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Motorcycle Helmets, 2006.
This paper explores the design of motorcycle helmets.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper examines the physics of elastic and inelastic collisions and applies this theory to the design of motorcycle helmets. The author discusses the essential features of motorcycle helmets and compares a good design and a bad design.. The paper relates the way motorcycle helmets protect the brain.
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"The laws of momentum and energy govern collisions between two objects. A collision occurring in an isolated system conserves the total momentum of the system and so the total momentum of the system after the collision is the same as it was before the ..."
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Motorcycle Helmet Law in Kentucky, 2006.
A look at the motorcycle helmet law in the United States of America, with a specific focus on the state of Kentucky.
1,760 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper reviews the history of the motorcycle helmet laws in the United States of America, with specific focus on the state of Kentucky.
The motorcycle helmet laws have undergone various changes, adaptations and then finally abandoned, since the original law was passed in the early 1970s.
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"Motorcycle helmets do provide the very best protection to riders from fatal head injuries when they are riding a motorcycle, and meet with a crash. However, only the law can increase helmet usage among the general population, and therefore, it must be stated that the laws governing motorcycle usage must be more stringent and strict. Accordingly, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or the NHTSA ensures the safety of motorcyclists by requiring that all states follow the rule that states that all motorcycle riders must wear helmets. Statistics reveal that in the year 2002 alone, 3,244 motorcyclists died and a further 65,000 individuals were injured in crashes involving motorcycle riders in the United States of America. In the same way, it must be noted that an unhelmeted motorcyclist is 40% more likely to suffer from a fatal head injury than a helmeted person. This means that helmet usage can reduce the risk of fatality by about 37%. (Laws, Motorcycle Helmet Laws)."
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Motorcycle Helmets, 1991.
This paper discusses the law mandating helmets: Background, freedom of choice, discriminatory legislation, economics, statistics and precedents.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 47.95
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In recent years, a controversy has arisen over the issue of whether or not motorcycle riders should be required by law to wear helmets. Those who favor such laws claim that helmets help to reduce the occurrence of head injuries in motorcycle accidents. As such, it is argued that the use of helmets helps in reducing the number of deaths and disabilities which are caused by such injuries. Those who are opposed to mandatory helmet laws claim that the motorcycle rider cannot see or hear properly while wearing a helmet. In addition, the opponents of laws mandating helmets argue that they have a right to freedom of choice in the matter. It is argued that the government has no right to legislate on this issue, and that any attempt to do so is an infringement of personal liberties.
At this time, the controversy over motorcycle helmets is ... "
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Marketing Motorcycle Helmets on the Internet, 2001.
Discusses the product, marketing problems, SWOT analysis, Internet analysis. Steps to develop a new web site. Marketing & advertising the produce.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, $ 55.95
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"The product name is Xian Hua, which is a fiberglass motorcycle helmet manufactured in Taiwan. The import cost for the product is $7.95 US in quantities of 100. The product is new, and has been crash tested in Taiwan and is capable of withstanding 130 pounds of direct pressure and is also capable of withstanding crashes of seventy miles per hour.
About the Marketing Problems
When getting ready to market such a product in a nation where there are so many channels from which to choose, it is essential to study the problems that other marketers have faced. The problems connected with marketing the helmet in the United States are believed to be these (Sealey, 1999)...."
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Mandatory Motorcycle Helmet Laws, 2003.
A discussion of mandatory helmet laws from a public health perspective.
1,380 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 47.95
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This paper analyzes the issue of mandatory helmet laws for motorcyclists as a health policy issue. The paper begins with an overview of the issue, followed by an analysis of the issue in several contexts. The paper focuses on the importance of this health safety issue for professional nursing and offers strategy recommendations for the nurses.
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CA Motorcycle Helmet Law of 1992, 1994.
Legal & economic analysis. Issues examined include insurance, citations, helmet market, liability and freedom vs. safety.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 6 sources, $ 39.95
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"Beginning on January 1, 1992, motorcycle riders in California had to wear helmets or risk receiving a moving violation citation. The helmet law was controversial on several fronts, with hard-core motorcycle riders concerned about the loss of freedom that goes with not wearing a helmet, helmet manufacturers interested in an increase in sales and insurance companies concerned both that the helmet law would reduce the seriousness of injuries received by riders while increasing the number of product liability cases that were filed against manufacturers of helmets. This research examines the motorcycle helmet law and considers its economic effects both to individual riders and to society as a whole.
At the heart of the controversy surrounding the helmet law is where an individual's personal freedom to enjoy a leisure activity.."
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Helmet Laws, 2007.
This paper discusses the current debate over motorcycle helmet laws.
1,090 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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The paper relates how the motorcycle helmet laws have raised different ideas regarding how governments should police individual behavior. On one hand, government advocates argue that the enforcement of helmet laws is a public safety issue. Many motorists, however, believe that helmet laws interfere with personal decisions and should be seen as unconstitutional. The paper discusses these arguments and reveals that it is in society's greater financial interest to prevent as many motorcycle injuries and fatalities as possible. The paper concludes that the government should re-institute and enforce mandatory helmet laws throughout the United States.
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"Motorcyclists who challenge the state mandatory helmet laws have often been portrayed as reckless thrill-seekers. They are seen as irresponsible rebels who relish danger. However, this stereotype downplays many helmet law opponents' valid concerns.
"Sonny Pinard, a biker based in Port Charlotte, Florida, believes that "people are grown adults, and they're old enough to make their own decisions" (qtd in O'Donnell). For riders like Pinard, the motorbike is the ultimate representation of freedom. A helmet is therefore a negation of the bike, a symbol of constraint."
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Triumph Motorcycle, 2007.
A case study of this leader in the motorcycle manufacturing industry.
3,658 words (approx. 14.6 pages), 16 sources, MLA, $ 101.95
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Triumph Ltd. is an internationally acknowledged motorcycle manufacturer with a history of over a century. This paper delves briefly into the company's history before showing its present situation in the market. The paper includes tables.
Paper Outline:
Executive Summary
Background
Organizational Data
Current Issues
Environmental Scan
SWOT Analysis
Environmental Analysis
Competitive Analysis
Market Segmentation
Market Targeting
Market Positioning
Implementation Plan
Conclusions
Bibliography
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"Aside from being the leading motorcycle provider in the Hollywood movie making industry and being able to develop successful business partnerships with several providers, Triumph's activity could also take a positive turn now that the Asian producers have registered lower revenues and less satisfactory feed-back from the customers. During the past years, the Japanese motorbike producers have proved incapable of satisfying the growing needs of their customers. Triumph could avail itself of this situation by launching new products on the market, products that not only feed the nostalgia of the middle-aged men, but also fast motorbikes that regain the "race-winning reputation"."
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Motorcycle Diaries, 2002.
Examining Ernesto Che Guevara's book "The Motorcycle Diaries" and how these tales represented the life he lived.
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The paper shows how the author of the book, ?The Motorcycle Diaries? was a famous revolutionary leader of the left wing in Cuba and one of the supporters of Castro during his revolutionary struggle for government. The writer examines how the book reflex his early life and how this influence the type of leader he became.
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"During the 1950s, he traveled throughout North America on a motorcycle along with one of his friends. This book gives a detailed account of his journey. They explored almost all of the North America on an old fashioned Norton motorcycle. During the journey they faced a lots of hurdles, experienced some memorable moments and went through lots of hassles. As they traveled through different parts of South America, they met a wide range of people belonging to considerably different cultures and having significantly different attitudes. A couple of years after this wonderful journey, Ernesto Che Guevara became actively involved in the Cuban revolution and soon emerged as a left wing militant. He was always in a habit of writing down the major events of everyday in a diary. ?The Motorcycle Diaries? is in fact a collection from his diaries that he wrote during his journey on the motorcycle. This book is a good source of information about the South American environment."
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"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", 2002.
A review of this contemporary philosophical narrative, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig.
1,470 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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The paper sets out to show how certain philosophic truths about Zen are revealed in the form of a novel, and how it attempts to explicate Zen Buddhism for an American audience through the use of a narrative and a subject matter that is understandable to an American audience. The plot is outlined and the author?s Zen philosophy is discussed.
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"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig is perhaps one of the most unusually named works of contemporary philosophical narrative. The book takes the form of a novel in which certain philosophic truths about Zen are revealed. The book attempts to explicate Zen Buddhism for an American audience through the use of a narrative and a subject matter that will be understandable to an American audience."
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Robert M Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", 1976.
This paper analyzes Robert M Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" that deals with the search for quality and synthesis of Eastern and Western views.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, $ 55.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the significance of the title in Robert M. Persig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. On a concrete level, the title refers to two very distinct times in the life of the narrator. Early in his life, as Phaedrus, the narrator spent several years studying Oriental philosophy at Benares Hindu University. During this period he discovered that western logic is not "final wisdom" because it presupposes a dichotomy between the thing perceived and the perceiver. The elimination of activity - physical, mental, and emotional - is the path to truth and final wisdom, since it dispels the illusion of the subject/object duality:
There are many disciplines for this. One of the most important is the Sanskrit dhvana, mispro- nounced in Chinese as "Chan" and again mispro- ... "
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"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M Pirsig, 1993.
A review of the work on the quest for truth, values, reality, art, spirituality and technology.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"In his book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig offers an assessment of the idea of quality and applies this to life, using as his platform the maintenance of a motorcycle. He uses the quality of a mechanical object and the relationship of that object to himself as a thinking human being as a way of finding a unity with the idea of quality in every life experience. The motorcycle is more than just his tool for accomplishing this. It is a physical object that is also a mental construct. It is an object of art and an object of technology at one and the same time, and it is through Pirsig's direct work on the motorcycle that he is able to see the unity in what are sometimes set forth as opposites--technology and art, classical and romantic, the internal and the external.
The book has as its overt subject one man's quest for truth..."
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"Longing for Darkness" by China Galland and "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M Pirsig, 1994.
A comparison of the paths to enlightenment and natural processes of spirituality in the two books on knowledge and philosophy in the East and West.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, $ 39.95
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"This study will compare and contrast the paths to enlightenment portrayed in two books, Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna, by China Galland, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig. The study will consider how the spiritual/philosophical journey toward truth and reality is a natural process and one in which we are all perpetually involved.
Both works tend to emphasize an Eastern approach to wisdom, although Pirsig's journey takes place entirely in the United States, while Galland travels throughout the world, East and West. This Eastern approach to wisdom stresses intuition and experience over dogma or doctrine. Although both authors include many elements of Western religion and thought (especially Greek philosophy in Pirsig and Christian faith in Galland), it would be..."
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Harley-Davidson Motorcycles - A Case Study, 2001.
This paper presents a financial overview of Harley-Davidson, the motorcycle manufacturer; included are many charts, graphs, and timelines to support the text.
5,014 words (approx. 20.1 pages), 17 sources, $ 126.95
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This paper presents a financial overview of Harley-Davidson, the motorcycle manufacturer. The author provides background of the company including a timeline and many supporting charts. Statistical data and financial breakdowns accompany the text.
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"In Milwaukee, William Harley and Arthur Davidson started experiments to take the work out of bicycling. After being joined by the Arthur brothers, Walter and William, they came up with the idea of putting a motor and a bicycle together. Many changes were made to the engine design before its builders were satisfied. In 1903, they created the first Harley-Davidson motorcycle and produced three that year. In 1907, Harley produced 150 motorcycles."
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Bicycle Safety, 2008.
A lesson plan for a third grade class that aims to encourage the use of safety helmets for bicycles.
1,783 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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The paper develops an age and developmentally appropriate lesson plan for a third grade class to promote the use of safety helmets when riding bicycles. The paper describes how the lesson will encourage class participation and will use the inherent developmental characteristics of eight year-olds to belong to a group to provide positive peer pressure. The paper explains that the lesson is also designed to provide reasons why the wearing of helmets is necessary for personal safety and to prevent injury.
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"There are 85 million bicycle riders in the United States, and 540,000 of them visited them emergency room, of those 67,000 had head injuries, 27,000 required hospitalization, and 45 to 85 percent of the brain injuries could have been prevented by a helmet. (Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute) About half of the bicycle deaths were children under 15. The use of helmets vary greatly in different sectors of society by orders of magnitude, white collar communities helmet use in children is approximately 80%, where inner-city children the use is closer to 10%. (Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute) The targeted community of Lacey, Washington would be classified as a white collar community with a white population of approximately 75% and a medium income of $43,848 (year 2000)."
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