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- 5811: The Bicycle: From Wood to Metal.
- ... eyed and threaded nipples to hold the spokes individually. Later that year Starley thought of tangential spoking - as distinct from radial- to ease the sideways stresses on the spokes. a party of riders rode these high bicycles from London to John O’Groats, some 690 miles in 15 days. These machines typically weighed about 50 pounds but could be built as light as 21 pounds for track racing, with a driving wheel varying from 40 to 60 inches in diameter, according to the owner’s leg length. The high-wheel bicycle, with its big driven front wheel, dominated the scene for a period of some 20 years towards the end of the 19th century, it was clearly a dead-end development. Indirect drives were ...
- 5812: Infrastructure And Economic Pr
- Infrastructure and Economic Prosperity A famous Canadian geographer was once quoted saying, “ …any region which has a well developed transportation and communication network also enjoys a high degree of economic prosperity…”. This statement has sparked much controversy between geographers, as well as economists. The argument is, is there a direct link between a developed infrastructure and economic prosperity. Without a doubt, there ... 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 bringing gold, and silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.” The advances in transportation led ...
- 5813: Tornadoes
- ... tornado to form are still not fully understood, but the funnels are always associated with violent motions in the atmosphere, including strong updrafts and the passage of fronts. They develop within low-pressure areas of high winds; the speed of the funnel winds themselves is often placed at more than 480 km/hr (more than 300 mph), although speeds of more than 800 km/hr (500 mph) have been estimated for ... observed each year can vary greatly in any given region. A cyclone is an area of low atmospheric pressure surrounded by a wind system blowing, in the northern hemisphere, in a counterclockwise direction. A corresponding high-pressure area with clockwise winds is known as an anticyclone. In the southern hemisphere these wind directions are reversed. Cyclones are commonly called lows and anticyclones highs. The term cyclone has often been more loosely ...
- 5814: Nuclear Warfare
- ... that we are more powerful than you. Also, think about the long-term effects. The most major is radiation in the ground. Food cannot be grown in certain areas, and people who were hit with high radiation and lived, and then had children, the child is defective due to the high radiation in his body’s genetics. Another situation to consider is nuclear terrorism. What would happen if a terrorist got his hands on an A-bomb. With that kind of threat, there is nothing we ...
- 5815: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- ... father, Manley, also wrote a volume of poetry. His mother on the other hand was a very pious person. She was actively involved in the church and impressed her religion on Gerard. He attended Highgate School where his talent for poetry was first shown. Some sources say he won as many as seven contests while enrolled at Highgate. Gerard in 1864 enrolled at Balliol College, at Oxford, to Read Greats (classics ... three of his friends were drawn in to Catholicism. He was received by the Church of Newman in October of 1866. After having taken a first class degree in 1867, he taught at the Oratory School, Birmingham. Two years later he decided to become a Jesuit when he burned all his verses as too worldly. When he entered as a Jesuit he wrote no poems. although the though of crossing the ...
- 5816: Helen Keller
- ... for the Blind in Boston in 1888 to provide Helen with a more formal education. Helen and Miss Sullivan moved to New York in 1894 in order for Helen to study at the Wright Humason School for the deaf. Anne raised money so that her student could attend the Cambridge School for Young Ladies. In 1896, Helen began her studies at Cambridge which included French, Greek, literature, mathematics, geography, and history. She then went on to attend Radcliffe College in 1980. In 1904, she graduated cum ...
- 5817: Argument Against Euthanasia
- ... confident that doctors can be relied on to make the enormous efforts sometimes necessary to save some lives, while at the same time assenting to requests to take other lives. Such confidence reflects, perhaps, a high opinion of doctor's psychic robustness, but it is a confidence seriously undermined by the shocking rates of depression, suicide, alcoholism, drug addiction, and marital discord consistently recorded among this group. "Dangers of Societal Acceptance ... right to say, "Enough's enough. The treatment's worse than the disease. Leave me alone. Let me die!". Ironically, those who deny the terminally ill this right do so out of a sense of high morality. Don't they see that, in denying the gravely ill and suffering the right to release themselves from pain, they commit the greatest crime? The period of suffering can be shortened. If you have ...
- 5818: Technology Affects Educations
- ... the classroom. Computers have made a fundamental impact in most industries, providing a competitive advantage that has come to be essential to many businesses. Therefore, schools must also use technology to improve the educational process. School systems often consider purchasing a computer network, and justify its purchase by applying it to routine administrative tasks, such as attendance records and grading. While these tasks are very important, they only show a small part of what technology can do for a school. Technology must go further than simply keeping attendance; it must focus on keeping students interested and productive. Since computers and the Internet have expanded in such a way in which education can be delivered to ...
- 5819: Teaching Practice
- ... consequences are even more frightening for wise rule. 4. Related to this Burke's argument in defence of religion and prejudice as mechanisms of social control place the value of stability and cohesion at too high a level. Political theorists before and after Burke have similarly placed a high value on stability but because they wish to advance to a better system. Burke is the voice of constraint telling us to be satisfied with our present position and conditions. Why can't we try ...
- 5820: Tombs And Temples
- ... farming. Some of the forms still retain their original paint, after 4,500 years! The quality of these compositions demonstrates that the Egyptians had attained, at an early stage, an artistic culture of a very high order. Cattle Crossing is an etching made from sketches done at Saqqara. The medium of etching, itself a process of erosion, seems well suited to capturing the time worn quality of the relief carving. The ... that stirs the imagination, the building bares the name of the famous Cleopatra and her son, whose father was Julius Caesar. It is possible that these celebrate personalities climbed the same stairs and contemplated, on high, the same landscape which stretches for miles below. In Summation, some of the most precious examples of architecture from the ancient world are of the ancient Egyptians. Although the ancient Egyptians lived in a primitive ...
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