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Drunk Driving 000 People
849 words
Most teenagers are not aware of the dangers
awaiting them on Americas roadways. In the United
States there are more registered motor vehicles
than there are drivers. Each year there are over
5, 000 fatal car crashes involving teens. More
teenagers are killed in a car than any other form
of death related means. Drunk driving is another
serious problem facing society in America. In the
last 10 years a drunk driver has killed over 250,
000 people. About 13 % of the people killed were
pedestrians. W...
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Written In English Language Reason For Bombing Yugoslavia
892 words
On March 24 th, 1999, the NATO alliance, led by
the United States, began bombing Yugoslavia. They
bombed every day, with steadily increasing numbers
of planes and escalating destructive power of
bombs. The bombing was finally halted after 78
days, with an agreement for withdrawal of Yugoslav
troops from Kosovo, to be replaced by a mixed
force of NATO and The bombing of Yugoslavia was,
overwhelmingly, of specifically civilian targets:
homes, roads, farms, factories, hospitals,
bridges, churches, ...
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21 St Century Tourism Industry
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Quintana Roo, Mexico has become an internationally
acclaimed tourist development area over the past
six years. This may be a difficult concept to
grasp considering the states economic condition at
the end of the 20 th, and the first decade of the
21 st century. The current status of a tourism
haven was not easily accomplished. It took many
years of cooperative tourism planning amongst the
state, national government officials, and most
importantly, the local communities of the areas
being develop...
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Hard To Find Lot Of People
549 words
I live in downtown. It is the heart of the
Vancouver. It's always busy and there are a lot of
people on the streets most of the time. I believe
that in my area everywhere you look you can see
elements that identify that this is urban and is a
part of Vancouver. The most obvious elements in
downtown is of course would the high buildings.
These are mostly the offices of the companies that
may base in British Columbia, but also outside the
British Columbia's boundaries. These building are
usually t...
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Jim And Antonia Sense Of This Word
1,480 words
Landscapes: Freedom and Opportunity (1) Today, the
term American dream is being often used, when it
comes to describing the opportunities that newly
arrived immigrants are able to find in U. S.
However, many people think of this term as
something utterly abstract, even though that
American dream has traditionally being associated
with geographical vastness. In her book My
Antonia, Willa Cather was able to organically
integrate a story line into the physical settings,
which creates a powerful dra...
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One Of The Greatest Readers Digest
722 words
By the time Hadrian's contributions to his country
had succeeded, and death was near; he was the most
hated man in Rome. However, throughout his reign,
he was regarded as a noble leader. The Roman
emperor Hadrian exercised a profound
organizational influence on the Greco-Roman world.
He worked successfully toward the codification of
Roman law and the strengthening of imperial border
defenses (Eadie 8). Emperor Hadrian made many
important contributions to Roman culture, and he
was also known as o...
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Fork In The Road Line
650 words
In Robert Frosts The Road Not Taken, (reprinted in
Laurence Perrine and Thomas R. Arp, Sound and
Senses, 8 th ed. [San Diego: Harcourt, 1992 ] 23)
the speaker stands in the woods, considering a
fork in the road. Both ways are equally worn, and
equally overlaid with un-trodden leaves. The
speaker chooses one, telling himself that he will
take the other another day. Yet he knows it is
unlikely that he will have the opportunity to do
so. And he admits that someday in the future he
will recreate the...
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Lord And Vassal Relationship Of Lord And Vassal Monks
871 words
the feudal relationship of lord and vassal. What
were their responsibilities toward each other? The
relationship of lord and vassal was very close.
Here are 3 main points: It was an honorable
relationship between legal equals. Only nobles
could be vassals. The greater lords were vassals
and tenants of the King. The less powerful lords
where vassals and tenants of the greater lords,
and so on down. The same man might be both vassal
and lord vassal to a more powerful lord above him
and lord to a l...
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Road Less Traveled Make A Decision
759 words
Fork in a Road When you arrive at a fork in the
road, take it. Yogi Berra. Everyday we are met
with circumstances and with the circumstances come
the decisions we make in order to fulfill our
lives and make them meaningful. However, once we
make a decision, after we pass that fork in the
road, we need to move on, accepting what we have
done, because what has happened has happened and
there is nothing we can do to change the past.
Such is a case in Robert Frost s poem The Road Not
Taken, and Alis...
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Russian Army N Y
1,116 words
Napoleon was one of the greatest military leaders
of all time. By 1812 Napoleon had expanded the
territory of France all over Europe including
Spain, Italy, Holland, and Switzerland. The
countries that Napoleon did not directly control,
he was usually allied with. The turning point of
Napoleons career also came in 1812 when war broke
out between France and Russia because of Alexander
Is refusal to enforce the continental. Even the
French nation could not provide all the manpower
and supplies nee...
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Millions Of People 000 Km
1,219 words
When cars were first invented, something like an
electronic map that pin-points you on the globe
and could find the shortest route for you to take
to get to your destination in your car would be
rediculous, and would only be dreamed about by the
people with the greatest imaginations. But today,
this concept is reality, in fact, is being used by
millions of people around the world right now. Its
all done with something called the Global
Positioning System, (GPS). Today it is very simple
to use th...
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Grapes Of Wrath Forced To Leave
1,122 words
John Steinbeck wrote in his 1939 novel The Grapes
of Wrath: And then the dispossessed were drawn
west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico;
from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted
out, tractor out. Carloads, caravans, homeless and
hungry; twenty thousand and fifty thousand and a
hundred thousand and two hundred thousand. They
streamed over the mountains, hungry and restless
restless as ants, scurrying to find work to do to
lift, to push, to pull, to pick, to cut anything,
any bur...
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Housing In China Live In Large Villages
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Housing in China China is by far the most
populated country in the world. With billions of
people China has many different way in which they
are housed. From farm villages to gigantic cities
the Chinese all need a place to live. Like the
other countries in this paper China is mostly
rural countryside where farmers grow everything
from rice to wheat. With the exception of its
mountains and hills, the overwhelming majority of
Chinese settlements are rural compact villages.
The formation of these v...
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Run By Electricity Told To Find Water
704 words
I get up in the morning and I breath in oxygen and
I breath out carbon dioxide. I get in the shower
and use water . I use soap in the shower also. I
dry the water off with air molecules. I dry my
hair by using a hair dryer, which uses
electricity. Electrical affects are caused by the
position and the movement of positively and
negatively charged particles. I use cologne which
has alcohol in it. I wash my clothes using water
and soap. I light a candle. This is an example of
combustion. For this t...
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True Feelings Thin Air
998 words
In some relationships between couples, things may
not go according to plan. There are stones in
their paths that do not allow them to continue on,
as a couple. In How Green Was My Valley, by
Richard Llewellyn, characters are unable to
express their true feelings for each other. Mr.
Gruffydd and Owen do not follow the real desires
of their hearts because their pride gets in the
way; this decision ends up hurting not only them,
but also destroying Angharad and Marged, the women
they love. Mr. Gruf...
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Provinces Districts And Cities Districts And Cities Data
465 words
? Other objects like lines (roads) and polygons
(areas, minefields) are more complicated to handle
and will need trained personal (if theyre entered
and maintained within the GIS). ? If data
concerning the state of roads and bridges is
necessary to be easily retrieved it might be
necessary to create a special form for handling
such information. It shouldnt be in the existing
reports, because they are snapshots of progress
and are being used for documentation? The base
coordinate system for displ...
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Britian Powerful Nations Britian Powerful India
445 words
Britian was the most powerful country at the time
of its empire in India. Between 1850 to 1890,
Great Britian had a very powerful control over the
world. Expanding from, formerly known, United
Kingdom to China and from China to the North
Americas maybe South America. It had territories
between these land masses. With its naval glory
and pride and its superior land army, India was
just another country to take over who played a big
part in their economy. India is known by many
countries as the eco...
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Peacekeeping Force War Crimes
381 words
War crime suspects hunted after jailbreak
MITROVICA, Kosovo Hundreds of NATO-led
peacekeepers and U. N. police are searching for a
group of Serb prisoners, many charged with war
crimes, who escaped from a jail in the northern
Kosovo city of Mitrovica. Roadblocks have been set
up on roads leading to Serbia, while dogs are also
being used to track the men through a wooded area
near the jail. The provinces United Nations
administration said the break-out took place on
Saturday at around 9: 00 p. m....
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Wildlife Habitat Environmental Protection
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THE GOVERNMENT VS THE ENVIRONMENT When the subject
is the environment, the general public perception
is that a resource of such importance can only be
adequately safeguarded by the benevolent,
all-encompassing hands of the government. Whether
this comes in the guise of the Environmental
Protection Agency, the Forest Service, the Park
Service, the Bureau of Land Management or any of
their variations on the federal, state, and local
levels, many citizens fear that leaving
environmental (that is, p...
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Robert Moses Long Island
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Review of The Power Broker By Robert Caro Robert
Moses was one of the most powerful and influential
men in 20 th century New York. He held sway in
both the City and State. From Mayors to Presidents
were beholden to him at one time or another. He
could be magnanimous at one point and ruthless at
another. He started his career in government
trying to end corruption and ended his career with
his own island, complete with a full-time captain
and yacht all at tax-payer expense. Moses
eventually used ...
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