Naomi Kreider Ms. Wolk Honors 9 English 24 March 2010 Thesis: Over the past few years there has been a debate whether using steroids in horse-racing is ethical‚ while steroids are performance enhancing they are very dangerous and can cause a lot of injury or even death to the horse and rider. Topic I: Steroids have been used in the horse-racing industry since the 1970’s‚ but studies have shown in the past few years just how dangerous the steroids can be. A- A man named Dr. Lawrence Soma said
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Rain Man The movie I chose to analyze from a psychological perspective is Rain Man. The character I have chosen is Charlie Babbit . I chose Charlie because it was interesting to see how drastic he changes his moods. At one point he can be happy and the next he could be yelling at everyone. Charlie Babbit is a Caucasian male around his late twenties who works as a car salesman‚ and has a girlfriend named Susanna. Charlie Babbitt is a selfish man who gets angry very easily. He focuses on what
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Acid Rain Acid rain occurs when Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) is released into the atmosphere by electricity generation‚ motor vehicles‚ factories and by wildfires and volcanoes. Once released‚ the sulphur dioxide reacts with water to produce sulphuric acid. This has a pH of approximately 2-3 pH. This has a dramatic effect on water dwelling wildlife. Most water dwelling creatures can’t withstand water more acidic than pH 5. This causes the mass loss of life of animals such as trout‚ perch‚ frogs and mayflies
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Mathematics is found everywhere in life and work and auto racing is no exception. There are many applications of math in racing. The purpose of racing is to win and in order to do that there must be a lot of math involved. If you don’t use math and use it correctly then you will not win. Mathematics is involved in racing in two ways‚ the car setup and scoring an measurements. The car setup involves tire pressure‚ down force‚ wedge‚ aerodynamic Drag‚ camber‚ track bar and valance
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ordinary horse the man says ‘this horse was nothing like that’ which suggests that the Rainhorse is out of the ordinary‚ therefore out of this world and supernatural. When the horse is around the rain seems to pour much harder and heavier‚ it is almost as if the horse has the power to control the element of rain. It is also describes as ‘nightmarish’ which suggests that it is supernatural as we can only dream about it. I feel that when he came back he was not greeted by the past he desired. I feel that
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Street Racing It is the primal urge amongst male teenagers; put the pedal to the floor and see who wins. It is street racing and it has caught on in the U.S. over the past decade as one of the worst influences on young impressionable minds today. The feeling you get when your going fast cannot be replaced by any other stimulant known to man. It’s flashy‚ fun‚ and exciting until it goes wrong. The need for speed is increasing along with speed related deaths and accidents. Could modern culture have
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CAT IN THE RAIN Ernest Hemingway There were only two Americans stopping at the hotel. They did not know any of the people they passed on the stairs on their way to and from their room. Their room was on the second floor facing the sea. It also faced the public garden and the war monument. There were big palms and green benches in the public garden. In the good weather there was always an artist with his easel. Artists liked the way the palms grew and the bright colors of the hotels facing the gardens
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Ronald Smith 8/26/13 Period: 5 Creative Writing Heavy Rain There was one a man who went by the name of Ethan. Ethan had a certain genteel about him‚ which made it impossible to believe that he was a serial killer. He would go to the neighborhood park and secede himself from the other families‚ watching and waiting for the perfect moment to kidnap and kill a young girl or boy. The kidnappings were so quick and scrupulous that by the time the parents had noticed the child was missing it was too
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Rain of Fire In the article‚ “Rain of Fire”‚ Evan Thomas‚ assistant managing editor of Newsweek magazine‚ wrote about the story from Virginia Dichiara‚ victim of September 11th incident. In brilliant morning of September 11th‚ DiChiara‚ a self-discribed workaholic‚ somehow felt moseying; so she left home at 7:40am which was 40 minutes later than her usual morning routine. Inside On 78th floor of World Trade Center‚ DiChiara switched to the second elevator which leaded her 101th floor where her
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Husband vs. Innkeeper In Hemingway’s story “Cat in the Rain‚” there are four characters; the husband‚ his wife‚ the innkeeper‚ and a maid. The focus of this story is on the wife’s want of a cat. The innkeeper resolves this issue but in the process makes the husband look bad. In fact in this story the husband appears insensitive‚ rude‚ and lazy; the innkeeper is contrasted as being completely the opposite of the husband. In this story it appears that innkeeper is a model of what this woman’s husband
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