...Boeing 787 Dreamliner Coursework submitted School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering Section 1: Goal and scope The Boeing 787 Dreamliner project was launched by Boeing in 2004 in response to the global need for more fuel-efficient airplanes. The goal of the company was to design and create such an airplane. The brand new commercial jet was planned to consume less fuel while at the same time maintaining the same cruise speed as today's fastest twin-aisle aircraft and covering the same and even higher range of flight (Boeing). The project was to be completed by the end of 2008 when the first deliveries to several airlines were due to. Section 2: Project strategy, rationale and competition The project appeared as a result of the long-term mission of Boeing to satisfy its customers worldwide by providing them with more reliable, more efficient product. As already stated, the Dreamliner would give Boeing's customers this efficiency, reliability and safety - features that are crucial not only for the company and for the airlines, but also for the passengers. There were two other reasons that made this project so important for Boeing. One was the fact that the Dreamliner would come to replace the old 767 - an airplane of the same size, but which consumes considerably more fuel than the 787 was planned to. The other reason was the substantial profit that the company had expected to make after developing, executing and delivering the product. The orders placed...
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...Shifting Sentences. Change the following First, Second and Third Person Point of View to a Formal Academic Writing with a Formal tone. Journal 1(15/1/2013) Oh yea! My dad bought me a new handphone, Sony Xperia SL! He said it was a present for my SPM result, although it was a bit late, it is ok as long as I get a new phone! Lastly, it is equipped with 12-megapixel camera and the pictures captured are extremely clear! Thanks dad for giving me such a nice present! Sample: Smart phone is an essential item to people nowadays. Giving smart phones to someone or somebody as a present would be the best thing to do. People tend to give presents to someone that they love, especially to those who have achieved a better result in the examination. Sony Xperia SL, for instance, is a very stylish phone with android smartphone system. It runs by Dual-core 1.7 GHz processor and with Android OS, version 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich). It has 4.3 inches large LED-backlit LCD, capacitive touchscreen and 32 GB storage. Journal 2(16/1/2013) On 11/1/2013, I attended my first class of Basic Composition. On that day, I was late for class as we had to attend a talk by Mr Kalai and a meeting for committees. I went to class at around 3p.m. and found that the lecturer for Basic Composition subject was actually Miss Felicia, who taught us the subject of General Psychology last semester. She was still very kind even though she gave us a lot of homework such as writing journals, writing introductions for...
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...class and thereby be taking an education they spend their time on the streets. Studies have shown that young people who drop out of school are more likely to turn into criminals. "The proportion of 16 to 17 year-olds not in education, employment or training has increased from 7 per cent in 1997 to 9 per cent in 2007". If the studies are right, it means that there will be more youngsters running around and vandalizing the city. This will of course be an issue for the society. Some of the main reasons why young people commit crime may be financial problems and/or boredom, if they simply need to feel the adrenalin of doing something that they know to a certain extent is wrong. What I do not understand is why they drop out of school. This action will of course affect them the rest of their life because an education is almost always the key to a good future. And with fewer low skilled jobs there is needed more highly skilled young people and this means spending more time in training or education. Youngsters who actually continue in education or training for a while will earn more and be less likely to be involved in antisocial behaviour. Studies shows that youngsters with antisocial behaviour often comes from troubled families. These kind of families don not usually have high educated parents. Therefore the children are more likely to end up without an education. This is called social heritage when the child end up, more or less, like there parents. What can we do about that?...
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...distinctive sounds in Western music and he continued playing what is called today as American Music until shortly before his death. When he turned 7 years old he was called "Duke" because of his gentlemanly ways. He held fast to his own standards of innovation and stylishness. He wrote his first composition," Soda Fountain Rag," at the age of 15. He was considered among the world's greatest composers and musicians. The French goverment gave him their highest award, the Legion of Honor, while the government of the United States bestowed upon him with the highest civil honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He had played over 20,000 performances worldwide over the span of his 50-year career. He took his first piano lesson around age seven or eight and he didn't retain the lessons that long. He was more favored to play baseball as a youngster . Duke went on a vacation in Asbury Park and he heard a pianist named Harvey Brooks playing. Duke sought Harvey out in Philadelphia where Harvey showed Duke some ...Expand to read entire bio >pianistic tricks and shortcuts. Duke later recounted that, "When I got home I had a real yearning to play. I hadn’t been able to get off the ground before, but after hearing him I said to myself, ‘Man you’re going to have to do it.’” Thus the music career of Duke Ellington was born. Oliver “Doc” Perry and Louis Brown,...
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...Professor Jenkins Eng 132-007 English Composition I 22 January 2012 Personal Experience Essay Wrap It Up As a child you never really think about or understand all the things that will take place during your life. I mean of course you plan out some your immense ideas and dreams. Since we are so young and very much naive we never visualize the trials and sacrifices to come. If you told me when I was twelve and sneaking around my father’s cramped East Chicago apartment looking at his many exotic movies. I would have several experiences with early pregnancy before I was nineteen I could not have believed you. That my freshman year of high school I would have unprotected sex with my stepfather’s granddaughter upstairs in my sister’s room on the floor. And lure her into this act a bundle of times before my sophomore year in high school. One night as I wait till everyone falls asleep as usual whenever she comes over. To finally get her alone in my sister’s room on their floor. I reach my goal as expected she never made it hard for me, and in some way I want to thank her. Creeping hoping not to make too much noise, my parents would do what only God knows. Stopping for any sounds because the fear a” Thud” of footsteps coming up stairs brings would have practically sent me into shock. I remember how she moaned so slight just enough to let me know that she enjoyed the love I gave. And I returned the favor by continuing to give. It got to the point where it felt as if I was about to...
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...Cleveland-Joel Wilcox Prof. Danelski Engl 102-20 November 16, 2012 The Metamorphosis of the Video Game Part I – What I Want to Know and Why I have played video games since I was seven years-old and I have watched it evolve over the years. My father started me off with my first video game system, which was the Super Nintendo. Although the system played off video game cartridges, which were inserted through the top of it, it was very advanced for its time. My siblings and I would play the game Mario Kart for hours on end – with my father joining us every so often. I noticed as months and years went by, that newer systems with better games and better graphics started to come out. The Gameboy Color, which came out in 1998, was the first handheld gaming device that I had the liberty to enjoy playing. Since GameBoy Colors were one of the first handheld videogame systems, making them very expensive, it was rare for kids to have them, so I was one of the lucky few who owned a GameBoy Color. As we moved toward the beginning of the 21st century, newer and sleeker versions of almost every videogame system slowly came out. Sony started out with the PlayStation, which turned into the PlayStation 2. The PlayStation 2 later evolved into the PlayStation 3, which had the technological advancements of an updated hard drive, wireless internet, Bluetooth capabilities, blue ray, Wi-Fi, and wireless motion detected controllers. Microsoft designed its own video game system that would later rival...
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...the death of his mother who had died due to a cancerous brain tumor. Now, one week after his mother has died, Oliver’s father sits across from him and tells Oliver that throughout the many years of his parent’s marriage, his father has secretly been gay. Oliver’s father, Hal, has been living in secrecy for the entirety of his life, because homosexuality was not socially accepted when he was younger and later his marriage prevented him from being free. Hal, now that he is unbound, tells Oliver “I don’t want to be just theoretically gay, I want to do something about it” (Beginners, 2010). Confronted with this Oliver reflects on his life growing up with two parents that never seemed to be the way he thought they should have. Writer and director Mike Mills experienced precisely this, when his father, shortly after his mother died because of brain cancer in 1999, opened up to him about being gay throughout his entire life. At this point, Mills’ father was at the age of 75 years and had been married to his wife for 45 years. Five years later, his father died due to cancer of the lungs. Mills wanted to share this story with the world, because he was so baffled by the adventure that he had lived through, as well as the uplifting and humorous sides that go hand in hand with even such sad topics as death. “The concrete details of my father’s life, the real struggles, and all the real humor gave the film an authenticity that I hope will make it more powerful and more emotional for all...
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...this is a view of the importance of the sport worldwide and how it has changed the world through the guidance of American baseballs influence on the rest of the world. Sport of Baseball Internationally this game is viewed as a very powerful game. Baseball is the same in many ways all over the world. Every player is aiming to knock the ball out of the park or just feel lucky to get on base. Although the game has changed, the history of the sport has been pretty consistent. Because of the different type games in the world, the origin of the game is globally disputed. There are many games with similar rules and a few examples are cricket and kickball. There is a lot of evidence showing that the game evolved from several different games that have been played all over the world. Games like cricket are similar to American...
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...Steve Vai From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Steve Vai SteveVai 2.jpg Steve Vai in 2007 Background information Birth name Steven Siro Vai Born June 6, 1960 (age 53) Carle Place, New York, United States Genres Instrumental rock, Hard rock, Heavy metal, Progressive rock, Progressive metal, Experimental rock & Speed Metal Instruments Guitar, Keyboards, vocals Years active 1980–present Labels Favored Nations, Relativity, Urantia Records, Akashic Records, Epic Associated acts Joe Satriani, Frank Zappa, Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth, Whitesnake, Zappa plays Zappa, Devin Townsend, Billy Sheehan, G3 Website www.vai.com Notable instruments Ibanez JEM Ibanez Universe Steven Siro Vai (born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, songwriter and producer of Italian origin who has sold over 15 million albums. After starting his career as a music transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, Vai recorded and toured in Zappa's band for two years, from 1980 to 1982. He began a solo career in 1983, has released eight solo albums and won three Grammy Awards. He has also recorded and toured with Public Image Ltd., Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth and Whitesnake. Vai has been a regular touring member of the G3 Concert Tour which began in 1995. In 1999 Vai started his own record label Favored Nations, intending to showcase as he describes, "...artists that have attained the highest performance level on their chosen instruments."[1] Contents [hide] 1 Biography ...
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...prevented him from playing guitar ever again. Instead he found a work around that would prove to be most beneficial for the metal movement that was to take place thereafter. After attempting to play right handed, He tuned his guitar down with lighter strings and used homemade plastic fingertips and created a new sound. After playing with several bands in the early 1960’s, he teamed with Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward under the moniker Earth. After some controversy with another band who shared the name Earth, in August of 1969 they changed the name of the band to Black Sabbath. This breathed new air into the band and they would go on to be pioneers in The Heavy Metal genre for decades to come. Black Sabbath paved the way for other bands like Motorhead, Deep Purple, and Rainbow. It was these bands that would be influential and play a pivotal role in the lives of the next wave of heavy metal bands that was to come. It started out slowly in 1969 and took a bit of a nosedive in the 1970’s with the disco era, but the 1980’s and the 1990’s would be two decades of aggression that would shape the minds of millions of Die Hard metal fans, including yours truly! This is not to say that the movement is not still very strong today, as happens it is growing stronger as I type this, but the 1980’s and the 1990’s were crucial times for the bands and the fans that shaped the heavy metal movement. There are several genres and sub genres of heavy metal music that range from melodic and...
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...aged about 14. Since 1) it was 1:30 on a school day, 2) they were carrying book bags, and 3) they seemed to be in no hurry, I assumed they were skipping school. They were extremely loud and unruly, tossing food at one another and leaving it on the floor. Black people ran the restaurant and made up the bulk of the customers, but it was hard to see much healthy “black community” here. After repeatedly warning the boys to stop throwing food and keep quiet, the manager finally told them to leave. The kids ignored her. Only after she called a male security guard did they start slowly making their way out, tauntingly circling the restaurant before ambling off. These teens clearly weren’t monsters, but they seemed to consider themselves exempt from public norms of behavior—as if they had begun to check out of mainstream society. What struck me most, though, was how fully the boys’ music—hard-edged rap, preaching bone-deep dislike of authority—provided them with a continuing soundtrack to their...
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...panels! Look inside See pages 4 & 5. Unprecedented representation from key decision-makers in alternative weapons: Rear Admiral Massimo Annati Director/Chairman European Working Group on Non-Lethal Weapons Alan Ashworth, Ph.D Senior Science Advisor, Bioeffects Division U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Lieutenant Colonel Christian De Cock Chief of Operational Law/President Commission on the Evaluation of New Weapons Belgian Armed Forces Special Agent Robert Redd ATF Special Response Team Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Lieutenant Commander Kenneth Nagie Office of Specialized Capabilities United States Coast Guard Raymond Grundy Branch Head, Escalation-of-Force USMC Deputy Commandant for Combat Development and Integration Gain insight into the latest non and less-lethal initiatives in sessions that will: • Examine ways to respond to hostile situations with escalationof-force options that minimize casualties and collateral damage • Identify opportunities for industry to provide the best nonlethal weapon systems with a range of capabilities across the full spectrum of threats and crises • Show how non-lethal technologies can be applied to counter insurgency scenarios • Discuss less-lethal needs and requirements of various government and military agencies • Delve into interagency cooperation between the DoD, DHS, DoJ, and other relevant offices and military services Benefit from the highly-anticipated Human Effects Focus Day including: NLW Bioeffects...
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...COVER FEATURE 28 TRAPS TRAPSMAGAZINE.COM Boy Country BY CHRIS WELCH WITH ANDY DOERSCHUK JON COHAN JARED COBB & KAREN STACKPOLE autum 2007 TRAPS 29 City Man Country City THE JOHN BONHAM STORY JOHN BONHAM PREFACE A SLOW NIGHT AT THE MARQUEE As a Melody1960s, I Maker reporter during the The venue wasn’t full on the night of the Zeppelin show, so we could wander around and chat to other club goers. While Page and Plant dominated the stage, we edged over to the side to check out the drummer. Among those watching with me was Mark Ashton, curly haired stickman with the group Rare Bird. “He’s so fucking heavy!” Ashton shouted in my ear. We stared in disbelief at the aggressive, beefy guy who seemed intent on breaking the heads on his toms. 30 TRAPS TRAPSMAGAZINE.COM PREVIOUS PAGE PHOTO BY JAN PERSSONS/REDFERNS The first time I saw Bonham up close was in December 1968, at The Marquee Club on Soho’s Wardour Street. While The Marquee has long held a mythical status in the rich history of the London rock scene – hosting early appearances by such legendary bands as The Who and The Rolling Stones – it was actually a dark and rather cramped facility with a tiny stage that fronted an even stuffier dressing room. vividly remember the moment when a review copy of Led Zeppelin’s eponymous debut album arrived at the office. My colleague and fellow scribe Tony Wilson had secured the precious black vinyl LP and dropped it onto the turntable, awaiting...
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...exercise ……………………. 4 2 7 WRITING (Argument) ………………............... Suitable Topics for an Argument ……………. Elements of an Argument ……………………. Rational or Emotional Appeal ……………. Dealing with your Opponents ……………. Discovering the Pros & Cons ……………. Organization of an Argument ……………. Strong Argument ……………………. Balanced Argument ……………………. Writing tips ……………………………. Being Concise ……………………………. Using Specific Detail ……………………. 7 7 10 10 11 13 13 16 20 20 23 REMEDIAL WORK Review ………………………... 25 ……………………………………. 25 VOCABULARY ………………………............ 31 Academic Word List (AWL) 6 ……………. 31 Word Formation 4 ................................ 32 PRESENTATIONS ……………………...… 33 Argument ……………………………………. 33 READING The article on the following pages is taken from the Science & Technology page of the BBC website. Dated 19 July 2010, the article expresses one point of view in the continuing debate about GM food, which is a significant part of the biotechnology industry. “GM” stands for “genetically modified.” Exercise 1 Overview Answer the questions below to obtain an overview of the article. Many questions can be answered by reference to the topic sentences. 1. 2. 3. 4. What kind of science does Jonathan Jones specialize in? He is writing in the BBC’s “Green Room.” What is that? Read the article synopsis. What does Professor Jones think about GM food crops? Read the whole of the introductory paragraph. What does the scientist do in the first half of this paragraph? What does he do in the second...
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