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Miles An Hour Mississippi River
1,033 words
Robert 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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Wheel Drive Km H
890 words
Many people might argue that the Ferrari 360
Modena is a better car then the Porsche 911 Turbo.
Through the years the engineers from both Porsche
and Ferrari have excelled a great deal. However,
the engineers at Porsche have done a better job in
many ways that Ferrari cant. If you look at the
statistics they are about equal but when you look
at the technology, the body, and the engine you
will see that the Porsche will overcome the
Ferrari. Look at those huge knockers! The way that
they sleek ba...
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Four Cylinder Rear Window
977 words
Lately the trend in cars has been anything but.
Lately in the United States the trend has moved
toward the SUV or the Sports Utility Vehicle.
Thats Right the family station wagon and the
Minivan are things of the past and I am going to
take you through a thorough examination my
favorite the Toyota 4 Runner Ltd! ! ! 1997 Toyota
4 Runner Limited 4 WD WHAT'S NEW FOR 1997 All-new
4 Runner debuts with more interior room, stronger
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Fools And Foolishness In King Lear
1,659 words
Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear is comprised of
many distinct themes. His contrasts of light and
dark, good and evil, and his brilliant
illustration of parallels between the foolishness
of the play's characters and society allowed him
to craft a masterpiece. Just as well,
Shakespeare's dynamic use of linguistic techniques
such as pun and irony aid this illustration of the
perfect microcosm, not only of 16 th century
Britain, but of all times and places. By far the
theme that best allowed the fur...
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Make A Living T V
1,704 words
POP, SLIP, STOMP! Dude bog ular noble-pop to
back-she indy-slide blunt press bro! ! ! You may
wonder if that had anything to do with skating,
well guess what, it did. There is this totally
extreme sport that only the most extreme athletes
on the planet can endure! Its called skateboarding
and its awesome. There is a very long history to
skateboarding, and the sport has definitely
changed greatly over the years-About fifty years
to be perfectly exact. It all started out with
just a piece of wood ...
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Siddhartha Gautama Eightfold Path
1,312 words
This report will be about the life of Buddha,
Siddhartha Gautama, and his influences on the
people around him. It will explain how the
religion of Buddhism came about and how the Buddha
created it. It will also include not only what
influenced Buddha to start preaching, but what
influenced the people to listen. Prince Siddhartha
Gautama, who would later be known as Buddha, was
born in Lumbini, Nepal around the year 563 BC. He
was the son of two important great people.
Siddhartha's fathers name w...
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Reservoir Dogs Police Officer
1,452 words
Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty were a duo known as
Stealers Wheel when they recorded a Dylanesque pop
hit, "Stuck in the Middle With You", in April of
1974. The single reached number five on the charts
- little did they know that eighteen years later
it would become a cult favorite. In 1992 Quentin
Tarantino, a little known writer / director , took
the Cannes film festival and the world by surprise
with his motion picture Reservoir Dogs. The movie
is about the difficulties that occur when five
"mas...
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Red Convertible White Man
1,341 words
... ol. "There was still blood going down Henrys
chin, but he didnt notice (459). He is eating
bread with blood on it but it does not matter to
him. The meaning of the red here may have been
letting out of the body fluid as in the way that
people were let to bleed to let something bad be
released from them. According to the Indian
Medicine Wheel, red was symbolic of success as in
the color of the war club used to strike an enemy
in battle as well as the club used by the warrior
to shield himself...
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Steering Wheel Driving Experience
790 words
ENGLISH COMPOSITION Driving Forget everything you
know about driving. Listen to the sound of the
engine behind you, enjoy the feeling of your body
travelling without moving. Look! In front of you,
an empty highway, you are facing your future. Four
wheels, a steering wheel, a shape made to pierce
the air. Cars are all made of the same elements
but incan various personalities. They are your key
to the driving experience. Driving is not only the
coordination of eyes, feet and hands, it is a
complet...
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Hot Air Air Conditioning
811 words
TheEnvironmentsl Sys Conan Poetry The SA 227
family of aircraft are low wing monoplanes, built
by Fairchild Aircraft Corporation. These aircraft
include the Merlin IIC, Merlin IVC, and the Metro
III. These three aircraft are powered by two
turboprop engines equipped with constant speed,
full feathering, four blade, reversible propellers
made by Down-Room, or McCauley propellers. The
cabin is pressurized, heated and cooled by bleed
air which is ducted through valves, heat
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Lear And Cordelia Act 5 Scene
1,314 words
King Lear is a tragedy unlike any other written by
William Shakespeare. It focuses on the
psychological downfall of a powerful King. It
proves that as long as a nation has a king on the
throne all is well, but as soon as a king steps
off the throne nothing but chaos transpires. The
downfall of the king results in the downfall of
the kingdom. More importantly, it focuses on the
relationship between parent and child. This is
proven in two plots with the most important being
the relationship betwee...
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
840 words
The Exxon Valdez oil tanker left the Trans Alaska
Pipeline terminal at 9: 12 PM March 23, 1989. The
Exxon Valdez was the companies second newest
tanker, it was 987 feet long and was carrying 53,
094, 510 gallons of crude oil. Its destination,
Long Beach California. William Murphy, an expert
ships pilot had been hired to steer the ship
through the Valdez Narrows. Joe Hazelwood, the
captain, and helmsman Harry Clear were also in the
wheel house. Clear was steering. After
successfully guiding the s...
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Don T Understand Road Rage
836 words
Have Fatal Machines Fatal Machines Have you
noticed how careless people can be when they are
behind the wheel of an automobile? Cars are
dangerous machines which require patient drivers.
Over the years technology has made cars safer.
Many people think they are indestructible when
they? re behind the wheel. They figure the car
wouldn? t be on the road if it weren? t safe.
Today? s drivers are used to hopping in their car
and being able to drive from point A to point B,
but now we have traffic, wh...
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Miles Per Hour Seat Belts
2,158 words
The making of automobiles started in the year
1770. In 1770 a man named Nicholas Joseph Cung not
from France built a large steam-driven vehicle.
The vehicle didn? t last long because the vehicle
could only be driven for 12 to 15 minutes before
running out of steam and the vehicle was too heavy
and had poor balance and made it difficult to
steer. Nothing more had been done until in the
1784. In 1784 James Watt made a patent on a steam
carriage, but nothing became of it. Then in 1785
John Fitch in...
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Fossil Fuels Generate Electricity
1,279 words
HYDROELECTRIC POWER The idea of electricity
started around 500 B. C. as the Greek philosopher
Thales experimented with amber, a fossilized tree
sap, by rubbing it and observing that it starts to
attract certain types of materials, this is the
first documented study of static electricity. In
1646 the term electricity was coined by Walter
Charlton to describe the attraction of the
different materials. Throughout the 1700 s many
advancements in the study of electricity were made
to include the idea...
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Woman Young Man
2,134 words
Part I The day was still, not a cloud in sight.
The glowing sun lit the tumbling waves. The white
foam smeared along the sandy beach. High above the
ocean? s front lie cliffs with grassy hilltops. A
road wove through its tangled mess. There thoughts
were bound and passion ran free. The young man
gripped his steering wheel and held the throttle.
He flew through Highway 5 in his? 78 Camera.
Squealing around every corner in his hot
convertible, he let his long blond hair blow with
the wind. As his ...
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14 Th Century Middle Ages
700 words
The Middle Ages brought forth many inventions.
Most inventions, however, were actually invented
by workers / smiths as opposed to scientists.
Millers invented waterwheels and wind mills to use
for energy. Inventions such as the water pump and
the wheel barrel also came about in the Middle
Ages. In the 13 th century glass workers ground
lenses to make spectacles. True clocks were
invented during the Middle Ages (before that
people used sundials which relied on the sun).
Sometime during the 14 th ...
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Catholic Church Ice Age
1,211 words
The Medieval Industrial Revolution covers a period
in time from the tenth to fourteenth centuries.
The power station of the time was the water wheel.
There were two basic types of drive systems for
the water wheel: water falling from above or the
current pushing against the paddles at the bottom.
This invention was the catalyst for many types of
production from grain mills to beer making. This
technology was primarily used by churchmen since
they had the knowledge to operate it. The farmers
were...
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Fossil Fuel Mechanical Energy
305 words
Hydro Power My alternative power source is Hydro
power. It comes from water. The oldest and
simplest form was the water wheel first used in
ancient Greece for grinding grain. The water wheel
design was changed by Jean Victor Ponce let in the
18 th century. He made the blades curved which
raised the efficiency by 70 percent. The water
wheel was now called a hydraulic turbine. The
turbine is a rotary engine that changes the energy
of a moving stream of water to mechanical energy.
Mechanical energy...
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Drinking And Driving Binge Drinking
734 words
Drinking and Driving Don? t Mix It is amazing the
affect one beer can have on a person. Especially
when they have to take on the responsibility of
trying to drive home, maybe sometimes with
passengers. I have heard unfortunate stories
ranging from getting fined, D. U. I. School, and
also a close friend? s death. All of which could
have been prevented if they just would have made a
better decision. Jazmani Menses was always a good
kid when it came to making decisions. Until that
one day he found ...
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