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Makes The Story Jack Ryan
1,778 wordsMarko Ramius is the captain of the Russian super-submarine 'Red October'. The Red October is a modified submarine of the Typhoon-class and is nuclear powered. The 'October' can carry twenty-six nuclear missiles, enough firepower to blow up the city of Washington for about twenty times. To test this very expensive submarine (billions of dollars! ), the Russian navy has to find the 'Red October' in the Atlantic Ocean. Because the 'Red October' has a new propulsion-system that is very silent, it wi...
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Compulsive Gamblers Legalized Gambling
1,612 words... to support the riverboat gambling industry, (Eckert, 1991). He also believes after all 10 boats authorized under the law are operating Illinois will receive $ 40 million in additional revenues, (Eckert, 1991). This is bound to please Illinois' taxpayers. Yet with all its promises it would seem governments are promoting gambling in order to pay a insignificant portion of the bills. Iowa expects to generate $ 10. 8 million from all her riverboat casinos this year. But that is a rather small sh...
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1,482 words25 pages in length. As the new millennium approaches, business and marketing strategies within all industries will continue to present inspired methods in order to reach for the highest profit margin in the twenty-first century. As a means by which to reach for the highest profit margin, and thus effectively represent idealistic philosophies, contemporary commerce has found that Internet-based businesses can, indeed, benefit a larger percentage of people than that of traditional commerce. Not un...
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People Per Square Mile Standard Of Living
1,461 wordsThe United States of America... the land of the free and the home of the tax-stricken. The country that is known as the last superpower in the world that developed the deadliest weapon on earth, sent the first person to the moon, and was the birthplace of the most powerful man in the world, Bill Gates, has forty million people (which include ten million children) without basic healthcare coverage. (Packet, pg. 58) Although this supination boasts of the American dream, where the poor become rich ...
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Meat Packing Atlantic Ocean
932 wordsUruguay republic, in east central South America, is the second smallest country on the continent. This country is bounded on the north by Brazil, on the east by Brazil and the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Atlantic Ocean and the Ro de la Plata, and on the west by Argentina. The Uruguay River forms Uruguay's western boundary in full. Uruguay's land mass in whole is a small 176, 215 sq km. Uruguay's capital city is Montevideo which is the main port, and economic center of the country. The cu...
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U S History Panama Canal
1,260 wordsAfter the war with Spain at Cuba, the United Stats realized that a faster route was necessary in order to deploy its warships from Pacific Ocean to Atlantic Ocean. It was because the warships in Pacific Ocean had to take a detour around Cape Horn, which is located at the extreme South end of South America, in order to go to the sea area of Cuba. The total distance amounted to 224, 000 kilometers, and this great distance caused great amount of wasted time during the war. (web) Panama Canal was th...
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Back Into Space
2,423 wordsGlobal Warming and Our Oceans Global warming and climate change has become one of the most heated environmental issues recently that has triggered a lot of controversial responses. Because sunlight is constantly falling on the earth, the law of physics says that the planet has to radiate the same amount of energy back into space. Infrared radiation is sent out by the earth through the atmosphere, where molecules (carbon dioxide) hold outgoing radiation for a while, warming the surface. The molec...
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Visual And Audio Materials In Hip Hop Industry
1,746 wordsVisual and Audio Materials in Hip-Hop Industry Hip hop music and culture, once considered an American phenomenon, exists throughout the world today. In each cultural area, hip hop artists filter American and other foreign hip hop styles through their own local musical, social, and linguistic practices, creating unique musical forms. In this paper I will attempt to evaluate the visual and audio characteristics that contribute to the culture of hip-hop and produce the image of the aforementioned s...
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Spirit Of St Five Years
719 wordsCharles Lindbergh, one of the world s aviation heroes and an American hero, was the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. He was born on February 4, 1902, in Detroit. He went to school at the University of Wisconsin for two years, but dropped out to attend a flying school in Nebraska. He first started flying in 1922. Within four years, he was piloting a mail plane between St. Louis and Chicago. In 1919 Raymond Orteig from France offered $ 25, 000 to the first person to ...
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Latin American Countries Charles Lindbergh
2,254 wordsOne of the greatest heroes the world has ever known Charles Augustus Lindbergh. He is most famous for his transatlantic flight from New York to Paris. Lindbergh acquired great fame for doing " good will" tours in Latin America. Other than politicians and war heroes no one has yet quite matched his fame. He was a genus when it came to aviation and mechanics. He advised the making and design of several planes from ones made of wood and wire to supersonic jets. He helped several countries...
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Washington D C Spirit Of St
2,162 wordsWould you like to be paid $ 25, 000 for flying across the Atlantic Ocean alone? Sure, with todays airplanes, that would be easy. But in Charles Lindbergh's day, back in 1927, the evolution of planes was just beginning and it was going to take an adventurous man to complete such a daunting task. Many people, both before and after him, were cheered when they succeeded, or mourned when they died failing. Charles Lindbergh, the man who set the record for the flying across America in the shortest tim...
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Support His Family Houghton Mifflin
955 wordsCharles W. Chesnutt Though born in Cleveland in 1858, the grandson of a white man and the son of free blacks, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina where his family, having left the South originally in 1856, returned after the Civil War. Chesnutt who had little formal education taught himself and also received tutoring from family members. Chesnutt is known as one of the great American novelist and short-story writers of the late 19 th century. Chesnutt lived most of his ch...
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Second World War East And West
2,396 wordsCold War The Cold War was the result of Stalin adopting a policy contrary to the Yalta Agreement. Certainly to many supporters of the Orthodox view, this statement will appear rather obvious. In their view, the origins of the Cold War, however, do not essentially lie in the aftermath of Yalta, but in the inevitable clash of capitalism and communism. The fact that Stalin adopted a, in their opinion aggressive, policy was not so much the result of security, but the expansionist nature of Lenin-Mar...
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Pas De Calais German Air Force
3,348 wordsD-Day, June 6 1944. Air-Power: Significant or not? A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling: I experienced an interesting psychological change in the few minutes before and immediately after take off. As I had climbed aboard and strapped myself into my seat I felt tense, strange and extremely nervous. It was as if I was in a fantasy dream world and thought that at any moment I would wake up from this unreality and find that I was back in the b...
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Late Twentieth Century United States Economy
4,835 wordsEntrepreneurial Adventure: The Development of Economics in The United States? Capitalism came in the first ships. ? -Carl N. Dealer Barit Brown United States History Saturday, March 18, 2000 4, 753 words The United States was a nation of development. It was a nation of growth and of innovation. From the signing of the Declaration of Independence, to the end of World War II and so forth, complex dilemmas called for complex solutions and complex solutions called for innovation. While, many aspects...
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Bell Atlantic 000 Employees
363 words? Governments should discourage mergers in the communication industry. ? Our group will be disagreeing with this statement through out the project. We will be using texts and examples in order to support our ideas. Also we will be using reasoning and common sense in some cases. Our group believes the most important mergers in the communication industry are the telecommunication companies? . Bell Atlantic and GTE are the two big mergers in the industry and are a good example for our case. This me...
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Teddy Roosevelt Wallace Stevens
1,356 wordsPanama Canal It didn t take long for the world to realize that Panama is the narrowest strip of land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. From the early sixteenth century, explorers, conquerors, treasure seekers, settlers, the military and engineers have descended on Panama to find a route that would join the two oceans. A modern day Panamanian anthropologist says, A road, a railroad, or a canal; they didn t concern themselves with the rest. That s been the story here for hundreds of years. ...
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Makes The Story Red October
1,803 wordsMarko Red October 2) Outline: Marko Ramius is the captain of the Russian super-submarine Red October. The Red October is a modified submarine of the Typhoon-class and is nuclear powered. The October can carry twenty-six nuclear missiles, enough firepower to blow up the city of Washington for about twenty times. To test this very expensive submarine (billions of dollars! ), the Russian navy has to find the Red October in the Atlantic Ocean. Because the Red October has a new propulsion-system that...
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Bibliography Lists Profit Margin
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Retrospection Eddies Three Eddies Atlantic
325 wordsThe article I chose to do my assignment on was Giant Eddies of South Atlantic Water Invade the North. The eddies that the article discusses are thought to originated from sharp changes of the direction of the currents, which are called North Brazil Current retrospection eddies. These are observed to the largest eddies in the Atlantic. Scientists and Oceanographers are still uncertain about the causes and effects of these eddies, and about the history and numbers of the eddies, and are still cont...
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