These were very primitive‚ ineffective‚ and inaccurate. In 1915‚ Roland Garros‚ a French allied pilot‚ attached a machine gun to the front of his plane. This was unheard of because he needed to fire through the propeller. Many thought this was suicidal but Garros had put steel plates on the rear of the propeller blades to deflect any bullets. The unsuspecting Germans failed to evade the oncoming Garros and consequently within sixteen days he had taken down five German planes and became the first
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kinds of people in the world. Most of them are open mind and some of them are closed mind. I totally disagree that there is nothing more dangerous than a closed mind. Why I disagree in this statement? I think that there is something more dangerous than closed mind such as open mind. Open mind means that people may receive any new or different ideas and the opinions of others. Why I think the open mind is more dangerous? It is because people who are open mind might be receiving any wrong ideas and
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THE OPEN WINDOW BY SAKI This short story “THE OPEN WINDOW” is written by “SAKI” is the pen name of “Hector Hugh Munro” (1870-1916). He is a british writer. He is famous for his satires of the upper classes. The theme of the story is appearance and reality and deception. Appearance and reality: It is easy to believe the story of Vera because she begin with an object that is the open window and proceed from there and obviously window is open. So the appearance of open window
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Immigration policy is one topic that has been very frequently debated recently and has become one of the deciding factors for many Americans when it comes to the presidential elections this November. The reason behind this is that the immigration population has reached more than 42 million people that comprise 13 percent of the entire population . They have become more influential in our politics and economy by contributing nearly 15% of the total economic output and this has led to new legislation
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disagree with breastfeeding‚ if they are educated on it‚ maybe they would change their minds to see it’s a beautiful thing like others do. Would people eat in the bathroom? Would people eat with your head covered with a blanket? If people were more open to breastfeeding‚ then more mothers wouldn’t give up‚ more would give it a chance‚ and see that it’s not
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The concept of incarceration started to emerge in the United States as a form of control over minorities. This began shortly after the end of slavery and targeted freed slaves to provide free labor during prison. This system of large scale prisons continued to gain popularity after the large spike in drug use around the 1960’s and 1970’s. The problems we have today with mass incarceration is due to our deteriorating criminal justice system which originally provided rehabilitation programs and
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Crane’s "The Open Boat" implies the overall relationship between the individual and nature. This sentence also implies the limitations of anyone’s perspective. The men in the boat concentrate so much on the danger they are in‚ that they are oblivious and unaware to everything else; in other words‚ maybe lacking experience. "The Open Boat" begins with a description of four men aboard a small boat on a rough sea. The central theme of this story is about confronting Nature itself. "The Open Boat" is
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One of the questions that have dominated the social sciences for more than three centuries is whether babies are born as a "blank slate.” According to this view‚ the mind of babies is like a white paper that lacks any idea or character. David Eagleman attempts to answer this question in his book‚ Incognito. Eagleman argues that babies are not blank slates‚ but are born with problem solving capabilities and have a sense of morality. Eagleman posits that the society and parents can help in development
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French window‚ which was left open until their return. However‚ all three of them were lost in a bog that day‚ Vera asserts‚ and their bodies were never recovered. The aunt‚ driven to distraction by her grief and loss‚ left the window open thereafter‚ anticipating that “they will come back some day” with “the little brown spaniel that was lost with them‚ and walk in that window just as they used to do.” When Mrs. Sappleton finally appears‚ she explains why the window is open‚ apparently confirming Vera’s
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Berlin · Boston. DOI 10.1515/bmt-2013-4182 EEGLAB – AN OPEN SOURCE MATLAB TOOLBOX FOR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH Clemens Brunner1 ‚ Arnaud Delorme2 and Scott Makeig2 1 2 Institute for Knowledge Discovery‚ Graz University of Technology‚ Austria Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience‚ Institute for Neural Computation‚ University of California San Diego‚ CA‚ USA clemens.brunner@tugraz.at Abstract: EEGLAB is a widely used open-source MATLAB toolbox for analysis of electrophysiological
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