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- 2651: Responsible Driving
- ... the dead will be young, between the ages of 15 and 24. One group, 16 year olds, will be in 40% of all the singl-car, alcohol related crashes" (Knox 19). This statement shows the high risk and number of fatalities due to driving. It is very important to learn safe and responsible driving skills, which is why I am giving this speech. If you are prepared and know all of ... collision any year is only 1/5 people.The chances of suffering an injury that is serious enough to disable you is 1/83 people (Kenel, 8) . As you can see risk is always very high and should never be forgot. One huge risk in driving is to be under the influence of an illegal substance or drug. There are many kinds of drugs that affect you perception and driving skills ... I have informed you of many new things that you didnt know. If you understood what I have said you are guarenteed to be a little ahead when its your time to go to driving school. I didnt know some of the trivial details ,involving laws and signals , before but now I do. I also know that every thing about driving is important because your life and others are always ...
- 2652: How To Succeed In Business By
- ... formal education as an excuse and never let yourself feel inferior to those with better formal educations. There is abundant proof that you can reach just about any heights in business without college or even high school education if you will do the things necessary to otherwise obtain the information and master the skills specifically relevant to your objectives. Entrepreneurs are not always the best educated, but share a thinking pattern unlike ... Managers have to set goals and limitations and make sure that their staff follow the guidelines appropriately for maximum production. Managers cannot baby their staff, as they cannot afford to lend the time in a high-speed industry or business. "If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen." It is the managers responsibility to weed out those that are not able to perform with the rest ...
- 2653: Charles Lindbergh 2
- ... of the world s aviation heroes and an American hero, was the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. He was born on February 4, 1902, in Detroit. He went to school at the University of Wisconsin for two years, but dropped out to attend a flying school in Nebraska. He first started flying in 1922. Within four years, he was piloting a mail plane between St. Louis and Chicago. In 1919 Raymond Orteig from France offered $25,000 to the first person ... was made out of light wicker, instead of the usual heavy leather. When completed at the end of April, 1927, the Spirit of St. Louis weighed 2,150 pounds. It was 9 feet, 8 inches high, was 27 feet, 8 inches long, and had a 46-foot wingspan. Powered by a 220-horsepower, 9-cylinder engine, it could perform over 9,000 hours flawlessly. Just two days before he was ...
- 2654: Napoleon I
- ... in 1769, on the Island of Corsica. His parents, Carlo and Letizia Bonaparte, were poor nobles. When Napoleon was just 10 years old, his father helped to get him a mathematical scholarship to a military school at Brienne. In the school, Napoleon was hated and considered a foreigner. With no friends, Napoleon concentrated on academics, but still only graduated 42nd in us class of 58. he then continued his education at the Military academy of Paris ... took the crown from the Pope and crowned himself. This shows the arrogance that Napoleon was capable of. As an emperor, he began to value family ties, and he put much of his family in high positions, and had many of them marry people of power. Even Napoleon himself divorced Josephine and Married the daughter of Emperor Francis of Austria, Marie Louise, who he quickly had a male heir with. ...
- 2655: Creating the Safest Classroom and Lab Atmosphere
- ... contaminated air. Discharge vents must extend at least 10 feet from the roof, and any structures and vents existing on it. All ducts must also be carefully tested for leaks after installation. When dealing with high toxicity, or contamination possibility, branched duct work must be stopped at the lab, and it must have its own comfort ventilation, supply air systems, and health and safety exhaust ventilation systems. Temperature and humidity can ... role in the creation of a good lab. Sinks must be constructed of chemical resistant materials. Drains should have built in solid waste strainers. Water pressure must be able to meet the needs of the high pressure safety systems at any time. Lastly, drinking wat er lines must be separate from lab sink lines. Safety considerations heavily concentrate on fire control. Fire walls must be erected along the perimeter of a ... waste, however. To go into more depth, proper disposal techniques must be discussed. After waste is stored in the ultra-safe storage room, what does one do with it? How is it removed from the school? As an example of the particularity of proper waste disposal, a case study of the procedures for disposing of infectious waste (found in bio-med labs) through a contractor is presented. If infectious biohazard ...
- 2656: Robert E. Lee
- ... strategic and tactical ability. A significant portion of his fame was credited to him for beating off a surprise British attack at Spread Eagle Tavern in January, 1778. Unfortunately Harry was egotistical and had a high opinion of his own abilities. Although he achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel, he felt that he deserved more. When the war ended and he had not advanced in rank he resigned from the army ... He was fortunate in becoming a Cadet at the Institution at a time when the Superintendent was Major Sylvanus Thayer, the man who started West Point on its way to fame as a military training school. He was the second to graduate in a class of 46. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Engineering Corps, a division of the Army which at that time received only ... he was ensured his connection with the college would not injure it in any way. Lee's friends and relatives were shocked at the idea that Lee would accept a position at such a small school. He had received offers from many bigger and wealthier places. Lee, on the other hand, saw far beyond the title and looked on this as an opportunity to help rebuild the South by educating ...
- 2657: "The World Today Seems To Be Going Crazy": The Unabomber's Manifesto
- ... were pursuing the Unabomber. They have deployed some of the worlds most powerful computers. Task Force members crunched and recrunched scraps of data through a "massive parallel- processing computer borrowed from the Pentagon", sifting though school lists, drivers license registries, lists of people who checked certain books out of libraries in California and the Mid West (Gibbs, 31). The super-computers kept tract of the enormous data base that the FBI ... of the manifesto that convinced him that his brother might be the Unabomber (Kovaleski, A03). With the tip from David, all of the pieces seemed to fall into place. That is when the FBI's high-tech two week stakeout began. The FBI's elite Hostage rescue team was immediately called in. They are experienced in survival training and can live for long periods in the wild; agents were prepared to ... techniques used in the search was the use of highly sophisticated chemical sensors that can detect possible bomb components. Such "sniffers" can test for small amounts of a chemical in the air. Much of the high-tech equipment used by law enforcement in such searches was developed during the drug war for entering booby trapped lairs of suspected drug dealers. When suspicious material was located in Kaczynski's cabin, for ...
- 2658: Allen Ginsberg : Howl
- ... cock and hand and asshole holy! Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is eternity! Everyman's an angel! (Ginsberg 22) There's nothing like a good obscenity trial to turn the high school kids of America onto a work they'd otherwise ignore. In the case of 'Howl,' the line about "saintly motorcyclists fucking somebody up the ass" brought the wrath of the right-wing. Moloch played his ... National Institute of Arts and Letters, and is a Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College and a member of the Executive Board of PEN American Center. A practicing Buddhist, Alien cofounded Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. In 1997 the Beat Generation lost their beloved poet, and Allen Ginsberg became a legend (Schumacher 312).
- 2659: Filial Piety In China
- ... min@hotmail.com Introduction Xiao, the Chinese word for filial piety is the defining feature in Chinese culture as filial piety was extolled as the highest virtue in China for centuries. I subscribe to the school of thought that filial piety is the root of Chinese ethics and "with it all enlightening studies come into existence." Chinese society was built upon the doctrine of filial piety and that it is the ... in the selection of a suitable marriage partner for their children. In today's Chinese society, more than 80% of young married couples met their marriage partners through their own social circles. Furthermore, a very high proportion of young married couples prefer to live apart from their parents. However, survey results also show that a large majority of young couples sought and respected their parents' view of their marriage. Married couples ... core of Chinese societies for thousands of years, it would be equivalent to the extinction of the Chinese language if this value were allowed to just erode till it ceases to exist. Subscribing to the school of thought that the Chinese were a cultural identity before they were a nationality, the Chinese do not deserve being called the Chinese anymore if they were no longer filial sons and daughters. From ...
- 2660: The Internet
- ... This may well promote a better global understanding. Finally, by allowing people to access vast amounts of information easily, it will change how they make decisions and ultimately also their lifestyle. The Internet is a high-speed worldwide computer network which evolved from the Arpanet. The Arpanet was created by the Pentagon in the late 1969 as a network for academic and defense researchers. In 1983, the National Science Foundation took ... already has an enormous impact on Americans right now, it will influence us even more in the near future. In 1994, the Clinton administration requested a National Information Infrastructure, which would link every business, home, school and college (Cooke 64). That is why the Clinton administration has made the building of an improved data highway the main component of a determined plan to strengthen the U.S. economy in the 21st ... new era. The Information Superhighway will be crucial in creating long-term economic growth and maintaining U.S. leadership in basic science, mathematics and engineering," says Vice President Al Gore, the Clinton administration's leading high-tech advocate (Silverstein 9). The Information Superhighway will make it possible to merge today's broadcasting, 500-channel cable TV, general video, telephone, and computer industries all into one giant computer network, because it ...
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