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1. "The Antarctic is the vast source of cold on our planet, just as the sun is the source of our heat, and it exerts tremendous control on our climate," [Jacques] Cousteau told the camera. "The cold ocean water around Antarctica flows north to mix with warmer water from the tropics, and its upwellings help to cool both the surface water and our atmosphere. Yet the fragility of this regulating system is now threatened by human activity." From "Captain Cousteau," Audubon (May 1990):17.
The Major Power of ¨cold¨ in our world is the Antartic, it has the same function as the sun but completely opposite, and manipulates the weather or climate throughout the world. What thec old water does it that it runs throught the north and fuses with the warm water and it helps cool the top most part of the water and cools down our athmosphere. This is being threatened by our actions.

2. The twenties were the years when drinking was against the law, and the law was a bad joke because everyone knew of a local bar where liquor could be had. They were the years when organized crime ruled the cities, and the police seemed powerless to do anything against it. Classical music was forgotten while jazz spread throughout the land, and men like Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie became the heroes of the young. The flapper was born in the twenties, and with her bobbed hair and short skirts, she symbolized, perhaps more than anyone or anything else, America's break with the past. From Kathleen Yancey, English 102 Supplemental Guide (1989): 25.

There was a time in which crime dominated, the streets. Everyone could have liquor even thought it had been banned because there was always a local liquor store that sold you. We lost our sense for music and changed opera for Jazz. And Jazz artists became idols for the young. The flapper symbolized the Americas throughtout the 1920´s.

3. Of the more than 1000 bicycling deaths each year, three-fourths are caused by head injuries. Half of those killed are school-age children. One study concluded that wearing a bike helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent. In an accident, a bike helmet absorbs the shock and cushions the head. From "Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers," Consumer Reports (May 1990): 348.

The bicycle is a dangereous artifact. Approximately there are 1000 deaths a year and its main factor are head injuries and the mosyt people killed are the school kids. Using a helmet could prevent a death because it sucks up the fall, you can have an accident but not die.

4. Matisse is the best painter ever at putting the viewer at the scene. He's the most realistic of all modern artists, if you admit the feel of the breeze as necessary to a landscape and the smell of oranges as essential to a still life. "The Casbah Gate" depicts the well-known gateway Bab el Aassa, which pierces the southern wall of the city near the sultan's palace. With scrubby coats of ivory, aqua, blue, and rose delicately fenced by the liveliest gray outline in art history, Matisse gets the essence of a Tangier afternoon, including the subtle presence of the bowaab, the sentry who sits and surveys those who pass through the gate. From Peter Plagens, "Bright Lights." Newsweek (26 March 1990): 50.

Matissse is one of the best contemorary artists of the time and if you need the scent of an orange he transmits it throught his paintings. matisse nows how to make things come to life in a portrait and makes you feel as if you were there.

5. While the Sears Tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper engineering so far, it's unlikely that architects and engineers have abandoned the quest for the world's tallest building. The question is: Just how high can a building go? Structural engineer William LeMessurier has designed a skyscraper nearly one-half mile high, twice as tall as the Sears Tower. And architect Robert Sobel claims that existing technology could produce a 500-story building. From Ron Bachman, "Reaching for the Sky." Dial (May 1990): 15.

The sears tower is one of the tallest skyscrapers of all times. man just seems to be going on and now the architect of the sears tower William LeMessurier has confirmed that he wil make a building "half a mile twice" than the sears towers, our technology can produce a 500 stroy building.

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