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Dirt Bikes
Number of Words: 1218 / Number of Pages: 5
... and do not get lost. Also make sure the area you are riding
permits the use of dirt bikes. Due to the stupidity of some reckless riders
areas for riding are diminishing.”(Chris Lace,45) This is true places to ride
are becoming less and less due to a few unmannered people.
Many people also use dirt bikes to experience the excitement of competition.
Different types of dirt-bike racing include motocross, supercross, trials, and enduro.
Motocross is held out-side. It usually has about twenty to forty participants. They race
on tracks about three qu ...
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Infrastructure And Economic Pr
Number of Words: 976 / Number of Pages: 4
... Mexico, and Peru transported materials in that fashion over long roads and bridges. The first road vehicles were two-wheeled carts, with stone disks as wheels, used by the Sumerians in 3000 B.C.E.. The Chinese constructed the first road system under the Chou dynasty in 1000 B.C.E.. In Asia, the camel caravan served to transport goods and people. The first system of transportation by sailing was created by the Phoenicians, and was used to ship goods of high value, such as gems, spices, and fine handiwork. This form of transportation is first written about with King Solomon, “…ships of Tarshish brin ...
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Gender Roles 2
Number of Words: 2103 / Number of Pages: 8
... young child in the respective colors so people will know whether it is a boy or a girl. After all, what male infant wears pink? When the children grow older, do they still continue the practice the color identification game? This is wear it changes. When boys reach the age wear they start dressing themselves and start buying their own clothes, they will continue to wear the
blues and the greens and even yellows and reds, but not pink or violet, cause those are “girly” colors. Girls on the other hand, when they reach the same age still continue to wear the pink and violets and ca ...
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School Uniforms
Number of Words: 531 / Number of Pages: 2
... would decrease arguments that begin over expensive clothing and
sneakers. School systems hope uniforms will help to eliminate gang violence
caused by students wearing rival gang colors. Uniforms would also prevent the
wealthier students from picking on their less fortunate classmates because they
can not afford to dress the same. Although no evidence confirms that the
uniform policy will improve academic achievement, the Long Beach Unified School
District reported a 50% decline in the number of disturbances at school and bus
stops in their district. Overall, the Long Beach Unified Sc ...
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Cabalgata
Number of Words: 1246 / Number of Pages: 5
... going to talk about is the one held in Acuña, that lasts for three days and three nights. The year I went, day one and two were about 50 kilometers long, while day three was only 20 kilometers. The last day is always shorter so that the girls can ride along with the guys.
The word Cabalgar in Spanish means “horseback riding.” That’s the reason why this event is called . This event is organized by an individual that lives in Acuña. The person that organizes this goes through a lot of hard work. First, he has to schedule a meeting to check how many people are willing to go. If there ...
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Victims Of School Failure
Number of Words: 676 / Number of Pages: 3
... they are not dumb. For some reason learning different, does not seem like a disability to me.
"School has always been the only place I have felt really worthless." (Ungerleider 178.) Throughout my junior and senior year in high school, my best friend and I had three classes together. Except he only went to his classes twice a week. On the other days he would go to the special-ed class. This might seem all right to some people, but I think he was treated like an outcast. He did not have a choice in the matter that is what he had to do because he had ADD. At any rate he was still my friend and sti ...
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Controlling Computers With Neu
Number of Words: 1861 / Number of Pages: 7
... idea works is very simple. A person thinks of a command
and the computer immediately responds. “Thought recognition
would be the ultimate computer interface, the machine acting as
an extension of the human nervous system itself.”(Lusted, Hugh S.
and Knapp, R. Benjamin Controlling Computers with Neural Signals
Scientific American, October 1996) This technology would prove
very useful for people with neuromuscular handicaps. The purpose
of this paper is to show how controlling computers with neural
signals will help make life easier for people with handicaps and
how it will affect the fu ...
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Atomism: Democritus And Epicurus
Number of Words: 1290 / Number of Pages: 5
... as being “real”, although they are
not. However, the way in which this complex motion begins is a source of
controversy and disagreement amongst the Atomists.
Democritus assumes that the atoms' motion is perpetual. The atoms are
never at rest. He presumes that their nature is to move, thereby avoiding “the
problem of explaining the origin of the complex motion of atoms by simply
affirming that it is in their nature to move so” (Jones 85). He believes that
atoms are born along with the whole universe in a vortex. The vortex is not an
outside influence, but rather the motion of the atoms th ...
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IOMEGA CORPORATION: DATA STORA
Number of Words: 2781 / Number of Pages: 11
... public, and for the next twelve years, the company would see a period of experimentation and growth. While Iomega remained behind the major industry names of Apple and IBM, the late eighties and early nineties were integral to Iomega¡¦s current success. The technical bases for the Zip and Jaz drives were built upon, leading to these products¡¦ 1995 release.2
Public response to the release of the portable data storage devices was enormous. Orders clogged the production component of Iomega before the disks were even released to the public, and by April 1996, barely one year after its introduction, ...
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A Critical Look At The Foster Care System
Number of Words: 4742 / Number of Pages: 18
... a result:
Instead of orphanages, we now have so-called "treatment centers"--a "growth industry" which feeds on unwanted children just as the nursing home business depends for its existence on large numbers of the unwanted elderly. And, as is the case with the elderly, the systematic neglect and maltreatment of children in these facilities is being subsidized by the federal government.
In Virginia, former Governor Douglas Wilder discovered the same labeling process to be in use, finding that "children often bounce from agency to agency, from foster to group home to institution, and from funding stream ...
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