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- 12251: Game Over!
- "I don't like it. People won't be able to come to these games anymore, and I don't like that". A sad nine - year - old fan voices his concerns on the 1994 major League Baseball strike. The `94 baseball season has come to an abrupt end. Players have ceased play because they ...
- 12252: Turbo Or Nitrous
- ... but one is instant and the other goes into effect after a certain rpm. Turbo, is a turbine that is connected to your engines air intake that spins to create explosive power at high rpm s. This is something that with minor modifications can be done to almost any car in the market. Turbo comes in many different sizes depending on the type of engine you have and how much power you want. When a turbo is installed in a car it is considered a difficult upgrade but an upgrade that will make you car run better and faster. It also doesn t shorten the life of your engine if done properly. The only problem with a turbo is the price. Turbo s range anywhere from 2,000 dollars to 5,000 dollars and many other minor modifications must be made which also increase cost. Nitrous, is something totally different from turbo. Nitrous is a gaseous mixture ...
- 12253: College
- ... can not multiply or divide. He cannot spell or read. Johnny fell behind in the third grade. His teacher overlooked his failure and promoted him so that he would not be held up socially. Johnny's fourth grade teacher promoted him to fifth grade hoping that he would catch up with his classmates. Johnny is now about to enter the sixth grade with the educational skills of a second grader. The ... the student from grade to grade than it is to deal seriously with that students learning problem" (Economist, pg33). This is the main reason for social promotion. It is the theory of "if it isn't looked at then it isn't there." Teachers and administrators do not want to accept failure on their own parts or the students. "This is a case where the educational needs of children take a back seat to administrative convenience" ( ...
- 12254: Digital Block For A Function Generator
- ... be divided into 4 distinct blocks, each with its own functionality. These blocks are the control module, counter module, filter control module and 8-bit D/A. The D/A chosen is the DAC0801LCN. It’s specifications can be found in the appendix. The layout of this design is shown below. The interconnections will be discussed later but the thickness of the lines indicates the number of bits in the bus ... on the functionality module, the control module and filter selector module are relatively simple and have not been tested due to the inability to do so. The control module consists primarily of switches and ROM’s while the filter selection module is made up of two analogue multiplexers. These modules are discussed in further detail in later sections. Control Module Introduction This block essentially converts user input into digital signals. We ... symmetry properly. Therefore the decision was taken to make the count at the upper range (above 10kHz) smaller, i.e. a 6-bit count. This would enable us to vary symmetry in 5 steps from t/T of 0.1 to 0.5 for the range 100Hz to 10kHz and keep the frequency steps the same throughout the entire range. In the table below are the key difficulties and the ...
- 12255: Being a Mortician
- ... funeral director or undertaker, the duties the job requires of you, and the outlook of this career in the future of the United States. To become a funeral director in the United States today isn't an easy task. You need to be twenty-one, a high school graduate with some undergraduate college work, as well as at least one year of professional training in mortuary science, and completion of an ... IRN 10). In addition to your college work, you will need at least 50 credit hours of professional work in mortuary science. "There are about 40 schools of mortuary science officially recognized by the U.S. Department of Education today"(Shipley 220). The curriculum generally consists of courses in: "Embalming, Restorative Art, Chemistry, Microbiology, Pathology, Anatomy, Small Business Management, Funeral Home management, Merchandising, Accounting, Funeral Home Law, Computers, History and sociology ... Along with educational requirements you need to look at the personal requirements it takes to be a funeral director. You have to be on call 24- hours a day 7 days a week, death doesn't know any holidays. The people's needs come before any of yours in this career. You'll need to work with others in a very fragile condition, you'll have to be very patient ...
- 12256: Rome, Italy
- ... of stone. You could see the smoke coming out of the chimney and the farmers working their land. Upon arriving at the main train station, “Stazione Termini” in Italian, the excitement was building I couldn’t wait another minute to see all the sites of Rome. The Colosseum, The Roman Forum, and the Vatican were tops on my list, and with only a couple of days to site see there wasn’t any time to waste. We stopped at our hotel the “Hotel Bolivar” which was a small hotel with only 18 rooms. The hotel was off the main road surrounded by other buildings. The building was ... In order for the stone remains of the now vanished temples to have some meaning we had to purchase a detailed map, but at night when the Forum is silent in the moonlight, it isn’t hard to imagine that vestal virgins still guard the sacred temple fire. As we approached the Colosseum you could begin to see the shell of what was one the greatest architectural structures of ancient ...
- 12257: The Dark Tower, The Gunslinger
- The Dark Tower, The Gunslinger For the past month I have been reading Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, The Gunslinger, it is the first book of a series of at least 5 books. It was a very difficult book for me to understand at first but after I read the parts that I didn’t understand the first time around, I really started to understand what was going on in the book. The book is about a dark gunslinger, who is named Roland, who is the gunslinger mentioned in the ... going to lead him to the dark tower. Roland is chasing the “man in black” throughout the book. He finds a little boy at a train station while chasing the “man in black”. The boy’s name is Jake Chambers. Jake accompanies Roland on his journey to find the “man in black”. Later, after a sequence involving creatures known as slow mutants, Jake and Roland end up on a train ...
- 12258: Women on the Street
- ... the street and felt that nagging feeling of guilt, as you breeze by someone lying in a doorway? Is she alive? Is she ill? Why do we all rush by without finding out is she's all right? People sit in train stations, bus stations, parks, doorways, unmistakably sick, with what, we don't know. All are seemingly alone. Some beg. Some don't. Some have open sores that ooze and bleed. Some are drunk. Some talk to themselves or formless others. They have no homes. Street people make up a small percentage of the homeless population. Most ...
- 12259: Fahrenheit 451: The Hope of the Phoenix
- ... and nobody seemed to care, because the government had brainwashed the people. It was a situation, where not only the brave, but the ones who can think for themselves, who can help break the government's control. The life Montag had been a bumpy road. He thought he had a good life, because he enjoyed his job, and was happy. Soon Montag discovered that he was not happy at all, and ... he was not happy, but he did not know why. He thought maybe because his wife had pulled the fire alarm on him, but really it was he did not love her at all. "It's strange, I don't miss her at all(155)" Montag had uncertainly about his marriage, because marriage was suppose to be bonded with love, but with his marriage love was extinct and nowhere to be seen. His life ...
- 12260: El Nino La Nina
- As the easterly trade winds decrease, the western Pacific's warm water flows toward the Americas. This giant mass of warm water flows over the colder water of the eastern Pacific. As this occurs, we get what is called El Nino, or the child. Its ... warmer Pacific water is pushed westward by the trade winds, that water flows toward Asia and makes room for the colder, deep sea water, to rise and flow to the Americas. Because cold water doesn't evaporate, there is a large reduction in the formation of storm clouds. The weather patterns of La Nina are basically an exact opposite of El Nino. Strong high pressure systems form over the Pacific and ... not necessarily a colder winter but a more extreme one (extreme meaning large variations of hot and cold temperatures). I also drew several conclusions from the snowfall data. One thing was that El Nino doesn't have quite as much snow as a normal winter does. Unfortunately, by looking at La Nina's data, the snowfall was very unpredictable and inconclusive. Surprisingly, the rainfall data was very different from the ...
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