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- 5841: To Fly Has Been a Dream
- ... once said that the sky is the limit, but in skydiving the ground is the limit. Skydiving is not just a free fall and a parachute ride, but an extreme thrill of events in a short amount of time. Skydiving begins on the ground. The equipment that you use is the most important part of a successful dive. The most important piece is the parachute itself. It must be packed so ...
- 5842: Canterbury Tales: Power Corrupts
- ... willing to help people as long as he earned a profit. The Clerk was also modest and humble. Noght o word spak moore than was neede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and quyk, and ful of hy sentence. (Prologue, Lines 304-306) He never spoke more then what he needed to say to get his point across. He spoke with modesty and propriety. He always sounded ...
- 5843: The Game of Basketball
- ... knees bent. When defending, a player's weight should be placed on the balls of the feet to ensure quick movement in any direction. General defensive positioning involves skilled movement. A defensive player should take short, quick shuffle steps when moving side-to-side. Crossing one foot over another is improper defensive technique. Defenders want to force opponents away from the basket and limit the ability to dribble the ball toward ...
- 5844: Fraternities: Hazed & Confused
- ... defined by the The American Heritage Dictionary is "a chiefly social organization of male college students, usually designated by Greek letters."(pg. 523) This definition, however, is very limited and leaves plenty of space for short sighted people to believe the stereotype conveyed by the popular media, where fraternity members are depicted as drunks who accomplish nothing either scholastically or socially. Unfortunately, both this definition and media portrayals fail to mention ...
- 5845: Peoples Temple Settlement In Guyana
- ... destructive behavior caused by the individual having an underdeveloped social nature. Suicide thus varies inversely with the degree of integration of the religious, domestic, and political groups of which the individual forms a part; in short, as a society weakens or "disintegrates," the individual depends less on the group, depends more upon himself, and recognizes no rules of conduct beyond those based upon private interests. Like all suicides however, the altruist ...
- 5846: Inherit the Wind: Creationism and Evolution
- ... creationism are linked. Evolution and creationism can be combined in sever ways. Genesis is more a place to look for lessons and morals. One should not take every word in the bible literally. Maybe certain stories or phrase or more lessons then the actual truth. This goes to the story of creation also. The bible never says how long a day is. So, possible when he made man, which could mean ...
- 5847: Mark McGwire: A Season for the Ages
- ... a game of cat and mouse as Sosa tried desperately to catch McGwire. On August 19th Sammy finally catches and passes McGwire hitting his forty-eighth homer of the year. However Sammy's lead was short lived Mark not only tied Sammy in the eighth inning against the Cubs but he takes the lead in the tenth inning of the same game. Mark was back in control of the homerun race ...
- 5848: Roswell: Fact or Fiction?
- ... people today believe that extra-terrestrials were recovered here from an unexpected crash landing of some sort. Thought to be a cover up by the military, Roswell is one of history's biggest sought after stories. There are many eyewitnesses who testify in favor of aliens, but also many counter statements to the eyewitness's testimonies. Has Roswell, NM been a cover-up by the government or is the world so ...
- 5849: Recycling In Alaska
- ... and supportive? A successful recycling program would be best realized if the Municipality instituted curb-side recycling in neighborhoods and provided fee-based incentives for separation of recyclable materials from non-recyclable material (Austin and Short). We will need adequate facilities that can ship, process, and reuse many more items than now being recycled by the citys centers. Also if recyclable materials are not re-processed from the waste stream ...
- 5850: Medieval Castles
- ... its own walls and was often protected by a moat as well. It contained private apartments, service rooms, weapons supplies, and a well to provide water. Most keeps were rectangular structures from two to four stories high. The entrance doorway was often on the second floor, with access by a stairway protected by a wall or forebuilding. In the Middle East the Crusaders from Europe found keeps that were built with ...
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