Essays Tagged: "Explosion"

Creation of a Cosmology: Big Bang Theory Chronological history of the events, scientists and their discoveries.

not exist. According to the prevailing cosmological models that explain our universe, an ineffable explosion, trillions of degrees in temperature on any measurement scale, that was infinitely dense, ... rimordial chronology of events known as the big bang.Quantum theory suggests that moments after the explosion at 10-43 second, the four forces of nature; strong nuclear, weak nuclear, electromagnetic ...

(16 pages) 311 1 4.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

A Level Playing Field for All? The Law's Response to On and Off-the-ball Incidents at Football Matches

for their boots.' The choice is simple: either the Football Association manages to curb the recent explosion of crimes being committed whilst playing football through its own disciplinary system, or ...

(38 pages) 220 1 4.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

The Threat of Nuclear Weapons

prove that nuclear weapons are a threat to all of us.A nuclear weapon is any device that causes an explosion by the release of the energy in an atom.They are much more powerful than any conventional ... called hydrogen bombs because that is what they are made of.FISSION WEAPONSFission weapons cause an explosion by the splitting of atomic nuclei. This happens when a neutroncollides with the nucleus of ...

(3 pages) 90 0 3.7 Apr/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

Why the law of damages is more favourable to commercial interests than personal interests.

IntroductionOn August 7th 1994, 11 miners were killed when an explosion ripped through the BHP-owned Number 2 Mine in Moura, Central Queensland . In a bitter atta ...

(17 pages) 241 1 4.1 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Capitalism in the U.S, Necessary Evil or Blatant Oppression?

ultural output and many miles of railroad were laid.Many good and many bad things resulted from the explosion of capitalism. Thequestion about capitalism that every person must have asked themselves w ...

(3 pages) 83 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

Oklahoma City Bombing

dreds more are injured. Federal officials believed the bomb was set off in a car parked nearby. The explosion occurred shortly after 9 a.m. and could be felt as far as 30 miles away. Debris was spread ... went off. The people of Oklahoma City rallied to help victims of the bombing. Within an hour of the explosion, the lines to give blood stretched around the block, and hospitals around the city reporte ...

(3 pages) 138 0 4.6 Mar/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

John Hersey's "Hiroshima"

e or just plain luck, these chosen few were spared to endure and live out their lives as hibakusha, explosion-affected persons. In the first few weeks following the explosion, a tremendous will to liv ...

(1 pages) 54 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Online Identity: How others percieve themselves

ly, or complete strangers. Identity is one and the same with our individuality; and yet, due to the explosion of online virtual communities, identity is losing its meaning. Chat rooms, the most common ...

(5 pages) 129 0 4.6 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Tears in the Heartland: A review of what happened in the Oklahoma City bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

d, will never be the same again and neither will the peoples' lives that were involved (Walker).The explosion took place in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City (Clark). The ... ck was parked in front of the building where it was all windows and glass doors (Pressley A:01).The explosion was felt and heard by people more than thirty miles away from the building (Sherrow). Peop ...

(4 pages) 57 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Fake I.D.s a Dangerous Game describes the motives and the dangers of using false identification

ncreasingly popular at universities not just here but nationwide. What is the cause of this fake id explosion? They are easier to get now than they ever have before. With the wide spread use of the in ...

(4 pages) 46 1 4.3 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Growth of Population in Eighteenth Century England.

rowth of Population in Eighteenth Century EnglandDuring the Eighteenth Century Britain underwent an explosion in population of a magnitude unsurpassed anywhere else in Europe. When George I was crowne ... ultural life that came before. It was this changing with the times that created the climate for the explosion.BibliographyM. J.Daunton Progress and Poverty, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)D. R ...

(4 pages) 49 1 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The Spanish American war and the annexation of the Philippines.

" Tensions between the countries ignited even more after the Spanish brought upon the February 15th explosion, killing 262 men and destroying the battle ship called the Maine. The following events sha ...

(2 pages) 66 0 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

aval boat of ours called the Maine was blown up. On that boat, 327of our sailors were killed in the explosion. With this explosion, the navy used it by having a slogan ,"Remember the Maine," to get vo ... or blowing up our ship. But, really there was something wrong with the engine which lead to the big explosion. This was not found till they lifted the ship out of the water in 1911. When this happened ...

(4 pages) 127 4 3.8 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

Atomic Bomb.

ium could be used tocreate a deadly explosive weapon. The amount of energy that was released by thisexplosion alone was equivalent to twenty thousand tons of TNT. This type of bomb wasfirst tested at ...

(2 pages) 134 5 3.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

This essay is about globalization. The good, bad and how it affects the world.

n according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP):"Globalization broadly refers to the explosion of global linkages, the organization of social life on a global scale, and the growth of g ...

(7 pages) 911 0 4.5 Jul/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

To What Extent Can Modern Scientific Theories Be Said To Have Disproved the Claims That the Universe Has Been Designed.

ng about 15000 million years ago. The big bang theory states that the universe was created by a big explosion that threw out materials that now have created the universe of galaxies and stars and plan ... verse is expanding by the red shift of light and the movement of galaxies away from us. As with all explosions the big bang also let out beams of radiation which can still be seen today as the explosi ...

(5 pages) 72 0 5.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Sex Education and Teens.

re conceived and subsequently born. What they didn't teach us was the problem. Even during the AIDS explosion in the 80's, they really didn't teach us how to protect ourselves. We were never instructe ...

(3 pages) 149 0 4.4 Sep/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Two page article about Supernova Stars.

Two Types of SupernovaeA supernova is an explosion of a massive giant star.This is a vast explosion where the whole star is blown up. It can ... turn shoots the other star out of the two star system.Type II supernovae is a single star implosion-explosion event. The star is usually more than ten times the mass of our sun and peaks at about 1 bi ... l compression heats the core up and the star collapses onto itself and then rebounds into a massive explosion. This causes a shockwave which can last up to 2 years. Causing the temperature to rise to ...

(2 pages) 33 0 3.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

This essay is about the Hiroshima.

ore than eighty thousand people and maiming thousands more. The searing heat that resulted from the explosion set the city afire and utterly destroyed it. Two days later, on August 8, the U.S.S.R. dec ...

(4 pages) 46 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts

Unplanned Organizational Change at NASA.

or answering to and solving all of the problems that were found in the investigations following the explosion of the Space Shuttle Columbia. He also claimed responsibility for the crash, and stated th ...

(3 pages) 102 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management