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How to make your Thanksgiving more spiritual for you and your family. So you want to make this Thanksgiving better than ever! That’s great! I love it! But maybe you 're not quite sure how to get there...you 're not sure how to make it more meaningful. Well, I’m guessing that you wish the holidays would provide a deeper meaning. You want more good...no...GREAT memories. You love God and you want that love to be experienced at your dinner table with your cherished ones. So how do you make…

Do the professional duties of an engineer go beyond conscientiously and effectively carrying out the instructions of their employer? If so, why and how? If not, why not? As population and economy across the globe continues to grow, engineers have increasingly influential roles in designing and delivering the subsequent demand for new or upgraded technology and infrastructure on which the world 's future is dependent. (Polkinghorne, 2013). A common question arises, do the professional duties of…

What could have been the purpose of a Ronald W. Reagan’s speech after a catastrophic incident? On January 28, 1986, a space shuttle launched from NASA suffered a casualty when the shuttle named The Challenger was on the air, as it broke apart. This launching was showcased on national television, causing the crew’s children witness their parents’ death, and most children in the U.S. being traumatized by it. As a way of unifying the nation after a tragedy of that essence, President Ronald W.…

The legend of Alexo began when she was born in Thebes to her slave parents, Agda and Palmer. See when Alexo was just 6 years old she was abandoned by her parents. Even though she was young, she has little memory of the time she spent with her parents. After her abandonment, she was taken in custody of her aunt, Magda. Magda is married to one of the top commander and chiefs of the Greek army, Dorian. Dorian wanted Alexo to grow up to be strong and independent. Therefore, he taught her everything…

Application of Calculus in the Real World – Space Shuttle Launch Most people wonder what calculus can be used for in future career opportunities. For me this was easy to see because I knew what I wanted to go into. In the future, after college, I hope to go into the aerospace field and deal with things like planes, space shuttles and helicopters. At this point people, may not see the ridiculous amount of calculus I will use in the future, but in fact I will be using it daily. Whether it be…

The Challenger space shuttle was scheduled to embark on its 10th mission on January 28, 1986. It was a project coordinated by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Morton Thiokol, Inc. (MTI). The later company was concerned with the engineering of the Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), which facilitated the space shuttle’s lift off. The SRBs contained a U-joint that required O-rings to seal pressure gaps caused by ignition in the boosters (Diane Vaughan, 1989, p. 330). The…

This weeks reading covered the third and fourth section of Joy Luck Club: American Translation and Queen Mother of the Western Skies. These sections contain stories from both the daughters and mothers from the Joy Luck Club, with Jing-Mei’s story continued across them both. In American Translation, the daughters of the Joy Luck Club discuss the problems they have encountered as adults- mainly marital and career troubles. In Queen Mother of the Western Skies the mothers and Jing-Mei rediscover…

why? “Mom I can’t do it anymore, It’s not the same without her..” It was a nice, sunny, late June day, I walked out of my house thinking today would be just any other day, I didn’t know that the news I was about to get would change me, and how I viewed the world forever. I walked down the street to my friends house that only lived a block away, as I made my way down the hill that seperated our houses, I kicked rocks and thought about summer and all the things I wanted to do. As I aproched my…

Station Six: Captured After a fire destroys half of the camp’s food supply, your group heads out into the forest to hunt and gather food. As you are stalking a deer, a twig snaps and the animal bounds away. You glance around, knowing it was not a member of your group. Suddenly, you’re surrounded by grounders. They are dressed in their head-to-toe covering battle gear, carrying bows, arrows, and spears. Instead of killing you, however, they cover your heads with fabric bags and drag you away…

Veronica climbed into the big bed, jeans off, and pulled the big, soft blanket to her chin. The lights were soft in Logan’s room, she’d never noticed that before. The rest of the world was this harsh, unforgivable place, lighting up her weak spots with hot, bright lights, but there, Veronica almost felt safe. She smiled to herself in his bed; she’d confronted her best friend’s killer there, she shook her head. But that was how she was, that was who she was- what had Logan said? The bravest…