Air Miles

and drive slowly for about a half mile looking for mud. After they have driven a mile and still no mud they see a clown watching them. When they see the clown they take off covering to clown that was watching them in dirt and gravel. They escaped the clown but now they were down in the woods three miles and still no mud. They travel about 2 more miles into the woods and find a small pit of mud. Both of their trucks go through it easily. They go another half mile and reach the end of the woods…

a particular joy in being able to convey your thoughts into sound with immediacy that attracted me to this particular genre. The process of musical expression begins in the mind, then through the appendages and instrument before released into the air. In an improvisation class conducted by maestro vibraphonist Gary Burton, he equates playing an instrument to speaking.…

com). Miles Davis was a leading figure when it came to combining the styles of Jazz and Rock music, especially when it came to his album “Bitches Brew” (AARegistry.org). It was with his album success of “In a Silent Way” in 1969 that Miles started to challenge the meaning of the word jazz (Jazz.com). Lester Bangs who was a writer for the Rolling Stones had said that “the music was neither Jazz nor Rock, and that new music is in the air which knows no boundaries or categories…” (Jazz.com). Miles…

and longitude. Keep in mind at mid-latitudes, one degree of latitude is approximately 60 nautical miles. 3. Note that there is a knot is a nautical mile per hour. There are 6076.115 feet in a nautical mile (versus 5280 feet in a statute mile). This means 1 knot is faster by a factor of (6076.115/5280) or 1.15. 4. Use the representation given in lab to fill in the isobars and specify the direction of air movement a high and low-pressure area perceived on the map. Data: Map from lap showing wind…

optimal fuel efficiency, as the article states, is just around forty-five miles per hour. A human driver will drive much faster than this, as they are limited to only about half a day before they must stop. Some might say that going only forty-five miles an hour would make these trucks terrible when it comes to delivery time, I would disagree. With only eleven hour days, a human driver would need to speed at roughly ninety miles per hour to arrive at the same time as a self-driving truck would…

Having to grow up in the American society during a period of changes and turmoil. Miles Davis was one of the African Americans who had the courage and willingness to stand up for what was right by fighting for equality. Being a man of music, Miles used his music to show people their desire for equality through his songs. Miles Davis’s music style reflects the civil rights movement through the changes, evolution, and presentation of his music. Jazz music had a specific standard to it, Davis…

Throughout the centuries, the Catholic Church was the subject to criticism for their flaw in their structure and system, and disappointments for their actions to common people. More and more people of Europe were beginning to lose their faith in the church 's leadership, and also believed that the Church was overly obsessed with money. One man by the name of Martin Luther ignited a group of people who believed that the Church had fallen away from the teachings of Jesus and their meanings. These…

The movie “Fruitvale Station” by Ryan Coogler was based on a true-life story. Oscar Grant was a 22-year-old black man that had lost his job and didn’t tell his girlfriend until two weeks later. Oscar was in prison before. The day of his death he decided to change. He gave away his weed to a friend and wanted to start over, but found it challenging. He cheated on his girlfriend, but loved her because he thought of proposing to her. He really loved his daughter and wanted the best for her. His…

Was Durkheim right in his analysis of suicide? Intro/ Definitions of suicide / Brief on Emile Durkheim/ Brief on his study in context, considering time period. Emile Durkheim was a French sociologists whom studied the rate of suicide. Durkheim selected three countries in particular, these countries were England; France and Denmark. In his studies he states that “suicide was a solidary act, the causes had significant links to various social factors.” Durkheim’s aim was to find similar social…

Emile Durkheim was an influential figure in the French school of Sociology. In his piece “The Elementary Forms of Religious life” (1912), Durkheim examines religion not exclusively as pertaining to church, but instead as an important societal function (Appelrouth and Edles 2016). “He sought to explain why the moral realm focused so much on religion” (Appelrouth and Edles 2016). In his book, Emile Durkheim uses concepts such as social facts, the moral code, symbols, and the distinction between…