...The last spring I remember once I had someone very dear to me, someone that left deep traces in my life, someone that would live in my heart forever, someone that I will never forget. In order to preserve the memory of this angel, a divine human creature, I devote this story to my friend because her innocence and her fragility has been inspiring me for years. I hope that many people will understand the hidden message once they've read the story. It was a wonderful spring dawning. The air was poisoned with nothing else but the strong smell of the spring flowers and the joy of the birds' songs. We were holding our hands and happily as happy can two little girls be, we were bouncing and jumping in the park. Spring could be seen in our eyes, sunshine could be recognized in our smile. It seemed to us like we were flying in the air as two colourful butterflies from a flower to a flower, each of them more and more beautiful, each of them more and more attracting, as if they were the last days of our lives and each of them was more and more challenging. Smiling faces everywhere, people could envy our happy childhood reflected in the deepness of our sight. We were so excited in those spring rainbows above our heads without knowing that this would be our last spring together, remembered afterwards as the coldest one and the darkest one in my life. It's funny how Marta and I met at a beach resort. We could never imagine that we were going to be inseparable friends. Although...
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...can be warm during spring Go out for a walk, have a fling Spread some seeds, share the love Just don't get too rough, if you see a dove Pure in beauty and full of life Reminding you to don't think twice Heckle a tree, ask it why it barks Beware if it begins to arc The wind will come and will blow Letting you know, fly a kite, must be yellow Do not run into the rains It could hurt and bring owwy pains One last reason to enjoy Spring Time to break out the old bling bling Can you hear that?...
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... * Problem Statement * The majority of rural households in Mbire Rural district council do not have access to potable drinking water. While many rural towns once had piped water, these systems have fallen into disrepair due to lack of maintenance. Similarly, a few villages had drilled wells with hand pumps near schools and clinics but have lost this infrastructure. Therefore, rural populations draw their water from unprotected springs or rivers located from 300 to 600 meters from the villages or from hand-dug wells, locally known as matsime. The matsime are primitive wells with an average depth of six meters, with a diameter of 1.2 meters and uncovered at the top. The water collected from rivers and matsime is used for bathing, washing clothes, cooking and drinking. Most of the households in the targeted communities do not have latrines. The majority of the population disposes of excreta in the open, rather than using latrines, thereby contaminating water sources and spreading diseases. * * Goals To decrease morbidity and mortality due to water-borne diseases through the provision of potable water from protected springs, construction of...
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...invariable Wars between states. It was evident that there was an unfair line drawn between the wealthy and the poor during the wars. The poor were forced to fight the wars during these times, while the rich accumulated a substantial amount of wealth. Besides domestic oppression, the people of China experienced invasion from foreign countries like Portugal, Great Britain, Russia, France, the United States, and Japan. In the late 1800s, China experienced an uprising, known as the Boxer Rebellion, due to the oppression caused by their foreign invaders. Through literature, excluding the propaganda, one can understand the social desires and thoughts of an entire nation. The “Foolish Old Man Who Removed Mountains” and “the Tale of the Peach Blossom Spring” are two perfect literary examples to examine and analyze the social desires of the Chinese people. The “Foolish Old Man Who Removed Mountains” tells the story of an old man living behind two mountains. The mountains blocked his way to the south causing him to choose a path around the obstruction. Unhappy with the two mountains, the old man decided to level them in order to create a...
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...sport of boxing. This fascination led me to explore what occurs to a human head upon impact from a boxer’s punch. It is known that a knockout occurs when blood circulation to the brain is compressed. This compression results from the sudden acceleration and deceleration of the head[1]. Therefore, the primary focus of this experiment explores the relative effort necessary to cause significant movement to a head about a neck. Figure 1 - Picture of modeled head and spine secured to a table ! To achieve this, a simplistic mechanical model of a human head, a socket, and a spine was built. A volleyball was used to simulate a head. A garage door spring with a diameter of 4.0 ± .05cm was used as a spine. Lastly, a small wooden block acted as a socket between the head and the spine. A small support board held the spring in place for the experiment and allowed it to be moved up or down to simulate different neck lengths. Wearing a standard 14oz boxing glove, I punched the model and recorded the subsequent motion utilizing a Fujiyama high speed camera at 240 frames per second (fps). This function of the camera...
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...fears that the job market was slowing down. If applications stay where they are or even drop lower, than it is possible that hiring will rise to recovering levels of 150,000 to 200,000 per month. Leaps in job openings, points to more hiring in the coming months. From December to February it has been the best months of job growth since July 2008. With the unseasonably warm winter, many companies looked to higher earlier than they normally would of during the spring. Economists now are trying to calculate how much of an affect this will have on hiring during the spring. There are about 500,000 Americans that have left the work force since February. This is one reason unemployment has continued to fall, because people who leave the work force are not counted in unemployment. Even though the unemployment rate is falling we are still a long way away from recovery. Because of the warm winter, there most likely will not be as many jobs this spring. I also feel like during the winter time period the unusually warm weather has lost many people jobs nationwide. All of the snow movers, salters and etcetera who normally would have to take care of public transit are now out of a job. These people would make the unemployment rate go up slightly. It also interested me...
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...7 Air Brakes What You’ll Learn After reading this chapter you will be able to: identify the components of an air brake system explain how an S-cam foundation brake works describe what happens when one or more air brake system components fail explain how trailer brakes are applied Why Air Brakes? Air brakes are used on heavy vehicles for a number of reasons: • Air brake systems use a much greater force to apply the brakes than hydraulic braking systems do. This greater force is needed to cope with the heavy loads of commercial vehicles. Air brake systems are more tolerant to small leaks. The smallest leak in a hydraulic system could result in brake failure. An air brake system includes a compressor to generate more compressed air as needed. Air brakes are used on heavy vehicles because they have proven they are capable of stopping these vehicles safely. • • 153 Chapter 7 Basic Air Brake Components The basic components of a simple air brake system showing the brakes applied. This diagram shows the components that are used to make the simplest possible air brake system: • • • • • A compressor to pump air, with a governor to control the compressor. Air lines to allow the pressurized air to flow between the air brake system components. A reservoir to store the compressed air. A brake pedal (usually called a foot valve) to apply the brakes by directing compressed air from the reservoir to the brakes. Foundation brakes, including brake chambers, slack adjusters...
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...UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN |Centre |: Centre for Foundation Studies (CFS) |Unit Code |: FHSC1014 | |Course |: Foundation in Science |Unit Title |: Mechanics | |Year/ Trimester |: Year 1 / Trimester 2 & 3 |Lecturer |: Kevin Chin | |Session |: 201605 | | | Additional Tutorial 4: Work and Energy. 1. A push of 120 N is applied along the handle of a lawn mower producing a horizontal displacement of 14.0 m. If the handle makes an angle of 30.0o with the ground, what work was done by the 120 N force? [1.45×103 J] 2. A box of mass 5.0 kg is accelerated by a force across a floor at a rate of 2.0 m/s2 for 7.0 s. Find the net work done on the box. [490 J] 3. What is the minimum work needed to push a 950-kg car 810 m up along a 9.0º incline? (a) Ignore friction. (b) Assume the effective coefficient of friction retarding the car is 0.25. [(a) 1.2×106 J, (b) 3.0×106 J] 4. The net force exerted on a particle acts in the +x direction. Its magnitude increases linearly from zero at x = 0 to 24.0 N at x = 3.0 m. It remains constant at 24.0 N from x = 3.0 m to x = 8.0 m and then decreases linearly to zero at...
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...first one it is the change of seasons, passing times of the days in the second one and in the last quatrain it is the development from fire to ashes. In the first quatrain there are symbols which refer to the change of seasons. "When yellow leaves, ¦.. (l.2) for example symbolizes autumn, "cold and the "bare ruined choirs (l.3/4) refer to winter and " ¦where late the sweet birds sang (l.4) stands for spring and summer. In the second quatrain "sunset (l.6) refers to evening and "death ´s second self (l.8) stands for night. In the last quatrain "glowing (l.9), "fire (l.9) and "ashes (l.10) are part of the prevailing image: a fire which is dying down. Spring/summer, morning/noon and the fire symbolize youth. You are still active, strong and your soul is carefree and not burdened by many memories of things you have lost in your life. Autumn, evening and the glowing of fire refer to becoming/being old. You lose your beauty and your passion, you are not that active anymore and you have a lot of hurting memories of beloved things and persons you have lost. Winter, night and the ashes refer to death. Life is over now and you can not change anything anymore. The couplet at the end has the function of a resume. The lyrical I says that you will love "things more strong by being aware of the fact that you are going to lose within a short...
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...Qian’s “Peach Blossom Spring” and “Returning to the Farm to Dwell” are two astounding works of literature that gives one an astounding visual of how the writer is...
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...people. Lake Mead National Recreation Area (NRA) located in Nevada provides spectacular scenic vistas of Lake Mead and rugged and isolated backcountry. Amazing and drastic physical features include deep canyons, colorful soils, sheer cliffs, distant mountain ranges, dry washes, the lakes, and rock formations and mosaics of different vegetation (National Park Service, 2012). In this essay I will be discussing the major structural and functional dynamics of Lake Mead National Recreation Area (NRA) on Roger Spring and Black Canyon Springs and how the human being have affected this ecosystem by interacting with its biogeochemical cycles. I will show how knowing the ecosystem structure and function could help in its management and restoration of the ecosystems as well. Black Canyon Spring is located downstream of Hoover Dam. Here, we can find springs of both the thermal (hot) and non-thermal (cold) variety with water temperatures ranging from about 55° to 136° Fahrenheit. Rogers Spring is located on “North Shore Complex” of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. This area comprises of the terminal discharge areas for the regional carbonate-rock aquifer system from eastern Nevada (National Park Service, 2012). Chapin and colleagues (1996) recently extended this framework to develop a set of ecological principles concerning ecosystem sustainability. They defined “...a sustainable ecosystem as one that, over the normal cycle of disturbance events, maintains its characteristic diversity...
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...Parts Scopes & Electronic Sights Scope Rings & Bases Reamers & Chamber Gauges Recoil Pads & Buttstock Parts Stockmaking & Finishing Stock Bedding & Adhesives Metal, Springs & Screws Factory Parts Return to List Print Friendly Version Springmaking Without Tears By: Steve Ostrem Everyone who has worked on guns for a long time knows the awful truth. Sooner or later, a customer is going to bring in an unusual firearm for which spare parts, especially springs, are nonexistent. Or, maybe itâ ™s an interesting antique that you got a deal on at the last gun show or at a farm auction and would like to shoot if only the mainspring(s) werenâ™t broken. Dozens of phone calls get you nowhere. Your usual reliable sources for parts have never heard of the thing and have no idea where to direct you. At this point desperation sets in. Doubling or tripling the price will deter all but the most determined customers. But we all know there is always at least one person out there that wants his one of a kind blunderbuss made to work again no matter what the cost. Their reasons are usually tied to a strong sentimental attachment to the thing. ✠My (grandfather, great uncle, wifeâ™s sisterâ™s niece, etc.), carried this in the (Civil War, Mexican Revolution, Bay of Pigs Invasion, etc.) and gave it to my (father, brother, etc.) who in turn lost it in a poker game to me. Itâ™s been in the family 1500 years so Iâ™d like to see it work again.â• The guy has his mind made up and a team of Clydesdales could not...
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...| 3/5/2012 | | Mechanical Engineering Dynamics lab report.UFMEWL-10-2Vassos Tapakoudes | AIR TRACK Executive summary Demonstrate the patterns and relationships that stiffness and resonant frequencies follow under different circumstances on an air track. Stiffness is a measure of the resistance of a material to deformation under applied force. Resonant frequencies are the frequencies that a system appears to oscillate at greater amplitudes. Content Introduction pg.2 Theoretical calculations and background information pg.2 Experimental design and procedure pg.4 Analysis result and conclusion pg.7 Reflection to other experiment pg.9 Introduction The purpose of this dynamic Lab is to measure the stiffness and resonant frequencies of a coupled oscillator on an air track. Four experiments will be taken in order to see the behaviour and performance of the rubbers connecting the trolleys. Calculate theoretical results by using background information. Comparisons of theoretical and experimental results will be done to see errors and find conclusions. Resonant frequencies are the frequencies that a system oscillates at greater amplitudes. This type of oscillations is what makes systems to vibrate many times. On the other hand, stiffness is a measurement of the ability a material have to extend without deformation. Low stiffness can result in failure of a system and high stiffness is required in the design of systems that deformation...
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...The Tale of Two Stories Sheri O'Connell ENG125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: Heather AltfeldFisher September 25, 2011 The Tale of Two Stories Thesis Statement This paper compares two short stories, "The Story of an Hour" (Chopin) and "The Necklace" (Guy de Maupassant). "How little a thing is needed for us to be lost or saved?" [ (Clugston, 2010) ]. Both stories portray two different yet alike women. Both women struggle to find their independence. Both women find trouble just when they believe they have 'succeeded' in their search. Introduction The poem “the Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is an impressive literary piece that attracts the feeling of the readers, as well as their minds. However, the story is very short and precise, but it is rich and complete, and every word of the poem has a deep thought and meaning (Charters 2003). Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" deals with a young American women's unanticipated sense of reprieve and independence upon hearing of her husband's death which enabled her to breathe the contentment during the last moments of her life with an anticipation, self esteem, and self consciousness. Mrs. Mallard's delight within her is termed as freedom in this story. (Jamil, 2009, 157) Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace" deals with a young woman who struggles with wanting what she can't have and the consequences for trying to be something she is not. Mathilde struggles with her low social and economic class, she dreams of...
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