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Car And Driver Issue 1988 Car And Driver Issue Ferruccio
750 wordsFerruccio Lamborghini was born in 1916 under the Zodiac sign of Taurus, his parents were farmers but Ferruccio soon decided he wanted to do something with mechanics. He started working on his fathers tractor out of interest and was able to attend a technical school in Bologna. During the second World War he was enrolled into the Italian Air Force, working for the transport sections, after 1944 he became a prisoner of the British military forces who put him to work in their motoring department. A...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Anabolic Steroids
1,747 wordsMany athletes of all ages are turning towards performance enhancing drugs as a way of improving their performance by giving them that extra edge. This is not only wrong but its cheating and harmful to the athlete. Performance enhancing drugs have been around for hundreds of years. The Incas of the South America country Peru used the burned leaves of coca trees to give them great amounts of energy when faced with battles, hunts, ect. Even today they use coca leaves as a way of giving them the ene...
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Beach Boys Solo Album
797 wordsThe Beach Boys formed in 1961. The band members are; Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson who are all brothers, Al Jardine and Mike Love. All but Al Jardine lived in Los Angela's. They were first called the Pendletones which was a shirt brand, but a record label executive named them the Beach Boys. One of their first big hits was 'Surfin' that was credited for starting the 'surfing craze. ' 1962 they released the album Surfin Safari with the song 'Surfin Safari' hitting the U. S Top 40. 1963 'Surfin U...
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5 7 97 Guest 5 7 97 Erik
998 words(Frank Poncherello) Erik was born on March 16, 1949 as Henry Enrique Estrada in NY City. Back around 1968, he was in a dance troupe and earned $ 38 a week with free lunches and all the acting lessons he could take. In return, he had to perform daily in downtown Los Angeles. He had a 10 -day hospital stay in August 1979 caused by on-set accident when he was thrown from his motorcycle and the 900 -pound bike landed on him. At 5 ' 10 '', 160 pounds, he was an inch shorter and 15 pounds lighter than...
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How People Remember Events
987 wordsThe world we live in is not exactly an anodyne place due to violence, wars, racism, and conflicts towards others. Some groups such as Neo Nazis bring back a memory of Hitler as they perform their hatred acts towards Jewish and minorities. Some people try to remember past events as they wanted them to have happen and some remember past events as they actually happened. Though some people and some authors remember events as they would like them to happen, some authors such as Ernest Hemingway reme...
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The Sound And Fury Madison Scouts
1,170 wordsThe roar of extreme sound emanates from a football field. It is clear that this is not an ordinary high school marching band playing at a football game. These are Drum and Bugle Corps, boasting an instrumentation of all brass and percussion instruments. This arrangement of instruments can create an enormous amount of sound, sometimes louder than a rock music concert. Due to their thorough auditioning processes, they have a group of musicians, who can play extremely well, all of whom are brought ...
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Racism In Heart Of Darkness
1,240 wordsChinua Achebe, a well-known writer, once gave a lecture at the University of Massachusetts about Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, entitled "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness. " Throughout his essay, Achebe notes how Conrad used Africa as a background only, and how he "set Africa up as a foil to Europe, " (Achebe, p. 251) while he also "projects the image of Africa as 'the other world, ' the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization. " (Achebe, p. 252) By his own...
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Berry Gordy Father Of The Motown Sound
1,152 words... to fade just as big band had. R&B was being promoted many famous bandleaders like Louis Jordan and Lionel Hampton. The creation or rhythm and blues was what eventually brought about many small independent labels. Companies like Columbia, Decca, Peacock Records, and Vee Jay Records helped pioneer the R&B movement by supporting great up and coming artists. They seized the opportunity to make profits off of music that was then considered radical and unconventional. The main reason why the large...
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Edgar Allen Poe Vincent Van Gogh
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Atomic Bomb Los Alamos
863 wordsRichard Philip Feynman was born in New York City on May 11 th 1918 to a middle class family that lived on the Southern tip of Manhattan. He grew up in a household where both of his parents poured into him their best qualities. His mother, Lucille, instilled in Richard a powerful sense of humor, which would be essential in forming his magnetic personality and eccentric lecturing style. His father, Melville, decided before Richard was born that if he were a boy, he would grow up to be a scientist,...
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Gun Laws British Columbia
691 wordsIn a democracy, government isn't something that a group of people do TO everybody else, it's not even something they do FOR every body else, it should be something they do WITH everybody else. "Kim Campbell, March 25 th, 1993 Avril Phaendra Douglas Campbell was born in Port Allen, B. C. SHortly after her birth her parents moved to Vancouver where her father was studying law. Her family life didn't turn out to be succesful, so her parents divorced when she was 12. By the age of 13 she changed her...
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Cold War Disarmament Talks
1,016 words... 2500, deployed strategic ballistic missiles to 850, no more than 110 heavy ICBMs and also reductions in ballistic missile throw-weight. The second phase focused on placing limits on heavy bombers and other strategic systems. However the year 1983 marked a breakdown of US-Soviet relations. The Soviets suspended talks in reaction to Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) alleging that the SDI had changed the strategic situation making aspects of START irrelevant or unfair. To see why, it ...
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Adam Smith Intrinsic Value
649 wordsTrade is used as a means of full-filling one's self interest in a certain commodity. Smith states that when there is nothing left that you need, trading becomes some what of a problem because you aren't benefiting from it. Smith makes this seen when he talks about "how the butcher has more meat in his shop than he himself can consume, and the brewer and the baker would each of them be willing to purchase part of it" (WN I. ii. 27), but have nothing to give the butcher in return because he doesn'...
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Tragic Flaw Heroic Deeds
893 wordsA Comparison of Oedipus and Beowulf The characters Oedipus and Beowulf represent two different types of heroes. Oedipus is a tragic hero and characterized by its standards. He was an influential man of stature who had a tragic flaw. While he contributed to his own downfall, Oedipus was not entirely responsible for it. He also learned a lesson from his mistakes which ultimately creates a catharsis in the reading audience. Beowulf, on the other hand, is characterized by the standards of an epic he...
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Lethal Injection Death Penalty
613 wordsDeath penalty is the highest penalty in the United States. People have different thinking about death penalty, or in other way capital punishment. A 52 % majority don t think the death penalty deters people from committing crimes, and 60 % don t think vengeance is legitimate reason to execute someone. Since 1976 in United States were made 3, 214 executions. Twelve of them were made by US Government, and nine by US Military. From 50 states in United States just 12 of them do not have death penalt...
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Hall Of Fame Bell Labs
799 wordsOverview While at AT& T Bell Laboratories, Dennis Ritchie, along with Ken Thompson, developed the UNIX computer operating system for minicomputers. He later developed the programming language called C, which has become a virtual standard in the microcomputer / workstation marketplace. Dennis Ritchie was born on Sept. 9, 1941 in Bronxville, New York. After doing undergraduate and graduate work in physics and applied mathematics at Harvard University, Ritchie joined Bell Labs in 1968. In the m...
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Rain Forests Biological Diversity
934 wordsDestruction of the Rainforests TABLE OF CONTENTSPAGETITLE 1 Title Page 2 Table of Contents 3 What is Happening 4 Other Effects 5 The problem of Protecting the Forest 6 What is Being Done for the Forest 7 Bibliography DESTRUCTION OF THE RAIN FORESTS The destruction of the rainforests is happening at a great rate and must be stopped now. A delegate from U. S. Congress, Al Gore, says 1 / The devastation of the rainforest is just unbelievable. Its one of the great tragedies of all history. Last year...
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War On Drugs Legalizing Drugs
633 wordsLegality, Although it is clear that society is unhappy with current efforts to stop illegal drug smuggling, illegal drug use and distribution, no one seems to know what should be done. With drug use and drug related crime on the rise, some Americans argue that current drug law is too easy on drug offenders. Society at large asks, Can we ever stop illegal drugs and their use? It is a question that unfortunately has no easy answer. More and more people in America feel that if this country cannot s...
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Authoritative Text Backgrounds Heart Of Darkness
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Today Society Nobel Prize
760 wordsMen and Women were Created Equal Men are not superior to women, they are equal in every way. Although it is true that society has stereotyped women into traditional roles, this preconceived notion, is totally false. Action to promote the concept of equality in our society needs to be taken. Women have been fighting for equality for many decades. As a result of this battle, some amazing transformations have taken place amongst the female gender. Women have become educated and over the last few de...
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