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…in the kingdom. Chiefs used surfing and other Hawaiian sports as competition to maintain their strength, agility and command over their people. The Kapu system also determined how, why and with what materials surfboards were to be made. The type of wood used…

…kind of horrible criminal was he to deserve armed federal agents rushing on his house and family? And why isn’t there a happy ending to this story? Randy Weaver was a 44-year old ex-Green Beret. He lived in a cabin in the woods of Ruby Ridge with his…

…that there are two different kinds of lanes. The most common type lane is the synthetic lane. This type of lane is called synthetic because it is actually man made imitation wood. The other type of lane is wood. Wood lanes are called wood lanes because they are made…

…to the public, although it was still considered a strange sport. Now that snowboards were allowed on some mountains, the board needed to be redesigned so that it would work on packed snow. Shaped wood can slide along on a hill of deep powder, and it could…

…with all of the wood? People started cutting down the tree in the America’s nearly as soon as they got off the boat. They used the lumber to construct they’re first houses, and other essential buildings. The forestry industry got its official start in 1633…

…Metallurgical Laboratory, were not available. Groves had some doubts regarding the next best candidate, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Wood 2). Finally, Groves gambled on Oppenheimer, a theoretical mathematician, as director of the weapons laboratory, built on an isolated…

…for escape from slave life. When Sixo visits the Thirty-Mile Woman, he escapes into the secure woods before her master could catch him, "But Sixo had already melted into the woods before the lash could unfurl itself on his indigo behind" (Morrison 25). While Paul…

…of a textbook that deals with drugs and the sexual behavior of teenagers (Berger 61).         These cases of censorship in public schools are not unusual and there is evidence that such challenges are increasing (Woods 2). These challenges are actually…

…Greece nor of its Renaissance counterpart, but an amalgamation of the former with the folk culture of Elizabethan England. After Act I, the play shifts to the "fairyland woods" and remains there through Acts II, III, and IV, returning to "Athens" in Act V…

…, although it was still considered a strange sport. Now that snowboards were allowed on some mountains, the board needed to be redesigned so that it would work on packed snow. Shaped wood can slide along on a hill of deep powder, and it could turn pretty good…