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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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 Market Place Summary The Puritan women waiting outside the prison self-righteously and viciously discuss Hester Prynne and her sin. Hester‚ proud and beautiful‚ emerges from the prison. She wears an elaborately embroidered scarlet letter A — standing for "adultery" — on her breast‚ and she carries a three-month-old infant in her arms. Hester is led through the unsympathetic crowd to the scaffold of the pillory. Standing alone on the scaffold as punishment for her adulterous behavior‚ she remembers
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Significant Place is a paper that was designed to show one’s ability to use descriptive and figurative language. This essays main purpose was to let the reader know about a significant place by using descriptions about what you see. In this essay I really focused on showing the reader what the surrounding were and not telling. My significant place was Otto’s Place in Galena. I chose this place because this is where I have spent the last four years working. I know a lot of the place and have been
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By Chris Dinesen Rogers‚ eHow Contributor updated: April 22‚ 2010 Pollution ’s Impact on Historical Monuments Significance Pollution negatively impacts historical monuments and buildings around the world‚ from the Acropolis in Greece to the America ’ s own Lincoln Memorial. The threat is in the risk of losing these irreplaceable structures forever. Many of these monuments have cultural and aesthetic value that is beyond price. Acid Rain One of the more destructive forms of pollution is acid rain
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Instructions: CheckPoint: Historical Example of Labor Supply and Demand 250- to 300-word response addressing one of the following historical events in terms of labor supply and demand: the Great Depression‚ the Luddite Revolt‚ the Black Death‚ or the technology boom of the 1990s. Include the following: o What was the impact on the supply and demand of labor on one sector of the labor market? o Explain the factors that affected labor demand and labor supply in the chosen historical example.
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definition of the noun "place" is a particular position or point in space. It is thought generally that a place is a random location and in being random‚ it can appear to people that it lacks importance. The definition‚ however‚ indicates that a place is particular. This specifies that a "place" contains significance. However‚ the definition remains unsatisfying. The definition of the verb "place" is to put in a particular position. The issue with this definition is that place does not mean put. They
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Book on BELOVED by Toni Morrison © 2007 English Department‚ Millikin University‚ Decatur‚ IL http://www.millikin.edu/english/beloved/Baynar-historical-essay1.html Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Institutionalized Trauma‚ Selfhood‚ and Familial and Communal Structure by Klay Baynar Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Beloved is‚ in fact‚ a historical novel. It is based on a documented event involving fugitive slave‚ Margaret Garner‚ who was arrested for killing one of her children rather than
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has that place that they can call special sometime in their life. I have many special places in my life‚ but there is one in particular that I am going to talk about. The Van Duyn jungle park is my most special place. I spent a lot of my childhood there with family and friends. It holds most of my childhood memories. The jungle park was the place where all the neighborhood kids went to play. It was right in next to the candy store and the elementary school so it was the easiest place to get to
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My Special Place I have a place that I go to more than once a day. It is like a safe haven‚ a place of peace. I have always had this place and I am the only one who knows where it is. Whenever I visit‚ it is night‚ for that is the time when I feel the safest. The moon is visible‚ guarding the sky and earth‚ like a warrior of silver. In this safe haven of mine‚ it is always spring or fall. It is never to hot‚ like it is in summer‚ and it’s never cold‚ like in winter. The air is forever clean and
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