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of the Gross Domestic Product; this percentage is down from 6 percent in the Regan administration and from 8.9 percent during the height of Vietnam war (Brown par 4). Loren Tompson, a defense analyst, once remarked, AIt takes a lot of inducements to…

an increasingly growing issue. Through my extensive research I have found multiple reasons as to why this threat has occurred. Some examples of these are things such as the transition from military to civilian life, post-traumatic stress disorder…

110 Charles Tompkins August 9, 2004 Table of Contents Define the Problem<Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/>Page 3 Review…

grounded on a shoal about 10 miles east of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, whilst on passage from Bermuda to Boston. The report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB/MAR-97/01 http://www.ntsb.gov/ publictn/1997/mar9701.pdf) focuses on…

encouraged. Media portrays them as toys. The local Toys-R-Us carries hundreds of different toy guns so that children can pretend to shoot others. "Are we a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts?" is the question proposed by Michael Moore's documentary…

effects toward a certain part of the world's economy, some good and some bad. Although many people would like to avoid war and look for other alternatives, which is not always a possibility. War should be looked at as a last resort between two parties…

Greek hero Hercules after he slew the multiheaded Hydra. Adrienne Major argues that "...by stepping his arrows in the monsters venom, Hercules created the first biological weapons." Toxic arrows were the terror weapons of the Bronze Age. Adrienne…

or the abuse of authority by a police officer, acting officially to fulfill personal needs or wants, is a growing problem in the United States today. Things such as an Internal Affairs department, a strong leadership organization, and community support…

People are introduced to all types of information from print and broadcast media, and they themselves are the object of information collected on an increasing scale. Computers have be come so entrenched in people's lives that they have come…

fear and hate among the Iraqi citizens he ruled and people around the world. He ruled by oppression, committing atrocious acts such as testing chemical and biological weapons on the innocent civilians of his own country. During his time in power, he…