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- 6001: Automobile Racing
- ... 400 m (3 mi) long. The race most popularly associated with the sport is the Indianapolis 500, so called because contestants must cover 500 mi (about 805 km); it has been held annually on Memorial Day weekend since 1911. With crowds averaging 400,000, it is the best-attended single-day sports event in the world. This year the Indy 500 will not involve most teams from Indycar\CART, Championship Auto Racing Teams, the regulatory body which is now being opposed by the IRL, Indycar Racing ...
- 6002: The War On Tobacco
- The War on Tobacco Each day, millions of Americans of all ages light up a cigarette distributed by the tobacco companies. Smoking is a habit that, in the long run, causes cancer and other diseases associated with the lungs. Now, this ... also the individual Americans that are enduring painful, inevitable deaths due to the tobacco companies. Works Cited Kelly Simonson February 18, 1999 UWRP 1250 First paper draft 1 Group C The War on Tobacco Each day, millions of Americans of all ages light up a cigarette distributed by the tobacco companies. Smoking is a habit that, in the long run, causes cancer and other diseases associated with the lungs. Now, this ...
- 6003: Personal Writing: My Holiday
- Personal Writing: My Holiday It was a gloomy day and there was nothing much I could do aside from cleaning my room. I chose to do that because my mother had been nagging me about the state of my room for the past week ... an exhausting journey. We got to the hotel, picked up the room keys from the reception and went to sleep immediately as it was late at night and we had already had dinner. The next day, my mother woke me up at eight in the morning. I rushed to the bedroom window, looked outside and saw that it was drizzling. My mother gave me a shower and dressed me in a ...
- 6004: Are Things Equal Between The Sexes In College Sports?
- ... compare to the amount of air time men's basketball gets. During the NCAA championship, ESPN shows men's basketball for nine straight days. CBS broadcasts nearly 66 hours of championship basketball over a 19 day span (Chad 23). This is compared to the one full day allowed for women's NCAA championship basketball (Baker 38). Other sports that are aired by CBS are the College World Series, the NCAA outdoor track and field championship, and NCAA women's gymnastics. The big ...
- 6005: Personal Writing: My Unforgettable Experience With Drugs
- ... start our sophomore year off with a bang. It was time to have a some fun and make our lives interesting. So what could make life more interesting than drugs, right? We had a half day coming up and this was our chance to live a little. We decided to get some LSD and try tripping for the first time. We had gotten it from a guy we knew in the ... was a real rebel. He was tall, skinny, he had a pierced eyebrow and long blond hair. I had a crush on him since the first time I saw him my freshman year. Finally, the day had come. We were full of nervous energy and wondered if we should really go through with it. We met at the lockers to drop our hits of acid. We left school grounds and my ...
- 6006: Personal Statement of Academic Goals and Course of Study
- ... been numerous teachers who have greatly influenced my life in many ways. One such teacher is Mrs. Marquita Morgan, my sixth grade teacher at College Street Elementary in Enterprise, Alabama. She worked extra hours every day to prepare me for the citywide Math competition that consisted of sixth grade students from six elementary schools in Enterprise. She had a very special talent for teaching that made learning math fun. Through drills and working math problems every day for months, I successfully accomplished my goal of making the Math Team. Not only did she teach me math skills, she also taught me how to have strong self-confidence. Having a teacher who has ...
- 6007: Effects of the Year 2000 Problem
- ... keep up with the progress being made concerning the Y2K problem so they have and idea what to expect. The effects I mentioned are just a fraction of all the different possibilities. People are working day and night trying to solve the problem while the year 2000 is just around the corner. These same people are warning us to prepare and expect the worst. In the end, the Y2K problem may ... Year 2000 problem." Consumer Reports August 1998: 56-57. Raloff, Janet. "DOD's year 2000 vulnerabilities." Science news 13 September 1997: 172. Smith, Gina. "The Millennial Mess." Popular Science February 1997: 26. Smith, Robert. "The Day the World Crashes." Newsweek 2 June 1997: 54, 57, 59. Wilkinson, Alec. "Millennial Malaise" The New Yorker 13 January 1997: 27.
- 6008: Living In A Virtual World
- ... a hole new possibility of making things that were not possible before the virtual reality came. This is a great thing for the humanity but if you think that you use this equipment in every day life you get isolated from other persons and lose the scence of reality. It is not the same to be travelling in the real world as if the virtual world, because you do not get ... modern wars the tank could be controlled by persons that are mounted the HMD and controls the from the base station. If think that I rather use the virtual realty for fun than for every day life, because it will never give me the same feeling that I get from being with other people. And if everybody would went to school in the virtual reality world you did not get the ...
- 6009: Dracula
- ... he meets these people he tells them where he is going. They cross themselves along with doing other superstitious actions. What Harker doesn't realize is that it was the eve of Saint George's Day, a night when "all the evil things in the world will have full sway"[12]. So, one of the women concerned for his safety gives him a rosary to protect him on his journey. A ... of most is that a rosary will protect you from all evil, and in this novel the evil party is Dracula and his followers. This rosary protects him when Jonathan cuts himself shaving the next day and Dracula lunges for his throat, but stops when he sees the crucifix around Jonathan's neck. That night both Dracula and Jonathan observe a group of wolves howling off in the distance, and Dracula ...
- 6010: Call Of The Wild: Character Sketch Of Buck
- ... and farther, Buck knew he was dying. While Buck was being beaten, a man named John Thornton came forth and took Buck from his attacker. The man nursed Buck back to health, and from that day forward, Buck lived for that man. Buck loved him with all his being. After being with this man for quite some time, Buck started to hear a call from far away. He started paying more ... This call was the call of the wild. He had a will to go off and be with other dogs. He felt the urge to be free from man and catch his own food. One day, Buck finally left for good. He was excepted by a pack of wolves who treated him like a wolf himself. And so the transformation was complete. Buck had changed from a dog, to a beast ...
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