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In order to win the Second World War and overtake the Germans from creating a weapon of mass destruction, the United States (US) together with Canada and the United Kingdom (UK) launched the Operation Manhattan, also known as the Project Manhattan. The said operation was designed to create the most destructive bombs ever invented during those times. The operation resulted to the creation of the world first atomic bomb which helped end WWII. It should also be noted that the operation was designed to spy on the German’s nuclear weapons project. It was in the desert of New ...

Theoretical Essay

In the world of law punishment (alternative name – penalty) is considered as an “infliction of some kind of pain or loss upon a person for misdeed (i.e., the transgression of a law or command).”1 Penalty may take different forms and vary from forced labor, flogging, body mutilation, fines and imprisonment to the capital punishment. The punishment has been very retributive, mostly in the form of revenge, during the pre-modern ages and usually the prosecution was executed by the victims or their families. There was not any proportion between the quantity and quality of wrongdoing and the punishment. The ...

Question. What is Thrasymachus's view of justice in Book I of the Republic? Explain the story of Gyges Ring. What is this story meant to establish? Do you think that Thrasymachus's view of justice is correct? Why or why not? Answer. Thrasymachus philosophy on justice was exactly opposite to that of Socrates’ position. Socrates believed that justice was the important good and all the just persons were good persons. Socrates view on justice considered it to be the strength of the society’s ethical foundations as it was meant to protect the interests for the common good of the ...

(Class Information) Mike Tyson became a celebrity in his own right. He earned a big name in boxing, not to mention the wealth that he gained from the same sport. However, his fame waned when the front pages of the tabloids and newspapers feasted on his conviction story for allegedly raping one of the aspirants in the Miss Black America beauty contest. The Daily News read, “Mike Tyson, the world heavyweight champion at 19, last night became a convicted rapist at 25, after a jury found he attacked an 18-year-old beauty pageant contestant in his hotel room here last ...

The play Fences by August Wilson is set in the American urban setting in 1957. After the end of the Civil War and the Reconstruction, it is clear that the White Americans and the Black Americans had been segregated in almost all areas of life (Tribute To August Wilson 1). These arenas included buses, schools, and even in sport, for instance, baseball. The play gives a practical example of a great player whose dream is crushed along racial lines, despite being good in the game of baseball. Troy Maxson, who is the protagonist in the play, defines his life ...

Introduction

The black hat hackers have always purposed to exploit any vulnerabilities they find. Once they find a big target, the chance of concentrating on attacking it is high. Most of the organizations that use networks would be foolish to always feel comfortable with their existing network security features. Networks have a lot of points through which the hackers can intrude and mess around with the firewalls as well as the intrusion detection systems. It is important that an organization’s management identifies the possibility of risks. The risks are identified by first analyzing the specific malicious attacks that have ...

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Business Law

• Regal finance Company, Ltd. and Regal Finance Company II, Ltd., Petitioners, v. Tex Star Motors, Inc In the case at bar, TexStar was a used car dealer. Every time it sold cars, it allowed buyers to pay in installments, thereby extending credit to them. In turn, it sold these notes with full recourse to Regal. Regal would pay the amount of the note, effectively the loan amount, less $750 which would be deposited in the reserve. Should the buyer default in its payment, TexStar would be obliged to repurchase the amount of the note less $2,000. ...

Anytime a story is told by different people, there are understandable number of variations. This is especially true for Greek and Roman myths, which were written during vastly different centuries with opposite views of religion. The Greeks seemed to view their early gods as perfect yet still human with their interactions with mortals. The actions of the divine motivated and drove the course of the stories. The Romans, by contrast, put their gods on a pedestal and shifted the blame to the mortals. The writings of Hesiod and Ovid reflect these differences, depicting the actions in a perfect light ...