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British Army Turning Point
825 wordsArguably the most significant Colonel in the Battles of Saratoga. Flamboyant! Rowdy! Troublemaker! When you hear these words, does a colonial in the military come to mind? Well it should! Colonel Daniel Morgan is arguably one of the most significant and influential figures in American Military History. Morgan, an old Indian fighter, led a battalion of rowdy woodsmen dressed in long, Indian-style hunting shirts each carrying a tomahawk and scalping knife along with his long rifle. Morgan contribu...
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Word Processing Good Word
1,208 wordsWORD PROCESSING-EQUIPMENT OR CONCEPT? Increasing administrative costs in recent years have made the production of business communications a major expense and one that will continue to rise. One way to help control the cost of business communications is to make the processing of documents more effective and efficient through the use of current technology. Word processing equipment has been around for more than twenty years. However, during the last decade it has really made an impact on the busin...
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Passage Of Time Keeping Track
1,025 wordsNot until somewhat recently (that is, in terms of human history) did people find a need for knowing the time of day. As best we know, 5000 to 6000 years ago great civilizations in the Middle East and North Africa initiated clock making as opposed to calendar making. With their attendant bureaucracies and formal religions, these cultures found a need to organize their time more efficiently. After the Sumerian culture was lost without passing on its knowledge, the Egyptians were the next to formal...
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The Life Of George Bent
1,010 wordsThe Life of George Bent by George E. Hyde is a very interesting and informative book. This book is basically a chronological story of George bents life as a half white, half Indian and all the experiences he had. The Bent family plaid a large role in the development of the west. There are many historic events, however, what I feel is the most important of these episodes, to Colorado history is the Sand Creek Massacre. I personally, have mixed reviews on the book, its narrative style, and the eve...
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Native American Culture Front Door
995 words... et their supper. 'You take the front door and I will take the back door, 's aid Coyote. 'Reach in and see of you can get him, ' replied Raccoon. They both reached in their holes. Raccoon felt sorry for Squirrel and let him escape through the front door while Coyote was reaching farther and farther into the back door. 'No silly, that is my hand you grabbed!' 'It is Squirrel, 's naked angry Coyote. 'Stop pulling, ' begged Raccoon. 'You are hurting me!' But Coyote continued pulling at Raccoon's...
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Specific Heat Boiling Point
1,047 wordsThe purpose of this lab was to determine the specific heat of two different metals. In order to do this, specific directions were executed in order to discover the specific heat. First, we needed to obtain and record the weight of the Styrofoam calorimeter cup. Next, we filled the cup 2 / 3 full with cool tap water and recorded the temperature of the water. After this was done, we filled a glass beaker half full with water and placed it on a hot plate in order to have the water reach boiling poi...
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Global Positioning System Gps Receivers
1,243 wordsThe Global Positioning System (GPS), a system of 24 satellites circling the Earth, is a fairly new technology. As with a lot of new technologies there are innumerable advantages and uses but there is also a downside to our increasing reliance on this system. These days GPS is finding its way into cars, boats, planes, construction equipment, movie making gear, farm machinery, even laptop computers. It works by using satellites as reference points to calculate a position somewhere on the earth - a...
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A Mid Summers Night Dream
519 wordsOne play can be told in so many different ways but yet have the same story behind it. A major example of this is the six interpretations of William Shakespeare's play A Mid Summers Night Dream. In class we saw these six versions, there were many differences in these plays. The setting, accuracy, costuming, acting, direction, and interpretations. The versions we saw were; a cartoon of the play, a 1940 s, 1960 s, and a 1999 movie versions of the plat and last we a 1999 stage version of the the pla...
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Order To Understand Word Of God
712 wordsIn order to understand how the Pentateuch came to be we must take in account the culture of the author, or perhaps more appropriately, the authors. In the ancient times, writers were characterized by the nonentity of their writings. Instead of concerning themselves with minute details, they focused on the moral implications of the events involved. The same can be said about the foundation of the Catholicism, which is the connection of Scripture and Tradition in order to understand the true impli...
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Ball Bearings Cm
1,060 wordsSC 1: Investigating Terminal Velocity When an object falls through a fluid it accelerates until it reaches its terminal velocity. At this speed the forces acting on it are balanced. My task is to investigate the factors that affect the terminal velocity of a falling object. I am going to investigate how mass affects the terminal velocity. I think that as the mass of the ball bearing increases so does the weight of the ball bearing, which requires more friction to balance the ball bearing's weigh...
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Material On The Internet Difficult To Find
1,172 wordsIntroduction With more and more frequency the newspapers are reporting instances of school children distributing disks of pornographic images which they have downloaded from the net and recently a university student was found to be operating such a site for material. On November 11, an Associated Press release (Phillips, 1994) reported that Carnegie Mellon University had decided to block its users from accessing sexually explicit materials through the Internet: the university's president feared ...
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Short Lived Public Image
1,401 wordsAt the time of Socrates' trial in 399 BC, Athens was still badly shaken by it's unstable political and military past. The surrender at the Battle of Aegospotami marked the loss of the Peloponnesian war to Sparta, a long and hard fought war which waged from 432 - 404 BC. Earlier in 411 BC a group of discontent Athenians led by Antiphon, Critias and Charmides briefly overthrew Athens democracy and established an oligarchy. While it only lasted until 410 BC, it was still fresh in the memory of Athe...
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University Of Phoenix Ethical Issue
1,151 wordsProfessional/Workplace dilemma paper Most of people, who had acquired their degrees at university of Phoenix, have experienced certain professional dilemmas and value conflicts during the course of their studies. I was no exception in this respect. The most important ethical issue that I have experienced upon beginning my studies was the fact that I had to combine them with my work as casino manager on duty. This, of course, required a clear understanding of what my priorities were, on my part. ...
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Invasion Of Privacy Drug Testing
1,333 wordsAs widespread drug use is on the rise, many employers have begun to worry about the performance of their employees. Absenteeism, injuries, loss of productivity, employee morale, theft and fatalities are just some of the causes of drug use in the workplace. The idea of drug testing among workers has developed from society's concern over a perceived increase in the use of drugs and the relation between drug use and impairment, with resultant risks to the worker, fellow workers and the public. As e...
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Comet Of 1577 Designed And Built Tycho
767 wordsTygeTycho Brahe Tycho Brahe The (Latinized as Tycho) Brahe was born on 14 December 1546 in State, then in Denmark, now in Sweden. He was the eldest son of Otto Brahe and Better Bill, both from families in the high nobility of Denmark. He was brought up by his paternal uncle J? rgen Brahe and became his heir. He attended the universities of Copenhagen and Leipzig, and then traveled through the German region, studying further at the universities of Wittenberg, Rostock, and Basel. During this perio...
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Machiavelli Offers A Unique Prince And His Subjects Absolutism
1,708 wordsAbsolutism has seldom had a reputation as a benevolent or model form of government. When the word? dictator is used to describe the ruler of a country, the very word itself connotes viciousness, corruption and terror. One might even use the term? Machiavellian to describe the actions and policies of this absolute leader. However, this term is seldom understood for what it truly means. Few people who use it actually understand the man and the views that gave birth to this word. Few understand the...
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Wanted To Play Stage Three
1,823 wordsEarly is the best time to start children with an enriched musical background. The earlier the child starts to hear and learn about music, the more enriched and fulfilling the childs experience of music is going to be. This is even more beneficial for talented children. A child cannot receive the full benefit of music and will not learn as much or at all without the first three stages of preparatory addition. With this in mind, I will now show you how to guide children through these stages. First...
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Coca Cola And Pepsi Didn T
695 wordsCompared below are the Pepsi and Coca Cola distributing companies website. WRITING Content Clarity After reviewing both Coca Cola and Pepsi websites I have arrived at many conclusions. I viewed both sites as equally understanding. They were very similar, and the information given on each was greatly beneficial to each other s product. Focus Pepsi Company seemed to focus a lot on their advertisements. Ranging from March madness, to Pepsi One sweepstakes. They also offered music, games, and inform...
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Apollo Homer
1,089 wordsThe Iliad: Comparing the Works of Fagles, Lattimore and Pope Regardless of the subject matter, a writer? s work always reflects something of the writer himself. Although an author may attempt to remain completely objective and invisible to the reader, something of his beliefs, background, education and biases inevitably permeates into the writing. This phenomenon is even true with and especially evident in translations. While the translator would ideally remain faithful to the original author an...
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Adverse Parental Behaviors Childhood Emotional Abuse Child
577 wordsEmotional abuse is the portion of the class that I found to be the most fascinating. This is mainly due to the uncertainty involved with this particular issue. Childhood emotional abuse is defined as the adverse parental behaviors in a sustained pattern of interaction, which impact a vulnerable child producing damage to a child s emotional and psychological function. The definition can be further explained by giving examples of the abusing parent s actions towards the child. The parent could pos...
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