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I see is blue. My heart races, blood pumping. Red and yellow streaks rush past. I soar higher and higher. My head is pressed firmly against the seat, my face being flattened by the strong wind. Then we pause, just for a moment at the top, suspended 420 feet above the ground. All I see is the lake and the bright blue sky. Falling, plummeting straight for the ground. The pavement lurches in front of me and then we are thrown forward, brakes screeching towards the finish line. It’s over in 17…

Introduction The purpose of experiment was to identify an unknown analgesic drug using thin-layer chromatography (TLC). Using the thin-layer chromatography to determine the composition of the Acetaminophen, Aspirin, Caffeine and Salicylamide, then compared with unknown analgesics. Experiment Scheme Acetaminophen Aspirin Caffeine Salicylamide C8H9NO C9H8O4 C8H10N C7H7NO Figure 1. The Chemical structure of Acetaminophen, Aspirin, Caffeine…

Looking back at my childhood through present day, I would have to say that Priest Lake, Idaho is the one place that has impacted me, and my views on our environment the most. It is my special place. Growing up my family spent a lot of time during the summer up at Priest Lake. We then began spending our Thanksgivings there, renting cabins for 3 days and just enjoying family time, playing card and board games, listening to music, cooking lots of food, and playing in the snow, if it happened to…

Zinn, Schweikart, and Allen, contrastingly, choose to exclusively emphasise only one reason for war: for Zinn - American business interests, for Schweikart and Allen - sympathization for democracy and “American humanitarianism” (Schweikart and Allen 420). Zinn specifically cites sources such as the Bureau of Foreign Commerce of the Department of Commerce, which wrote “The Spanish-American War was… a general movement of expansion which had its roots in the changed environment of an industrial…

Gazzaniga points out that “ cognitive processes that allow an individual to make quick moral decisions “(420). Because of this process, it increases the likelihood of survival since the brain is wired to perform such task that would save one another as a specie. The “brain is cued to be alert to the mental states of other” which plays an active role in developing…

There are many things you should take into consideration when job searching. In this paper I will take three possible careers and evaluate them on different scale levels. My major for now is Psychology. I choose this field because I enjoying helping people. I do believe I will go far in this career field but I know I should have more options. The other field I will research is the Information Technology field of study. My three possible career choices are Industrial-Organizational Psychologist,…

The Hereford Mappa Mundi was created in around the 1300s and is currently being kept in the Hereford Cathedral. The map was drawn on a single sheet of vellum (calfskin). It measures 162.56cm by 132.08cm (64 inches by 52 inches) and has many drawings that delineate the period in which the map was made, showing us about how people lived in that time. The maps were drawn and written with lots of detailed information, but could only be read by people who spoke a certain branch of French (Norman…

Men dominate both the society in the epic of Beowulf and that in the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Even so, their control is limited insofar as they are expected to abide by well-engrained moral codes. While the heroic code of Heorot focusses on pride, tribal relations and generosity, the chivalric code of Camelot values humility, feudal relations and courtesy, differences that reflect the natural evolution of morality that has occurred between the writing of the two tales. The…

Nationwide white people receive an average sentence of thirty three month while blacks received an average of thirty six months (Smith 41). Another example of disparity could be requiring a photo identification card to vote. Poor people who live in the inner city and do not drive probably do not have a drivers license and they may not have a bank account and therefore would have no other reason for a photo identification card. Homeless people would also have no address and probably no photo…

The book I have chosen to compare reviews for is Birgit and Peter Sawyer’s Medieval Scandinavia: From Conversion to Reformation circa 800-1500. This paper compares two reviews of this book, one by Ruth Mazo Karras who takes a more positive approach in The American Historical Review, and the other by Frederic Amory who in turn leaves a much more critical review in Speculum. Both reviewers commend the Sawyers for their resourcefulness and agree that their writing is more interpretive in some parts…