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Computers And The Military
Words: 1548 - Pages: 6.... now far more than just infantry whose task is to run around in the front line and fire their guns. Warfare is now totally dependent on sophisticated computer technology in numerous different areas. Examples are the navigation of a submarine and intelligent long-range missiles. What most people associates with computers and war may be various simulation and action games. This is big business for software developers and merchandisers all over the world. As in all businesses money is the most important criteria for the big companies so they have no morale problems with making warfare into entertainment as long as it's selling. The same goes fo .....
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Teenage Sex
Words: 2818 - Pages: 11.... soon as puberty begins. Teens also watch more television and listen to more music developing their own unique personalities. According to one study, about 65,000 sexual acts or comments on prime-time television occur every year (Meier, 1994, p. 9). In the movies or on television, the actors and actresses make sex look easy, fun and glamorous. It appears to be something everyone is doing. On television shows like "Dawson's Creek", sex is usually the major topic of the entire show. Whether it is guys and girls, guys and guys, girls and girls, or multiple persons of each sex, the sex act itself is a major conflict. Movies, such as "Crue .....
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The Oldsmobile Cuttlass
Words: 592 - Pages: 3.... not really into that era, but when they noticed the gto and the skylark making all the money they decided that shooting for the younger generation was the way to go. In that era they changed the car completely and with this they changed the class from luxury to power, and it had its fair share of both still, this car was a beast. From the 455 rocket engine uder the hood to the rear end and torque on the rear, the car had it all. Highest torque and horsepower of all muscle cars. it was awesome, they also released a special version of the Cuttlass called the 4-4-2, and the H/O (hurst/olds) they were both feared automobiles. The 4-4-2 an .....
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Customers For Life By Carl Sew
Words: 976 - Pages: 4.... than willing to tell you. You should make it easy for the customer to tell you what they want by giving them a short questionnaire. Most importantly, you do not want to pester the customer; if you bother the customer, they are not going to be happy.
2 Systems, not smiles. Saying please and thank you does not ensure you’ll do the job right the first time, every time. Only systems guarantee that. There are two major components of a system. The first being to do the job right the first time and the second one is having a plan in place to deal with things when they go wrong. Being nice to the customers is only 20% of providing good cu .....
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The Ethics Behind The Challeng
Words: 320 - Pages: 2.... weighed their options, and decided to go ahead with the launch, then the responsibility falls on the astronauts themselves. The idea of whether or not proper informed consent occurred is the sole main issue of the entire case.
Given the information presented in the reading, it does not seem likely that the astronauts had all of the information available when making the decision to go ahead with the launch. In a space launch process, the engineers play a key role and know the individual parts of the spacecraft better than anyone. The head engineers at Thiokol made a recommendation to NASA to delay the launch based on the data, or lack .....
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Accidents In Hockey
Words: 2147 - Pages: 8.... injury report done by the International
Hockey Centre of Excellence has statistics on the most common hockey injuries
and how they occured. the most common injuries are to the shoulder, knee and
the head.
Injury to the shoulder is the most common hockey injury in the game
today because of the physcial contact. Of the injuries reported in the 1993-
1994 hockey season, 12% of those were shoulder related. Injury to the acromio-
clavicular joint was the most frequent because of the bodychecking. Every time
a player steps on the ice, he is constantly being pounded into the boards,
shoulder first. The glenohumeral was often being injuried m .....
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Medieval Battle Tactics
Words: 2005 - Pages: 8.... them was the key to war. The Roman legion composed of a huge amount of infantry and some cavalry was an important factor in Roman War. However, if Rome and England were compared then the cavalry of Rome later
developed into the Knight. The well trained infantry of Rome’s legion for attacking and invading now was set to defend in Medieval England as it more compares to the castle. Now that you know some about the origination of the Knight and the castle, let’s get into the tactics used by the land units of Medieval England like the knight and the archers.
The knight, being the cavalry of the castle, and also the last line of def .....
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Practical Cognition
Words: 766 - Pages: 3.... dissatisfaction. The meaning of a
statement is the practical result of accepting the statement. In general, then,
the truth or falsity of a statement is relative, not only to the individual
accepting or rejecting the statement, but also to the circumstances in which
that person finds himself. Truth is relative, but Marx is not an extreme
relativist (no one to be taken seriously is) because there is a constraint to
how relative the truth can be; Humans are making the truth judgements, and
humans have a common element, viz . their needs, which do not vary greatly
between people.
Humans are in contact with nature at a fundamental level. The hu .....
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Your Future: Take The ACT Test
Words: 926 - Pages: 4.... you do on an ACT, your emotions, attitudes and physical state can influence your performance. On the test date you should be confident in your ability to do well on the ACT. You should be prepared to work hard. Get plenty of rest the night before the test so you will be in good physical conditions to take it. When I took the test I wasn’t feeling well, I was sick and I had to go to work the day before. I was tired and sick and these two factors played a major role in my ACT results. Addition to be in good shape, you should also dress comfortably, so you are comfortable with yourself while taking the test. Dress in layers so you can t .....
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Forgotten War Crimes
Words: 447 - Pages: 2.... with
military objectives. This bombing may have been strategic but it certainly did
not have any military objectives which are stated throughout much of American
history. It was, however, the strategic bombing and slaughtering of a quarter
million innocent civilians.
American history textbooks and documentaries state that the official
objective in the bombing of Dresden was to destroy railway yards, thus delaying
or preventing the deployment of German troops to the eastern front. To destroy
rail-lines and rail yards, precision bombing is used. Contradicting this
statement is the fact that the American planes flying over Dresden w .....
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