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North America High Tech
1,517 wordsIt is a warm summers day; the heat rises from the pavement as the roar of engines and smell of gasoline surround you. With a throaty growl the first car pulls up to the line on the drag strip in front of you. Its large V- 8 pounds as it pulls up to the starting mark. An annoying whine announces the challenger, a smaller car covered in decals and brand names. Its four cylinders hum as it stops, ready to go. The light flashes green and both cars jump into action. As the front wheels leap from the ...
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Tom Buchanan The Arrogant Rich Man
979 wordsThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel about social classes in America in the 1920 s. Nick, the narrator, meets and associates with a group of upper class people: Tom and Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Jay Gatsby. Nick finds out through Jordan, whom he is dating, that Gatsby had met Daisy in the past and he is still in love with her. Nick invites Daisy and Gatsby both over to tea at his house, where they meet and fall in love. However, Tom does not accept this and he tries to conv...
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Computer Security Phone Lines
1,300 wordsHackers cost governments, corporations, and even normal people billions of dollars per year. You might ask, sure, there are those out there for profit, but what about the college student who was just doing it for fun? Profit or fun, it's still theft. In some cases theft of money, in others, theft of information. Just because a person uses a computer should not impact the severity of their punishment. A murderer's punishment is not affected by which weapon he chooses to employ, so why should a th...
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Flexible Work Arrangements Employee Satisfaction
1,056 wordsNeeds, values and priorities of employees and employers have changed dramatically over the last decade. On all rungs of the corporate ladder, men and women are seeking new ways to manage the time they spend working so they can spend more time living. In the boardrooms, executives are seeking ways to attract - and retain - the best employees so they can continue to survive and thrive in a highly competitive global economy. Interestingly enough, solutions to the changing needs and priorities of bo...
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The Cannon In Late Medieval Europe
800 wordsWarfare in Late-Medieval Europe went through some drastic changes with the introduction of gunpowder from China. The first military uses of gunpowder in Europe were in the form of hand-bombs, rockets, the mine, and petard. These devices augmented the traditional offensive and defensive siege tactics of the time. However, the device that became the most useful, and widely used, was the cannon. Invented by Europeans in the 14 th Century, the cannons rise to prominence was an evolutionary one, born...
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Plea Bargain Im Glad
1,421 wordsAnthony, Im so excited for you, twelve months down, twelve to go, a woman says on the phone. Kari, this has been a long year. I miss you so much, Anthony says. Kari puts her hand on the glass divider and gives a long, loving stare into the eyes of Anthony, So what are you doing first when you come home? Coming to my house and she cuts herself off with a big smile and wink. Going to your house and get the key to my case so I can get what Im in here for. Then going back to your house and maybe let...
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The Life Of Medieval Women
1,498 wordsI have been asked to write an essay on the subject of the role of women in the middle ages. In this essay I am attempting to out line the opinion that how hard life for women was. There were some ways that women could gain both personal and legal freedom but this was very difficult. Women could not even say or do what they wanted without permission from men. What kinds of work did medieval women have to do? Different classes of women would have done different jobs. The poor women would have work...
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Private Schools Work Harder
426 wordsRich Richards I heard Doctor Spencer call my name as I walked up to the podium at graduation. Congratulations, Rich. It has been a pleasure having you here at Davidson College. These are the words that students attending a school of excellence hear at their college graduation. Becoming a school of excellence is the springboard for a bright future in life. I believe that becoming a school of excellence helps students get into college, drives students to work harder, and is less expensive and more...
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Roman Empire Greco Roman
560 wordsThe Roman Empire was strong for a time. It flourished because of social, economic, political, military and religious strengths. However, when the very things that make a civilization flourish start to decline, the civilization will also lead to a downfall. The first reason for the fall was economic decay. The rulers of Rome had expensive lifestyles. To aid their image, they needed money. They gained money through taxation on the poor. In response to the torment of tax collectors, the poor fled t...
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20 Th Century Vacuum Tubes
1,004 wordsMilitary equipment, toys, communication, home electronics, computing, cars, satellites and others. This is only a partial list of products, which contain electronics. Actually electronics won our world. We wake up with the ring of electronic clock, drink coffee from a electronic coffee machine, work with computers, learn by using video conferences, listen to the music from a sound system and go to sleep while adjusting our electronic watch for tomorrow morning. It is hard even to think that only...
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Main Character Matilda Makes Them A Better Person People
317 wordsLuxury in life is treated more as a necessity that a want. When in life luxuries should be wants. People think that having exotic and expensive things makes them a better person. People also like to say that they need that thing when they really don't. This is like the mentality of a child. When a child tells his parent I need that toy, when in reality the child just wants. Adults do that same but in a more mature manner. Like in the story "The Necklace" our main character Matilda want a dress. ...
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Life In Prison Sentenced To Death
879 wordsImagine for a moment that someone you knew was murdered. They soundly slept in their home of twenty-two years that they deemed safe enough for their children and safe enough for themselves. The house is in a small community, the type of community where everyone knows everyone else. They had raised one child who is now in high school, one child is still in grade school, and two have yet to start school. As they all slept soundly, believing nothing could go wrong, an unknown person creeps into the...
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Dispose Of Garbage Harmful Gases Incineration
689 wordsWhen we think of incineration we naturally think of burning. Rightfully so seeing as incineration is essentially the burning of an object or objects. When we think of incineration we dont think of wasting, we think of burning. When our general public thinks of using incineration to dispose of garbage they assume that our the incinerator is going to have a filter on it that gets rid of all the harmful byproducts of this combustion. When people think of a garbage incinerator they dont normally thi...
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India Lower House
949 wordsLocation: India India India Location: India has an area of approximately 3, 287, 580 sq. kilometers. It serves as a border to the Bay of Bengal the Indian Ocean, and to the Arabian Sea located to its west. Directly north of India are the Himalayas, the world? s biggest mountain range. India also serves as a neighbor to several different countries. Myanmar and Bangladesh located to its east, China, Nepal and Bhutan to the north, Sri Lanka to the South, and finally Afghanistan and Pakistan on the ...
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Women And Children Industrial Revolution
882 wordsThe Industrial Revolution was a time of drastic change and transformation from hand tools and hand made items to machine manufactured and mass produced goods. This change generally helped life but also hindered it as well. Pollution, such as CO 2 levels in the atmosphere rose, working conditions declined and the number of women and children working increased. The government, the arts, literature, music and architecture and man s way of looking at life all changed during the period. The Industria...
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Internal Combustion Engine Second Industrial Revolution
1,187 wordsThe Industrial Revolution was a time of dramatic change and transformation, from hand tools and handmade items, to products that were mass-produced by machines. This change generally helped life, but also hindered it as well. Workers became more productive, and since more items were manufactured, prices dropped, making exclusive and hard to make items available to the poor and not only the rich and elite. Life generally improved, but the industrial revolution also proved harmful. Pollution incre...
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Decided To Make Hand Held
941 wordsIn all Invention Page 1 In all sports today there are skill-enhancing tools used to perfect a certain technique. Parents, coaches, and the players use these tools. The sport that uses such tools the most is Baseball. Many do not know but baseball technique is broken down into many steps, which allows for the production of many devices. Many of these products are expensive and not mobile. Mobile meaning you cant bring to the field with you to practice with. In doing research I found that parents ...
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Jay Gatsby Englewood Cliffs
1,288 wordsPathetic is a term used to describe someone who is pitifully unsuccessful. Success is not necessarily measured in wealth or fame, but it is measured by how much one has accomplished in life. A successful person is one who has set many goals for himself and then goes out in life and accomplishes some of them, but goes on living even if failing on others. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a pathetic character because he wasted his whole life chasing an unrealistic dream. Gatsby's dream ...
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Rent Control Centered Approach
1,270 words11. Evaluate the pros and cons of rent control and rent stabilization in NYC. Rent control is the government imposition of price ceilings on rent for apartments in certain areas of a city. The goal is usually to protect the rights of the poor. Thus, in a rent controlled or rent stabilized building, the amount of rent will not increase as quickly as inflation. While the moral side of rent control may have some appeal, in the long run the disadvantages far outweigh the advantages. Those who argue ...
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Video Game High Tech
884 wordsVideo games are a big market these days. Within the past few years, the industry has boomed into a very large business. Within this business, there are three big companies are fighting to be the best. Nintendo s N 64, Sega s Dreamcast, and Sony s Playstation are the three main systems in this huge market. Because there are so many games for these systems, and because it is such a big business, stores specializing in only these games are opening everywhere. A few days ago, I walked into one of th...
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