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Miles An Hour Mississippi River
1,033 wordsRobert Fulton started the very first commercially successful steamboat service in America. His steam-powered paddle boat, the Clermont, sailed up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany in August of 1807. This trip lasted 32 hours The first steamboats were demonstrated in 1787. They were used on the river ways to bring cargo, cotton, sugar, and people to their destinations. The steamboat played a major part in the population growth. The steamboats were usually made of wood and were all kin...
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Law And Order Virtual Reality
898 wordsWhat do all of these scenes have in common: a small figure jumping on another figures head, a man stabbing a woman with a pencil in the hand, and a man punching another man in the face? Violence. What is the difference between these three scenes? One is a scene from a video game, another is from a new, popular movie, and one can be seen in real life. In a popular video game you have a little character named Mario who is supposed to rescue Princess Toadstool. In doing so he has to jump on certain...
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Dinner Century Parents
430 wordsThe winter chills of December seemed far away. My family and I sat in the basking of the sunlight. The incredible warmth of the sun was a balm for my soul. With the end of 1999 approaching, my parents and I decided to celebrate with a cruise to the Caribbean, and the day promised to pass all expectations. New Years Eve day began with great anticipation. Not only was this the beginning of a new Millennium, but also hunger touched my stomach and I knew a scrumptious breakfast awaited me. Making my...
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Lucid Dreaming Rem Sleep
795 wordsThe research of consciousness, or states of awareness, has provided numerous interesting and influential studies. Sleep, dreams, and hypnosis are states of awareness that have intrigued psychologists because they relate to the quality of psychological interaction with the environment. States of awareness change constantly, which produces changes in behavior. Studies in this area have made great contributions to the understanding of psychology. Researchers pursuing answers about states of awarene...
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Dickinson Poem Extended Metaphor
848 wordsAmerica experienced profound changes during the mid 1800 s. New technologies and ideas helped the nation grow, while the Civil War ripped the nation apart. During this tumultuous period, two great American writers captured their ideas in poetry. Their poems give us insight into the time period, as well as universal insight about life. Although polar opposites in personality, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman created similar poetry. Dickinson's Hope is a Thing with Feathers and Whitman's O Captain...
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Charles Dickens Joe Gargery
1,621 wordster> The World of Laws, Crime and Punishment in Great Expectations Great Expectations criticises the Victorian judicial and penal system. Through the novel, Charles Dickens displays his point of view of criminality and punishment. This is shown in his portraits of all pieces of such system: the lawyer, the clerk, the judge, the prison authorities and the convicts. In treating the theme of the Victorian system of punishment, Dickens shows his position against prisons, transportation and...
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Lot Of People Recreational Sport
448 wordsSkateboarding is a very popular recreational sport. There are twenty million people who skateboard around the world. Skateboarding was invented by Alan Ollie Gelfand. They got the name Ollie from his middle name. The Ollie was a fundamental basis for harder tricks. To put it in more simple terms, it means whenever you jump with the skateboard. You do this so that you can jump over things, jump in the air to do tricks, and so that you can jump on grind rails. There are over three-hundred manufact...
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Opened The Door Poor People
1,137 wordsChef This epic tale of love and deception takes us back in time to the year nineteen hundred and eighty seven. Early one morning in London, England, we find ourselves in the kitchen of Chef. This sweet mouthwatering scent of Salisbury steak fills the room. This was to be the finest steak Chef had ever prepared. He planned to enter a contest with this masterpiece, the prize being a cruise to Greenland. To Chef, this was the land of paradise. He would be the only man there to seduce and womanize t...
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Numbers You Roll 1 54 1 53 One
537 wordsStatistics. Suppose you have 3 nickels, 2 dimes, and 6 quarters in your pocket. Total population of coins: 3 + 2 + 6 = 11. If you draw a coin randomly from your pocket, what is the probability that: a. You will draw a dime? Probability is 2 / 11 b. You will draw a half-dollar? Probability is 0 / 11 if you draw only one coin (there are no half dollars). c. You will draw a quarter? Probability is 6 / 11 2. You are rolling a pair of dice, one red and one green. What is the probability of the follow...
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Match My Car Red To Match My Car Engine
767 wordsI am Car Observation Observation I am choosing to observe my car. I drive a 1993 Honda Civic Ex. I have made many modifications to my car to make it look as different from any other red Honda Civic out there. I m what you might call an import enthusiast. Import cars like mine are a new dimension of automobiles now. Before it was the original V 8 engine mustangs and muscle cars but now cause of gas prices and other changes in the world we have evolved to more domestic 4 cylinders and our own way ...
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Moby Dick Captain Ahab
697 wordsMEN GONE MAD Peoples dreams can make them insane. One person can be entirely focused on a particular event that the event soon begins to take over their life and influence others. Captain Ahab's intent is finding and killing Moby Dick, the whale that maimed and disfigured him years ago. His obsession with this whale puts many others in danger, such as Ishmael, Starbuck, and himself. Captain Ahab uses his shipmates as bait for Moby Dick himself. The day the ship leaves the dock on a search for wh...
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Short Period Of Time End Result
1,664 wordsMoney and Measurement Business is often thought of according to a game and in mos Title: Ethics Content: Business Ethics a philosophical view MOney and measurement Description: Game Theory Money and Measurement Business is often thought of according to a game and in most games a score is kept. A lot of board games and even quite a few card games are scored using money. The person or team who ends up with the greater sum of money in the end is the winner. Even such small games between individuals...
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Technological Changes That Lead Discovery Of The New World Vessel
477 wordsThere were many political and technological changes that prompted the world explorations and discovery of the new world. The Portuguese were the main contributors to the technological changes that lead to the discovery of the new world. However, the change of the political structure of Spain ultimately lead to the discovery. There were many technological changes that the Portuguese contributed. First of all they observed the way the Arab vessels were designed and then improved on them to make th...
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End Of The Story Short Stories
1,102 wordsDonald Donald Barthelme Donald Barthelme Donald Barthelme has been called probably the most perversely gifted writer in the U. S. As well as one of the best, most significant and carefully developing young American writers (Harte and Riley, 41). He was born April 7, 1931 to Donald and Helen Barthelme in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Barthelme had a wide range of careers during his lifetime. He worked as a newspaper reporter and as a managing editor of Location, and art and literature review (Harte...
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Atmospheric Co 2 Global Warming
1,117 wordsWe are all going to die. Run, Chicken Little, the sky is falling! We have all heard the horror story of global warming, some of us so much that by now it seems only a fanciful tale imposed upon the world by radical environmentalists. Despite what little evidence we see of global warming in our day-to-day lives, it is a major issue in today? s society. The leaders of hundreds of countries have met to discuss the problem and what is to be done about it in the future. Air emissions regulations have...
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Four And A Half Hampton Roads
1,230 wordsCivil War Monitor vs. Merrimack The battle on March 9, 1862, between the USS Monitor and the CSS Merrimack, officially the CSS Virginia, is one of the most revolutionary naval battles in world history. Up until that point, all battles had been waged between wooden ships. This was the first battle in maritime history that two ironclad ships waged war. The USS Merrimack was a Union frigate throughout most of its existence, up until the Union Navy abandoned the Norfolk Naval Yard. To prevent the Co...
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Four And A Half Hampton Roads
1,240 wordsThe battle on March 9, 1862, between the USS Monitor and the CSS Merrimack, officially the CSS Virginia, is one of the most revolutionary naval battles in world history. Up until that point, all battles had been waged between wooden ships. This was the first battle in maritime history that two ironclad ships waged war. The USS Merrimack was a Union frigate throughout most of its existence, up until the Union Navy abandoned the Norfolk Naval Yard. To prevent the Confederate Navy from using her ag...
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Terry Coleman Nelson Made
842 wordsThe man on the burning deck Nelson: The Man and the Legend Terry Coleman 424 pp, Bloomsbury There never was such a hero as Admiral Lord Nelson, the flawed national treasure who could, as Terry Coleman points out, be feted and feasted ridiculed and caricatured at one and the same time. Also vilified, even now, by Italians for his shameful behaviour at Naples in 1799, when he repudiated a treaty that had just been made with rebels against their Bourbon king allowing them safe conduct to France. Su...
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Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Figurative Language
1,065 wordsThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a strange and mystical odyssey that explicates the mental and physical challenges of a mariner throughout a long and laborious journey. As each character faces an obstacle, both moods of pain and joy are established during the narrative poem. Samuel Taylor Coleridge uses figurative language to let the reader feel and sense the positive and negative feelings the Mariner experiences on his mysterious trip. Coleridge makes the words come to life with the uses of s...
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