Napoleon made his troop go from Northern Italy into Austria. John Adams is the first president to live in the White House. 1803 Louisiana Purchase was made. Tsar Paul I is assassinated. The Cumberland Road was made to improve western transportation. Johnny Appleseed start teaching pioneers how to plant apple trees. In 1800 Lewis and William Clark expedition began in 1804. Robert E. Lee attends the first West Point Academy with Ulysses S. Grant. Charles Willson Peale establishes…
IT is the early winter of 2015, a cold, windy Wednesday afternoon. Two of us sit together, side by side, in soft, comfortable chairs on the second level of our home. We wear everyday clothes. I listen patiently to her ramblings. When the talking is over, I sit up in the chair, and I am officially telling her everything, the eldest child of Heather Crawford in the city of Hutto, Texas. For me, the curtain has just closed on lying. Afterward, I look up at my mom, my biggest critic, and apologize…
The man’s brown eyes are focused and determined as he surveys the crowd standing before him. His throat is drier than the Great Victoria Desert; his body, tense with anticipation before he utters his first word. He takes a deep breath, blows it out, and begins his speech. He concentrates on his delivery like a dedicated gymnast on their routine and tunes out the noise of the audience in the background; the muffled hum of the crowd sounds like the buzzing of a far-away bumblebee. He has trained…
1.0 INTRODUCTION It is known that radiation can be very harmful to a person’s health. According to Marshall and Keene (2006:1), with the recent expansion of diagnostic and interventional radiology, it has been noted that an alarming dose of radiation can be administered to a patient, in a single scan, without having to repeat a procedure. With the evolution of radiography, interventional radiology has become a norm in the diagnosis protocol and it is therefore important to understand the concept…