that you can safely approach and cross a Railroad Crossing. The more people that begin driving every year‚ and drivers total on the road‚ the more deaths there are that occur at railroad crossing because they do not know how to correctly handle a railroad crossing. Which is why it is extremely important to understand this and fully grasp how to handle a railroad crossing when they come up. One of the most important things to do at a railroad crossing is to slow down‚ you should do this whether or not
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October 2012 Zoom InZoom Out Page 1 of 2 ERPriscilla C. Urbano August 8‚ 2012 BSCS-IT 2:1/ 2011-10764 REACTION PAPER: PAINTINGS As we enter the National Museum of the Philippines "Spoliarium" 1884‚ oil on canvas A National Cultural Treasure by Juan Luna surprise us upon entering the hall. The super- sized painting depicts dark hollow beneath the Roman arena referred as the Spoliarium where the bodies of slain gladiators are being dragged away for disposal. For Luna‚ the lifeless gladiators represent
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of a need for survival for them and their family? Victor is a Mexican boy from the novel Crossing the Wire whose family is impoverished. He is forced to go to America in hopes of being able to provide for his family. Poverty badly hurts Victor’s family‚ and Victor will have to get a job in America or Victor and his family will be doomed. Poverty impacted Victor’s family negatively. In Chapter 2 of Crossing the Wire‚ Victor thinks “And Rico didn’t know what it felt like to be hungry‚ really hungry
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someone was to ask you if there was a difference in being lonely and being alone what would you say? Most people would say no‚ there is no difference between the two. There in fact is a huge difference between being lonely and being alone. The differences can be seen in your state of mind‚ your deep connections with peers‚ and your perception of isolation. One difference in being lonely and being alone is a person’s state of mind. A lonely person has a state of mind in which he or she believes they
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1884 Brussels Term "art nouveau" appears in print for the first time‚ describing the Belgian artists’ group "Les XX." The first subway system opens in London. 1885 Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz invent the first automobile run by an internal combustion engine. 1889 The Eiffel Tower is built for the Paris World’s Fair. 1892 New York Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company established. 1893 Great Britain Paris Japanese prints exhibition organized by Siegfried Bing. Aubrey
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HISTORY TIME LINE OF BASKETBALL 1891 Basketball is invented by Dr. James Naismith‚ an instructor at a YMCA in Springfield‚ Massachusetts. 1895 The backboard is introduced to prevent fans from interfering with play (baskets were often hung on balconies). 1898 The first professional league‚ the National Basketball League‚ is formed in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 1908 The dribbler is permited to shoot the ball‚ and the NCAA eliminates the double dribble. 1914 NCAA‚ Amateur Athletic Union and YMCA
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* Science - (from Latin scientia‚ meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. * Political science- Political science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state‚ government‚ and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics‚ and the analysis of political systems and political behavior
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Ptolemy introduces Geography. He assigned coordinates to all the places and geographic features he knew‚ in a grid that spanned the globe. Latitude was measured from the equator. (1406) John Wycliffe was an English Scholastic philosopher‚ and translator. His English version of the bible was published in 1408. The Bible he created‚ the first literal translation of the Latin Vulgate Bible into English‚ was more a work of his followers than him but tradition still tends to attribute it to Wycliffe
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1876 – 1910: Porfirio Diaz is president (causes of fall: economic recession/US depression‚ food crisis/crop failures‚ workers’ strikes‚ agitation of middle class reformers‚ dissatisfaction of large landholders/capitalists) 1910: Francisco Madero (reformer‚ not revolutionary) attempts presidency‚ Diaz arrests him and he flees to Texas 1910: Written in jail and published in Texas‚ Madero created the Plan of San Luis Potosi‚ assuming provisional presidency‚ calling for free elections‚ and vaguely
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Brief Biography of Abraham Lincoln Date of Birth: Born on February 12 1809 Place of Birth : Kentucky. Parents: Father: Thomas Lincoln Mother: Nancy Hanks Background : Grandfather was Samuel Lincoln who originated from from Hingham‚ England to Massachusetts in 1637. 1809 February 12: Abraham Lincoln is born in Nolin Creek in Kentucky. 1819 December 2: Thomas Lincoln marries a widow‚ Sarah Bush Johnston who becomes stepmother to Abraham Lincoln 1831 Abe settles
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