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History Of Bikes

... instead the rider sat on a cushion and pushed his feet against the ground. In 1817, Baron Karl von Drais of Germany invented a improved model called a “draisienne, which added a steering bar connected to the front wheel. Twenty years later, a Scottish blacksmith, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, added foot pedals to the Draisienne. In the 1870’s came a bike called a penny- Farthing. It consisted of a huge front wheel, 1.5 meters tall, and a very small back wheel. The advantage of this model was that it could travel a greater distance with a single ...

Number of words: 800 | Number of pages: 3

The Art Of Torture

... and downright inhuman. Torture would keep criminal from doing something wrong again, assuming he lived through the torture. The punishments we have today are laughable and dumb. Big deal, you are thrown in prison for a few years, you don’t suffer one bit, but to the inmates, being thrown on a chain gang is so terrible. Being given hundreds of paper cuts and being rolled in salt, now that’s terrible and I’m sure the convi ct will never break the law again. Places like Singapore still operate like this. It happened to that one teen wh ...

Number of words: 1881 | Number of pages: 7

The Olive Branch

... However, the myths that have accumulated from each culture provide great colorful characters and death defying heros against the angst of the gods. Often times the bible is compared to the “Gilgamesh Epic”, which is the oldest fictional novel known to man. The Babylonian epic tells a similar story of the flood. The gods within the story are very angered by humankind’s behavior. So they decided to punish them a flood. Ea, a Babylonian God, disagrees with extremely harsh treatment. He then instructs Utnapishtim to flee with ...

Number of words: 1034 | Number of pages: 4

Cost Of The Golf War

... in one of two ways: with financial assets ("Cash") and with services such as sealift and airlift ("In-Kind") •As of March 1992, there was a shortfall in receipts compared with commitments. The total amount committed was $54 billion but only $52.9 billion had been received. The shortfall was $1.1 billion. •Saudi Arabia provided the US Military with fuel, food, water, local transportation and facilities, accounting for the "In-Kind" assistance. This accounted for 25% of the Saudi commitment to the US Military presence and was 71% of all ...

Number of words: 2703 | Number of pages: 10

Valley Forge

... and just about ready to quit. Even George Washington, at one point, said "If the army does not get help soon, in all likelihood, it will disband." Early into the six-month encampment, the soldiers were riddled with disease and famine. Death was a common site on the camp. The raw weather stung and numbed the soldiers. Empty stomachs were common. The future promised only more desperation and hunger. Many could not take the cold weather, lack of food, and uncertainty of living. There were dozens of desertions. By February the weather calmed ...

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Industrial Revolution 3

... working conditions. The workers felt powerless. In the late nineteenth century, the demand for factory labor grew and so did the industrial work force. Immigration was the source of expansion. The new immigrants were coming to America to get away from poverty and oppression in their homelands. With the coming of these new groups of immigrants came constant ethnic tensions. They were also paid very poorly and began to replace higher paid British. Irish, and American workers. American workers had very little job security. Many of the w ...

Number of words: 868 | Number of pages: 4

Morocco

... make up two distinct ethnic groups--Arab and Spanish--depending mainly on whether they speak Arabic or Spanish. Almost all Moroccans are Muslims. Farming is the chief occupation, and more than half the people live in rural areas. France and Spain controlled from the early 1900's until it won independence in 1956. is a constitutional monarchy headed by a king. Its Constitution gives the king broad powers. For example, he commands the armed forces, may issue orders that have the force of law, and controls the major government agencies. ...

Number of words: 2985 | Number of pages: 11

Treasure Of The Sierra Madre -

... and a haircut. Dobbs then accepts a job for eight American dollars a day. When the job is finished, he and another guy (the bum that he had met earlier on) are not paid. The younger American, named Curtain asks Dobbs, how much money they had left between them, hoping it was enough to rent a bed somewhere. They find a place that they can afford and when they get there overhear someone talking. The old man, a scruffy toothless gold prospector named Howard is describing the adventurous hunt for gold. Being half drunk and overtired, Dobbs canno ...

Number of words: 837 | Number of pages: 4

Fiddler On The Roof

... eventually impose so many hardships on the Jews that most would be forced to find refuge in other countries that would be more tolerant of their traditions. Unfortunately, at this time these places were not so easy to come by. Rare refuges were places like the land of Palestine, eternal home for the Jews, welcomed or not and America, the land of democracy that welcomed all. What is amazing about the play is that it does not only reach out to all Jews in history that have been exposed to persecution and being forced to leave their homes ...

Number of words: 1139 | Number of pages: 5

Early Chinese Immigrant

... sources. When foreigners entered their homeland and poisoned the population with drugs, the culture could not stop the imminent alteration of their ways. China was weakened severely and was taken advantage of by many countries. Chinese came to America for a myriad of reasons. The main reason was because of the myth of the Gam Saan ("Golden Mountain.") Other reasons were due to overpopulation, poverty, hunger, flooding, high taxes, bad economy, collapsing government, and crop failure. When gold was found in California and short on hand ...

Number of words: 1048 | Number of pages: 4

The Inuit People

... tundra environment and developed a culture that remained untainted for a long time. relied solely on hunting for their existence. With summers barely lasting two months, agriculture was non-existent. Animals such as caribou and seal were vital. Groups of hunters would stalk and kill many caribou with fragile bows made of driftwood, and their bounty was split evenly amongst the tribe. Bone spears were fashioned to hunt seals which provided food, oil, clothes, and tents. The seal skins were also used to construct kayaks and other boats that t ...

Number of words: 568 | Number of pages: 3

Holocaust

... had. The anti-Semitism that was already apparent was that of the nineteenth century. The Germans naturally hated Jews. They blamed them for the declining of the German economy and whatever was going wrong in Germany, the Jews were held responsible. From this basis set, the Germans branched out a new form of anti-Semitism. It was the use of propaganda to rid Germany and the rest of the world of Jews and what they represented. They would take any measure to execute this task. To execute this task, the Nazi’s used new forms of publicity ...

Number of words: 779 | Number of pages: 3

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