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- 21181: Ferdinand Graf Von Zeppelin
- ... of air was patented. One year later the VDI (Verein Deutscher Ingenieure or association of German engineers) was convinced of the plans of Graf Zeppelin. The association started a campaign for the support of Zeppelin s projects. Thereupon, Zeppelin created in January 1898, the Gesellschaft zur Fφrderung der Luftschiffahrt (society for the promotion of the Air-Navigation). From this point on, the development preceded rapidly. In 1899, the first bug rings ... the year 1906. As a special stroke of luck, Zeppelin met with Alfred Colsman, the son-in-law of his deceased friend and sponsor, Carl Berg. Colsman, an experienced manager, who was inspired by Zeppelin s ideas, now took over the consultation Zeppelin. In October 1906, two travels with the new LZ-3 occur. These successful messages ensured the fact that tendencies against Zeppelin began to slowly change. Zeppelin s former critic, Hugo Eckener, political economist, became the most engaged lawyer for the thing of Zeppelins. Suddenly Zeppelin s success curve moved steeply upward. The University of Dresden made Zeppelin Dr. of Ingenuity and ...
- 21182: G. Carter Bentley
- G. Carter Bentley s practice theory is a popular approach in understanding how ethnicity is constructed and ethnic identity is maintained. Here we shift from boundaries to focus on people s patterns of experiences, both objective and subjective. Bentley draws on Bordieu s concepts of "habitus" and "practice". Bordieu argues that the objective conditions, mediated by systems of symbolic representations, generate in different persons dispositions to act in different ways (Bentley 1987: 28) Habitus compromises " a set ...
- 21183: Creative Writing: Sycamore Street
- ... lots of people outside. Noise and music filled the air along with the strong aroma of fresh marijuana leaves. Kids running, playing, fighting and causing as much ruckus as possible. Cutlasses, Regals and Delta 88s cruised slowly down the smooth street, with deep vibrations flowing from the trunk. A heavyset older man stood firmly over the Bar-BQ grill, smiling in admiration of his work. A group of younger men ... a 95 Cutlass Supreme smoking and enjoying the sounds of the four pioneer sub-woofers beating from the trunk. A tall lanky teenager slowly blew smoke from his mouth, smiled and flashed the six golds that covered his front teeth. Local kids lined up on the side of the street, chasing down cars that rolled by. One lonely six-year-old boy, sat close to a tree rapidly banging nails ... both hands in excitement, as if he had won the gold medal for dirt swimming in the 2000 Ghetto Olympics. Teenage girls lined up like militant soldiers moving in the same sequence to B.G.s Bling-Bling Everyone looked up and stared as the very noticeable squad car crept by, hoping to shake the local people, but no one moved just cold stares back, as if it was a ...
- 21184: Health
- ... Boston for work in which there would be none. Defeated he enlisted in the Army and soon regret the decision. Once out he would again try a military career, he was accepted to the U.S Military Academy. (Encyclopedia Britannica) This time he immediately regretting the decision. After his expulsion he entered a contest sponsored by the Baltimore Saturday Visitor. His story MS. Found in a Bottle was considered to be the one of the world s first science fiction stories, he won both the $50 prize and acclaim for its 24-year-old author. (Internet source) He would then work at several different editorials, none of which really worked out for ... concentrate on Ulalume to express his mourn. He would try to remarry on two different occasions the first was ruined by rumor the second by his drinking habit. How his habits effected his writing? Poe s writing would be greatly influenced by the habits. The greatest of these that would eventually end his life would be his love for the drink. This would cost him many opportunities in life where ...
- 21185: My Trip on the Ganges River
- ... lead down to the water. I am enclosing one of the pictures I took of the Ganges River. The river is an important trade place. Its valley is fertile and densely populated. Some of India's largest cities like Calcutta, Howrah, Patna, Benares, Allahabad, and Cawnpore are located on the river. India's capital, New Delhi, is on one of its tributaries, the Jumna. The Ganges River however, isn't as important commercially as it once was. By the way, when we stopped in Calcutta for the night, I was amazed by the city's low standard of living. While traveling near Calcutta, my ...
- 21186: Personal Writing: Court Experience
- ... awake. While he was giving his closing arguments, the two attorneys for Guge and Guge himself were whispering between one another. After McKinney finished his closing arguments, which was about 30 minutes or so, Guge's attorney had his last say so. I believe that man talked to hear his ownself! After the closing arguments, the judge asked the jury if they wanted a break. They indicted that they wanted one ... the deciding on the case. The judge seemed bored during this process as well. Finally the judge sent the jury to the room to deliberate. When I left the jury was still deliberating. The judge's name was Johnston and the bailiff was Collins. Collins told us that Johnston was the judge from Charlotte that was on that big murder case where a man had killed all those women. As I ... courtroom, the lawyers for Guge stopped me. Talked to me for a few minutes and then asked me what I would do if I was on the jury. Just from the closing arguments, I wouldn't give Guge much more than the $60,000 if any. If I had to listen to Guge's attorney for the entire trial, I probably vote against him for that reason.
- 21187: John Dalton
- ... he said that each gas exists and acts independently and purely physically, rather than chemically. Meaning, that gases act according to mechanical repulsion rather than chemical attraction. As a chemistry tutor, John taught from Lavoisier's Elements of Chemistry. After six years John resigned to conduct private research supported by tutoring. In 1802, in his essay entitled "Experimental Essays on the Constitution of Mixed Gases; on the Force of Steam or ... pressure and temperature. In 1803, while attempting to explain his law of partial pressures, John started to formulate his most important contribution to science the atomic theory. He was studying nitrogen oxides for Dr. Priestley's test for percentage of nitrogen in the air. Among the reactions he studied were those of nitric oxide with oxygen. He discovered that the reaction can take place in two different porportions in exact ratios ... in science. Bibliography J. Dalton, J. Gay-Lussac, and A. Avogadro, Foundation of the Molecular Theory: Comprising Papers and Extracts, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1906, pp. 5-7. D.A. Davenport, "John Dalton's First Paper and Last Experiment", ChemMatters, 1984, April, p.14. J. T. Moore, A History of Chemistry, McGraw-Hill Book, Co., Inc., New York, London, 1939, pp.115-131. E.C. Patterson, John Dalton ...
- 21188: John Paul Jones
- ... 1747. To his parents John Paul and Jean MacDuff he was the fourth child. They had seven children but unfortunately all but two died in infancy. The family was originally from Fife but John Paul's father had taken the family and moved to Arbigland where William Craik, the owner of a large estate their had met him and hired him to be his gardener. John Paul grew up on this ... shrill commands at his imaginary fleet. At the age of thirteen he boarded a ship to Whitehaven, which was a large port across the Solway Firth. There he signed up for a seven year seaman's apprenticeship on The Friendship of Whitehaven, whose captain was James Younger, a prosperous merchant and ship owner. His first voyage took him across the Atlantic Ocean to Barbados and Fredericksburg, Virginia at which he stayed ... to the British ship and after a time, two small boats from the opposing ships came and informed Captain Jones that they were armed British merchant ships. In addition, they told him that a King's frigate was nearby and that they perceived the Richard to be an English Ship of War. Captain Jones went along with the deception and managed to lure the other merchant ships out into the ...
- 21189: Creative Writing: The Competitors
- ... commanding officer of his platoon. Why he was even near the coach was a mystery to him because most of the coaches words fell on unhearing ears. Matt guessed he was just nervous. Who wouldn't be. Looking up, Matt saw that the coach had left and it was time to enter the field. Strapping on his helmet and the rest of his gear, he took a deep breath, focused his ... ground felt as if it were pulsating with a life of its own. He never remembered these feelings before but he simply shrugged off the thought as he faintly heard the sound of the referee's whistle. Suddenly, the sound of the crowd was replaced by e reverberating silence that was deafening in Matt's ears. Going into a defensive crouch, Matt circled the nearest foe to him. Jumping with raised spear, he warded off the first blow positioning his spear into a counter-attack position. Throwing it with ...
- 21190: Creative Story: One Strange Trip
- ... 25 cents; add 25 cents now. "What" I yelled. How is that only a quarter, it accepted it as a bill. To say the least I was mad. I pressed the coin release. It didn't work, now I was really mad. I took off running to find the tree where I got the first leaf, finally I found it. I took a leaf that looked like the other one and ... easier because I could carry it. I hurried back and put the leaf into the pop machine, only to see the LED read out again say Credit 25 cents and 25 cents more. I hadn't seen a piece of paper taped to it that read "Sorry about your quarter, but I only had one and I was dying for a drink:. I was so mad I could kill this man ... a pop. Around lunch I heard a whistling sound. As I listened, it got louder and more clear, soon a skirted man approached. "Hello," he stated in a Scottish accent. "Nice skirt," I replied. "It's a kilt!" he bellowed. "Whatever!," I told him, and mumbled, "to each his own" to myself. We visited for awhile about the sky and how blue it was, then about how brown the dirt ...
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