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    The founders of the pony express are William H. Russell, William B. Waddell, and Alexander Majors. It traveled from St.Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California. The route along the Pony Express began at the Platte River, next Fort Bridger, then to the Great Salt Lakes, and finally to Sierra Nevada. The route was a total of one hundred-ninety four miles.- They switched horses every ten- fifteen miles.With one hundred- ninety stations the Pony Express covered the rough terrain fastly. It only lasted

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    Pony Express

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    Pony Express On April 3rd, 1860, the Pony Express started. The first rider named Henry Wallace left St. Joseph, Missouri. On April 13th the last rider reached Sacramento, California. To become a rider you had to be a brave young man, and an orphan, because it was a dangerous job. They had to be very good riders, and able to shoot good. And they must not fear Indian attacks. Every rider had to ride sixty miles at very high speed. He had to travel the 60 miles with six different ponies and in

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    brother was talking about a job for pony riders to deliver mail. He continued on about a sign he saw that said “WANTED:Young,skinny, wiry fellows not over 18. Must be expert riders willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred.” eager for adventure and dreading farm life he took up the offer of becoming apart of the Pony Express and rode to Missouri. On April 3, 1860 he would become the first rider of the Pony Express known as James Randall. The Pony Express was the savior to communication with

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    The OSI Model and The Pony Express

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    The OSI Model and The Pony Express The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model is essential to the world of computer networking. The model was created in 1977 by the International Standards Committee, in response to a difficulty that was facing computer networkers at the time (Shelly, Cashman, and Serwatka 142). In order to understand the difficulty, one must first realize that computer networks consist of computer hardware, the software that is to be used in conjunction with this hardware

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    The Failure of the Pony Express Communication System in America A race from the start, a rider jumped to the back of his fresh pony and bolted from the station, sweating and tired, but always knowing the mail must go through, the young boy spurred the pony on as the station keepers watched the dust rise under the feet of the United States fastest mail transport… Genghis Khan is often credited with the idea of a Pony Express, more however a relay then a mail service. He began the horse relay

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    Buffalo Bill

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    figures of the Old West became the best known spokesman for the New West. He was born William Frederick Cody in Iowa in 1846. At 22, in Kansas, he was rechristened "Buffalo Bill". He had been a trapper, a bullwhacker, a Colorado "Fifty-Niner", Pony Express rider (1860), wagonmaster, stagecoach driver, Civil War soldier, and even hotel manager. He earned his nickname for his skill while supplying Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with buffalo meat. He was about to embark on a career as one of the most

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    Canals, steamboats, and railroads allowed for faster travel of exports and the creation of bigger cities. The invention of the Pony Express, specialized regions, and infrastructure permitted Americans to keep in touch over long distances and the creation of market towns, which inspired a deep, national connection from all corners of the country. The giant leap made by the Transportation

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    Technological Frontier

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    everyone. Engineers are obligated to use their skills, intelligence and apply their knowledge to promote human welfare. An example of this has been the advancement of communications. Instead of sending a letter to a family member or loved one by pony express, now one can send mail in just seconds through e-mail. This technological advancement makes it easier and better to communicate that is satisfying to humans. These advancements in the long term will have small constraints, but in the short term

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    Team Communication

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    Throughout humankind, communication has been used from sending firer signals to the pony express; communication is a very important part of our world today. Team Leader and member should always know their audience. Managers have all the tools necessaries to get their message across from meeting, email, office bulletin board, using FedEx. No matter how they chose to get the message across effective communication is important. This paper will discuss the effective communication in a team. Looking

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    Internet Provides New Ways to Communicate

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    Internet Provides New Ways to Communicate Through the centuries, technology has changed communication. In the 19th century people communicated through mail by the use of the pony express and through the electrical speech machine, known today as the telephone. In the 20th century into the beginning of the 21st century the new technology of computers has become widely available to people around the world. With computers, the internet has changed the way people communicate today. Postal mail

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    Communication Devices

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    Technology grows exponentially, meaning that the more it grows the faster it grows, yet in dealing with this technology we can in turn learn how to decrease our work time while increasing our productivity. We have definitely come a long way from the pony express and telegraph, yet it is not so long ago that we do not still use their predecessors, surface mail and telephones. With current technological advancements it is now possible to communicate across the planet instantaneously, thanks to wide-band

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    Building A Radio Empire

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    organize our existence."--Michael R. Real, Super Media DEFINING MOMENTS IN MASS MEDIA Newspapers. Media began with the written word . . . To date, the oldest existing written document dates back to 2200 B.C. By 500 B.C. Persia had developed a form of pony express and the Greeks had a ¡§telegraph¡¨ system consisting of trumpets, drums, shouting, beacon fires, smoke signals, and mirrors; transmitting a form of communication to the masses. In 200 B.C. the Chinese circulated the first ¡§newspaper,¡¨ the Tipao

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    Erin's Causal Argument

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    Erin's Causal Argument "Nothing meant more to people who went West in the 1840's and 1850's than mail from home." - National Park Service Pony Express Historic Trail Brochure People moved West for many reasons: the prospect of a new beginning, free land, even Gold! Leaving family behind was a hardship that many settlers dealt with. And at this time, the only way to communicate with those left behind was to write letters. Moving was, and still is, a very traumatic process. Picking up and

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    Socs. Cherry Valance - Cherry is from the richer part of town and associates mainly with the Socs, but she befriends Pony and the other Greasers and gives them information about the Socs. Bob Gardner - Bob is Cherry's boyfriend. Johnny murders Bob to stop him from killing Pony. Dallas Winston - A member of the Greasers, Dally has spent time in prison. He helps Johnny and Pony by telling them to go to Jay Mountain to hide out and by giving them money. Two-Bit Mathews - The Greasers' oldest

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    Buck Hill Research Paper

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    Horse Power by Ruth Ottoway, Jill Preston, and JR Robbins Buck Hill didn't stable the likes of Secretariat, War Horse, or Trigger, but horses of a more modest lineage have played a role in our community from its very inception. Here, we take a step back in time and recollect some charming equine events: It was 1900, and a typical "Pocono mountain wagon" was dispatched to meet the train in Cresco when the Jenkins party came up to the mountains to see Samuel Griscom's newly inherited Buck Hill

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    My periodic table on horse breeds. I choose this because I love horses. I love riding them, caring for them, and just being around them in general. I organized the horse breeds into four groups - ponies, light horses (usually riding horses), and draft horses (usually working horses), and other horses (miniature horses, gaited horses, etc.). As you go down in each group, the atomic mass goes up. For example, the Arabian and Hanoverian are both light horses. But the Hanoverian’s atomic mass is 925

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    God put many creatures on this earth one including horses. I actually have a horse, well actually he’s my grandpa’s but I ride him, also his name is Navajo. He’s a pinto-quarter horse. He’s not all the way broke in, meaning you can ride him, but he still bucks and kicks. He’s very gentle with children. All in all I really enjoy horses especially caring for them, I like tacking up and going for a ride, horses are really fun to feed, and to design their stalls. As I said, I love to tack up and go

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    place like this. Had I not just done, in essence, what Calamity did when he opened fire on me? Only I had murdered these two, and even in retrospect had no reason to believe my admittedly fear-fueled instincts had been wrong. One of the dead ponies had a pair of manacles as a cutie mark, and the other had the keys both to the front door and the cage that took up two-thirds of the

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    Passionate About Horses

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    “To many, the words love, hope and dreams are synonymous with horses.”- Author Unknown. Horses are my passion, because school has never been necessarily easy for me. Through hard work and having interests outside of school like my horses, I have been able to succeed in high school. If I’m being completely honest, I never Imagined college being something that I’d pursue in my future, not unless I would be studying something that I was truly passionate about and this for me is my horse. Through my

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    Geronimo

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    Geronimo I was born in No-doyohn Canon, Arizona, June, 1829. In that country which lies around the head waters of the Gila River I was reared. This range was our fatherland; among these mountains our wigwams were hidden; the scattered valleys contained our fields; the boundless prairies, stretching away on every side, were our pastures; the rocky caverns were our burying places. I was fourth in a family of eight children-- four boys and four girls. Of that family, only myself, my brother

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