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    A Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Protocol for Cooperative Collision Warning Xue Yang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign xueyang@uiuc.edu Jie Liu Microsoft Research liuj@microsoft.com Feng Zhao Microsoft Research zhao@microsoft.com Nitin H. Vaidya University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign nhv@uiuc.edu Abstract This paper proposes a vehicle-to-vehicle communication protocol for cooperative collision warning. Emerging wireless technologies for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and

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    In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ the cultural collision caused by the introduction of Western ideas into Igbo culture majorly affected are of the Igbo tribes greatest men‚ Okonkwo‚ in the way that he was conflicted with his sense of identity and struggled to fit in between the changes of accepting new ideas and staying with his common traditions. Before the arrival of the Europeans‚ the Igbo people thrived and peacefully lived among themselves; Okonkwo was a strong male warrior who

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    20th Century U.S. History since WWII Spring 2013 Bergen Community College Prof. Burke THE PAUL ROBESON—JACKIE ROBINSON SAGA AND A POLITICAL COLLISION. By Ronald A. Smith‚ Journal of Sport History‚ Vol. 6‚ No. 2 (summer‚ 1979) P 5-27 Dr. Ronald A. Smith‚ a historian and Professor Emeritus at Penn State University analyzes Jackie Robinson’s appearance‚ and impact before the House Un-American Activities Committee in light of anti-American messages made by the entertainer and former Rutgers University

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    We all had very similar opinions and views on the subject “how do place and cultural collision influence conflict?”. We had to come up with one thesis statement all together and we narrowed it down to the fact that humans competitiveness and urges to feel superior is what causes almost every conflict. We went over the ideas that humans always

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    Cultural collision is the colliding of two or more very distinct cultures. It causes tension between the two groups; exhibited in Purple Hibiscus and Things Fall Apart. Kambili is the main character in Purple Hibiscus‚ she demonstrates cultural collision between her and her father. The cultural collision is not strictly between her father and her‚ it is with Papa and his side of the family preventing Kambili to get to know them. Papa does not like his side of the family because Papa-Nnukwu has an

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    During the collision of European and Native American cultures in the Sixteenth Century‚ smallpox had a devastating impact on Native American communities‚ shaping the course of colonization and altering the dynamics between the two groups. The introduction of smallpox‚ among other diseases‚ decimated indigenous populations‚ leading to profound social‚ political‚ and psychological repercussions. Impact on Native American Communities Smallpox arrived in the Americas with European explorers and colonizers

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    In the 1400s alone‚ two collisions of worlds took place. They are collisions in the sense that there were two parties who were socially very different whose cultures met at rather sudden point. These collisions’ importance and impact in history and global economics is great. The first was the introduction of European trading posts into Africa; the second was Columbus landing in the Bahamas and unintentionally discovering the New World. These two events are alike in they both let to dramatic changes

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    Shiloh Gilbert April 8‚ 2010 There is an abundance of literature in which characters become caught between colliding cultures. Often‚ these characters experience a period of growth from their exposure to a culture that’s dissimilar to their own. Such is the case with Marlow‚ Joseph Conrad’s infamous protagonist from ‘Heart of Darkness’. Marlow sets off to Africa on an ivory conquest and promptly found himself sailing into the heart of the Congo River. Along the way he is faced with disgruntled

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    kinetic energy greater than the activation energy‚ this is a theory of collision theory. For example‚ in the first experiment‚ the test tube filled with 10 mL of 3% hydrogen peroxide and had scoop of manganese dioxide‚ had a greater reaction than the other test tube. Which simply contained 10 mL of 3% hydrogen peroxide. The factor that affected the reaction rate was that the manganese was seen as a catalyst. The reason collision theory relates to this experiment is due to the fact that the catalyst

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    Cultural Collision In Catharine Sedgwick’s novel‚ Hope Leslie‚ Magawisca is one of the Main female characters and she runs into many hardships in the book. Magawisca is the daughter of well known Indian chief Mononotto but is separated from her father and her tribe when they are all attacked. After Magawisca and her brother’s mother dies the children get sent to work at the home of the Fletchers an English family. Magawisca gets caught in the middle of two cultures when she is raised by an English

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