Autopilot Off

Decent Essays
Improved Essays
Superior Essays
Great Essays
Brilliant Essays
    Page 11 of 14 - About 132 Essays
  • Great Essays

    severe attachment to her different forms of entertainment. Her “relatives” on the parlor walls is particularly concerning to Montag. When Montag begins to feel afflicted and is disturbed by the noise of the relatives, he asks if she would turn them off for him. She responds saying “That's my family,” (Bradbury 46) and struggling with Montag about them. Eventually she caves and says she will turn them down, but instead she simply “Went out of the room and did nothing to the parlor and came back,”…

    • 1329 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Great Essays

    Letourneau: A Short Story

    • 1091 Words
    • 5 Pages

    I sat on a stool in the kitchen and visited with Mrs. Rice while the knife and steel flashed back and forth. "Ziiick, ziiick, ziiick.” (add quotation mark) Much practice allowed me the luxury of operating on autopilot. As I worked, I glanced into a nearby trash can where I noticed a small book. Curious, I put the knife and steel down, leaned over, and fished it out. About the size of a Reader's Digest, the book had a plain white cover with the name of a school printed in simple black text. As I…

    • 1091 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    also use digital fly-by-wire system that function for flight control computers and the actuator control electronics, plus sensors to support the fly-by-wire computations. It also deliveries the mode control panels the pilot typically uses when the autopilot function is affected, as well as some batteries for backup power. The flight control electronic package includes cabinets containing computer modules and actuator control electronics modules that effectively drive the actuators, along with…

    • 1121 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    my hand with his thumb. I looked up at him and we made eye contact. "Feeling your touch is the only thing that has felt real in years. It 's one of the few sure things I 've had in life. You make me feel alive. Before I met you, I was just on autopilot. I didn 't make any of my own decisions. I was miserable. And then I sat next you on that plane. Seeing you react to the height was adorable. Your poems are amazing. You are perfect. My definition of perfect." He pauses for a second. "A, I am…

    • 1384 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Denise walked through the hallway of Highfield Highschool deep in thought and with a frown on her pretty face, she almost collided with a few other students. In fact she appeared to be in such deep thought that she was just walking to her locker on autopilot. Quite a few students at Highfield High were paying more attention to their phone’s than where they were going and would suddenly look up then have to swerve out of the way to avoid colliding with Denise. Luckily, Denise arrived at her…

    • 1298 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Google has said that self-driving cars may be much further away than many May realize Google car Project Director Chris Urmson explain that fully autonomous vehicles being available to the public is as much as 30 years away. there is still serious safety and Technical challenges that need to be understood and corrected before they hit the market.As of right now automakers like Tesla Audi and Mercedes-Benz are limited to highway driving. and Tesla is the only one as of right now that you can…

    • 1338 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    Imagine walking through a house of mirrors - an endless array of reflections staring back at you. Those faces look like yours, but the cold glass cannot truly emulate the living, breathing human which stands in front of it. The enjoyment in such scenarios comes from finding your way out; it comes from recognizing that none of those reflections were a reality. Many people, however, are trapped in these fun houses by the monotony of life, and it takes a traumatic event to jolt them awake and…

    • 1490 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    What Is Racial Inequality?

    • 1743 Words
    • 7 Pages

    environment, hard to get post high school education. Schools are still segregated to a degree, your district dictates the quality of education. A poor district school system provides less opportunities, resources and benefits than those schools in well off districts. Although there are…

    • 1743 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Toast Worthy women practice living a life they adore not one that they tolerate. When we over-clutter and over-schedule and overwhelm, we end up creating chaos and living a mediocre life of existence. If you only do one exercise in this whole book, I want it to be this. This activity will absolutely change your life. If will free you up and open space for the life and desires you truly want. I want you to grab your journal and write down everything you are tolerating. It could be old,…

    • 1500 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Flight 93 Research Paper

    • 1560 Words
    • 7 Pages

    The morning of September 11, 2001 started off as any other. Who would have expected the deadliest terrorist attack the United States has ever had. An Islamic extremist known as al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial airplanes all with very important targets. American Airlines Flight 11 with United Airlines Flight 175 struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. The Pentagon was hit by American Airlines 77 (History.com 1). United Airlines Flight 93 was the only hijacked plane…

    • 1560 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Page 1 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14