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    How Did The Stalemate End? The stalemate came about at Christmas 1914 along the Western Front. From there the different countries fought each other in different battles and tried to outflank the other. By March 1918 the stalemate was broken. In this question I will explain why the war ended and why Germany was finally beaten. New Technology like the Tank New technology was very important for the reason in which the stalemate on the western front was broken. The idea of tanks was brought

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    angle of an anti aircraft gun. Anti aircraft gun is a type of counter measure gear used to fire tracer rounds to the hostile aircraft. It is a fixed ground gun system which can rotate in azimuth as well as in horizon. It can track the tail of an airship and hunt it down. The first effective anti aircraft gun was used in world war I. But, the most drawback was that, it was human controlled thus human casualties was high. To dominate over the battlefield and reduce the human casualties an automated

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    human race. After a few movies later, we are at the point Alice is on a ship, owned by Umbrella Co. that is in use for scientific research and testing on survivors. The ship comes under attack by Umbrella airships and soldiers to capture Alice, who is fighting back by shooting one of the airships causing it to crash into the ship and throw her into the Pacific Ocean. Umbrella manages to obtain Alice out of the ocean and takes her to an Umbrella facility in Russia called Umbrella Prime, and The top

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    Santos. His family owned a coffee plantation. When Alberto Dumont was 18 his father sent him to Paris where Santos Dumont worked on chemistry, physics, astronomy, and mechanics. In Alberto’s early career he built and flew hot air balloons and early airships. On October 19, 1901 he won the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize for a flight that rounded the Eiffel Tower. Then on October 23, 1906 he started working on heavier than air machines. Then he made a heavier than air plane,named “14-bis” also known as

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    Matt Cruse is a polite and intrepid 14-year-old cabin boy who serves on Aurora, a luxury airship powered by Hydrium gas. Aurora used to be Matt’s father’s ship before he passed away, hence also where Matt feels his home is. Matt thoroughly believes he can float on air like the Aurora, and loves the feeling of being in the air. Aurora is flying from Canada to Australia when Matt’s life changes. One year ago, he rescued a dying old man from an air balloon, who spoke of mythical flying creatures shortly

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    Vacuum Changed The World

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    air in a bag making it small and compact. Another invention that came through the vacuum technology is found in airships. There is a vacuum-tube which is an electron tube containing a near-vacuum that allows the free passage of electric current. In 1990 Arthur De Bausset attempted to bring this idea to Congress, but the public was unsure about his idea. The main principle of the airship is to fill it up with air like a balloon and then it would fly. This made way for the hot air balloon (Noel). Although

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    Eugene Nemirovsky’s experience at college is definitely not what comes to mind when one imagines the typical life of a mechanical engineer at UCLA. Born in Moscow in 1981, Nemirovsky officially became a Bruin in 2000, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. UCLA has an abundance of resources and opportunities for students, none of which Nemirosky decided to use. He partied his way through five years of college and was even on academic probation twice. During his time at UCLA, he had a GPA of 2.8, spent

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    The movie we watched to see ageism was Up. The definition of ageism, from Meriam Webster, is prejudice or discrimination against a particular age-group, especially the elderly. In my opinion, we can also see it against young people. We can see when a job is hiring, they might not hire someone because they are too young, and they might think they are unprofessional. We can also see ageism in the Bible. Proverbs 23:22 says, “Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she

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    Annie On My Mind Analysis

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    Annie on My Mind Annie on My Mind is a young adult novel written by Nancy Garden in 1982 and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It tells the story of Liza and Annie, two girls in New York City who meet by coincidence in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They become fast friends, and their friendship quickly intensifies into a passionate romance. Though happy and in love, Liza and Annie struggle with how they will be perceived by others, eventually culminating in them being discovered during an

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    only thing that can cut through the darkness plaguing our world, Vanguards. I recently joined the liberation front in order to help fight the Link Jokers, and one type in particular Nebula Lords. So I now find myself aboard the Golden Liberator an airship part of the liberation front. “Drake…….Drake!” Someone shouted, arousing me from my sleep. I stared blankly as the, at first, blurry figure became clear. It was Naomi staring daggers at me. “Ah

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