Essays Tagged: "Long Beach, California"

Tiger Woods

wad.Tiger's parents met in Bangkok, Thailand. They got married in1969.Tiger Born: December 30, 1975 Long Beach, California.Tiger now lives in a new home in Isleworth, Florida. Near the west side of Or ... wan, used to caddy for another pro, Peter Jacobsen.Tiger's Driver (Big Golf Club) is only 43-inches long, an inchshorter than most clubs used by other professionals.Tiger's Driver Club head is moving ...

(2 pages) 66 0 4.1 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Mountain bikes

ikesIt has been a decade in the making, but the mountain bike has become a passion for many people.Along with this passion it has also become the most environmental way to get from point A to B. It ha ... had the needs of bike riders in mind. The introduction of the mountain bike at a bikeconvention in Long Beach, California, early in the 1980's coincided with the need for a bike that combinedtechnica ...

(18 pages) 72 0 4.3 Jun/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Report on "Return With Honor", By Captain Scott O'Grady

r the New York Time Magazine. He isalso the author of Gold Buckle.This young captains life began in Long Beach California in 1967.Scott O'Gradyhas two siblings a brother and a sister, Paul and Stacy. ... 67.Scott O'Gradyhas two siblings a brother and a sister, Paul and Stacy. His Father was a doctor at LongBeach Community Hospital and also a certified pilot. His mother was a house wifewhich is one of ...

(3 pages) 52 0 4.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Dangers and Controls of Bird-Strikes

t. Rodgers, best known for completing the first transcontinental flight in 1911, died in crash near Long Beach, California, U.S.Bird strikes damaged the leading edge of wing5.Bird strikes have caused ... s and runways. Because airports tend to be very flat and drain slowly, worms stay out of the ground long enough to attract birds. Birds also find food in the grass between runways and crops planted in ...

(7 pages) 28 0 2.5 Jul/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Space

Bootleggers boy

uachita River. His dad worked at the toll bridge over the river. In 1941 he and his family moved to Long Beach, California. They moved there so his dad could work on ships during the war. When the war ...

(6 pages) 2 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

School Uniforms-Pro

the past ten years, more and more public school systems have begun to require school uniforms. The Long Beach, California, school system started requiring school uniforms in 1994. There was a dramati ... 994. There was a dramatic decline in crime within these schools. According to district officials in Long Beach, fights decreased some 51% and assault and battery offenses decreased 34%. (US Dept. of E ...

(2 pages) 21 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

"Endless Summer" - The surf Film that broke conventions, stereotypes, and rules of filmmaking

ocumentary features ever made.”Bruce Brown’s surfing legacy began as a stoked teenager in Long Beach, California. He developed a wholehearted love of the sport and always dreamed of conveyin ... Cape Town, they came across a break at Cape St. Francis where “perfect cylinders peeled down a long, boulder-strewn point” (Holmes 62). Here, the three surfers found waves that rode for over ...

(11 pages) 2697 0 3.0 Nov/2009

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

essay on school uniforms

t is more stylish or expensive than another. Linda Moore, principal at Will Rogers Middle School in Long Beach, California, states, "Uniforms reduce the differences between the haves and have-nots" (R ... tire may be used as a means of concealing weapons, or even as weapons (Paliokas, 1). At a school in Long Beach, California, after only the first year that uniforms were implemented, overall school cri ...

(5 pages) 1 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy