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    Aristotle Virtue

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    the determination to make commercial air travel faster than the speed of sound a reality. The Concord turbojet-powered supersonic passenger jet airliner that had maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04 (1,354 mph). The maximum height Concorde could fly to is 60,000 ft. Only 20 aircraft were ever built and these were sold by the French and UK governments to Air France and British Airways. The Concords deign and speed shortened the time needed to travel from London to New York from

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    Build Fast Cars

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    Cars can be used in many ways, which is why the whole world uses them, but for me I like to use a car for speed. I will be giving some insight on how to actually build a high performance car. The first thing to do is find a car. There are a lot of different types of car but the easiest car to modify are Japnese car or JDM cars, which is why most people use Hondas, Nissans, Toyotas, Mitsubishi, Subaru, and Mazdas for their platform. Cars can come with rwd, awd, and fwd, rwd and awd are the best two

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    Patel (14BEE093) & Mr. Romil Patel (14BEE092), students of B.Tech, 4th Semester towards the partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree in Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Electrical Engineering of Nirma University is the record of work carried out by him/her under my supervision and guidance. The work submitted has in our opinion reached a level required for being accepted for examination. Date: ____ / ____ / 2016 Prof. S. K. Sahoo Faculty Supervisor Prof. (Dr.) P

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    Across the globe, temperatures are on the rise due to man-made climate change. Ever-worsening data trends clearly show that the global climate is quickly approaching a threshold where there will be no turning back. In the last decade, we have seen record high temperatures every year, drastic deficits in Arctic sea ice levels, rapidly warming oceans, and rising sea levels. However, climate change has become one of the most highly politicized topics ever, and politicians on both sides of the argument

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    San Andreas Fault, which consist of both the Atlantic and Pacific plates. Due to their unpredictable nature, it can be difficult to know when and where an earthquake will happen. Seismologists make use of technology such as seismographs in order to record and measure ground motion, according to the book, Foundations of Earth Science, the authors Frederick K. Lutgens and Edward J. Tarbuck explain that the utilization of seismographs are tools utilized by seismologists in order to measure the motion

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    Drones Term Paper

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    Drones are, not a new technology, it has been used by the government for surveillance and to attack other countries. Now they are being used by the everyday man for recreational purpose, and companies use them to deliver packages. With all the attention this technology is getting, only has few laws have taken into account on how they can be dangerous and even fewer have addressed the many problems that come with it. Drones are vehicles and can be dangerous not only in the wrong hands but in everyday

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    Campbell. Japanese culture has influenced the world dramatically over time through acculturation. The advancements have greatly benefited the world in which they live. Not only in Japan, their culture has its examples across the globe. Japan, the land of the rising Sun, has influenced the world culturally the most through their innovations in three main industries: domestic and commercial transportation, war machines, and broadcasting. Japanese transportation has acculturated with other countries

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    Scientific Analysis of Killer Whales Scientific Classification: Order & Genus. The scientific order of all types of whales is Cetacea. This large order is broken down into three further groups as well: the toothed whales or Odontoceti, which includes killer whales, dolphins, porpoises, beluga whales, and sperm whales, the baleen whales or Mysticeti, which include blue whales, humpback whales, gray whales, and right whales, and the Archaeoceti order, which are all now extinct. The genus of these

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    Define and explain globalisation, then critically evaluate and illustrate the impact globalisation has had on a particular business, the industry it operates in, its country of origin and the country or countries the business has expanded into. In this paper I will be discussing how globalisation has impacted the Music Industry in recent years, and in particular the multi-national giant Universal Music Group (UMG). Globalisation is a noun that is hard to define; it has many definitions depending

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    Who Is Dodge Coronet?

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    introduced in 1949 as the top trim level among the company's first postwar designs. After undergoing several revisions, the model gained some level of acclaim after the 1953 Coronet and its optional "Red Ram" Hemi engine set an assortment of land speed records at the famed Bonneville Salt Flats. The following year, a company-wide movement toward luxury vehicles saw the Coronet demoted in Dodge's model trim hierarchy. Third Generation The 1955 model year saw the newly minted third-generation Coronet

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