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    LRT (Light Rail Train) project in Jakarta, Palembang, Bandung , Surabaya and High-speed train Jakarta-Bandung project . In a modern urban transport vehicle , the system used is a driverless train control system.…

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    Stroop Effect Experiment

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    Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate if there is a cognitive process delay in different conditions: naming, neutral, congruent, and incongruent. One hundred and thirty-nine from Florida Atlantic University from Boca Raton, Florida participated in classroom setting experiment. The independent variable was the level of congruence in number/symbol lists; the dependent variable was the reaction time (in seconds). In my findings, the results showed a statistical difference between…

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    Briefly (2-3 sentences) summarize the pattern in your results. Did you follow the expected pattern? If not, why do you think that is so? The pattern I noticed during the practice trial 1 was to go through and say the colors of the words which was simple and quick. The second Stroop trial was harder because I was focusing more on the word instead of focusing on the color of the word which made it more difficult to process. I followed the expected pattern and on the second phase and it was a…

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    who committed the Great Train Robbery remains ambiguous, but the motives behind it are not. Michael Chricton’s The Great Train Robbery sheds light on Edward Pierce’s obsession with crime through information about his accomplices and impeccable criminal knowledge to prove how his obsession motivated his undertaking in this 1855 crime. The red-bearded man’s sophistication in the crime scene portrays his love affair with wrongdoing, a main factor as to why he robbed the train that one night in…

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    tilting. The Great Train Robbery was one of the first films to use the practice of continuous editing—the editing method in which cuts are seamless and a film has a natural progression. This is seen throughout the whole movie, from action to action, and even from scene to scene where intercutting is used. Intercutting, the method of cutting away to a different sequence, was used in this film to create a tension. The film cuts between the robbery that is taking place on the train, the man who…

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    success is not enough. An overwhelming urge to prove their mental strength arises, steering them to insurmountable success. In Michael Crichton’s, The Great Train Robbery, Edward Pierce displays a compulsion that allows his unfounded character to guide him in manipulating society, proving his mental superiority through committing the robbery. Upon guiding society in creating an unfounded perception of Pierce, he is able to divert doubt in his character and make use of the trust people have in…

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    Jesse James: A True Hero

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    Jesse James was a hero and a villain of the wild west. He was born on September 5, 1847 and his dad was a preacher in Missouri. ‘‘Jesse’s dad went to California for the gold rush and that was the last time Jesse James saw his dad’’. Jesse was only a teen when the civil war started in 1861. Jesse and his brother took part in the outlaw soldier battles between the Confederate and Union soldiers.(Hamilton) Jesse James found himself a new career, him and his gang strolled into Clay County Savings…

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    A train barreling straight for you, with no intentions to stop would certainly cause you to panic. An audience experienced this while watching the Lumière brothers Arriva of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) in France. These new moving images amazed audiences all over the world. Thanks to Thomas Edison, Georges Méliès and the Lumière brothers, the great pioneers of film history. Silent films used camera effects, music, lighting, staging of props and the actor’s body language as a medium to create a…

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    uniform patrol officers handles a great deal of general investigations, for example, while completing a report, accessing the scene of a burglary or even a simple traffic stop that could produce a large drug bust. Studies have found that waiting to train patrol officers on the technique of investigation skills can dramatically affect the officer’s effectiveness (Powell, Hughes-Scholes, Smith, & Sharman, 2014). I can speak from personal experience I did not go to the Reid Investigation…

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    Charlie Pitts, and Bill Chadwell. Most of the members fought for the South in the Civil war and Jesse created his gang in Missouri. Most of the robberies they did where in Missouri, but they did rob throughout America. The gang mostly did robberies with banks and trains. Eventually a few of the gang members were captured and killed in a failed robbery in Minnesota. This eventually destroyed the gang but Jesse and his brother Frank got away. They later created a new gang with Ed Miller, Robert…

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