I lower my head for the start and then…. Eeeeert!!!! The buzzer sounds and I throw myself into the water. Four laps‚ it’s only four laps‚ I tell myself. I see the girl next to me pull ahead and I throw myself into every stroke. Lunge‚ lunge‚ lunge….the rhythmic motion propels me forward. The girl is still ahead
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The lottery Addiction April 13‚ 2011 The lottery has seduced many Americans to it harmful empowerment of money that has lead many people to their demise and the more people that play the lottery the more suffering it brings to people and everyone around them. The lottery dates back to 7th century B.C. at the Arab peninsula where most gambling at that time took place where men at the age of seventeen or older would gamble who would win major battles or things that happen in everyday lives
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RFiD Video attendance system Most educational institutions’ administrators are concerned about student irregular attendance. Truancies can affect student overall academic performance. The conventional method of taking attendance by calling names or signing on paper is very time consuming and insecure‚ hence inefficient. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based attendance system is one of the solutions to address this problem. This system can be used to take attendance for student in school
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air and land on my shoulders while I look up at it and listen to the heavy‚ crisp‚ breathy snapping of its hooked beak.” Oliver is describing to us the great horned owl and what looks like in its surroundings. Instead of just saying that the owl has a beak with white feathers she goes into a great detail by stating‚ “I look up at it and listen to the heavy‚ crisp‚ breathy snapping of its hooked beak… I can imagine sitting quietly before that luminous wanderer the snowy owl‚ and learning‚ from the white
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International Journal of Reconfigurable and Embedded Systems (IJRES) Vol. 1‚ No. 2‚ July 2012‚ pp. 49~54 ISSN: 2089-4864 49 Vehicle Accident Automatic Detection and Remote Alarm Device Varsha Goud*‚ V.Padmaja** *Department of ECE‚ VNR VJIET‚ Hyderabad‚ AP‚ INDIA ** Department of ECE‚ VNR VJIET‚ Hyderabad‚ AP‚ INDIA Article Info Article history: Received Mar 23‚ 2012 Revised Jul 2‚ 2012 Accepted Jul 12‚ 2012 Keyword: accident automatic detection micro electro mechanical system remote alarm
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Electronic component ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Various components | An electronic component is a basic electronic element usually packaged in a discrete form with two or more connecting leads or metallic pads. Components are intended to be connected together‚ usually by soldering to a printed circuit board‚ to create an electronic circuit with a particular function (for example an amplifier‚ radio receiver‚ or oscillator)
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in the round of 16‚ a spot Michigan State expected to be in. “I just couldn’t believe it‚” Valentine told reporters after the loss. “I still can’t believe it. This seems fake. I haven’t wrapped my mind around it yet.” It was a wonderful weekend of buzzer-beaters and upsets‚ which makes the NCAA tournament so fun to watch. It is why thousands flock to Las Vegas and pays hundreds of dollars to sit in huge sports books to watch and bet on games. The opening round of the tournament is the biggest draw
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Book Review on Alyson Noel’s Radiance Alyson Noel’s Radiance‚ a side series to The Immortals‚ took to shelves in August of 2010. It is a very imaginative novel that will take you on a journey through a mysterious place people call heaven and after-life. When Riley Bloom‚ the main character in the story‚ is killed in a car accident‚ she walks over a mysterious bridge. She finds out that this is the afterlife‚ and is soon assigned a job as a ’Soul Catcher’‚ with a weird yet cute boy as her guide
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Melodrama heavily relies on flat‚ overly emotional characters and a plot with almost too many coincidences. The film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane is an excellent example of melodrama. The main characters’‚ sisters Blanche and Jane Hudson‚ personalities are developed immediately and do not change throughout the movie. Baby Jane was a child star in the 1910s whose career as an actress faded away in her early adulthood. Now an older woman‚ Jane has an unhealthy obsession with her childhood fame and
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A San Francisco native‚ Sharon Olds received her education at Stanford University. Her poems are both popular and controversial. In one of her many interviews she stated that in order to understand sex fully‚ maybe we need to be destroyed by it. Sex plays a significant role in Olds poems. A controversial topic amongst poets‚ Olds wrote about e and how it changes an individual or a relationship. In an interview Olds stated that her aim in her poetry was to write the way she perceives. Easy to understand
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