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Cross Country Olympic Games
839 wordsThe Modern Pentathlon The Pentathlon is a contest of 5 sports- jumping, running, wrestling, throwing the discus and hurling the spear or javelin that occurred between the same contestants on the same day. The contestant who won three events was considered the victor; but that was in the Ancient Greek times, now the modern day Pentathlon is very different. The sports The sports that make up the modern Pentathlon became part of the Olympic Games in 1912 at Stockholm, Sweden. The modern contest inc...
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How To Make A Proper Pot Of Coffee
1,029 wordsHow-To Let me just say that I am addicted to coffee. Ive got to have my daily fix at least several times a day; when I wake up, around lunch, before I go to work. Truth be told, If coffee were booze, Im pretty sure Id be a drunk. I dont know what you might think, but just any coffee isnt good coffee. Take Starbucks for instance, it smells great, but they brew it so strong that drinking a whole cup can cause your heart to beat a couple seconds fast. I dont like my coffee to be that strong. After ...
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Weve Lost One Thousand Start
491 words6 Seconds After Impact One one thousand. The stands are filled with men, women, and children waving their hands and homemade signs. The cheers coming from the crowd make it hard for me to hear. I smell the hot dogs, popcorn, and pizza being sold at the concession stand. The marching band has just left the field with the tuba players last note still ringing in my ear. In the fourth quarter with us in the lead by five the scoreboard shows six seconds. The coach yells, Its time to go! I strap on my...
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True Love First Love
654 wordsHope is brought back into the picture; the hope of not being hurt again; the hope of finding love again; the hope of actually being happy one more time in your life that's been a huge mess. Miraculously, you do find love again and you fall deeper. He loves you for who you are and your love for him is so great that you " re willing to throw away your world because nothing else mattered but him. But doesn't this seem "de-ja-vu"? Didn't your first love accept you the way you were and your love for ...
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Chicago Tribune United Airlines
626 wordsCURRENT NEWS ARTICLE Source of the article: Fitzgerald, Mark. September 11, 2008. Tribune Escalates Dispute With Google Over Old United Article web The Chicago Tribune attributes the panic on the Googles search technology last Wednesday to a six-year-old article that triggered Wall Street confusion recently. Googlebot, the automated search agent of Google, announced that it was unable to differentiate between breaking news and frequently viewed stories on the websites of its newspapers, " Tribun...
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Put To Death Lethal Injection
1,587 wordsJustice can not be served until the debate on capital punishment is resolved and all states have come to agree that the death penalty is the best way to stop crime completely. The bottom line is, one method of execution is just as brutal and as barbaric as the next, says Mr. Breedlove of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. This comes straight from the mouth of a member of a national organization against capital punishment. The American Heritage? Dictionary of the English Languag...
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Good And Bad Kitty Hawk
1,479 wordsLife in the 1900 s was depressing and was an era filled with extremely hard and strenuous work that didnt offer any future for the average canadian in doing better. If you were an average wage earner you would be virtually stuck in the same job for the rest of your life, while rich maintained their wealth mainly caused by the low taxes. Living conditions were poor for average canadians and even worse for the arriving immigrants. At this time some of the modern conveniences were just being invent...
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Low Self Esteem Abuse Or Neglect
875 wordsChild abuse, although gruesome and unnecessary, happens ever four seconds, and a childs life is lost every seven seconds. As a society these statistics should be of great concern to us. We have to be aware of what is happening to the children in our society, because the only way to improve the situation is to be aware of it, and get involved. There are many different forms of child abuse, including sexual abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse and many forms of neglect. We can help these childre...
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Brain Cells Test Subjects
647 wordsCigarettes and Their Destruction of the Brain Smokers generally feel more comfortable after that especially important first cigarette of the day. Within just a few seconds of lighting up, smoking activates mind-altering changes. Smokers are well aware of the long-term risks of their habit: such as lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and other deadly illnesses. However, smokers are attracted by the immediate effects of smoking: a stimulant that makes them seem to feel more alert, clearheaded a...
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Uncanny Ability Fine Art
1,059 wordsA Culture Still Cultured art n. the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principals, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. ? The Random House Dictionary? Josh, you just have to see the new GAP Khakis commercial! ? proclaimed my excited brother. I even went as far as watching the same channel until I finally saw the commercial. I sat in front of the television for over a half an hour, and turned my head at the sound of catchy swing mu...
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Louis And Auguste Lumiere Brothers Film
433 wordsLumiere Brothers Documentary Films A peek at the Lumiere Brothers A documentary usually captures the truth on camera. Louis and Auguste Lumiere projected the first film for a paying audience in March 1895 called Workers leaving the factory. Then later on the brothers screened ten films. Their films showed events in their everyday life and of their children. Throughout the filming of this documentary the voice over of Bertard Travanier is heard. At the beginning the film looks similar to a slide ...
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Long Range Front Line
1,540 wordsWhen the first computer was built some decades ago, it was capable of doing simple calculations and other basic tasks. The engineers had no idea what the future would bring within the world of computers. Their invention was the first step in a major professional and personal transformation in the industrialized world. Computers invaded in the following decades the lives of most people in various work saving machines and in the middle of the Eighties also in the form of Personal Computers (PCs). ...
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Alternative Fuel Electric Vehicle
848 wordsA Formula One race car accelerates from 0 to 60 mph in under 3 seconds. How could a car that goes 0 to 60 mph in 12 seconds ever be considered cool? The people at Engine Technology International must be impressed because theyve crowned the gas-electric hybrid powerplant from the Honda Insight as International Engine of the Year 2000. 1 The truth is, with a 95 -mpg potential and a 110 mph top speed, the Insight is turning everybody's head while at the same time giving environmentalists a beacon o...
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Nuclear Holocaust Internal Organs
935 wordsCreative Story: Death Close 2100 hours, Captain James S. Steward of the United States Air Force straps on his G-suit and goes over his mission briefings one last time. He walks out into the hanger and awaits his chariot. The SR- 71 Blackbird, the fastest plane in the world with its twin turbine engines and slick black radar absorbent skin make him a flying shadow in the air. His mission, to fly a covert reconnaissance mission over Moscow, the heart of the USSR Intelligence believe that the Russi...
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Gate For The Flight Departure Gate Don
774 wordsThis year, Vacation? ! Vacation? ! This year, almost like every year, I decided to spend my summer vacation with my family far away from any tourist attractions at a place in the middle of nowhere. Wednesday morning we were hearing in the usual manner, half an hour too late, to the airport, because my wife and my 16 -year-old daughter spent half a day in the bathroom. What, in the world, are they doing there? Why does it take them so long? Why, above all, is that it takes them so long today even...
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Heart Failure Blood Pressure
815 wordsThe goal Critique Critical Inquiry 10 / 31 / 00 The goal of the article, (Lack of Effect of Increased Inspired Oxygen Concentrations on Maximal Exercise Capacity or Ventilation in Stable Heart Failure. The American Journal of Cardiology, 84 (12), Dec. 15, 99. pp 1412 - 1416. ) is to further study the effects of administration of increased inspired oxygen concentrations on maximal exercise capacity and exercise ventilation in heart failure. Recent uncontrolled studies have suggested improvement o...
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Cruel And Unusual Punishment Deterrent To Crime
628 wordsDead. Wrong. Most people do not know what goes on during a death penalty. The following is an eye witness account of an Arizona gas chamber execution given by Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens: When the fumes enveloped Dons head he took a quick breath. A few seconds later, he looked again in my direction. His face was red and contorted as if he were attempting to fight through tremendous pain. His mouth was pursed shut and his jaw was clenched tight. Don then took several more quick gulps ...
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San Andreas Fault San Francisco
1,028 wordsThe San Francisco Earthquake Earthquake The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 was ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all times. The quake occurred on April 18, 1906 at approximately 5: 12 a. m. (local time. ) Rupturing the northernmost 430 kilometres of the San Andreas fault from northwest of San Juan Baptists to the triple junction at Cape Mendocino. The foreshore, a minor shock before the earthquake occurred with enough force to be felt throughout the San Francisco Bay area, th...
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Mission Impossible Ii Modern Spy Film Hunt
995 wordsMission Impossible II: The Modern Spy Film In a film genre filled with heavily accented hero s, fancy cars, beautiful women, and plot distracting action scene s, Mission Impossible II breaks away to stand out as a modern reincarnation of the past spy / action films. Tom Cruise returns to play Ethan Hunt, who is a mercenary working for an underground international agency. He has been assigned to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose, played by Douglas Scott, from destroying the world. Along with Cruis...
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United States Olympic United States Olympic Team Florence
515 wordsFlorence D. Griffith nicknamed Dee Dee, Was born on December 21 195. She grew up in a project in Watts, a poor section in Los Angeles California. Florence had 11 brothers and sisters. She would often ask why there were so poor? Her mother would tell her that they were rich as a family Florence was stubborn as a child. Sometimes she would go for days without speaking to anyone. She just read her books. She loved poems. Florence always wanted to stand out and be her own self. She had her own ideas...
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