Firearms and Toolmark Identification Firearms analysis is a “discipline mainly concerned with determining whether a bullet or cartridge was fired by a particular weapon”. (Saferstein) Its beginnings can be traced back over one thousand years ago to around 1040 A.D. In China‚ Tseng Kung-Liang published the first recipes for three types of gun powder‚ which were made through a mixture of sulfur‚ charcoal‚ and potassium nitrite. (Hellemans and Bunch‚ 75) These basic elements are important because
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government into dealing with civil rights. Traveling on buses from Washington‚ D.C.‚ to Jackson‚ Mississippi‚ the riders met violent opposition in the Deep South‚ garnering extensive media attention and eventually forcing federal intervention from John F. Kennedy’s administration (who at first did not support them because he did not want the distraction while dealing with issues in Vienna). Although the campaign succeeded in securing an Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) ban on segregation in all facilities
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or present‚ who would you choose and why? RICHMOND UNI ENTRY ESSAY WRITTEN 14/11/12 ON APPICATION TO THE UNI I have chosen Robert Kennedy the brother of the American President J.F Kennedy for many reasons. Time magazine 5 May 1988 described him as “The Last hero” People spend money to listen to motivational speakers and if I had the chance I would spend the day with Robert Kennedy because I ‘am greatly inspired by his life. He once said in a speech “Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the
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In Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s speech‚ he is asking the people of America to understand the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. with compassion and love‚ not with bitterness and hatred. He uses a sympathetic tone to talk about the struggles he knows the people of America are going through‚ and relates their issues and feelings to himself. One way Kennedy does this is through the use of repetition. Throughout his entire speech‚ Kennedy recycles numerous words and phrases. For instance‚ he repeated
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let the Berliners know the free world stood with them. In 1962‚ the United States caught the Soviet Union building nuclear installations on Cuba. President Kennedy ordered a blockade. The world stood on the cliff of annihilation. At this time Robert Kennedy worked to secure a peaceful end of the crisis. Towards the end‚ he made a deal with the Soviets. The United States pulled its missiles out of Turkey while the Soviets would pull out of Cuba; however‚ the Soviets could not
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though. As the American Experience program “RFK” notes: “Rose Kennedy was a devout Catholic‚ and Bobby absorbed her religious intensity. He made his first communion when he was 7‚ and went on to become an altar boy and attend a school run by Benedictine monks. Bobby grew up with a strong sense of right and wrong‚ good and evil. Like his brothers‚ he was toughened by the religious demands of his father‚ but he was disguised‚ as well‚ a gentler nature. Bobby‚ a friend said‚ was “truly in touch with
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US Makeup 1. Andrew Jackson Go to http://www.pbs.org/kcet/andrewjackson/edu/webquest2task.html -- choose one of the roles listed‚ write a 5 to 7 minute speech that supports or opposes a proposal to have Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill from the point of view of that particular role that you chose. Pay attention to how Jackson affected you in the role that you Andrew Jackson portrait is located on the twenty-dollar bill. There can be lots of reasons behind selected and how your life
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Hunter Hodges AP English 3-2 10/31/11 RFK Speech Rhetorical Analysis Robert Kennedy’s speech on the Vietnam War on March 18‚ 1968 addresses the dire consequences of the war. His speech criticized the actions taken by Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson. RFK’s speech uses parallel structure and other rhetorical devices to appeal to the audience’s emotion‚ logic‚ and ethics. The use of parallel structure throughout the speech contributes to RFK’s views of the Vietnam War. “.. a year when we choose not simply
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Summary The critical essay “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?” written by Marin Luther King Jr.‚ is an inquisitive piece who preaches the idea of a peaceful society‚ Martin also highlights the major issues happening and changing the world at the time. It analyzes events involving World War II and Vietnam War‚ and uses an example from Greek Literature to apply the concept known as “Ulysses and the Siren”; resulting in a realization that peace is the solution to chaos. Idea Based
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contracts. Cesar went on marches‚ boycotts‚ pickets‚ and strikes. He sought to train others and send them to other cities so they could also use these same tactics. His peaceful strategies brought attention to numerous friends and supporters like Robert Kennedy and Jesse Jackson. This great man proved that with self-sacrifice and without violence one could get justice for the people. He was an
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