Period 3 Montgomery 9/9/14 This Day In History 1 Have you ever wondered how or when the first tanks were built? In September 1915‚ the first prototype tank built was named Little Willy. Weighing 14 tons and only moving 2 mph‚ Little Willy was far from a success. The idea came from a British colonel named Ernest Swinton. Swinton’s idea was to create an armored vehicle that would tear through enemy lines and destroy their troops. The performance of Little Willy was not so great. It was slow and
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Ever Wonder if You Could Kill What You Eat? We Did the Other Night We‚ as humans‚ have developed such a bizarre and uncomfortable relationship with non-human animals. In her short essay‚ Makenna Goodman describes how for dinner she had her guests come over and one had to kill a chicken for their meal. Goodman also discusses the efforts made by farmers to supply their families with farm-fresh food that has been prepared in an ethical way. Goodman introduces her article by sharing with us
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Topic : “The Significant point that attract foreign tourists to visit Siem Reap Province” Description Since tourism had come to be regarded as one of the biggest non smoke industry in the word‚ Cambodia is working wholeheartedly towards reconstruction and economic development through its tourism sector. As Siem Reap province endowed with vast tourism assets including historical‚ natural and artificial resorts such as Angkor Wat temple‚ Kulen mounts‚ Bonteay Srey temple‚ Bayon temple and so
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685 parts per billion and global temperature rising 3 to 6 degrees. Urban air population would become top environment cause of premature death. Do you ever wonder how the environment will cope with the growth in the world population plus the rapid economic development of china‚ India‚ and other "emerging economics"? Yes‚ I do wonder about how the Environment will cope with the growth in the world population plus the rapid economic development of china‚ India‚ and other "emerging economics"
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What makes a civilization great? It depends on the tools‚ the laws‚ class structures‚ religions‚ and government. However‚ it also depends on the way an individual thinks and how their way of thinking could contribute to improving society. In ancient Greece‚ there lived three great men named Socrates‚ Plato‚ and Aristotle. These men were the first and still the greatest philosophers of all time. They questioned people’s way of life and even the meaning of life itself. The teaching of philosophy would
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Eiffel Tower‚ built in 1889 and named after its designer and engineer Gustave Eiffel is one of the most famous architectural structure in the world. ------------------------------------------------- Eiffel Tower is observation & radio broadcasting tower‚ it is 324 meters tall‚ and tallest building in Paris‚ also second tallest in the whole of France. It was also tallest man-made structure of the world from 1889 to 1930. Stonehenge‚ United Kingdom Stonehenge is an amazing structure built
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The emission of POISONOUS GASES rather than the direct effects of lava flows or ash showers are the greatest reason for loss of life. An example is the eruption from the Laki volcano in 1783 (see first link below) in which an estimated 25% of the population of Iceland was killed. "The system erupted over an 8 month period during 1783-1784 from the Laki fissure and the adjoining Grímsvötn volcano‚ pouring out an estimated 14 km3 (3.4 cu mi) of basalt lava and clouds of poisonous hydrofluoric
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The story and its themes Deadly‚ Unna? is one year in the life of fourteen year-old Gary ‘Blacky’ Black. Like most boys his age‚ he plays football‚ worries about what to say to girls‚ shirks responsibility and has problems at home. However‚ through his brief friendship with Dumby Red‚ one of the local Aborigines‚ Blacky learns important lessons about human dignity‚ racism‚ justice‚ death‚ courage‚ family and friendship. As the novel opens‚ Blacky is worried about the imminent grand final and
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Black and Blacky go fishing‚ and after a lot of problems‚ Mr. Black calls Blacky‚ ‘A gutless wonder.’ This puts a lot of pressure on Blacky to impress his dad to show that he is not a gutless wonder and that he is a strong man that he can be proud of. I think this gets to Blacky a little bit. Especially when he tries to impress Cathy on the beach and fails‚ he thinks to himself‚ ‘The old man is right‚ I am gutless.’ There is one point‚ at the Grand Final celebrations‚ where he shook Blacky’s hand
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1. The picture I got when I was introduced to “Blacky” is that I thought he had black skin colour and was an aboriginal due to his knick name being Blacky. 2. Blacky feels sorry for Arks because he has been training and coaching the team real hard and they haven’t won any premierships. 3. Blackys first impression of “Dumby Red” was that he is just another “Dumb Nunga who didn’t know any positions in footy” 4. Blackys family is quite different to an ordinary Australian family‚ his relationship
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