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The Evolution of the Rifle

from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that t...

Debate of Creationism v. Evolution

In ten pages this research paper examines the ongoing debate and includes such topics as Darwin's theories and the reaction of the...

Religion in the History of Early America

faculties, they "won admirers by their eloquence" (Norton et al 33). The Jesuits drew on science to predict "solar and lunar eclip...

Evolution of Social Welfare Policy in the United States

insurance approach to public welfare" (Historical development). That is, these public programs would "ensure that protection was a...

Strategy and Weapons in the American Civil War

to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...

Warfare Changes from 1776 to 1918

more technological advances and inventions. With technological advances prior to the Civil War things in the field of warf...

Cinematic Perspectives of Society and Race

culture. "Out of Africa", for example, is a love story. It is also a story of contrasts. A Danish woman lands in the middle of K...

Warfare of Early America and Technology

suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...

Historical Overview of the NRA

arms. The NRA recognizes that the issues surround the right of American citizens to bear arms are heating up on a daily bas...

Maverick Filmmaker Sam Fuller

been said that his films were against anything that he perceived as "anti-American." According to von Busack (1997), after Fulle...

Poor Membership Representation by the National Rifle Association

it is representing its membership less and less. Littleton prompted the publics re-examination of the "right to bare arms," versu...

American Constitution, the Second Amendment, and the National Rifle Association

the Second Amendment, bears proof that the right to bear arms has consistently been, and should still be, construed as an individu...

Evolution, Genetics, and Twins Study And Evolution: Using Twins to Study Heritability of Traits in Humans

In ten pages this paper examines how the inheritability of certain characteristics can be researched by studying dizygotic and mon...

Biological Evolution and Cultural Evolution Compared and Contrasted

In five pages the ways in which the human population has been shaped by evolution is examined in a coparative analysis of genetic ...

Mi Caballo, Mi Perro Y Mi Rifle by Jose Ruben Romero

for many years to come (Romero PG). However, being that the native peoples had become dependent upon the white man for their very...

National Rifle Association and the Impact of the Brady Bill

time one decides to purchase a gun and the time one can take possession of the gun the N.R.A. pulled out all the stops in an effor...

Weapons of World War II From Rifles To The Atom Bomb

What led to the evolution of such a deadly means of irreversible destruction. If World War I was the war to end all wars ....

Current Arguments on Handgun Control and the National Rifle Association

In five pages this paper examines the NRA's website and assesses gun control's pros and cons. One source is cited in the bibliogr...

The National Rifle Association (NRA)

fact that guns are no longer popular, NRA continues to support shooting as a youth sport in America ("A Brief History of the NRA,"...

Systems Thinking

a network within ecological communities that provided organisms with the means to life. In 1928, a Hungarian biologist, Ludwig vo...

Speech Recognition as a Tool for Human and Computer Interaction

were made in the 1950s, in fact. Bell Labs, for example, developed the capability within the telephone industry to recognize spok...

Animal and Plant Evolution

In five pages paths of evolution taken by animals and plants are contrasted and compared in this overview of chloroplast and mitoc...

Evolution and Creationism

Darwin while suggesting that biblical scholars attack the scientist and the scenario has never been the other way around (1995). I...

Theories on the Advancement of Knowledge

In this five page paper the author questions whether the many advancements that have been made in knowledge are the result of evol...

Notorious Scopes' 'Monkey Trial'

In twelve pages this paper discusses the intense creationism v. evolution debate this trial sparked in a consideration of evolutio...

Evolution and Creationism Debate

In five pages this paper considers the ongoing evolution v. creationism debate in a consideration of a Kansas school board decisio...

Evidence for Evolution

The adaptations noted in Darwins finches were a phenotypic reflection of these species genotypes. In other words, these species a...

The Evolution of Organizations

in recent years is may be argued that rather than evolution, which can be defined as periods of growth were there are no major uph...

Cultural Evolution Theories of Luigi Luca Cavilli-Sforza in The Great Human Diasporas The History of Diversity and Evolution

In five pages this paper analyzes the theories contained in this text with cultural evolution, human migration, genetics, and ling...

The Evolution of Farming in California

5 pages. 6 sources cited. This paper considers the processes that lead to the creation of California farm country. this paper ...