Slide Essays

  • Narrative- Water Slide Experience

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    Narrative- Water Slide Experience I was so excited. I could hardly breathe through the hour drive it took to get there. I was squished between my two ten-year-old best friends in the back seat of a white Saturn, but I didn't care. I was practicing over and over in my head what I was going to say to all the smart-alecky adults who would tell me I was too young to ride the water slides. I was simply going to reply, "Actually I'm ten, going on eleven." On the right of me sat the girl I met in

  • Making a Wet Mount Slide

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    Making a Wet Mount Slide Purpose: The purpose of this lab experiment is to learn how to make a wet mount slide and observe it under a microscope. Materials: The materials used in the lab experiment were… 1. Microscope 2. Microscope slide 3. Coverslip 4. Newspaper 5. Scissors 6. Medicine dropper 7. Water 8. Forceps Procedure: The procedure followed in this experiment were… 1. Cut a small "d" from the newspaper and place it in the center of a clean microscope slide so that it is in

  • Slide Share

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    simple text-only slides. So what is it that keeps visitors clicking through

  • Slide Share

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    For example, if you're hosting a cooking event, you might post a slideshow that explains how to make souffle. This basic how-to guide will allow leads to see what types of cooking lessons you offer and try one out by viewing the slides. This allows you to reach new clients who are interested very specifically in what you have to offer. An added bonus for them is that they can go at their own learning pace. If a step isn't clear, the user can stop the slideshow and go back to view

  • Method

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    PowerPoint slides, which informed the participants of their role in the experiment. Consent forms were passed out to each participant. The consent form described how the experiment was not mandatory; therefore anyone wishing not to participate could simply return their consent form and exit the room. Additionally, number “2” pencils were given to any participant who did not have one of their own. A Gateway 2000 (E-1000) computer equipped with Microsoft PowerPoint was used to generate the slides. The slides

  • Avalanches And Landslides

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    sights and killed nearly one hundred people, and covered a small town near Alberta with ice and snow. Another devastating avalanche incident is the 1964 Sherman slide, in which a huge avalanche was triggered by the 1964 Alaskan earthquake. The slide spilled out onto the Sherman glacier, during the big slide several other smaller slides happened and those were the one that took lives in Anchorage, and destroyed property There are a couple of types of avalanches and how the destroy so much this

  • Ice Hockey Vs. Roller Hockey

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    on a dime, because the wheels just slide out from underneath the player. The stopping technique for roller hockey is basically the same as ice hockey, but the player slides a little before coming to a complete halt. If a player happens to fall in ice hockey he or she just slides along the ice and most of the time it doesn't hurt, but in roller hockey if a player falls on the plastic floor, it is going to hurt. When players in roller hockey fall, they do not slide, it is more of a...

  • Teens, Sex, and Virginity - Teenagers and the Importance of Abstinence

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    graders into the chapel for a special program. One of the teachers had prepared a slide show to demonstrate the effects that a sexually transmitted disease had on the human body. The first several pictures were not too bad, showing not much more than some bumps around a girl's mouth. As the show progressed, the slides got more gruesome. A man's genitals with large sores displayed the effects of herpes. Another slide showed the bottom of a girl's foot that had a hole the size of a quarter in it, the

  • Preventing the Summer Slide

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    called the summer slide. Summer Slide: Is It Real? Despite the playground-like image that the word slide suggests, summer slide refers to a student's loss of academic skills and knowledge during the summer months.[1] The research on this very real phenomenon dates back over 100 years, and confirms that differences in elementary school children’s summer learning experiences “…can impact whether that child ultimately earns a high school diploma and continues on to college"[2] Summer Slide has Serious Consequences

  • imperialism in Ecuador

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    Western imperialism and exploration led Spain to inhabit this Gold mine. Thesis: Slide 1 The year 1492 brought about many changes in the Old World that forever altered the way we understand and perceive the New World. Imperialism and Colonialism soared to new heights and brought two completely different worlds into a crash course forever entwining cultures, laws, religion, and customs in North and South America. Slide 2 The year 1492 is important in many ways. After centuries of fighting the Muslims

  • biology presentation for the skeleton

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    Intro – slide 1 – acetate 1 The skeleton of a human foetus is formed from tough but flexible cartilage that acts as a blueprint for bone construction. During ossification ( the changing of cartilage to bone) which begins before birth, the cartilage is broken down and the resulting space is filled by bone building mineral salts and protein fibres secreted by bone cells. Humans have a bony endoskeleton made up of 206 bones, although we are born with up to 300, but many of these fuse during childhood

  • The Physics Of An Earthquake

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    the most destructive. The most commen cause of tectonic quakes is stresses by movements of the dozen of major and minor plates that make up the earth's crust . Most tectonic quakes occur at the boundaries of these plates, in zones where one plate slides past another Subduction-zone quakes account for nearly half of the world's destructive seismic events and 75 percent of the earth's seismic energy. They are along the so-called Ring of Fire, a narrow band about 38,600 km long, that coincides with

  • Saturday Morning Cartoon Research Paper

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    networks. Year after year there are continually less and worse cartoons on Saturday mornings. It was painful and sad but I thought that they had hit rock bottom and they will only get better from here. However, it now seems that cartoons may very well slide out of existence. How did this happen? Where have all the cartoons gone? Is there any hope in the future or will we all lead a cold, miserable existence (ok it might not be that bad). First, it would probably help to start at the beginning

  • A Comparison of the Water Potential of Potato and Sweet Potato Tubers

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    hypertonic solutions during an experiment using onion cells. Both onion cells were placed onto a microscope slide, a drop of water (hypotonic solution) was then added to slide A, and a salt solute (hypertonic solution) to slide B, below are photos that were taken of the cells during this experiment. [IMAGE][IMAGE] Slide A Slide B

  • The Concept and Measurement of Density: Lab Report

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    Place the aluminum cylinder and note the final volume, V final. Record the mass of the aluminum cylinder, water, and graduate in the data table. 3. Repeat step 2, filling the 50.0mL graduate cylinder to the 30.0mL mark with tap water, tilt and slowly slide the irregular solid to the bottom. Record the initial and final volumes in the data table. Record the mass of the solid, water, and graduate in the table. 4. Fill the graduate cylinder to the 30.0mL mark with tap water. Remember to read the bottom

  • George Bass

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    willingness to share his personal experiences with a large group of strangers. The longer I listened to Dr. Bass speak the more honored I felt to be in the presence of a true legend of archaeology. At first I did not understand why he included the slide and story about the beach where him and his wife spent their honeymoon forty years ago. However, towards the end of the lecture when he brought us back to that same beach, I was amazed that it has come to be known as “the beach where the American’s

  • Free Essays on Kafka's Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa

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    “When he lifted his head a little, he saw his vaulted brown belly, sectioned by arch-shaped ribs, to whose dome the cover, about to slide off completely, could barely cling. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, were waving helplessly before his eyes.” Gregor Samsa has gone through a metamorphosis. This change has turned Gregor into a “monstrous vermin”. The anxieties, inner terrors, and cynicism, which fill Gregor’s life, are expressed by Kafka throughout the novel

  • Observation of the Early Childhood

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    completing the obstacle course. The obstacle course involved running up a slide, crawling through a tunnel, crossing a shaky bridge and then walking along a balance beam. Karligh ran up the slide with a considerable amount of effort. She quickly crawled through the tunnel and crossed the shaky bridge with little effort. She crossed the balance beam more quickly than I'd seen any child do that whole day. Bethany climbed up the slide in a time that was a bit quicker than Karligh's. The crawling through

  • Mountain Biking

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    Mountain Biking I have come to love bicycles in the course of the past year. I am especially fond of mountain bikes, including my own. Riding it opens up a whole new world of opportunities and challenges for me. I am still fairly fresh to the whole mountain biking scene, so I push myself to become better with more experience. Riding is an outlet; it is something I can channel pent up energy through. I love the sport because it is a full body, soul, and mind experience that affects all five

  • Economic Trade-off Analysis of Cracker Jack

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    boxes, and the prize inside was often pretty cool: a whistle or a ring, or some similar gadget. This was also in the days when Oscar Mayer gave away tiny hot-dog-shaped whistles as promotional items. In those days, whistles were pretty popular. Slide whistles were a very common favor at birthday parties. I remember an older cousin came back from the army once, and he had a really cool whistle that played several different notes. It had come out of a box of cracker jacks. My supplier in