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Fine Print R 1
1,063 words"Which bike is best for me?" That is the question most motorcycle buyers would ask themselves. I have chosen three separate sportbike advertisements and analyzed their differences. Most motorcycle advertisements show and tell why the product should be bought. The advertisers portray the sportbike's in a unique style and the ads explain why their sportbike is superlative, and they use different techniques to illustrate their position. The ads are persuasive by the effective use of imagery, lighti...
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Hand Held First Introduced
1,065 wordsEdwin Land and George Wheelwright III founded Polaroid Corporation in 1936. The interlocking rings of Polaroid filters have been the emblems of the Polaroid Corporation for over sixty years. Edwin H. Land first demonstrated one-step photography at a meeting of the Optical Society of America on February 21, 1947. Following that, the first one-step camera with color film was invented in 1963. Since then, the company has come a long way. In 1998, the Polaroid Corporation expanded distribution to ov...
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Y 2 K Big Problem
1,134 wordsAs the new millenium approaches the biggest fear everyone has is over the Y 2 K bug. Y 2 K stands for y = year 2 K = two thousand. The fear is that on Dec. 31, 1999 at twelve o clock all computers around the world will go crazy. Every mechanical device that is computer controlled could go on the fritz. Social Security checks could be cancelled along with car payments, mortgages could read 100 years. Telephone conversations could be calculated mistakenly to have lasted for a 100 years. What is ca...
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Educational Purposes Lottery Tickets
650 wordsThe Ohio Lottery and the Problems That It Produces In August 1974 the first ticket for the Buckeye 300 was sold. This was a big year for the state of Ohio. It marked the start of something that would grow into a resemblance of the garden of good and evil. Though lottery is a big moneymaker for the state, it is also a cause of a horrible addiction. Senator Ron Most first campaigned against the idea of the Lottery in Ohio. Its approval in Ohio was apparent; the State Issue 1 passed by more than a ...
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Fatal Accidents Task Force
1,171 words... rate of applicants (there is) a shortage of highly qualified ones (Pilot Turnoverp. 91). Inexperienced pilots tend to make more mistakes than their veteran counterparts, so that the labor demand growth that has taken place with deregulation coupled with a reduced number of former armed forces pilots available may well be a factor undermining airline safety. Having stated that it is, in general, safe to board U. S. operated planes, yet another qualification must be made at this juncture. Smal...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Opera Seria
1,351 wordsA remarkable musician and composer, whose legend continues to grow more than two centuries after his death, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. Before the age of four, he had exhibited such extraordinary powers of musical memory and ear-sophistication that his father, Leopold (a highly esteemed violinist and composer in his own right) decided to sign young Wolfgang up for harpsichord lessons. Almost from day one, the boy's reputation as an unexampled musical prodigy gr...
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Caribbean Islands British Control
1,330 words... early - the Caribs either killed or held the missionaries hostage and the Spanish were not willing to pit their fighting skills against a skilled enemy and the rugged terrain of Dominica. In fact, this attitude pretty much summed up how the next wave of European colonists, the English and the French, were to feel when they arrived in Dominica at the start of the 1600 's. The English and the French were in a race to colonize the Caribbean in order to tap into the riches that lay in exploiting...
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Million Years Ago Hot Spot
346 wordsA hot spot is said to be a volcano that is recognized by an age progression from one end of the chain to the other. An active volcano commonly serves as an "anchor" at one end of the chain. After minutes of searching the web I found a hot spot that was not included in the Hawaii or Yellow Stone hot spots. I found my hot spot near India by the island of About 66 - 68 million years ago present-day India was above the hot spot and great volumes of basaltic lava erupted to produce the Deccan Traps. ...
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Prince William Sound Exxon Valdez
614 wordsWhen people hear the phrase "oil spill: they think a bunch of black stuff all in the water. Well there is a lot more to it then just that. It is an economical disaster as well as an environmental one. As you read along you will see how devastating this one oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, really was compared to others. Whether you, as the reader believe it or just think it is something that is none of you concern and happened 10 years ago is completely up to you. I think that your mind will change a...
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Td Tr Tr Td Td Td
932 wordsTigers are the largest members of the cat family. They live in Asia and belong to the same genus as the lion, leopard, and jaguar. Two major subspecies of the tiger are the Siberian tiger and the Bengal tiger. The tiger is thought to have originated in northern Asia during the Pleistocene Epoch. Scientific classification: Tigers belong to the family Felidae. The scientific classifications of each tiger are listed in the "Types of Tigers" section of this report. Appearance The Siberian tiger meas...
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Strong Minded Union Army
1,508 words... d vehicle. The staff, aside from the medical officers and hospital stewards, was mostly made up of the convalescents. They were frequently weak and weary, often snappish and irritable. They did not like the dirty work they performed. They wanted to go home. The surgeon-in-charge, as the hospital commander was titled, was often in a dilemma. If he returned the patient to his regiment too soon, the man might relapse or die on the road to his unit. If he tried to hold on to the man too long, he...
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Zeppelin Remote Boy Asked Blimp
695 wordsPoor Boys Blimp There once was a little boy that grew up in the Brooklyn projects. He was extremely poor. Some how he managed to have some of the better things of life like a treadmill and an obsolete computer from the 80? s. His life long dream was to own a $ 650 Lead Zeppelin remote controlled blimp. He asked his parents every year for six years if he could have it and every time they would say no they couldn? t afford it. So on the boys fourteenth birthday he went and applied for a job at the...
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Million For Sales Rubber And Steel Company
251 wordsJames McKay, George Buchanan and Arthur Dalzell founded the company in 1965. Initially the company started with a small production of golf clubs with fiberglass shafts but thanks to the great demand that their products encountered, in 1972 Hi-Plex expanded its manufacturing facilities that resulted in a turnover of over? 3 million and a pretax profit of? 600, 000. In 1975 Global Products Inc. , a rubber and steel manufacturer, took over the company and Hi-Plex became a vertical integrated compan...
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King Henry Ii Twelfth Century
2,299 wordsBy the ninth century people all over were telling the fabulous tales and romances about Arthur and his kingdom. The common people heard them sung by bards, while in the court poets wrote different versions. In each retelling the speaker would select certain details for emphasis and introduce new elements, so that the story could be adapted to the particular time and audience. Although most historians believe that there actually did exist an Arthur, they differ on how major his role was on influe...
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Due To The Fact African Americans
1,437 wordsThe Long Route Home: On July 25, 1946, two young black couples- Roger and Dorothy Malcom, George and Mae Murray Dorsey-were killed by a lynch mob at the Moores Ford Bridge over the Appalachee River connecting Walton and Oconee Counties (Brooks, 1). The four victims were tied up and shot hundreds of times in broad daylight by a mob of unmasked men; murder weapons included rifles, shotguns, pistols, and a machine gun. Shooting a black person was like shooting a deer, George Dorsey's nephew, George...
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Beats Per Minute Polar Bears
1,024 wordsPolar Bears can be found in all of the northern regions of the world. This includes Russia, Norway, Greenland, the United States and Canada. They inhabit Arctic Sea ice, water, islands, and continental coastlines. Polar bears prefer sea ice habitat with leads, next to continental coastlines or islands. Air temperatures in the Arctic average - 34 C in winter and 0 C in summer. The coldest area in winter is northeastern Siberia, where the temperature has been recorded as low as - 69 C. The ocean t...
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Bang After Bang Began On September Bombing
1,055 wordsIn September of 1940 through May of 1941 there was a strategic bombing attack that was lead by the Germans targeted towards London and other cities located in England, this was known as The Blitz. The Germans aimed the bombs mostly at populated cities, dock yards, and factories. The bombing on London began on September 7, 1940 and lasted for 57 consecutive nights. During these nights of bombing people took shelter in warehouse basements, and in underground subway stations with no privacy and poo...
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Kilometers In Diameter Mitral Valve
1,169 wordsReading Response Researchers have now concluded that a heart defect, called mitral valve prolapse is not as dangerous as it was previously pronounced. The defect is far less common and dangerous, only effecting about 5 percent of Americans. The syndrome, which is caused by the mitral valve flaps becoming elongated and floppy, letting blood flow backwards into the heart chamber. The defect may require surgery to prevent sudden death, stroke, heart failure, and abnormal heart rhythms that cause fa...
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Fall Of The Roman Empire Han Dynasty
2,037 wordsThe establishment and impact of the Silk and Spice trade The establishment of silk garments in Asia first came about when the silkworm, Bomb mori (moth) residing in the family Bombycid ae, was first discovered for its thread by a great dynasty of China? the Han Dynasty (206 BC? AD 220). The silk has a continuous-filament fiber consisting of fibroin protein secreted from two salivary glands in the head of each larvae, and a gum called sericin, which cements the two filaments together. Silk weavin...
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512 wordsEnglish Snowmobile Engine Ryan Polls English 101 The Technology Of A Snowmobile Engine If you study and look at the history of a snowmobile engine, it has improved in many ways. I feel they have improved in two major ways. Number one being in performance, and number two they? re more environmentally safe. In order for you to understand how this has happened, I will explain to you the engine of a snowmobile. A snowmobile engine is called a 2 -cycle engine. This means unlike a 4 -cycle which you w...
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