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    A roller coaster, a favorite of many thrill seekers, that uses the three laws of motion, friction, gravity and potential to kinetic energy to thrilling ends. Roller coasters with their twists, turns and loops seem to defy everything we know about how people and objects move. Roller coasters simply use Newton’s laws of motion, friction, gravity, and potential to kinetic energy to push people past their limits. On Inferno, riders will experience the thrill and fear of stomach dropping heights, tight

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    A car's steering system enables the car to turn and its suspension system smooths out the ride. However things can go wrong, making the ride rough or steering difficult or dangerous. This means time to repair. Many types of steering and suspension systems have been used to control cars. Older cars use mechanical suspension that relies on springs and shock absorbers but new cars use hydraulic cylinders called struts. Besides this, many of today's cars rely on rack and pinion steering. Without proper

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    In most cultures, there are many ways to write and express music. Here in America, there are chant notations, staff notations, solfege, and many more. China has another form of notation called Gongche. Gongche is written in traditional Chinese characters that represent the note or part of solfege that should be played. However, recently there are forms of writing music called Jianpu, which are numbered notations that represent the note that needs to be played. Jianpu is a simplified version of Gongche

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    George B. Stauffer`s article, “Changing Issues of Performance Practice (1997)”, asserts that performing the works of Johann Sebastian Bach in the Baroque way is considered only developed in the past 50 years. Stauffer describes typical features of performance practice by using examples from different eras to support the idea that actually the methods musicians used to play Bach`s pieces have changed frequently through eras. The Baroque era is a crucial period about stylistic self-consciousness which

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    vitally important role in building the basis of the theory called classical conditioning with the famous experiment with dog (Krause et al., 2015, p. 161-162). From the research, he found out the relationship

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    Rome or Athens, who do you think had a better system of citizenship? In a comparison between Athens in 400 BCE and Rome in 1 CE, I believe Rome had a better system of citizenship. While both occupied the area that is modern day Italy and had thriving cultures, Rome had a better system of citizenship for three reasons: first, people with knowledge of how to run a government were members of the senate; second, Roman cities were willing to grant partial citizenship; and third, Roman citizens had rights

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    Roman Citizenship Dbq

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    I have a question for you guys, who do you think had the better citizenship Athens or Rome? In my opinion, I think Rome had the better citizenship than the Athens because they were way better than the Athens but the Athens were not the worse . I will be telling you my reasons on why I think Rome had way better citizenship. Athens were strict in the city-state of Athens but as I read more about the Athenians were making a council called Council 500. Rome seemed great and I was so surprised that

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    In this lab, the researchers found which type of paper fell the fastest, when dropped from a height of 160 cm. The experiment was completed by using a flat sheet of paper, a paper folded up into fourth, and a crumpled piece of paper, and a ruler to see what happened when we drop them from 160 cm. The researchers predicted that if the way paper is folded is related to how fast it drops to the ground, then the crumpled piece of paper will fall the fastest. This confirmed the hypothesis after observing

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    Athens and Sparta, are two very powerful, and memorable civilizations. I have been spending time on researching both of these places, and deciding where I would rather live, as a young boy, and considering all of my options. After my research was done, I easily made my decision. I would rather live in, Sparta. My first reason for this claim is that, boys had a lot of weight to carry on their shoulders. By this I mean that, at the age of 7 boys could be thrown into the military to fight soldiers 2

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    Anytime two separate political groups try to share their ideas with others their becomes this tension and fude, especially during the 19th century because people were less accepting of multiple ideologies and multiple political outlooks. Also liberalists tend to change laws as long as they remain based on liberty and equality. Liberalist believe at all costs our basic liberties (freedom of speech etc..) should be preserved as well as our equality. Conservatives on the other hand believe in traditional

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