurate. The film began with a scene showing all of the Alamo’s defenders lying dead on the ground. Every man did, in fact, die defending the Alamo. Nobody knows for certain how many Texans were killed at the battle of the Alamo, but the movie showed an accurate estimate of the amount of men that historians and researchers believe were present at the Alamo. Next, a scene played showing William Travis with his wife signing divorce papers. It is true that Rosanna Travis broke off the marriage with William. In the movie, Rosanna brought William’s son, Charles, and a little girl with...
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...The stopover at the secluded desert research facility induced Marvin to reminisce on the subject of his war years. During the war, he headed up a team of scientists and engineers that worked on the detonation device for the nuclear bomb. To maximize devastation, the bomb needed to unleash its ferocity above the ground, in contrast to conventional bombs that explode on impact. Marvin and his team engineered a system that detonated the bomb at the appropriate altitude by precisely timing a radar signal bounced off the ground. Since the apparatus that the team developed remained untested until the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the usually self-confident engineer anxiously waited until the device performed its function successfully over the Japanese...
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...power might shift if one country gets the ability to invade any other country’s computer systems while putting up the ultimate computer defenses. That’s a major reason nations are pouring money into this research. The U.K., China, Russia, Australia, Netherlands and other countries are in the game. In the U.S., the CIA, National Security Agency and Pentagon are all funding research, while Los Alamos National Laboratory operates one of the most significant quantum computer labs. Negotiations to keep nuclear weapons from Iran are certainly critical, but if you play out the promise of quantum computing, an American machine could bust into Iranian systems and shut down all that country’s nuclear activity in an instant. It’s like a game of rock-paper-scissors: Nukes might be the world’s version of a rock, but quantum computers would be paper, winning every time. And yet, quantum computing research isn’t self-contained and secretive in the manner of the Los Alamos atomic bomb work during World War II. Some of it is academic work at universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with findings shared in scientific papers. Technology companies are working on this, too, since these things have the potential to be business nukes. IBM, Google and Microsoft all fund research. Imagine if Google gets one before Microsoft. That pesky Bing could wind up vaporized. Google has a Quantum Artificial Intelligence unit working with the University of California, Santa Barbara, with...
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...Due to the enormous expense, no further tests were conducted. The second bomb, known as "Little Boy" was detonated over the city of Hiroshima, and the final bomb, "Fat Man" was detonated over the city of Nagasaki. The United States where keeping a secret away from the rest of the world and they wouldn't even tell some of the people that worked for them what they were doing. In my own opinion I think it is wrong to keep secrets from the states because many people were hurt from this. People died of cancers because of the radiation that came from the bombs. The employment went through the roof during this time. They went from pretty much just talking about a bomb on paper, and than in the late 1942 they had a project with about 125,000 active employees at its peek. The Manhattan Project was extreme secret project. By 1945, the project had nearly 40 laboratories and factories which employed about 200,000 people. Among these employees were some greatest scientist. Included: Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Harold Urey. There are many more but this is just a couple. This was a very important project to the United states so we could be the first one to accomplished the atomic...
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...bomb on Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, a twenty one kiloton plutonium device known as "Fat Man.”(Atomic Heritage Foundation, 2012) This paper will discuss the creation and use of the first two atomic bombs. Early in 1939, German physicists had learned the secrets of splitting a uranium atom. Fears soon spread over the possibility of Nazi scientists utilizing that energy to produce a bomb capable of unspeakable destruction. Scientists Albert Einstein, who fled Nazi persecution, and Enrico Fermi, who escaped Fascist Italy, were now living in the United States. They agreed that President Franklin Roosevelt, must be informed of the dangers of atomic technology in the hands of the Axis powers. In late 1941, the American started to design and build an atomic bomb, which later received its code name, the Manhattan Project, which was named after one of the initial sites of research, Columbia University in Manhattan, New York. Nuclear facilities were built at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Hanford, Washington. The main assembly plant was built at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Robert Oppenheimer and Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves was put in charge of putting the pieces together at Los Alamos. After the final bill was tallied, nearly $2 billion had been spent on research and development of the...
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...In 1938 Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman were two German scientists who demonstrated nuclear fission. Nuclear fission released an enormous amount of energy called nuclear energy that can be used in many ways, including a dangerous weapon. They found that they could split the nucleus of a uranium atom by bombarding it with neutrons. As a result, the uranium nucleus splits some of its mass to be converted to energy. Other physicists noticed that the fission of one uranium atom gave off extra neutrons, which could in turn split other uranium atoms, starting a chain reaction. Therefore, in theory this energy could be harnessed to make a powerful bomb. Due to this, the development of the ultimate power took many scientists a lot of hard work and dedication to create such an effective bomb. First and foremost, there were problems with the political and social climate of the world that caused a race to unfold in the development of the ultimate weapon. During this period of time World War II was going on, and the United States was fighting with Germany in the Atlantic, as well as Japan in the Pacific. It all started when Adolf Hitler and the Nazis attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, in which the other countries had joined the war for help. As a result, when Leo Szilard heard that Germany had found out about Hahn and Strassman’s discovery he thought they would produce a bomb. Leo Szilard told them that they were attempting to purify Uranium-235, which would make up the atomic bomb. With...
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...recordings]. Retrieved from http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Hibakusha/index.shtml Atomic Heritage Foundation & Los Alamos Historical Society. (n.d.). Voices of the Manhattan Project [Tape recordings]. Retrieved from http://manhattanprojectvoices.org/ Relate to Secondary Sources: The first primary source is recounts from the people who survived the bombings and what they were doing when it happened. They talk about what they saw and experienced. In “The voice of Hibakusha” the victims explain symptoms they had due to the radiation from the atomic bombs. The effects of radiation which in the article by Zeman “Taking hell’s measurements”, he says magazines mostly ignored. The second source is interviews from the people who worked on the Manhattan project and they also talk about their experiences. The second primary source shows the secrecy around the project and the scientists knowledge of the atomic bombs and the people involved. Some of the scientists talked about how deadly they knew the bombs were and how some scientists had signed a petition to not use the bombs. Add to Understanding: The primary sources let me understand the effects of the situation and how it progressed. They also helped me understand the individuals involved like the scientists, and survivors of the bombings. I do not see how I could write a paper focused on civilians and not research what the civilians involved thought and how they contributed. These sources help explain the atomic bombs from the perspective...
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...loaded with 9,000 gallons of gasoline or would the same person be safer transporting a loaded trailer of transuranic (TRU) waste? Therefore, transporting any commodity can be as safe as the driver transporting the commodity or the opposing traffic makes the situation. With the continued controversy over the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site, the Department of Energy (DOE) has continued to transport transuranic (TRU) waste from different sites around the U.S. to the world’s first repository for radioactive waste. This paper will explain what the WIPP site does and where WIPP is located. Will explain the birth of the program and why. Will explain what TRU waste is. Will explain what the process of disposal is from birth to the grave. Will show what the public has to say about the program. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is the world's first underground repository licensed to safely and permanently dispose of TRU waste left from the research and production of nuclear weapons. After more than 20 years of scientific study, public input, and regulatory struggles, WIPP began operations on March 26, 1999. Located in the remote Chihuahuan Desert of Southeastern New Mexico, about 30 miles east of Carlsbad, NM, project facilities include disposal rooms mined 2,150 feet underground in a 2,000-foot thick salt formation and have been stable for more than 200 million years. TRU waste is currently stored at sites nationwide. WIPP is the nation’s solution for permanently disposing...
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...Simões, L. e Gouveia, L. (2008). Consumer Behaviour of the Millennial Generation. III Jornadas de Publicidade e Comunicação. A Publicidade para o consumidor do Séc. XXI. UFP. Porto. 10 de Abril. Consumer Behaviour of the Millennial Generation Luís Simões1, Luís Borges Gouveia2 1 PhD Student (Information Science), Fernando Pessoa University (lsimoes@ufp.pt) 2 Associate Professor, Fernando Pessoa University (lmbg@ufp.pt) In this paper we present an integrative view of Millennials’ consumer behaviour. After applying some classical models based on the traditional “information-processing paradigm”, we concluded that only a framework that takes into account the impact of the culture and lifestyle surrounding Millennials is useful to derive guidelines on how to make successful advertising campaigns aimed at this population. The paper concludes with some recommendations on how to be able to reach this segment of consumers. I. Millennials as Consumers Advertisements targeting children and adolescents tend to have a profound impact on this population. Brands try to obtain lifelong loyalties by connecting with teens that will thereafter develop strong identity feelings with those brands. In a study carried out in 1999, with 5-9 year-old students in Dutch schools it was found that 52% of the children referred brand names when asked what gifts they wanted for Christmas (McNeal, 1999). In another study it was also found that the child's first request for a product occurs...
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...Sullivan influenced people with his writings and on top of the he was a US Minister to Portugal. He was also an editor and used “manifest density” in a paper he wrote in the New York Democratic review. In fact, Sullivan first made it as a slogan for the paper, but then it influenced the westward expansion. Manifest density made the philosophy that people were destined by God to expand their territory. Manifest destiny also impelled the Louisiana purchase. The land purchased in the Louisiana purchase pressured many people to migrate west, so they could receive more...
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...DEMOCRACY * Give a comprehensive appraisal of the revival of democracy after the interregnum of 1999-2002. (2002) * Debate, National Interests VS Democratic Values in the context of recent political and constitutional developments in Pakistan. (2003) * The rise of religious extremism and militancy has become a major challenge to Pakistan’s internal stability and promotion of democracy. Elaborate. (2008) * Why most countries of the Muslim world are devoid of democratic governance? What changes would you recommend to make them modern democratic states? (2009) * Democracy in Pakistan has remained an elusive dream. Why it has taken so long to develop a road map and follow it with necessary modification? Explain (2009) GOVERNANCE * Governance through ordinances has been the hallmark of all regimes, democratic or otherwise, in Pakistan. In this context briefly review Pakistan’s political, constitutional and judicial landmarks. (2000) * Note: Ramification of Taliban’s style governance. (2000) * Pakistan is suffering from crises of governance at Institutional level. Suggest remedies to mitigate this situation. (2007) GLOBALIZATION * Discuss politics of World Trade Organization and Globalization. (2000) * Globalization, as being shaped by the World Trade Organization in a world of un-equal nation-slates, has un-manageable implications. Discuss. (2003) 911 CONSEQUENCES * “A single catastrophic event –‘Nine Eleven’ – has turned the entire...
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...Risk Factor Analysis— A New Qualitative Risk Management Tool John P. Kindinger, Probabilistic Risk and Hazards Analysis Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory John L. Darby, Probabilistic Risk and Hazards Analysis Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory Introduction Project risk analysis, like all risk analyses, must be implemented using a graded approach; that is, the scope and approach of the analysis must be crafted to fit the needs of the project based on the project size, the data availability, and other requirements of the project team. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has developed a systematic qualitative project risk analysis technique called the Risk Factor Analysis (RFA) method as a useful tool for early, preconceptual risk analyses, an intermediate-level approach for medium-size projects, or as a prerequisite to a more detailed quantitative project risk analysis. This paper introduces the conceptual underpinnings of the RFA technique, describes the steps involved in performing the analysis, and presents some examples of RFA applications and results. project activity flow chart to help organize the RFA. The flow chart defines the tasks to be modeled and their interrelationships for the project schedule analysis. WBS and schedule tasks may be consolidated and/or expanded to explicitly highlight those tasks and influences that are expected to have a significant technical risk and/or significant uncertainty in schedule or cost performance. The flow chart is developed...
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...Haroon (Ty) Aregbe The Sam Houston Speech Sleuthing the Alamo is a book about a historian, James E. Crisp, investigating and finding out some interesting truths about the Texas Revolution. In part one of the book, Crisp investigates Sam Houston’s speech that was given to a group of volunteer soldiers at Refugio. Crisp decided to take a deeper look into Houston’s speech because to his knowledge it “seemed so unlike Houston” (39). Along with believing the speech was incorrect, Crisp also does thorough research on the speech and then uses this research to prove that the speech given is wrong. Also as Crisp does his research, he finds out two surprising discoveries on Houston’s speech and how it had been recorded. When reading Houston’s speech initially, it is easy for the reader to infer that he is showing strong racial prejudice against the Tejanos. “The last drop of blood would flow before we would bow under the yoke of these half-Indians.” (38). It seems that the speech was used to turn the Tejanos into the ultimate enemy. Houston accused them of letting the Americans “struggle without any aid” (38), and went on to say that Americans and Mexican “will never get along together” (38). After reading the speech Crisp is completely stunned and confused that Houston would use such harsh words against all Mexicans. Crisp explains that his disbelief comes from his “childhood image of Sam Houston, the adopted Cherokee”(39), and his “long and friendly relationship with Native Americans”...
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