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    The Boom of Online Dating According to Smith and Anderson in the Pew Research Center website, Americans now accept online dating as a good way to meet people. These findings differ from those of their first study in 2005, when most Americans believed that meeting people on the internet was inadequate. And even though people may think online dating is an inferior way to experience love, they probably know someone who met online or someone searching for a love on the internet. A analysis made by

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    First, social changes swept all of the country at the end of World War II, as the country started to see the start of the Baby Boom and suburbanization, and television was able to compliment this transition in the county by proving itself to be a centerpiece of family togetherness. A large number of people returned from the war and they established families and produce children at greater rates than ever before. These families would purchase single family homes and the suburban housing divisions

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    Sonic Monologue

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    Scourage’s POV I mind as well stay in this damn jail for the rest of my days. Things just aren’t the same anymore. So what if I lost my temper and was about to go ape shit on the rest of my crew? All’s I wanted to was get back at sonic and those damn freedom fighters and now here I am, barely feeling like myself let alone an anti-sonic in jail without any of my other team mates. “this straight up sucks!” I said punching my hand into the wall. When I did get here it was to look for sonic, but instead

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    Private Prison Boom

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    1983 marks the start of the private prison boom. Thomas Beasley, Doctor R. Crants, and T. Don Hutto started their own private prison company called Corrections Corporations in America. Here they offered open prison cells to the government that was struggling to house inmates. Private prisons offered the government the opportunity to greatly simplify their whole prison system. These for profit prisons would take care of the day to day operations of the prison, not just the creation of it. The government

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    Almost 13 years after its last flight in November 23rd 2006, the Concorde still remains a topic of debate to aviation aficionados as well as the general public, and many nostalgic fans still regard it as the epitome of luxury passenger aircraft. The plane ultimately resulted in failure, which is why it got retired and there are no subsequent models of Supersonic commercial aircraft today. The Concorde was a failure because it was not economically viable, it had limited usage, and it did not keep

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    The Role Of The Oil Boom

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    political and industrial activities. As a former desert strip, Abu Dhabi is now known for its greenery and a prosperous city because of its revenues from oil, technology and tourism. In this essay, I will be discussing about how the role of the oil boom played a part in the development in the city’s architecture and whether it has encouraged the economic modernization. Has it lost its traditional heritage by undergoing a marked change into

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    Essay on Supersonic Flight

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    doable using the right technology and tools. The fear of breaking the "sound barrier" was finally removed in 1947, when the Captain Yaeger flew the Bell X-1 at a speed slightly above Mach 1 for few seconds, producing the famous and long-awaited sonic boom (caused by an impulsive pressure change created by the sonic waves detaching from the aircraft), music for the scientists attending that historical moment, but current nightmare for the 21st Century supersonic vehicles' designers [8]. Since the first

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    http://freakonomics.com/podcast/fracking-baby-boom-retreat-marriage/ 1. Identify the author's argument, main idea or thesis (9 lines) (9 lines) In “The Fracking Boom, a Baby Boom, and the Retreat From Marriage,” Dubner explores the potential causes of increased extra-marital birth rates from the late twentieth-century to today. Particularly, Dubner traces experiments questioning a theory known as the ‘marriageable men’ theory, which attributes a greater number of women giving birth outside of marriage

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    Aiming at diversifying its economy, the Sultanate opened its gates to selective tourism in the late 1980s. Up until 1970, Oman had cut itself off completely from the outside world and very little was known about the country and its people. Although Muscat had frequently been visited by trading ships, few people had ever ventured into Oman’s interior. Travel accounts of explorers like Wilfried Thesiger in the 1940s, who was the first European to ever travel through the Rul al-Khali, differ little

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    Introduction According to the report of International Federation of Robotics in 2008 the world's robot population has reached 8.6 million. That is a little less than the population of New Jersey (Guizzo, Erico). From this data it is clear that lots of people do not realize how much they are surrounded by robots already at the present time. Additionally from year to year number of these robots is growing as technology and science are developing faster than it seems. This essay will discuss drawbacks

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