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    Jane Cannon Summary

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    Selye (1973) specify “stress as a functions of elevated corticosteroid levels and uses the term to refer to the effects of any agent to that threatens stability of the organisms”. Cannon (1935) used the term stability to deal with to the “process of keeping internal balance in the face of environmental change”. Cannon argued that human beings can responds to deviations from normal conditions by invoking behavioral changes, thus modify metabolic and other bodily processes to re-achieve optimal conditions

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    Renaissance Weapons Essay

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    warships were in place simply to intercept enemy troop carriers. These skirmishes would be hand to hand and very bloody. The invention of the cannon changed all of that. “During the renaissance, ship designs were drastically improved and for the most part ships operated solely from sails. Ships were also made increasingly larger and faster. With the cannon, ships could now effectively strike land and other naval targets from a long distance, making hand to hand combat a rarity.”(Hollen). These advancements

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    of Ge Hong created a mixture of three powders thought to prolong life. 500 years later, the Chinese developed fireworks and firecrackers for recreational use. By the early tenth century, Ancient China developed hand grenades, rockets and bamboo cannons; China used these new inventions in helping to defend from foreign invaders. “The psychological effect alone of the mystifying new technology likely helped the Chinese win battles against the Mongols, historians

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    The Battle of Fort Pulaski

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    innovation shown in this battle will forever leave an imprint in the history of the field artillery's modern cannon rifling system as it revolutionized influencing higher rates of accuracy at greater distances. The Union commander during that era, Cpt. Gilmore, showed how a once considered invincible “third system defense” fortress, built with seven foot wide walls with a legion of cannons, can be breeched and seized without any loss from enemy fire. With continuous and accurate fires while being

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    armor and left the hideout to let his owner put it on him.And John didn't even know that his dog was about to try and kill an evil Living Skeleton, so after he got all of his armor on, Then Shiba walked away and got all his gear and also put on his cannon, and his trusty doggo alert vest on and he looked like he was ready to fight in world war dog, then he set off to find pupper, and save him from skeletor’s evil ways.So as Shiba was walking around he saw a large old purplish blue building with a defence

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    November 17, 1775, when Henry Knox, a 26-year-old self-taught artilleryman, appointed to Chief of the Continental Artillery (Unknown).” In August of 1775, a New York militia company on Manhattan Island confiscated 21 original nine-pounders. Fifty-nine cannons were on Dorchester Heights and Nook's Hill overlooking Boston by March 2 1776. “General Washington ordered the bombardment of the city, and thus began the traditions of the American Field Artillery (Unknown).” The remaining action seen during the

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    Gun History Essay

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    named Berthold Schwarz. He was a German monk who was the first to make gunpowder around the 1300s. He also invented the first gun which wasn't technically a gun but a huge heavy cannon which used gunpowder to fire (Kevin 4).

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    Wei Boyang Gunpowder

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    Gun powder was the change in warfare. Gunpowder eventually gradually overtime. In 142 AD, during the Han Dynasty, a man named Wei Boyang was the first to record anything about gunpowder. He wrote about a mixture of three powders that would “fly and dance” violently. People are still unsure if he was referring to gunpowder, but that’s the only explosive that uses three ingredients. By 300 AD, a Chin dynasty scientist named Ge Hong had written down the ingredients of gunpowder and described the explosion

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    It can be said that the period of time between 1400 and 1600 was one of transformation. The Renaissance revolutionized art and reintroduced Greek and Roman works to Europe. Increased technologies and a hunger for products from the Indies led to Columbus’s discovery of the Americas in 1492 which revolutionized commerce and international trade. In 1517 a German monk named Martin Luther listed a series of complaints against the Roman church leading to a reformation that transformed the western church

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    some literature written during the civil war. She then read and exploit of a small novel that described the war. “Run, retreat, the south is pushing from the left side”! Splat! The major's head had been obliterated by a piece of chain shot off by a cannon on the confederate side. On our way out we noticed that some of them were pursuing from the rear so the we split up into two groups one going to the right and my group going to the left. We would then meet up on a hill nearly a mile away from camp

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