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    Luge Suit Research Paper

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    lack start houses. Athletes are left in the cold wearing paper-thin suits, under which are only t-shirts and tight fitting shorts. When we get cold, we get stiff. This results in a struggle to drive our sleds properly, leading to a higher chance of crashing. Frustrat-ingly, we’re unable to wear anything thicker underneath our suits because anything too thick will lead to us being far less aerodynamic, and, in consequence, making us slower. To solve this dilemma, I came up with a suit of my own.…

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    EGT1 Task 3

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    1.The rules the nurse was trying to respect was “Act to safeguard the patient from the incompetent, abusive or illegal practice of any individual(Nursing Conduct in Pennsylvania).”That individual could even be a police officer. The nurse was only following the rules and the instructions his boss gave her. The patient was not under his arrest so he didn’t have his consent to take his blood considering he was unconscious. The other ruler she was trying to respect was “Safeguard the patient’s…

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    Some of the actions the Spaniards took competing for colonies around the world following the exploits of Christopher Columbus was when Cortes took Montezuma hostage and killed him in order to capture Tenochtitlán. The fall of the Aztecs at Tenochtitlán marked the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. The next event that took place competing for colonies was lead by Francisco Pizarro that was similar to Coronado's situation in Peru. He tricked Atahualpa into meeting for a “peace…

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    they ended up preforming around 80 experiments dedicated to fluid physics, material sciences, life sciences and more. How did Texas play apart in space shuttle Columbia? While the shuttle was crashing, it was suppose to land at Kennedy Space Center in Texas. The space shuttle actually ended up crashing in Nacogdoches, Texas. One last thing you may or may not know is that NASA is located in Houston, Texas and that’s what the saying “Houston we have a problem” means. What was different from…

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    order to find which one will help in compressing the duration with lowest cost. While allocating resources to critical activities, one needs to take into consideration the slack available in non-critical activities. This will help to make sure that crashing is not affecting the other activities of the project nor the project's scope. 4. Resource leveling allows project managers to balance resources over the course of a project and try to resolve conflicts between resources. Resource leveling…

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    The paranoia and confusion slowly builds until, the mess in Caden’s head comes crashing down. In Challenger Deep, the captain of the ship represents schizophrenia, the parrot being the doctor, and the MRI serves as the cannon, displays an unknown scramble of thoughts going through Caden’s head. The captain of the ship, let Caden travel to waters that have not ever been reached, allowing Caden to be lost in his own mind. Caden understands who the captain is, “and the sad thing is that [he] knows…

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    of aviation there were few significant accidents directly connected to pilots mental health: Germanwings Flight 9525, LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 and missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 possibly being one of them. Although an intentional crashing of an aircraft in rare and uncommon— according to National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) data base from 2003-2012 there were 2,758 fatal aviation accidents out of which only 8 were aircraft-assisted suicides (1) — it is impossible to ignore…

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    The Forgotten 500 Summary

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    Drop it like it's 1945 Gregory A. Freeman, “The forgotten 500” thrilling story of one of the greatest rescues in ww2 of the bombers who were shot down after bombing german drilling for oil in Romania. “The forgotten 500” informs what the airmen near Yugoslavia went through to stay alive after they had to parachute out of their planes when they were shot down. Freeman uses actual people such as “Clare Musgrove” a ball gunner at the 15 Air Force to tell the story of the 500 which keeps things…

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    Cancer has always scared me, but never like these past few years have. On October 15, 2012, my grandma of age 72 passed away in her home with her loving husband by her side. My world was shattered. My grandma was my cooking, sleepover, dress up, laughing and hiking buddy. She was the woman I looked up to the most. When she kept forgetting to bake the cookies when she thought she did, or when she kept forgetting what day it was, we knew that something was wrong. The call came on a bright…

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    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Following storms sweeping across the state Wednesday, the National Weather Service has determined some of the damage was caused by "straight-line" winds rather than tornadoes. Storms uprooted trees, destroyed buildings and caused power outages. More than 90,000 Appalachian Power customers in West Virginia were without power following the storm, and the company has asked crews from other states and companies of assistance in restoring services. According to the National…

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