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The Danger Of Air Bags And The
Number of Words: 3272 / Number of Pages: 12
... crashes and more than 660,000 passenger airbags have deployed while the front seat was occupied (www.highwaysafety.org/safety_facts/airbags/stats.html).
Air Bag Death Statistics
Based on a NHTSA report from September 1st, 1998, 53.0 million cars, or about 42 percent of all cars on the road, are equipped with some form of air bag protection. With the amount of cars on the road with air bags, the NHTSA reports only 113 confirmed air bag deaths. (www.nhtsa.dot.gov/airbags/). This number seems to be a tad "sugar-coated" if you will considering that the number given by the Insurance Institute ...
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Nuclear Energy
Number of Words: 1927 / Number of Pages: 8
... On September 5th, 1945 near Ottawa the team started up the first
operating nuclear reactor outside the USA. Of course, the output was
minuscule, but the significance was immense; the principal of getting
energy from splitting atoms in a controlled chain reaction (fission) was
established beyond doubt. It was now the job of the scientists and
engineers to put it to a practical use.
Nuclear Reactors
A nuclear reactor is a device which produces heat. In a nuclear power
station, the reactor performs the same function as a boiler in a
conventional coal, gas or oil-fired station. Whether from a c ...
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Computers And The Military
Number of Words: 1548 / Number of Pages: 6
... long-range missiles. What most people associates with computers and war may be various simulation and action games. This is big business for software developers and merchandisers all over the world. As in all businesses money is the most important criteria for the big companies so they have no morale problems with making warfare into entertainment as long as it's selling. The same goes for the film industry, but at least some war films also describe the pain and hopelessness of war. So far I've never seen a computer game capable of expressing the negative and painful side of fighting and killin ...
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Macbeth: Macbeth Is Not A Killer
Number of Words: 1428 / Number of Pages: 6
... leaving the next mourning, thus Lady Macbeth see's this as an excellent opportunity to murder the king, Macbeth becomes worried and nervous as his facial expressions show. Lady Macbeth tells him to look normally and show a happy, welcoming face. "Your face my thane, is a book where men may read strange matters...Bear welcome in your eye, your hand and your tongue. Look th' innocent flower" ( I VI 73-77). Lady Macbeth then offers a plan for the murder of Duncan, "But be the serpent under't he thats comeing must be provided for, you shall put this nights great business into my dispatch"( I ...
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Arches And Vaults In Architecture
Number of Words: 935 / Number of Pages: 4
... near the impost are the
haunches, its wedge-shaped segments are voussoirs, and the central or
crowning voussoir is the keystone. The inner edge of the arch is the
intrados; the outer edge, the extrados; and the undersurface, the soffit.
The molded band that often is found around the opening of the arch is the
archivolt. The wall spaces on either side of an arch, or between adjacent
arches, are spandrels. If the space between the arch and the lintel is
filled in, the resulting flat surface is the tympanum. Arches have been
built since prehistoric times. Rude prototypes were made by leaning two
slab ...
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A Geological Journey
Number of Words: 1410 / Number of Pages: 6
... around 10:18 a.m. We drove for about an hour before we arrived at our second destination, a location just east of Marble Falls. When we arrived at 11:06 a.m., it wasn’t raining anymore, but it was still drizzling. The wind was starting to get cold, and I realized that I didn’t bring a jacket. I started getting worried because I had to work the next day -- I thought that the group was going to get stuck at Austin until the weather gets better. The second location we visited consisted of mostly limestone. The age of these limestones were Pennsylvanian aged and that is because we found some crinoid ...
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Aerospace Psychology
Number of Words: 642 / Number of Pages: 3
... from global optic flow (GOL). This is the rate that texture flows over the optical area. This can be effected by elevation, at higher elevations underestimation of true speed will occur. Approach path distortions occur when there is a slope before the landing strip or other visual features such as dwarfed trees. The human eye is not designed for conditions found in flight. Planes that are a collision course have no apparent movement to them. This takes the natural attraction to movement out of play. Because of the lack of visual stimulation the eye will focus only a few meters in front, so dista ...
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Trends In Policing
Number of Words: 2320 / Number of Pages: 9
... and assistant alderman could disobey a police superior with virtual impunity. So while the British were firing bobbies left and right for things like showing up late for work, wearing disorderly uniforms, and behaving discourteously to citizens, American police were assaulting superior officers, refusing to go on patrol, extorting money from prisoners, and releasing prisoners from custody of other officers...”
Needless to say that corruption became a big problem in American law enforcement. Probably the biggest factor that underlined the problem of corruption during this era was the soils sy ...
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John Locke: Property Rights
Number of Words: 2047 / Number of Pages: 8
... the same thinking
thing in different times and places, which it only does by that consciousness
which is inseparable from thinking.” This ability to reflect, think, and
reason intelligibly is one of the many gifts from God and is that gift which
separates us from the realm of the beast. The ability to reason and reflect,
although universal, acts as an explanation for individuality. All reason and
reflection is based on personal experience and reference. Personal experience
must be completely individual as no one can experience anything quite the same
as another.
This leads to determining ...
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Famine
Number of Words: 490 / Number of Pages: 2
... population lives with hunger and malnutrition everyday in spite of the fact, that most countries are self sufficient in food supply. This situation exists in most of the Third World because the foreign assistance programs used to improve agricultural output, generally go to the wealthier farmers who use it to increase productivity; while cutting labor costs. Due to industrial modernization, such countries require the maintenance of a large, low paid workforce. Therefore farmers are not inclined to invest in agriculture, since it would not profit them and the areas most in need of increased food pro ...
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