... Horseback riding or just horse riding is the skill of driving, riding, vaulting or steeple-chasing with horses. Since time immemorial, horse riding (also referred to as equestrianism) has been an important aspect of human culture. In the last centuries, it was done mostly for utilitarian purposes such as work, warfare and transportation. In the present, horse riding is most commonly for recreational activities. Many people who like riding horses do it either for fun or for competition purposes (Kate 24). About 30 million people in America ride horses every year. However, there are approximately 2500 cases of riders who are below the age of 25 years being admitted to hospitals every year due to cases of horse riding injuries (Michael 201). A good number of these injuries are those related to head and brain. The risk of injuries in horseback riding is significantly greater than in bicycle riding. They occur because some of the activities like jumping are very risky since horses can be as heavy as 1500 pounds, move as fast as 30 miles per hour, and can stand as tall as 3 meters. Most of these injuries result when the horse falls off, or the horse rider is thrown forward and lands on his/her head or striking their heads on a nearby object like poles. Some of the factors which may increase the chances of falling and causing injuries to the riders are like slippery footing, bareback riding or green horse, and the height from which the horse rider falls will determine how severe...
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...the Lower Level South Gallery. This gallery was very unique and contained many beautiful Japanese paintings. When I read about them, I found out these paintings were inspired by the Japanese-American movement. The next gallery I visited was the Turk Gallery. This gallery was mostly filled with paintings as well. However, there were two figures in the middle of the gallery as well as a wooden stamp. The first figure that caught my attention was a bicycle made solely of woven-together straw. The next figure was a large horse made entirely of scrap pieces of metal. I continued on upstairs and found the Americas gallery which was filled with paintings that reflected how America developed over time. Each painting seemed to reflect on specific important times in American history. One wall was covered with paintings of significant leaders in American history. The next gallery was the Kresge Gallery. These walls were covered with pictures of tires that helped advertise certain products. Covering the floor of the gallery were a bunch of bicycles with strange objects (such as plants) connected to the back of them. On the final floor there was an exhibit by Brent Green called “Gravity was everywhere back then.”. There were large pieces of houses and a speaker there to talk about his story. Going to an art museum is not a common thing for me, so this was a great experience and gave me a chance to look at art in a way I never had before. However, the museum did not spark my best...
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...Orville was an average student, known for his mischievous behavior. He quit school before his senior year to start a printing business. The two brothers were very intellectual and smart, but both did not ever get their high school diplomas. It just goes to show that even two of the best minds in our history didn’t have to go to college or even finish high school to become these great minds. The first time Wilbur and Orville referred to themselves as "The Wright Brothers" was when they started their own printing firm at the ages of 22 and 18. Using a damaged tombstone and buggy parts, they built a press and printed odd jobs as well as their own newspaper. In 1892, the brothers bought bicycles. They began repairing bicycles for friends, then started their own repair business. They opened up a bicycle shop...
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...2.1 Military 2.2 Motorcycle and bicycle helmets 2.3 Sports 2.4 Work 2.5 Protective and emergency services 2.6 Other helmets 3 Heraldry 4 Gallery 5 See also 6 References 7 External links [edit] Design A protective helmet worn during rock climbing All helmets attempt to protect the user's head by absorbing mechanical energy and protecting against penetration. Their structure and protective capacity are altered in high-energy impacts. Beside their energy-absorption capability, their volume and weight are also important issues, since higher volume and weight increase the injury risk for the user's head and neck. Anatomical helmets adapted to the inner head structure were invented by neurosurgeons at the end of the 20th century. Helmets used for different purposes have different designs. For example, a bicycle helmet must protect against blunt impact forces from the wearer's head striking the road. A helmet designed for rock climbing must protect against heavy impact, and against objects such as small rocks and climbing equipment falling from above. Practical concerns also dictate helmet design: a bicycling helmet should be aerodynamic in shape and well ventilated, while a rock climbing helmet must be lightweight and small so that it does not interfere with climbing. Some helmets have other protective elements attached to them, such as a face visors or goggles or a face cage, and ear plugs and other forms of protective headgear, and...
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...Besides money, this industry highly relies on high level technicians and scientists, both are rare in the labor market, so the entry barrier of this industry is high, the threat of new competition is low. 2. Electrical vehicles, as an environmentally friendly substitute of traditional gasoline-engine or diesel engine vehicles, are just starting to emerge as a market. However, in this market some company has already won the recognition, such as Segaway. The substitute products not only come within the green industry, others may include bicycles, motorcycles, or golf cars. So the threat of substitute products is high. 3. Electrical vehicles, as an environmentally friendly substitute of traditional gasoline-engine or diesel engine vehicles, are just starting to emerge as a market. However, in this market some company has already won the recognition, such as Segaway. The substitute products not only come within the green industry, others may include bicycles, motorcycles, or golf cars. So the threat of substitute products is high. 4. Currently, over 70% of our T3 Series suppliers are local suppliers who provide products and services to low volume early stage development companies. As the vehicle design has become stable and sales volumes have increased, the company has begun our transition to incorporate a global supply chain. We have made significant progress in establishing relationships with suppliers who service volume production stage companies. These components will be shipped to...
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...Summary of the History of Transportation 3500 BC | Fixed wheels on carts are invented - the first wheeled vehicles in history. Other early wheeled vehicles include the chariot. | 3500 BC | River boats are invented - ships with oars | 2000 BC | Horses are domesticated and used for transportation. | 181-234 | The wheelbarrow is invented. | 770 | Iron horseshoes improve transportation by horse | 1492 | Leonardo da Vinci first to seriously theorize about flying machines - with over 100 drawings that illustrated his theories on flight | 1620 | Cornelis Drebbel invented the first submarine - an human oared submersible | 1662 | Blaise Pascal invents the first public bus - horse-drawn, regular route, schedule, and fare system | 1740 | Jacques de Vaucanson demonstrates his clockwork powered carriage | 1783 | First practical steamboat demonstrated by Marquis Claude Francois de Jouffroy d'Abbans - a paddle wheel steamboat | 1783 | The Montgolfier brothers invent the first hot air balloons | 1787 | Steamboat invented | 1769 | First self-propelled road vehicle invented by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot | 1790 | Modern bicycles invented | 1801 | Richard Trevithick invented the first steam powered locomotive (designed for roads) | 1807 | Isaac de Rivas makes a hydrogen gas powered vehicle - first with internal combustion power - however, very unsuccessful design | 1807 | First steamboat with regular passenger service - inventor Robert Fulton's Clermont | 1814 | George...
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...The Victorian period, the years between 1837 and 1901 and named after the great Queen Victoria, was a time of great change. The population of England represented various classes, occupations, and ways of life. The transportation of the period served as the forerunner of much of the transportation used today and the advances in medicine were also instrumental in changing the face of medicine forever. One of the most important things to know in Victorian society was good etiquette. Both men and women had their own set of rules of etiquette. There was a rule of etiquette for almost everything you did in a day. For women, there were rules about what kind of jewelry one should wear as well as when and where. Who to walk with, who to dance with, how and when to speak to a stranger, were all very critical knowledge. For men, there were rules about bowing, hat tipping, chaperonage, where to sit and next to whom, even about the circumstances in which it was correct or not to smoke or drink in front of ladies. There was also a correct title for almost every type of profession, social standing and rank. One of the major events in upper class society was the dance. Dances were usually scheduled to correspond with the full moon. Even most great houses did not have very large ballrooms. As a consequence, most balls were held outdoors. Most dances started around eight o'clock or so and the light of the full moon allowed less lighting to have to be put up. The practice was often to have the...
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...and dangers symptoms tend to be. (Harris 100) If the impact affects the consciousness center I the brain stem, then the person with concussion loses consciousness. This may happen if a boxer knockout punch makes the other boxers head accelerate sharply, or if someone’s head decelerates suddenly, as when it strikes the ground during a fall. (Izenberg 233) Like my topic sports are the most common causes of concussions and sports with the most physical contact. Like football, boxing, and hockey, are the most to produce head injuries that involve concussions. Concussions may also happen during falls in basketball, soccer, and baseball, or while riding motorcycles or bicycles. (Izenberg 233) Well I have also seen it with horses it happened to my cousin. One day we where out riding when his horse all of a sudden just started jumping and running it went all crazy, so he threw my cousin in the ground and he hit his head and well he got a...
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...HZ UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Zeeland – German Tourists German tourists should be satisfied about the quality of a holiday in Zeeland 10/22/2012 An essay on Should German tourists be satisfied about the quality of a holiday in Zeeland? University: | HZ University of Applied Sciences | Semester: | 5. Semester | Academic year: | 2012/2013 | Course: | CU10130 - Lifestyle | | | | | 1 *Student: Scaldis Academy:, Department of Vitality Management and Tourism. Zeeland – German Tourist Introduction The number of German tourists visiting the Netherlands has dramatically reduced as compared to a few years ago. This has led to a need to research the cause of this reduction. We as students following the minor lifestyle management are focusing more on how to bring back the German tourists to Zeeland, Netherlands coastal area with beautiful clean beaches and dunes. Tourism is a way of distancing yourself from every day activities. It is a service-intensive industry that depends on the quality of customers' service experiences and their consequent assessment of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with a service experience. Experience is conceived as conscious awareness and is manifested as precondition for responses to tourist business. The management and performance of service quality is thus of crucial importance to the tourism industry. In this report the question as to whether Germans tourists should be satisfied with the quality of holidays...
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...Japan’s Motorcycle Wars alexander.indd 1 4/14/2008 9:29:25 PM alexander.indd 2 4/14/2008 9:29:25 PM Jeffrey W. Alexander Japan’s Motorcycle Wars alexander.indd 3 An Industry History 4/14/2008 9:29:25 PM © UBC Press 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without prior written permission of the publisher, or, in Canada, in the case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from Access Copyright (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency), www.accesscopyright.ca. 17 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 54321 Printed in Canada with vegetable-based inks on FSC-certified ancient-forest-free paper (100% post-consumer recycled) that is processed chlorine- and acid-free. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Alexander, Jeffrey W. (Jeffrey William), 1972Japan’s motorcycle wars : an industry history / Jeffrey W. Alexander. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-7748-1453-9 1. Motorcycle industry – Japan – History. 2. Motorcycling – Japan – History. I. Title. HD9710.5.J32A43 2008 338.4’762922750952 C2007-907431-6 UBC Press gratefully acknowledges the financial support for our publishing program of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP), and of the Canada Council for the Arts, and the British Columbia Arts Council. This book has been...
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...andy bull – baby I am nobody now architecture in Helsinki – in the future massive attack – teardrops spiderbait – buy me a pony blur – song 2 silverchair – tomorrow the wombats – lets dance to joy division muse – knights of cydonia queens of the stone age – no one knows grinspoon – chemical heart modest mouse – float on augie march – one crowded hour radiohead – paranoid android pixies – where is my mind pixies – here comes your man pixies – debaser the smiths – this charming man the smiths – there is a light that never goes out the smiths – asleep glasvegas – the world is yours glasvegas – euphoria, take my hand the big pink – hit the ground the big pink – crystal visions Bombay bicycle club – shuffle Bombay bicycle club – always like this Bombay bicycle club – lights out, words gone The wombats – Tokyo The wombats – jump into the fog The wombats – techno fan The wombats – 1996 Karise eden – threads of silence The kinks – waterloo sunset The kinks – you really got me The kinks – all day and all of the night The kooks – naïve The kooks – seaside Ray lamontagne – let it be me Ray lamontagne – trouble Kings of leon – supersoaker Vance joy – riptide Vance joy – play with fire San cisco – beach San cisco – rocket ship Big scary – luck now Big scary – leaving home Last dinosaurs – zoom Gabrielle aplin – start again Adele – rolling in the deep Kings of leon – use somebody Coldplay – the scientist The beatles – Eleanor rigby John lennon...
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...When will you arrive at the office? * Do you work in an office? * I have a meeting in New York. * Do you live in Japan? * Jupiter is in the Solar System. * The author's name is on the cover of the book. * There are no prices on this menu. * You are standing on my foot. * There was a "no smoking" sign on the wall. * I live on the 7th floor at 21 Oxford Street in London. Notice the use of the prepositions of place at, in and on in these standard expressions: at | in | on | at home | in a car | on a bus | at work | in a taxi | on a train | at school | in a helicopter | on a plane | at university | in a boat | on a ship | at college | in a lift (elevator) | on a bicycle, on a motorbike | at the top | in the newspaper | on a horse, on an elephant | at the bottom | in the sky | on the radio, on television | at the side | in a row | on the left, on the right | at reception | in Oxford Street | on the way...
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...In the poem “Coming Out of Wal-Mart” by Mark Defoe, the freedom and joy of youth is very well portrayed. A boy and the man who is “a cut out of the boy,” and so is presumably his father, are leaving the store with a new bicycle for the child. The seemingly unremarkable and familiar scene evokes in the reader feelings of nostalgia and delight. The image of youth’s carefree nature is first illustrated with the lines “The boy steers the bike as if he steered a soap bubble, a blown glass swan, a cloud.”, in which all of the objects mentioned are very free and dream-like, just as the world is through a child’s eyes. Defoe also shows how the boy’s childlike happiness influences the father, first describing him as “grizzled, knotted like a strange...
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...I have, in the past, found it necessary to purchase a car, and have purchased several over the years. My first car was an old Dodge Charger that I paid $300 for in 1989. It got me from A to B and back again, and that was all that mattered. As I grew older and became more financially stable I purchased my first new car, a Hyundai Elantra. It was brand new, with all the bells and whistles, and I still drive it today (it is covered in duct tape- eleven years later). I drive it because it still works and I am less a car payment. Whether a car is new, or used most people require a vehicle to get through their everyday tasks. Cars are a necessity in most areas of this county and around the world, making the car industry a global economic force. Possible causes for change in supply and demand for cars: Product recalls – several years ago the Toyota Company had major recalls of several models that caused major accidents and deaths. The demand for that specific manufacturer decreased and Toyota was forced to rethink how to market its vehicles to regain the trust of its consumers. Price of gas – the price of gasoline fluctuates and has risen over the last few years to all- time highs. The wars being fought in and around oil-rich nations doesn’t help. People will purchase more gas efficient vehicles when gas prices are high. Gas has low price-elasticity because we need it to run our cars, but we can choose different cars to counter act the blow of high gas prices....
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...Carrol Allen Savannah Swinson ENG – 450 Professor Sherwood 28 Jan. 2016 “The Heart of a Child” The plays of William Shakespeare have stood against the test of time. Even today they are used in education, personal leisure and of course entertainment, as they were always meant for. Today, plays like A Midsummer Night’s Dream, have been made into movies. But how well do the actors portray the timeless characters in Shakespeare’s world? Can modern day actors do Shakespearean characters justice in their portrayal? In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck is one of the most significant characters. In the 1999 film adaptation the character of Puck is played by actor, Stanley Tucci. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow is the mischievous sprite who serves Oberon, the Fairy King. He spends his days playing annoying tricks on people or helps them out with their chores. In the play, Puck brags about when he has been a nuisance to women in the village, “Sometimes for three-foot stool mistaketh me/Then slip I from her bum. Down topple she” (Shakespeare 2.1 52-53 857) more than anything else, Puck enjoys a good practical joke. After he changes Bottom’s head into the head of an ass, he delightedly proclaims, "My mistress with a monster is in love" (Shakespeare 3.2 6 870). Puck can be considered the heart and soul of the play because of his playful spirit, enthusiasm and disposition to prank anyone. His sense of humor and the tricks he plays infuse A Midsummer...
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