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Literature Resource Center Short Stories
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Southwest Airlines Delta Airlines
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Ai Investigate Disturbance Adjusted Hostage Attributes Distance
1,200 words// WARNING -- changing values in this file may make your version of // Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six un runnable. -- WARNING DUMP SIMULATION UPDATE PERFORMANCE 0 MAX FRAME ELAPSED TICKS 100 // max simulation speed of 10 FPS (milliseconds) LINE OF SIGHT 3 D UPDATE INTERVAL 0. 75 // seconds LINE OF SIGHT SHADOW DISTANCE 800. 0 // cm LINE OF SIGHT ALWAYS SEEN DISTANCE 300. 0 // cm MAX TURN RATE MULTIPLIER 3. 0 // higher = humans turn faster, lower = humans turn slower CYLINDER GUNSHOT COLLISION DISTANCE...
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Stage Of Sleep 50 Percent
854 wordsThis is another chapter in the book titled The Psychology of Consciousness. This chapter examines the variations in consciousness. Ornstein proposes that an individuals consciousness goes through numerous changes each day. There are daily changes in biological rhythms, borderline states between sleep and dreams, sleep and wakefulness, and daydreams. Each day we each experience a basic biologic rhythm referred to as circadian. Many factors influence this rhythm: light-dark cycle, sun position, wo...
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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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Kappa Alpha Lecture Notes
637 wordsOn September 25 of last year, one female student attempted to rush the Alpha Gamma Delta (AGD) sorority at the University of Georgia; she was never invited back. The sorority was an all white sorority and she was black. The sorority was said to have discriminated against this potential member because this student was black. Outraged, that she would not even be considered for membership, the young black woman made the university aware of the situation (Hohman). The allegations were answered with ...
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Effects Of Marijuana Smoke Marijuana
954 wordsThe third largest agricultural good in the nation and a ten billion-dollar industry has nothing to do with the agriculture we are use to. This good is Marijuana, an illegal drug. It is "the most widely used illicit drug in America" n (Gold v). In Florida alone, marijuana sales are greater than all businesses except tourism (Gold v). What is marijuana? Marijuana, a plant, known as Cannabis Sativa, labeled that by Carolus Linnaeus in 1753 (Grinspoon 1), is "one of nature's hardiest specimens" (Abe...
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Love And Beauty Goddess Of Love
1,949 words... rth god Geb to form the heavens. Sometimes she appeared in the form of a cow whose body from's the sky and heavens. Nut was the barrier separating the forces of chaos from the ordered cosmos in this world. Her fingers and toes were believed to touch the four cardinal points or directions. The sun god Re was said to enter her mouth after setting in the evening and travel through her body during the night to be reborn from her vagina each morning. Nut was also a goddess of the dead, and the ph...
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Black Hawk Down A Story Of Modern War
774 wordsMark Bowden began writing his book Black Hawk Down in 1996; three years after the Battle of the Black Sea took place in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. After finishing the book Bowden published it in 1999 and 2000, and it is still in print. It is 346 pages long, including the epilogue. Published by Penguin Books, Black Hawk Down costs fourteen dollars. There are no other books presently available today on this particular topic. Bowden mentions a few books that lightly touch on it, which he used...
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American Military Special Forces
1,589 wordsYou leave for up to seven months at a time on missions that you cant even tell your wife about and when you are home most of your time is spent training for more missions. Youve had years of the best and hardest military training in the world. You have the best weapons, the hardest missions and the best technology. You are part of an elite branch of the U. S military known as the Special Forces. The Special Forces is actually not just one group but a group of different specialized groups. These ...
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Story Takes Place Brave New World
2,809 wordsBrave New World by Aldous Huxley The author Aldous Leonard Huxley was born in Surrey, England, on July 26, 1894, third son of Dr. Leonard Huxley and Julia Arnold. He is the grandson of T. H. Huxley, the scientist. Aldous Huxley was educated at Eton, which he left at seventeen owing to an affliction of the eyes which left him practically blind for two or three years. This event presented him from becoming a doctor, for which he was grateful later on. The book Brave New World was written in 1932. ...
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College Students Story Line
952 wordsAnimal House: Classic College Portrayal or Inspiration to do Something Dumb? The often considered classic National Lampoon s movie Animal House is a raunchy, screwball comedy about a motley collection of students belonging to the Delta fraternity at Faber College back in the early 60 s. The story line has been used over and over: students are drinking, a problem arises, the students drink some more, and then they figure out a way to defeat the system and win back their pride. Movies such as PCU ...
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Turn Of The Century Blues Singers
2,174 wordsConcepts of the Blues Most of what we hear today, in essence, probably developed from the blues. The word blue has been associated with the idea of melancholia or depression since the Elizabethan era. To have the blues meant that you had a depressed mood or felt things that werent going your way. The American writer, Washington Irving is credited with coining the term the blues. The earlier (almost entirely Negro) history of the blues musical tradition is traced through oral tradition as far bac...
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Wall Street Journal Stock Prices
2,209 wordsIntroduction The U. S. economy was at the height of economic expansion, stocks were near all time highs, corporate profits were strong, and the unemployment rate was at its lowest in two decades. At the same time, the major corporations in the United States were firing workers by the hundreds of thousands, and job insecurity had risen to an extremely high level. What was also ironic was the fact that the corporations who were initiating the downsizing's were considered to be some of the stronges...
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Hewlett Packard Client Server
1,619 wordsIn the year 1994, Fox Meyer was the fourth largest drug wholesaler in the United States with an annual sales of approximately $ 5. 1 billion. The company filled orders from thousands of pharmaceutical companies with shipments of up to 500, 000 items per day. However, in the same year, due to rapid growth and consolidation of the pharmaceutical industry, Fox Meyers management was concerned about competition from the larger competitors. The threat imposed required drastic measures. The whole indus...
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Literature Resource Center Short Stories
1,093 wordsSome Sugars Symphony Sugar? s Symphony Some have coined music as a universal language. Perhaps, the complexity of the notes, the consistency of the beat, the array of instruments, or the flow of lyricism offers this universal appeal. Nevertheless, the unique composition of each song enables it to sustain its own magnetic aura, much like the musical implication in Lewis Nordan? s Music of the Swamp. Though, many argue Nordan? s piece suggests merely a collection of short stories rather than a nov...
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East And West Burial Chamber
3,243 wordsWhat does the tomb of Tutankhamen and its contents show about the Egyptian concern for the afterlife? Tutankhamens tomb, and the artifacts inside are an indication of the concern the Ancient Egyptians held for the after-life of their king. On the 26 th of Nov. 1922, the English archaeologist Howard Carter opened the virtually intact tomb of a largely unknown pharaoh, Tutankhamen. This was the first, and the finest royal tomb found in the history of Egyptology. It took almost a decade of meticulo...
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Lester Grinspoon Aids Patients
753 wordsLegalization of Marijuana What is marijuana? According to Harvard Medical Professor Lester Grinspoon, it is a miracle drug, one that prevents blindness, acts as an appetite stimulant for AIDS patients, and prevents muscle spasms in epileptics. When speaking of the same plant, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics for over thirty years, Harry J. Anslinger said that this evil weed led to killings, sex crimes and insanity. How can two such highly respected experts have such night and day outlooks...
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Controlled Substances Act Schedule Ii Drug
4,391 wordsMarijuana (also spelled marihuana) is a psychoactive drug made from the dried leaves and flowering parts of the hemp plant. It is one of the most strictly classified illegal drugs in the United States. Under the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, marijuana is listed as a Schedule I substance, which defines it as having a high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use. Marijuana is therefore classified more severely than cocaine and morphine, which as Schedule II drugs are also banne...
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Controlled Substances Act Schedule Ii Drug
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