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Bullwhips are pastoral tools, traditionally used to control livestock in open country. A bullwhip's length, flexibility, and tapered design allows it to be thrown in such a way that, toward the end of the throw, part of the whip exceeds the speed of sound —thereby creating a small sonic boom . [ 1 ]
This is more generally modelled in (Proselkov et al., 2023), [22] which uses complex adaptive systems modelling to study cascade failures as a consequence of financial bullwhips. Specifically, they create an agent-based supply network simulation model capturing the behaviours of companies with asymmetric power dynamics with their partners.
Whip cracking competitions have become popular in Australia. They focus on the completion of complex, multiple-cracking routines and precise target work. Various whips, apart from bullwhips, are used in such competitions. The most common whip used in Australian competitions is an Australian stockwhip, a whip unique to Australia. Target routines
As they were leaving Selma, state troopers descended upon the protestors with clubs, bullwhips and tear gas. Lewis suffered a skull fracture on that day known as "Bloody Sunday." Fast ...
1) Re-instated comment that bullwhips were traditionally used in open country. Bullwhips were traditionally used to control livestock in open country - usually from horseback. This doesn't mean that the bullwhip doesn't come out in enclosed land, but the more confined the area in which wielder is operating, the less useful a long whip becomes.
Cracker: In the United States, the use of "cracker" as a pejorative term for a white person does not come from the use of bullwhips by whites against slaves in the Atlantic slave trade. The term comes from an old sense of "boaster" or "braggart"; alternatively, it may come from "corn-cracker". [15]