C-ration

C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, on November 29, 1898. He was a Christian author and most of his writing consisted of apologetics and philosophy. He is best known for his famous book series, The Chronicles of Narnia. He also wrote another classic novel entitled, The Screwtape Letters, which covers the many ways that a high ranking demon, who is called Screwtape, temps an ordinary man referred to as the Patient. Although it proved to be very difficult, the Patient perseveres in…

Life and Works Of C.S. Lewis C.S. Lewis was a man widely known for many different aspects of his life. For most of his life he was a devout christian and religious figurehead for many people. He took his religion as well as creativity into his works as an author, writing many popular books throughout his lifetime. Not only was he an author and religious figure, he was also a philanthropist as well, giving back as much to the community as he could. C.S. Lewis was born to a small family in…

A zeppelin is a rigid airship; it is a type of airship that is supported with a metal framework, instead of being filled with a lifting gas, like a blimp. The term zeppelin is associated with German airships that were manufactured by the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin of Germany. Both the zeppelin and Luftschiffbau Zeppelin Company were founded by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Airships, blimps, and dirigibles are practically synonyms and are basic terms for any lighter than air craft that is powered and…

Social imagination is basically taking a look at something and kind of thinking outside the box. It is almost like analyzing a certain decision, action or idea for instance and digging deeper into the why’s or what’s of the situation. As we read in the text “thinking like a sociologist means making the familiar strange”. Social imagination can be used to look at things in our lives that we take for granted. We don’t delve deep and generate information about it or look at it from different…

Patricia Jordan, long-time Buck Hiller, passed away on October 10th. Born in Brooklyn to the late Estelle (Sanders) and I. Jerome Riker, and the sister of the late Stanley Riker, Pat was educated at the Berkeley Institute, The Packer Collegiate Institute, and Columbia University. A writer and the author of a humorous book “Under the Dryer,” she married the love of her life in June 1950 and began her family. Pat discovered Buck Hill in the 1960s when she was looking for a place close enough to…

immediate surroundings profoundly affect each other. The way in which our society is structured has an impact on the culture we construct, which indeed affects our actions, beliefs, and feelings on an individual level (Durkheim, 1982). However, as C. Wright Mills (1959) writes in The Sociological Imagination Chapter One: The Promise, a single individual contributes minimally to this structure or the course of its history, even when its push and pull shapes him or her (Mills, 1959). This paper…

Throughout the film 2001: A Space Odyssey the director Stanley Kubrick uses 3 orchestral pieces of music composed by Gyorgy Ligeti. Born 28th of May 1923 in Hungary Gyorgy Ligeti he grew up wanting to be a musician. Starting out as a freelancer working in the Electronic Music Studio where he was then appointed a professor after many years of lecturing. It wasn’t until Ligeti released his “Atmospheres” when he was recognized worldwide of his musical talents. But this was all about to change when…

pictures are moved into a real visual by the consequent formation of movies based upon these incredible works. "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick is a sample of, for example, it is based upon the artistic short story, "The Sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke. Kubrick has made an incredible showing with creating the first short story by joining together music with visual pictures path before now is the ideal time. The film permits its viewers to see the first short story told by Clarke,…

Lockheed Martin is traded on the New York Stock Exchange as LMT. The 2016 Lockheed Martin Annual Report provides a wealth of information regarding financial reporting and analysis. In this paper, I will look at my chosen company, Lockheed Martin, and the use of stocks by Lockheed Martin in the overall financial strategy of the corporation. In this analysis, I will analyze Lockheed Martin’s stock structure, history of the company’s growth, and how the corporation’s stock compares to the market…

The Looking Glass alternatively known as the Voyage of the Space Bubble is a hard military science fiction series of novels by John Ringo. The first novel of the series was Into the Looking Glass that was first published in 2005 to much critical acclaim and commercial success. The Looking Glass series centers on the creation of “looking glasses” a type of trans-space portals. The glasses have recently been discovered and the narratives are based on what effect the discovery has had including…