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    Autonomous Vehicle Testing Before we examine the AAA survey, we need to gain context based on background. Experiments on self-driving vehicles have been ongoing for decades. For example, beginning in the 1980s, a German researcher at a Munich university, Ernst Dickmanns, built the world’s first robotic car. Those earlier models required human intervention to control engine throttle and braking. By 1995, Dickmanns’ team launched the first fully autonomous vehicle, a Mercedes-Benz S-Class and inaugurated it

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    Self-driving Cars: Good or Bad for humans Each generation, has given something to humanity, that the majority of us, thought was impossible, and no way is it going to happen. Some people believe that self-driving cars is good for the future and others think it will make us depend on technology too much. In all truth self-driving cars, has a lot of potential and unanswered questions: Google has been demonstrating its driverless technology over the past few years by bringing computerization into

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    We all had a teacher in school who took maternity leave. This standard, dictated by the 1993 federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), applies not only to teachers but to women of all professions and allows mothers to take up to twelve weeks of protected, but unpaid leave (Cohn 9). This period, however, is not long enough for the mother and child to fully recover. Providing longer maternity leaves would also benefit businesses and the American society. Many countries around the world provide significantly

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    To understand Surrealism, we must first look at Dadaism, the art movement from which Surrealism stems. Dadaism was an international artistic and literary movement which began in 1916 and lasted until the mid 1920s. Artists involved in the Dada movement were experimental and controversial. They constantly pushed and broke the boundaries of what art is defined as and what art-making could be. They used chance based procedures and unconventional materials such as collages and photo-montages created

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    Jr., Michael Martin, Malcom McVay, and then current CFO William Owens. Along with the CFO’s their staff members who were also in on the fraud also came forward bringing the total number of involved to fifteen. Also the Birmingham Alabama office of Ernst & Young came under heavy scrutiny for auditing HealthSouth during the fraud and failing to take action on any evidence they found.

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    Mud Tortillas Thinking about it now I don’t know if this is a mental image or a picture. I really don’t know. The image is so well known yet so distant. Kinda like it 's being erased from my brain. I guess its time doing its thing. I visualize the image in a blurry 480p quality. Taken with an early 2009 camera with a mix of bad lighting. The picture is about me. The boy maybe 4, 5 or even six, stands with his hands loosely fitted over his lap. Two parallel bricks rest on rich earthy brown soil beneath

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    The Runaway Since I can remember, I have always had a wild imagination. I remember staring off into space for long hours, which really had only been a few minutes, imagining what it would be like to fly. To sprout large angelic wings from my back and take off out of the open windows of my small classrooms. Or what it would be like to grow a set of gills and live my life under the sea with all the fish and dolphins. None of my friends ever seem to think quite like I do; imagine the same way I did

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    Vision is a crucial aspect of human existence, and the way that it enables them to understand the world is even more crucial. The human ability to see can influence beliefs if one is to take a step back and examine vision as a whole. This can be done easily with artwork as the messages that artists send are powerful due to the fact that interpretations of meaning depend on the beliefs and attitudes of the specific individual. One artist, Emanuele Dascanio, is an artist whose work demonstrates

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    A Brand New Therapy

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    dynamic energy therapy, it boosts energy fields in the body, which in turn strengthens the immune system and enhances the body 's healing capacity. According to Trick Or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine by Simon Singh, Edzard Ernst, The therapy works by sending invisible and soundless energy waves into the body via key points - the hands, feet, back of the neck, chest, shoulder and abdomen. A central machine stores different programmes for enhancing different parts of the body

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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    Once upon a time, there lived a boy. Although he went to a good school, he was not a good student, for he spent all his hours and all his days on the computer playing video games, enveloped in his own world. From the moment school ended until early in the morning, he would sit at his desk for hours and hours on end, pushing away his study material away and promising completion, but to no avail. Fingers flying over the keyboard, he did not relent until a large VICTORY graced his bloodshot eyes. Not

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