...scientists of the Manhattan Project, described the scientific importance of the discovery of the atomic bomb. Immediately after the droppings of the atomic bombs on Japan until the present day, there were many debates on whether the Manhattan Project was justified or if nuclear weapons are even ethical. Seeing the destruction of the “Little Man” and “Fat Boy” bombs in the moment arose great fear and discontent. However, looking at the Manhattan Project in retrospect shows that the advantages gained through the years greatly outweigh the consequences of the nuclear weapons. The Manhattan Project was a pivotal endeavor in America’s history...
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........................................... 6 Table 2: Discounted cash-flows ............................................................................................. 6 Table 3: Banks strengths in comparison................................................................................. 7 1. Evaluate the rationale for the merger After a period of record number of bank failures during the 1980s, the Banking Industry entered a period of record profits in the 1990s. Also the industry saw a large number of bank mergers that pointed out a new trend, leading to more concentrated and bigger banks holding a majority of total banks assets. Following this trend a Chemical/Chase merger became attractive. By accomplishing this merger Chase Manhattan would grow to the largest bank of the USA and the fourth largest in the world, which would sum up to total assets of $297.3 billions, a market capitalization of $22.9 billions and shareholder equity of $7.3 billion. A clear rationale for merging was the elimination of overlapping business activities, which would lead to massive cost savings of $1.5 billions per annum. This would be achieved through a reduction...
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...The United States continued using the Manhattan Project’s factories. “In postwar years, many Manhattan Project facilities became integral components of America’s nuclear weapons production complex.” (Reed, 5-11). If the United States wanted to be successful in the development of nuclear weapons, uranium is essential. “There has been a long-standing belief among policymakers in the United States that with the success of the Manhattan Project came a hegemony in the field of atomic weapons, especially with respect to uranium enrichment.” (Kemp, 298). The United States were worried that the Russians would soon catch up to their nuclear arsenal, so they needed to continue their development. However, the United States following the Second World...
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...Sandia National Laboratories first began with the Manhattan Project, the program that developed the atom bomb. The tests were done in Los Alamos, but because there wasn't much housing and transportation to and from there was difficult the Manhattan Project moved to Kirtland Field and was renamed the Z Division of Los Alamos Labs. The Z Division began as a collection of buildings from the Army that had been originally built to train aircraft mechanics. It was renamed Sandia Base because it was close to the Sandia Mountains and all nonnuclear weapons were transferred there. After World War II control of nuclear weapons and Sandia Base was transferred to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). When the Cold War began a need to develop nuclear weapons...
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...Yes or No Did communism threaten America’s internal security after World War II (WWII)? Some say yes, and some say no. In this article of Taking Sides John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, both history professors, claim that during the “Venona Project” of WWII the code-breakers of the U.S. army revealed a troubling number of U.S. government officials who were passing on secret information on to the Soviet Union and completely spoiled American comforts (Issue Summary). One of the officials that were caught was Harry White. Being one of the most powerful officials in the U.S. Treasury Department, White warned the KGB on how the diplomatic strategy of America could be upset. Another official that was caught was Lauchlin Currie. Currie was President Franklin Roosevelt’s most trusted assistants. He told the KGB about the investigation that the FBI had started on one of the Soviets’ American agents, Gregory Silvermaster. After acquiring this information this made it easy for Silvermaster to get out of dodge of the FBI and continue spying. Also, during the Manhattan Project, Klus Fuchs and Theodore Hall, both physicists, and technician David Greenglass transferred the compound formula for extracting bomb-grade uranium from ordinary uranium, the plans for production facilities, and the engineering principles for the “implosion” technique, which made the use of a plutonium using atomic bomb possible (Haynes, Klehr). Haynes and Klehr stated that, “Americans worried that a communist fifth...
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...The scope of this essay is that the decision, to drop the atomic bomb, made by President Truman was largely influenced by political factors rather than military factors. By observing the historical timeline, the Cold War started shortly after World War II. Truman was likely to have been aware of the rising power of the USSR. This mostly likely influenced him more to drop the bomb. Truman at the same time could have been influenced by the people around him such as the Manhattan Project and Congress. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been one of the most widely debated topics to date. The two conflicting sides of the argument are political and militarily. Traditionalist historians argue from the military perspective,...
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...For FDR’s speech, Roosevelt had mastered rhetorical speaking and being a successful persuasive speaker. The ‘Four Freedom’ speech created a strong foundation of democracy in America and its implications for human rights and freedoms. During the speech, he was able to maintain eye contact with his audience, his slow speaking, and his standing position. Roosevelt’s speech does not fall short in using all ways of persuasion possible to make the point across. He successfully delivered his speech with his purposes of reinforcing the switch from isolation to getting involved. For Obama’s speech, it was approached differently. Since it is a newer speech, there has not been a big impact from it just yet. Also, Obama is not of a bigger influence as FDR was at that time of war. Obama made it clear in this speech that he is questioning the American politics’ future with the politicians that are running for presidency. Obama got any applauses during his speech which shows how much people supported his ideologies; but furthermore, there were no fall downs showed in the...
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...op. cit. 8. U.S. Census Bureau, op. cit. 9. Bonczar, T. P. (2003). Prevalence of Imprisonment in the U.S. Population, 1974–2001. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics. 10. Snyder, H. (2006). Juvenile Arrests 2004. OJJDP Bulletin: Washington, D.C.: National Disproportionate Minority Contact Databook. 11. Federal Bureau of Investigation (2007). Crime in the United States, 2006. Washington, D.C. 12. Spohn, C. (2001). Thirty Years of Sentencing Reform: The Quest for a Racially Neutral Sentencing Process. In W. Reed & L. Winterfield (Eds.), Criminal Justice 2000 (Vol. 3, pp. 566). Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice. 13. King, R. (2008). Disparity by Geography: The War on Drug in America’s Cities. Washington, D.C.: The Sentencing Project. 14. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2007). Results from the 2006...
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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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...He attacked two pro-slavery settlements. During the second attack, he was quickly surrounded, wounded, and captured. During trial, he was convicted of murder and treason. Brown was sentenced to death, angering many northerners. The Underground Railroad was a system of people who helped escaped slaves escape by aiding them on their journey to Canada. Because of this, the south lost it’s labor and blamed the north for the bad impact on the south’s economy. The Compromise of 1850 was enacted to please the north, California was admitted as a free state. To please the south, a new slave law was added. It allowed the arrest of anyone accused of being a runaway slave, without trial. Many northerners swore that they would resist the hated new law. Effects of the Civil War The 13th amendment is the abolition of slavery. This amendment states that slavery is not legal in any state or territory of the United States of America. This was passed in 1865. The 14th amendment is the amendment dealing with Civil Rights. It says that any people born or naturalized in the United States cannot be denied rights. These people are subject to all of the constitution's laws and...
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...The Complex Issue of Public School Funding Ever since the beginning of the United States, the founding fathers and citizens have emphasized the importance on the education of its people, child or adult. Although education exists in this country both publicly and privately, the public school systems have become a powerful resource in many political social issues in this country. Recently, however, many debates have sprung up over issues that deal with the process of funding public education, including: Who is ultimately responsible for funding? How much funding should local, state, and federal governments contribute? How should funds be distributed? Questions such as these have been raised in the United States because of the many problems with education that are prevalent today despite funding. One of the biggest problems is inequality in education powered by property tax values. Numerous research data has shown how the unequal effects of funding from local property taxes has had on the level of education available in the same school districts. This essay will discuss if there are more fair methods to funding public schools than what is presently the norm through local property taxation and also talk about the effects that this kind of funding has on the standard of education that students receive. Each state of the United States manages its own school districts, which includes the administration of funds that pays for these school districts’ costs, with comparatively...
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...Under the command of the National Bureau of Standards, the United States’ nuclear weapon program was put under the Office of Scientific Research and Development. In 1942, the program was authoritatively shifted under the sponsorships of the U.S. Army and was from then on known as the Manhattan Project. By General Leslie Groves’s management, more than thirty situates for the manufacture, research, and testing were assembled from intense investment and the U.S.A. produced three functioning nuclear weapons by mid-1945. The forthcoming assaults from Japan and lack of surrender caused President Harry Truman to command nuclear offense on the Japanese. As stated in the beginning, on August 6th, 1945, ‘Little Boy’ (a uranium-gun design bomb) was ignited over Hiroshima, Japan. This demolished about 50000 buildings and slaughtered nearly 70000 inhabitants. August the 19th brought the Japanese city of Nagasaki a plutonium implosion-design bomb, named ‘Fat Man’, which ruined 60% of the city and slayed approximately 35000 people. It is still...
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...organization how it is now, and how it will be in four or ten years down the road. Strategic planning implements knowledge of the industry’s direction and how an organization’s future plans align with that direction. In the true business management sense, strategy is distinguished by several key elements: 1. It steers the direction of the company and affects the long-term health of the company. 2. It is usually measured in years; it is a long-term plan that will take years to meet goals. 3. Its impact is felt company wide. 4. It builds on and utilizes all of the available company resources. 5. Its implementation is meant to gain an advantage over competitors. 6. It typically means change for the company in many different areas. 7. Its success is a result of the efforts and hard work of many people within the company. (Moseley, 2009). Planned Parenthood can date its beginning to 1916 when Margaret Sanger, her sister, and a friend opened America's first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. (http://www.plannedparenthood.org). Although the state Montana elected a woman to the House of Representatives in 1916, many other states still did not recognize women as individuals with rights equal to their male counterparts. (http://www.nwhm.org). In 1916, women in the United States did not typically work outside their home, they did not have the right to vote in most states, and they did not have access to health care or the birth control options that...
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...for the creation of a large means leaving the artifice of the urban park (2). city behind and entering into an innocent green world, a vestige of A Cleansing Landscape the original Manhattan that existed For some, the new park would prior to the rise of the city. For increase adjacent property values urban environmental historians, and provide a leisure ground for though, there are two serious probrides in well-appointed carriages. lems with viewing the park in this way. Most of the city elite, though, First, Central Park is not nearly as offered less self-serving argunatural as it may appear. Far from ments, at least publicly. A large predating the rise of Manhattan, green space would not only cleanse the landscape is very much a product the air of dangerous smoke and of the mid nineteenth-century city. miasmas, it would convince the As such, Manhattan’s “front lawn” overworked sons and daughters of can be read as a primary source, a Puritans to leave their homes and unique window on Victorian views offices, get out in the sunshine and of nature as well as the politics of fresh air, and indulge in healthclass, ethnicity, gender, race, and giving leisure. Even more, the park neighborhood. The second probwould draw workers and immilem is that the surrounding city of grants away from “dissipating” Manhattan is not nearly as artificial and “uncivilized” leisure practices,...
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...Sahana Natesan AP USH Mr. Maoriello – Period 6 5 April 2015 7. What were the major “Reforms” (permanent programs) of the New Deal? Legacy of the New Deal? Success/Impact? Historians have concluded that the New Deal was both a success and a failure from different perspectives. On the one hand, the New Deal succeeded in promoting ideas of relief by helping millions of people with their mortgage and with finding jobs. Furthermore, public works programs like the PWA resulted in the construction of valuable infrastructures such as roads, airports, schools and dams and the TVA regulated the use of electricity to eliminate corruption and incompetent book keeping. The New Deal also ensured that the people had equal rights by inventing the concept...
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