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Hours A Day Ice Skating
497 wordsWhen you hear the word speed skating what do you think of? Do you think of Dan Jansen in the last winter Olympics speeding across the ice? Perhaps you think of Chad Hedreck with his ten gold medals from the inline racing world championship a few years ago? If you thought about either one of these or anything like it you are exactly right. The are both great speed skaters. Dan skates on ice, and Chad is an inline racer. From the skates and training to the over all style and form of skating you wi...
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Divided Into Three Bow And Arrow
1,675 wordsThe year is 1232. Somewhere in northern Europe, a Saxon castle is under attack. In the fields for miles around, thousands of soldiers viciously fight. Metal strikes metal, arrows strike flesh, rock strikes rock. No matter how good these soldiers are, the battle will ultimately be decided by weapons. These weapons can be divided into three categories. Melee, or hand-to- hand weapons, include clubs, swords, daggers, saxes, hand axes, and some spears. Small-scale missile weapons include other spear...
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Digestive Juices Interesting Facts
1,043 wordsName and Functions The part I researched, which has only one name, is the pancreas. The pancreas is an organ that produces digestive juices necessary to break down food. It also produces insulin and glucagons. Insulin and glucagons are two hormones needed to break down sugar and to regulate our metabolism. The pancreas provides a lot of power to the body. For example, it allows you to eat many foods and allows your body to feed your cells the energy they need. It also allows you to exercise with...
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Amniotic Fluid Sound Waves
1,514 wordsChildhood is the culturally defined period in human development between infancy and adulthood. In a historical perspective, this is a relatively new social construction. Early childhood, as an especially important super period of childhood, most often refers to the months and years between infancy and school age children (Corsini 345). To understand why childhood is such a crucial time in human life it is important to study the development before and after birth along with any factors that may a...
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Acinonyx Jubatus Inches Long Cheetah
392 words(Acinonyx Jubatus) I Cheetah 2 Cheetah (Acinonyx Jubatus) I chose to do my television project on the cheetah which I saw on the Discovery Channel. Although I knew some interesting characteristics on the cheetah, I did happen to discover some facts I did not know. Those of which are written in the rest of the paper along with some facts I thought were pretty cool. The cheetah is an endangered species and has been for quit some time. This is mainly due to poachers who hunt and kill this animal for...
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Mother Third Trimester
1,313 wordsStages of Development Pregnancy typically lasts 40 weeks, counting from the first day of the womans last menstrual period, and is often referred to in three parts, called trimesters. The first trimester lasts 12 weeks, the second is from 13 to 27 weeks, and the third is from 28 to 40 weeks. These divisions, however, are rough estimates, and you may encounter slightly different versions of these time periods. Your doctor will probably refer to your pregnancy by the age of the fetus in weeks. Cert...
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Mannlicher Carcano Rifle Lee Harvey Oswald
2,412 wordsIts one of the most controversial cases in modern American history. Did Lee Harvey Oswald kill John Kennedy by himself, or did a conspiracy do it? And if a conspiracy did it, did the conspiracy include Oswald, the CIA, or maybe even the Mafia? If you are like most Americans, you believe that a conspiracy killed Kennedy. And if you are like most Americans, you have mostly heard one side of the story. There were a lot of issues that were never really clarified. There were also a lot of contradicti...
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Birds Of Prey East And West
1,174 wordsTABLE OF CONTENTS FACTS ABOUT LEMURS? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 3 DIFFERENT SPECIES OF LEMURS? ? ? 3 - 5 HISTORY AND THE LEMUR? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 5 THE ENDANGERED LEMUR? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 6 SOURCES? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 7 A lemur is a small, monkey like animal that lives primarily in Madagascar. Their sizes range from about as big as a mouse to as large as a cat. They have a roundish head with a pointed muzzle and large eyes. Their fur is wooly and their legs are longer than their arms. They are nocturnal animal...
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Divided Into Three Bow And Arrow
1,555 wordsMedieval Weapons Weapons are the tools of today and the death of tomorrow. At one time all weapons were tools. They were a means of survival among a harsh planet and cruel animals. The age of knights changed the true meaning of these tools forever. They now possessed the power of life and the power of death. Europe was an ever-growing bushel of civilizations. These civilizations were always under threat from other growing civilizations. At this point tools became weapons. Weapons are the tools o...
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Muriel Rukeyser Quot Quot
4,510 wordsOn " Testimony" An Essay By Michael Davidson Essay, On " Testimony" An Essay By Michael Davidson Note: This is excerpted from a longer essay on Reznikoff. DOCUMENTARY CULTURE The title of my chapter is taken from Muriel Rukeyser's " Poem out of Childhood" (1935), which describes the shift among writers of her generation from " Sappho" to " Sacco, " from the expatriate salon culture of the 1920 s to 1930 s activism inaugurated by the Sacco-Vanzett...
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Seventeenth Century Dark Ages
2,892 wordsSports In The Middle Ages Standing in thick forestry waiting for the right moment, waiting for the right time, waiting for the right falcon to step into his clutches, man gets anxious as the falcon gets closer and closer. This is his chance, it? s almost there, WHAP! ! Trapped, this is only the beginning of a pastime of flying, diving, and rewarding killing. Falconry as well as other sports in the medieval time period were huge pastimes for men. From falconry to fencing and bear baiting these sp...
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