The Longest Walk

Examples of The Longest Walk in the following topics:

• American Indian Rights

  • The fight for American Indian rights expanded in the 1960s, resulting in the creation of the American Indian Movement.
  • Many of the demands of the movement related to the U.S. government's obligation to honor its treaties with the sovereign American Indian nations.
  • The Longest Walk in 1978 was an AIM-led spiritual walk across the country to support tribal sovereignty and bring attention to 11 pieces of anti-Indian legislation.
  • The first walk began on February 11, 1978, with a ceremony on Alcatraz Island, where a Sacred Pipe was loaded with tobacco and carried the entire distance.
  • This 3,200-mile walk's purpose was to educate people about the U.S. government's continuing threat to tribal sovereignty; it rallied thousands representing many American Indian Nations throughout the United States and Canada.

• Naming Alkenes and Alkynes

  • Alkenes and alkynes are named similarly to alkanes, based on the longest chain that contains the double or triple bond.
  • Alkene and alkyne compounds are named by identifying the longest carbon chain that contains both carbons of the double or triple bond.
  • This longest chain is named by the alkane series convention: "eth-" for two carbons; "prop-" for three carbons; "but-" for four carbons; etc.
  • Substituents are added to the name as prefixes to the longest chain.
  • Next, the position of the double or triple bond is indicated using the position of the carbon in the bond with the lower backbone number, and the suffix for the compound is changed to "-ene" for an alkene and "-yne" for an alkyne.

• Walks etc.

  • A closed walk is one where the beginning and end point of the walk are the same actor.
  • A walk can involve the same actor or the same relation multiple times.
  • The length of a walk is simply the number of relations contained in it.
  • Semi-walks, semi-trails, and semi-paths are the same as for undirected data.
  • As always, the length of these distances is the number of relations in the walk, trail, or path.

• Muscles that Cause Movement at the Hip Joint

  • Actions - Abducts and medially rotates the thigh and fixes the pelvis during walking.
  • Actions - Abducts and medially rotates the thigh and fixes the pelvis during walking.
  • Actions - Adduction of the thigh at the hip, and flexing of the thigh at the knee.
  • Sartorius - The sartorius is a long thin muscle in the thigh, the longest muscle in the body.
  • The main action is flexing of the lower leg at the knee.

• Relative Velocity

  • Now imagine you are standing outside and observe the same man walking next to the train.
  • It will appear the the man is walking much faster than it seemed when you were inside the train.
  • Now, imagine you are on a boat, and you see a man walking from one end of the deck to the other.
  • The velocity that you observe the man walking in will be the same velocity that he would be walking in if you both were on land.
  • When you were on the train, your frame of reference was moving in the same direction that the man was walking, so it appeared that he was walking slower.

• Chance Processes

  • In the case of a random walk, for example, the law is the probability distribution of the possible trajectories of the walk.
  • For example, the path traced by a molecule as it travels in a liquid or a gas, the search path of a foraging animal, the price of a fluctuating stock, and the financial status of a gambler can all be modeled as random walks, although they may not be truly random in reality.
  • Thus, the random walk serves as a fundamental model for recorded stochastic activity.
  • Example of eight random walks in one dimension starting at 0.
  • Summarize the stochastic process and state its relationship to random walks.

• A Random Walk

  • We will study the random walk, Purchasing Power Parity Theory, the Relative Purchasing Parity Theory, Interest Rate Parity Theorem, and International Fisher Effect.
  • Currency market exchange rates could exhibit a random walk in the short run.
  • Statisticians define a random walk whose current value is the previous period's value plus a random disturbance.
  • We show a random walk in Equation 1.
  • A random walk has an unique characteristic – the variable drifts in a particular direction before changing direction.

• Femur (The Thigh)

  • The femur—the bone of the upper leg—is the longest bone in the human body and one of the strongest.
  • The femur or thigh bone is found in the upper leg and is the longest bone in the body.
  • The femur articulates proximally with the acetabulum of the pelvis to form the hip joint, and distally with the tibia and patella to form the knee joint.
  • Immediately lateral to the head is the neck that connects the head with the shaft.
  • Located superiorly on the main shaft, lateral to the joining of the neck, the greater trochanter is a projection to which the abductor and lateral rotator muscles of the leg attach.

• Aboriginal Australian Art

  • Aboriginal Australian art can be traced back at least 30,000 years and is one of the longest continuously practiced artistic traditions in the world.
  • Aboriginal art in Australia can be traced back at least 30,000 years; the rock art of Australian Aborigines is one of the longest continuously practiced artistic traditions in the world.
  • Rock paintings are divided into three periods based on the styles and content of the art: the Pre-Estuarine Period (c. 40,000–6000 BCE), the Estuarine Period (c. 6000 BCE–500 CE), and the Fresh Water Period (c. 500 CE–present).
  • The geometric style (known for its concentric circles, arcs, and dots) found in Central Australia, Tasmania, the Kimberly, and Victoria;
  • This led to the development of the Papunya Tulaschool, or dot art, now possibly Australia's most recognizable style of art worldwide.

• Taxes and the Three Estates

  • The taxation system under the Ancien Régime largely excluded the nobles and the clergy from taxation while the commoners, particularly the peasantry, paid disproportionately high direct taxes.
  • One critical difference between the estates of the realm was the burden of taxation.
  • In the "pays d'élection" (the longest held possessions of the French crown) the assessment and collection of taxes were originally trusted to elected officials but later these positions were bought.
  • With all the exemptions and reductions won by the privileged classes, however, the burden of the new tax once again fell on the poorest.
  • Further, people from less-privileged walks of life were blocked from acquiring even petty positions of power in the regime, which caused further resentment.