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    Dodge Brothers History

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    The Dodge brothers The Dodge motor company was one of the first car companies. The Dodge motor company is still a thriving company today. The Dodge brothers revolutionized the motor industry's forever. The Dodge Motor company started with the two brothers John and Horace dodge. The brothers were born and grew up in Michigan and got a job as machinists. After the job as machinists they co-founded a bicycle shop in 1897. After having the shop for three years they sold the bicycle…

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    Motor Carrier Industry

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    The motor carrier industry did not start until World War 1 where vehicles were finally utilized for pick-ups and deliveries. The industry continues to economically advance in the United States where more than $128.9 billion has been used to construct and improve the highway systems. It began during the Eisenhower Administration when the interstate highway system was created where ninety percent of the cost was covered by the federal government and the remaining was covered by the state. The…

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    Scottish Act 1998 is introduced and created Scottish Executive and the Scottish Parliament. Additionally, the Government of the Wales Act 1998 created Welsh Assembly, which has few powers than the Scottish Parliament. Northern Ireland Assembly created by the 1998 ‘Belfast Agreement’ also known as the ‘Good Friday Agreement’. The Assembly has been suspended a number of times but came back into power in May 2007. The Scottish Executive and Scottish Parliament have been constantly called for…

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    Town Woman Jennifer, or Jen as some like to call her, was born July 24th, 1970, in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, Illinois. Jen Townsend was the name she grew up with through out her high school and college career, but on October 7th, 1995, her life changed when she married David Claeys, a man from a town smaller than the size of her entire high school. They met at Western Illinois University, where she attended college, and majoring in business. After about three years of marriage she…

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    Frank Gacy Revenge Case

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    This illusion that Gacy had continued to portray for years as the good neighbor, citizen, and friend would eventually come to end upon the disappearance of Robert Priest in December of 1978. According to Cartel, “Gacy was supervising a drug store construction job in nearby Des Plaines when he spotted fifteen year old Robert Piest. Gacy told the boy that he would pay him five dollars an hour if he worked for him during that 1978 summer. When Robert’s mother came to pick him up he told her…

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    Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1898 in Oak Park, Illinois where he was raised in an upper middle class environment. His father was a physician and his mother was training to be a singer. His father taught him to fish and hunt while his mother took him to choir practice. Hemingway loved the life outdoors and his love for nature stayed with him throughout life and became the touchstone of his work and life. Hemingway wanted to serve his country in the war by volunteering for active service…

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    During the mid 1500’s, England’s population completely proliferated. Europe, as a whole, underwent the process of enclosure. This meant land was being fenced in for the use of farming, causing the poor to be left with little to no land at all. Areas of England were also struggling economically, leaving a mass amount of the British population to lose their jobs. With the loss of jobs and lost hope of acquiring any land, the British set their sights on the New World. Many journeyed across the…

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    lead him to find out that light always travels at the same speed (which is 186,000 miles/second). Albert Einstein’s career, beginning with an extensive education through physical science, had a lasting influence on the photoelectric effect, Special/General Theory of Relativity and the concept of mass-energy equivalence. Albert Einstein was very curious beginning at a young age; he started studying the physical sciences and learning music. Born into a non-practicing Jewish family in Ulm, Germany…

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    The Canterbury Tales is a compilation of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer around the 14th century. Chaucer was the son of a middle-class merchant, he was constantly around the docks as a kid, so he picked up a lot of lower working class jokes, humor, and mannerisms. When he grew up he worked in the royal court, so he got to also see upper-class life in this time. So Chaucer, knew how every class acted, and he knew that they were not so different, despite their social stratification. Although…

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    Acceleration Of Gravity

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    In this experiment the main goal is to examine the correlation between position, velocity, time, and acceleration of objects, moving in one or two dimensions. Each and every experiment will be conducted under different conditions. For example, the first experiment requires a constant force (gravity) to act on the object, the picket fence. This experiments other condition is that we neglect friction. This object should be in nearly ideally circumstances. In the second experiment, the conditions…

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