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John Landrø
EN-113
Lecture 21
RehearsalsOctober 31 2005
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Underwater Rugby
by
Jan Marius Egenes
Underwater Rugby is a sport played under water in a swimming pool. There are six players in each team, and one ball which is slightly negatively buoyant. The goal of the game is to put the ball into a round metal basket on the bottom at the opposing team’s end of the “field”. The team with the most goals at the end of the match wins.
I my presentation I will explain the basic rules of the sport, how to play it and which equipment is needed. I will also tell about some of my personal experiences and how I got into the sport. Hopefully, some of you will find it interesting, and consider trying the sport yourself.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator
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Rolf Werner Folgerø
Microsoft Flight Simulator is an advanced and detailed software for simulating aviation.
If you are interested in airplanes and aviation, this software can be used to start practicing the theoretical part before potentially ordering a real PPL course (PPL = private pilot license).
In my presentation, I will introduce some selected topics from Microsoft Flight Simulator. I will talk about Aviation History integrated in the simulator, the Learning Centre, how to create a Fligt Plan, realism, airplanes and models. Finally, I will present some pictures from an ongoing cockpit project in Bergen.
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Summary of World War II in Europe
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Elvedin Grudic
World War II, global military conflict that, in terms of lives lost and material destruction, was the most devastating war in human history. It began in 1939 as a European conflict between Germany and an Anglo-French coalition but eventually widened to include most of the nations of the world. It ended in 1945, leaving a new world order dominated by the United States and the USSR.
More than any previous war, World War II involved the commitment of nations’ entire human and economic resources. The most important determinants of its outcome were industrial capacity and personnel. It the last stages of war, two radically new weapons were introduced: the long-range rocket and the atomic bomb. In the main, however, the war was fought with the same or improved weapons of the types used in World War I. The greatest advances were in aircrafts and tanks.
I want to inform about World War II because I have always been interested in history, and war has in a way always fascinated me, may be because I myself have experienced what war can do to people, how it can bring people together and at the same time make them archenemies. I hope my short presentation will awaken a similar interest for history in you as I have.
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Myths and Facts about Global Warming
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Kjell Cato Heskestad
Here follows a brief summary of my presentation, "Myths and Facts aboutGlobal Warming."
The term global warming refers to the increase in the averagetemperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans. Before I startedresearching my presentation all I knew about global warming was what Ihad read in newspapers and heard on the news. Since the general massmedia is not known for their accurate portrayals of scientific researchI decided to study global warming more in-depth and present my findingsto the class.
My presentation will address the following points:
* Is the Earth really getting warmer?
* Is it getting warmer because of human activities, or can it beattributed to natural causes?
* Is there really a big controversy among scientists about globalwarming?
* Does the Kyoto agreement really matter?