Johanna Malmstrom Mr. Manolio Honors Physics 17 January 2014 Egg Impact Crash Test My project was constructed by using simple materials that could be found around the house and were transformed into a protective device for two Grade A Large Eggs. The materials of my project are cardboard‚ tape and a hot glue gun. I used a cardboard box whose flaps folded in over top‚ but taped open the flaps so that the height would meet the 20 cm minimum requirement. I made sure the width was less than 50 cm
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Hypothesis: If a car is involved in a crash‚ a domino effect of reactions will occur. Background: The modern day automobile is a very complex piece of machinery that has a lot to do with the world of physics. Like every great invention‚ there was a beginning. For the automobile this beginning was in 1769. Nicolas Cugnot‚ a Frenchmen inventing for the French Army‚ came up with was first self-propelled‚ steam engined‚ three wheeled cart that was said to go as fast as walking speed. The next
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being racist against another person‚ but rather the person being racist against their own self. In the movie "Crash" directed by Paul Haggis‚ we can see several examples of how racism against oneself‚ caused by fear and misunderstanding‚ can often be just as bad as racism against another. Fear is something that makes people act racist in our society. The character named Farhad form the movie is just one of the examples of someone who lets the prejudice of their race affect the way they act. Farhad
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Plot and Structure: Crash takes place in a modern day Los Angeles in the time span of approximately 36 hours. The plot of the movie is told between multiple characters‚ all of which are of different class and backgrounds but all share prejudice towards people who aren’t of the same race. All of the events unfolding are in chronological and sometimes simultaneous order. The movie begins with one of our main characters‚ Detective Graham Waters (Don Cheadle) Waters and his partner/girlfriend
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Critical Response Essay: Nethergrave vs. A Sound of Thunder You and I live in a world were modernism is reaching new heights every day. One day that touchscreen phone is considered new‚ and then next week it’s old news. These two stories that I am going to compare are about the role of technology‚ science and how it affects me and you. Based on how it uses new technology and modern science A Sound of Thunder is a better sci-fiction story. When it comes to technology‚ ‘A Sound
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Tensions between the African Americans and Caucasians have been present in America for decades. In the movie Crash‚ race and culture are major themes that can be seen in the lives of the characters in the film. One character in particular‚ Cameron‚ a prestigious yet blissfully ignorant director‚ displays the friction between two cultures. He is a proud‚ young African American who belongs to the educated‚ upper class of the Los Angeles area and therefore he seems to have no ties with racial discrimination
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restrain the perception of counter culturelism. P1> Daniel and Jean/motifs. Motifs‚ doctors/window/keys Small counter act to our point. Daniel’s first appearance‚ > linking to him being the ‘connector’ or ‘fixer’ in the movie. ‘of locks’ Open/closes doors into others’ lives. Widens Jeans view of how she looks at life. Link: clash between characters Jean relying on Daniel
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Crash’s main white characters are depicted in comfortable positions‚ both socially and economically. Jean and Rick Cabot‚ played by Sandra Bullock and Brendan Fraser respectively‚ are well-off L.A. socialites‚ as Rick is the District Attorney of Los Angeles. Tony Danza makes a cameo as a television executive producer who tells Black producer Cameron Thayer (Terence Howard)‚ one of the few financially secure (but not exactly socially secure) minority roles in the film‚ to make one of his actors speak
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Critical Essay Science fiction is a really weird genre. It has some odd stories. These are some more oddballs. “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury is about hunters that time travel to kill various types of animals‚ dinosaurs being one of them. One of the travelers‚ Eckels‚ stepped off the path that no one could leave and it changed history. The leader killed him with a gun‚ hence the name sound of thunder. “Nethergrave” by Gloria Skurzynski is about a boy named Jeremy who is not liked at his school
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Course: English Assignment : Critical Essay Topic: To what extent is the protagonist conditioned by his or her physical and social environment? “Rules of the Game” is a short story by Amy Tan about a young Chinese immigrant girl‚ Waverly in 1950s‚ when people from China immigrated to America seeking better living prospects. The story is set in the modest physical and social settings of Chinatown in America‚ where the protagonist Waverly resides with her family. Waverly’s mother expects
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