Wheelchairs are intended to provide people with comfort and independence after their movement has been either compromised or become impossible due to illnesses‚ injuries‚ disabilities‚ or simply aging. For those with either limited or no mobility at all‚ a wheelchair can make an incredible difference in their quality of life. And here is the brief wheelchair history. The earliest record of wheelchairs dates back to the 6th century‚ as an inscription found on a stone slate in China around 6th century
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Communication is the Key Alex Belerique HUMA 1770 207291024 During the 12th to 14th centuries‚ technology related to communication was still fairly primal‚ and generally limited to face to face interactions. Of course‚ during a time where trade was at some points‚ booming between civilizations‚ a system of exchanging information was vital to successful trade‚ on small scales like people within the same area‚ and on larger scales‚ like communities in different regions. Successful trade transactions
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French and Indian War. Most loyalists believed that the colonies could not survive on their own as they depended just as much‚ if not more‚ on Great Britain as they did the colonies. The opposing perspective came from the group of people know as the patriots‚ who supported colonial independence from England. Many believed strongly in this fight for liberty and went to great measures to express their beliefs and have their voices heard. These people disagreed with the taxes being instilled on the colonies
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Terrorists or Patriots? The term terrorism is defined as “the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce‚ especially for political purposes; the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization; a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.”(Dictionary.com). The huge debate is whether the colonists of the American Revolutions were actually patriots‚ or terrorists. If one was to go by this definition then yes‚ I believe that the colonists could be considered
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own soil. So‚ congress passed a law known as the U.S.A Patriot Act. U.S A Patriot is a 10 letter acronym for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. This allowed the N.S.A (national security agency) to gain information of individual citizens or groups of individuals by using library records‚ phone calls and other surveillance. Recently‚ on January 1st of 2015 the Patriot Act has expired. Many members of government are stuck in
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Social Security Act (1935) With a dramatic increase in life expectancy and decreases in mortality rates‚ many old People live their later lives with chronic illnesses and disabilities. As a result‚ long-term care is becoming an important part of service to the elderly population. The US General Accounting Office (1994) reports that more than 12 million Americans need long-term care and 55% of them are people aged 65 or older (Binstock‚ Cluff‚ & Mering‚ 1996). Accordingly‚ the government
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Marco Polo was born in 1254 in Venice‚ Italy‚ in a wealthy and merchant family. In 1260‚ the first journey east of Marco Polo’s father and uncle‚ Nicolo and Maffeo Polo‚ set out and they arrived at the court of Kublai Khan in 1265. The Polos brought 100 European priests to Kublai Khan according to the suggestion and they returned to Venice in 1269. In 1271‚ Marco Polo had his first journey when he was 15 years old after his mother’s death. He departed with his father and uncle to China and they
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The sun was so bright it woke me up. The window next to me brought in cool wind. The king died from one of the many rules of the great and deiced Hammurabi. I thought Hammurabi made these rules were made to protect the weak. Now because of that our kind king has died because of his selflessness. Why did he have to leave us so soon? A warm tear escaped my eye and rolled down my cheek. He was trying to protect an innocent widow. The traveler refused to back down and they started to fight. He accidently
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the inflation of a soccer ball influences the accuracy of a soccer ball. In this experiment‚ I used one Nike soccer ball‚ one pair of Adidas soccer cleats‚ a soccer field‚ an air pump and a pressure gauge. I used a soccer ball with the PSI of 8.7‚ a soccer ball with 9.5 PSI‚ and a soccer ball with 7.75 PSI. Changing the PSI of the soccer ball changes the results because the PSI changes the hardness of a ball. I can see how the PSI affects my accuracy by recording the number of attempts it takes to
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How Accurate is the Media’s Portrayal of Youth Crime? The media plays a major role in distributing crime stories to the public through means of the television‚ newspapers and the radio as well as several other ways. In terms of accuracy‚ it is commonly thought that the media do in fact distort the image of our youth‚ resulting in the public perceiving that youth crime is on the rise. The media is an extremely useful method of delivering information to the public‚ and has much power in directing
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