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skateboarding and was credited as one of the essential skateboarders to do frontside air. In 1977, I contended on ABC's Wide World of Sports for the World Professional Skateboarding Championship. Following my TV debut, I had supported an assortment of items on TV including Vans, Mercedes Benz and the Fuel TV station. likewise I have showed up in a few component movies including "Skateboard: The Movie That Defies Gravity" (1977), "Thrashin" (1986), and the recompense winning narrative "Dogtown…

I believe there is a lot to be learned through exploring our universe but I am not in favor of colonizing other planets. I believe that exploring our universe with unmanned spacecraft will bring us a wealth of information that can aid us in understanding the world we live on. Sending man into space was a great adventure and the transmission and photographic technology available in the 60s and 70s when the space race was at its apex was not as robust which prevented us from seeing everything…

The second issue was the American economy. On assuming office in 1977, President Carter inherited an economy that was slowly emerging from a recession and stagflation, this being the worst economic climate since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Carter had a stance that high inflation was the main culprit of a stagnant economy. Even though the President was a Democrat, he took this opportunity to introduce conservative policies such as tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulated truck and airplane…

Australia is a country that has been built on diversity. As a result of this the ecumenical movement have acted as links, connecting Australia to becoming a more secular society, promoting the restoration of the broken unity of Christian denominations (Weigel, 2011). This ecumenism has allowed for a greater understanding and cooperation to some degree as well as a greater sharing and recognition of similarities as indicated in the conference on faith order 1952, “act together in all matters…

Introduction “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams” one of the most famous quotes from Oprah Winfrey. She is known for her shows,magazines,and she has her own network, The Oprah Winfrey network. Oprah Winfrey is inspiring, powerful, determined, outstanding, and talented. Early Life Oprah Gail Winfrey was born in a rural town of Kosciusko,Mississippi on January 29, 1954.Winfrey moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the age of 6 to live with her mother.She was so…

Since the beginning of time, diseases have existed and troubled humanity. Just alone, the extremely contagious and deadly disease, smallpox took the lives of 400 million until it was eradicated in 1977. For decades, smallpox infected thousand of native americans who was extremely vulnerable to the disease brought by early settlers from Europe. The european contact brought huge epidemics, plowing through villages and the population of the native americans, causing panic and widespread hatred…

In the early 1940's as stated in the New York Times, the Hudson River became contaminated with Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), that flowed from two General Electric factories that were later banned in 1977, as a health threat to people and wildlife. In high doses, they have been shown to cause cancer in animals and are listed by federal agencies as a probable human carcinogen. As New York City grew along the Hudson river, the sewage discharged increased. In 1965, NYS voters passed a Pure…

Abstract: My research paper is covering the different theories covering the origins of life. Primordial Soup: The primordial soup theory says that life began in a lake or ocean as a combination of chemicals created amino acids, and from there life evolved. A Russian chemist named A.I. oprin and an English geneticist named J.B.S. Haldane came up with this theory in 1920. to test this theory they collected and mixed elements thought to be on earth at the time and sparked the mixture with…

This paper is about Douglas Engelbart. He invented the mouse which we still use today and is said to be one of the fathers of technology and the development of the computers we use today. The point of my paper is to explain how Douglas Engelbart was and is one of the fathers of technology. Douglas Engelbart was born on January 30, 1925 in Portland, Oregon. After finishing high school in 1942 he was drafted in the U.S. Army to fight in WWII as it came to an end. After that he returned to Oregon…

Development, proposed a bill that defined French as the official language of Québec and framed fundamental language rights. The Charter of the French Language, which has also been called Bill 101, has been amended six times since it was passed in 1977. The charter states that its purpose is “to make of French the language of Government and the Law, as well as the normal and everyday language of work, instruction, communication, commerce, and business” (Bill 101 Preamble). Bill 101 stipulated…