homas Cruise Mapother IV, better known as Tom Cruise, was born on July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, New York, to Mary and Thomas Mapother. Cruise's mother was an amateur actress and schoolteacher, and his father was an electrical engineer. His family moved around a great deal when Cruise was a child in order to accommodate his father's career. Cruise's parents divorced when he was 11, and the children moved with their mother to Louisville, Kentucky, and then to Glen Ridge, New Jersey, after her remarriage. Like his mother and three sisters, Cruise suffered from dyslexia, which made academic success difficult for him.…
The camp you will be staying at is off the coast of Southern California and is on the North Western side of Catalina. It is 22 miles from Los Angeles which is where you board the ship that takes you to Catalina. When you are outside (or sometimes even when you are inside), the temperature is normally really warm and sometimes humid so I would suggest bringing and applying sunscreen in the morning and after every meal. Some of the native plants are eucalyptus trees, pine trees, moss, and cherry trees. The cherries that are on Catalina Island are different than what we are used to.…
The United States Coast Guard describes the undertaking as “...one of the greatest in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard (“Bernard C. Webber, USCG”, 1).” The United States Coast Guard is a merger of five Federal agencies that were once independent, but with overlapping responsibilities. These agencies are the Revenue Cutter Service, the Lighthouse Service, the Steamboat Inspection Service, the Bureau of Navigation, and the Lifesaving Service ("U.S. Coast Guard History", 1). Since this is the case, one might think there are many other great rescues which could top the SS Pendleton, however this rescue is one of the best in both the past and present. The events throughout the SS Pendleton rescue defy how the world generally operates, for their…
Have you ever heard of a tap tap? Three summers ago, I discovered a tap tap not just a nickname for banging a pencil on a deck, but a kind of taxi in Haiti. They are called tap taps because the passengers will signal the driver to stop or go by simply tapping on the back of the truck. I learned this fact on a mission trip to Haiti three summers ago. The trip was a very eye opening experience where I learned that I have many things to be thankful for.…
In July of 2010, my great grandmother, Mama Eva, slipped and fell in Ocean City, Maryland. That summer I was on trip with Mama Eva, grandmother, great aunt and great uncle. It was the first full day of our five-day trip. In the morning, Mama Eva was going to use the bathroom when she slipped and fell. She slipped because a bottle of laundry detergent fell and the liquid detergent leaked on to the ceramic tile floor.…
It is December 7, 1941 and Pearl Harbor has been bombed, America is entering World War II. However as war quickly approaches there are problems that arise, such as the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean being in the way of us getting to the enemy. These bodies of water raise many logistical problems, for example how do we transport thousands of soldier with weaponry, food, fuel, and tanks all the way to the Pacific Islands and Europe?…
Seagoing Cowboys Seagoing cowboys do and see many great things. They travel to many different countries, see beautiful things, and get to sail the sea! Being a seagoing cowboy sure would be a great thing to do, and there are plenty of reasons for that. Seagoing cowboys get to see many interesting things.…
One day in April, Tyler was a part of a pirate crew and they were headed into the deep waters of the East Pacific Ocean. Armed with baskets of food and gunpowder, they were on a voyage to trade with others in Thailand. Tyler was a Jamaican crew member for the “Red Bearded Pirate Crew”. He met his crew in Scotland when he was picking up fur pallets.…
It was a nice truck ran great was going to be my truck. So I was driving down the dirt road and I start slowing down because this bridge has a little tricky curve and it happened to be muddy that day I slow down but not soon enough I hit the muddy spot and in panic I slam on my brakes because I wasn't thinking and…
In this essay I am going to tell you about how going on a mission trip with my church changed my life for the better. Have you ever had a moment in your life where you knew you would remember forever? "It will be a good experience!" My mother told me this hundreds of times before I went; however, I was still on the fence about going on the trip.…
I’m going to tell you about my trip to Colorado. When we entered Colorado all you could see was trees and mountains. It was the summer of 2015, and it was one of my favorite vacations. The reason I picked my trip to Colorado is, because I remember it the most.…
“Daddy I think that’s our tire,” I screamed. As our tire was rolling down the side of the snow covered hill with smoke coming off of it. Two years ago our trip to the Wisconsin Dells over spring break started off like like most of our family vacations. My mom wanted to go somewhere for spring break and my dad didn’t want to pay a lot of money.…
About a week ago I turned on the television and the news was on. When it came on it was talking about the Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, and how the shooting could have been prevented. The news stated the he had some sort of Autism or Asperger’s, the man bought ten suitcases into his hotel room and had the “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door for three days. Finally, the night of the Route 91 Harvest music festival he shot a security guard. Then he shot out of his hotel room window toward the concert killing fifty-eight people and injuring about five-hundred people.…
Introduction “Most successful entrepreneurs don’t begin with brilliant ideas, they discover them.” One of the two new ventures that I would like to start up is called Yearly Cruises. What is Yearly Cruises? Yearly Cruises offers up to 365 days of cruising. My second venture will be called School on Water.…
If there was any day I could re-live it’d be the day that my stepfather died from drunk driving. Maybe even the following days when my mother broke and became an alcoholic. If I could really could go back then I could have done something to help her and save him from the car crash.. But, I can only choose one day therefore I choose the day he died from drunk driving.…