Saturday 15 May 2010

Iwo Jima & Fallujah

Posted by Elisha at 07:03 0 comments

The United States attack Fallujah on month following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It was led by United States Marine Corps against Iraqi insurgency in the city of Fallujah.
The battle of Iwo Jima was a battle in which the United States fought for and captured Iwo Jima from Japan. The picture, that raising of the U.S. flag on top of mountain by five Marines and one Navy corpsman, become iconic image of the battle.
Fallujah and Iwo Jima both are Marine battle and it had heavy casualties.
The Fallujah video is describe enemy of soldiers, high-tech weapon and America forces step in to reclaim the city for Iraqi people. It said that along with the marines, the army is placed in crucial role in the invasion.
Korea is related with Fallujah. Fallujah was outbreak after Iraq war and Korean troops were sending to Iraq. At that time Kim Sun-ill, who was a translator and Christian missionary was kidnapped. Iraq demands cancel its plans to send 3000 more troops to Iraq and withdraw military and engineers already there. However Korea refused to meet their demands and Kim Sun-ill was beheaded. So through this case, people make organization and have demonstrate about send troops. Public opinion has been sharply divided over the troop dispatch but government was kept fighting.
I think making peaceful world by eradicating the war completely and immediately is hard but it shouldn’t make the human loss involved in a war through only for national interest and political economic. The war only can mark by severe human right violations and caused widespread destruction and humanitarian crisis.

Saturday 8 May 2010

Hurricane Katrina

Posted by Elisha at 04:08 0 comments
Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall.
Hurricane Katrina was set to become one of the most powerful storms to strike the United States, with winds of 257 kilometers per hour (160 miles per hour) and stronger gusts. The air pressure, another indicator of hurricane strength, at the center of this Category 5 storm measured 902 millibars, the fourth lowest air pressure on record for an Atlantic storm. The lower the air pressure, the more powerful the storm.


Communication project# 12

Posted by Elisha at 03:51 0 comments
1.The earth is 6378 km in radius, and light would travel seven times around the earth in one second if it could travel in a circle like this.
2. The moon is about one-quarter the diameter of the earth, and is 1.25 light-seconds away—corresponding to about 30 earth diameters.
3.The sun is 109 times the diameter of the earth, and about 8 light-minutes away

Olympus Mons: 27 km
Mount Everest: 8,849 m

Olympus Mons is three times as tall as Mount Everest

Katrina: 175 mph (280 km/h)

The red spot on Jupiter: about 25,000 ~ 40,000kilometers

Red spot is three times bigger than earth.

Valles Marineris: 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles)
Grand Canyon: 446 km(277 miles)

Valles Marineris is about nine times as long as Grand Canyon.

VV Cephei is an eclipsing binary star system located in the constellation Cepheus, approximately 2,400 light years from Earth.

Earth: 12,742 km
Sun: 1,393.000 km (865,570.0707 miles)
VV Cephei: 1600-1900 R

2000 times bigger than our Sun.