Essays Tagged: "Radar"

My best friend Radar. Descriptive essay about my horse.

Descriptive essayMY BEST FRIEND RADAR                 When I woke up in the morning I knew that today ...       When I woke up in the morning I knew that today is the day formeeting my best friend Radar. Radar looks absolutely gorgeous. Hisblack expresive thoughtful eyes are always slightly s ...half-darkened barn. that pleasantly smells of fresh hay, mixedwith the familiar, warm smell of Radar. Inside the dark silence Ican hear him chewing. Suddenly, as soon as he hears thegrindi ...

(1 pages) 1295 31 4.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Stranded

my crew. Our very routine fishing trip had turned into nightmare when the storm came in and we lost radar. We thought that we would be fine considering we had taking this trip hundreds of times over t ...

(4 pages) 113 0 4.4 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Radar

Today's society relies heavily on an invention taken for granted: radar. Just about everybody uses radar, whether they realize it or not. Tens of thousands of lives r ... adar, whether they realize it or not. Tens of thousands of lives rely on the precision and speed of radar to guide their plane through the skies unscathed. Others just use it when they turn on the mor ... nscathed. Others just use it when they turn on the morning news to check the weather forecast.While radar seems to be an important part of our everyday lives, it has not been around for long. It was n ...

(4 pages) 45 0 4.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Weather Forecasting

hroughthe many means at their disposal, such as satellites, ships at the ocean,infrared, radio, and radar transmissions even with all of thesetechniques no prediction is 100% accurate.One question tha ... and devices used by local andgovernment services to predict the weather. Some of these devices are,Radar which is actually sound waves, which bounce off clouds andgive location of storms this way.Ano ...

(3 pages) 61 0 2.7 Feb/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Racial profiling-Gives examples and real instances where blacks and minorities were victims of racial profiling.

tims of racial profiling. Black drivers account for 26.2 percent of stops resulting from the use of radar or laser devices for from red-light violations; however, they only make up 15.1 percent of the ... rent from those in stops of white drivers. Blacks and Hispanics were less likely to be stopped when radar surveillance or red-light violations were involved(www.washington.com). In attempt to slow dow ...

(3 pages) 200 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Television, a Waste of Time And Money

nglish man, held the patent for the transmission of photographs by wire as well as fiber optics and radar, which demonstrated a mechanical scanning device that was an early ancestor to modern televisi ...

(7 pages) 66 0 4.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Description essay for English 101. Teacher wanted supportive words and clear thesis and restatement.

I have to stand for a minute to let my eyes adjust to the change of light. I walk swiftly over to a radar station and start powering up. I then dart from one station to the next flicking on and checki ... k is done prior to our departure.Out of the corner of my eye, I notice the bright green glow of the radar screens are forming ink blot shapes that remind me of the Rorschach tests given at psychiatric ...

(3 pages) 46 0 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Satellites and Sputnik

e payload is all the equipment a satellite needs to do its job. This can include antennas, cameras, radar, and electronics. The payload is different for every satellite. For example, the payload for a ...

(7 pages) 67 2 4.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Space

Cloudstreet

orld War II. It is a book about community that stirs deep hungers for belonging.Fish Lamb's Sadness RadarThe significance of the title of this chapter is shown in the opening sentences. "Quick Lamb re ... or sons and fathers and brothers. The war's over, he knows, but he picks up sadness like he's got a radar for it."We are introduced to the 'poor kids' that Quick sees at school. They are brothers, Wog ...

(4 pages) 52 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Microwaves

MicrowavesTechnology: Microwaves1. When did it developed?It was during a radar-related research project around 1945 that Dr. Percy LeBaron Spencer, a self-taught engineer wi ...

(1 pages) 18 0 0.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

BASIC RADAR, SONAR & DOPPLER THEORY

BASIC RADAR, SONAR, & DOPPLER THEORYRADARThe term RADAR is an acronym made up of the words radio detec ... ARThe term RADAR is an acronym made up of the words radio detection and ranging. In today's society radar plays an important part of our every day lives. Thousands of lives rely on the accuracy and sp ... lays an important part of our every day lives. Thousands of lives rely on the accuracy and speed of radar to guide their plane through the skies unscathed. Radar is also used to provide us our daily w ...

(7 pages) 50 1 3.9 Sep/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

My trip to Disney

p. My cousins had a blast because they had never been on a naval base. My dad took us into the dark radar rooms, which looked like a room full of video games. There were many war simulation games we c ...

(3 pages) 34 0 3.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Labour & Globalization: The Dysfunctional Marriage

has been one of the most widespread implications of globalization, yet has managed to fly under the radar for years. Subsequently, the instant and effortless mobility of funds gives corporations emplo ...

(8 pages) 48 0 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

First Love

History About RadarRadar was developed between 1935-40 independently in several countries around the world as a de ... ng enemy aircrafts and ships. Sir Robert Watson-Watt, a Scots physicist devised the first practical radar system in 1935.During World War II and immensely after the war technology evolved rapidly in r ... in 1935.During World War II and immensely after the war technology evolved rapidly in radar, giving radar the following benefits, higher power out puts, greater receiver sensitivity and improved timin ...

(4 pages) 11 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Bombing Pearl Harbor

BOMBING HARBOR On Dec. 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor was bombed by two different air raids. At 7:02 A.M radar picked up a swarm of 50 or more planes. The first wave was at 7:53 A.M. which had 183 ships. T ...

(2 pages) 24 0 1.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Math

ht.Another way math is used in flying is navigation. Navigation is the way you find yourself on the radar and your relation to the sun. If you do not now how to navigate your plane you will not be abl ...

(1 pages) 1215 0 4.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry