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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…

The purpose of this memo is to analyze the accessibilityand ethicsof three technicaldocuments inthe Challenger Case Study: Document A: Ray January 1978 Memo, Document B: Ray January 1979 Memo, and Document F: BoisjolyJuly 1985 Memo. The 1986 Challenger explosion stands as one of the most tragic incidents of space travel in US history. Perhaps the most shockingdetail of the accident is that theproblemthat caused the explosion, issues with the O-ring,had been known for years before the launch.…

Putting her right foot out, she mounted the log and shut her eyes. Lifting her skirt, leveling her cane fiercely before her like a festival figure in some parade, she began to march across. Then she opened her eyes and she was safe on the other side. 'I wasn't as old as I thought,' she said. But she sat down to rest. She spread her skirts on the bank around her and folded her hands over her knees. Up above her was a tree in a pearly cloud of mistletoe. She did not dare to close her eyes,…

My initial feeling towards Lady Brett Ashley is that she is a woman with a false sense of self-understanding. She behaves as if she is in control, doing what she wants and taking what is hers, but is clueless to the fact that what she is after won’t give her contentment. Her aimless attempts to fill what is missing in her life at the expense of her lovers and friends makes me feel that she is a manipulative and harmful person. However, as the story continues and I reflect further on Brett as a…

years ago on February 1, 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia Crashed. Columbia launched January 16, 2003. Around 82 seconds after Columbia had lifted-off a piece of foam had fallen from a “biopod ramp” which was a piece that helped support the external tank. With this piece fallen the department of defense prepared to use the orbital spy cameras to get a look at the left wing. However, NASA officials declined the offer. On the day of February 1,2003, Columbia was making a normal landing approach to…

On January 28, 1986, heartbreaking tragic event of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger took the lives of beloved people; Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and school teacher Sharon Christa McAuliffe. This event of the take-off was viewed by many Americans, including school children. President Ronald Reagan delivered a comforting and honoring speech, the “Shuttle Challenger Disaster Address.” In this…

It was a normal summer day in the fields and meadows of a small country side, where a young boy lived by a particular creek, where magical things happen and dreams came true.When there was a breeze the water would mist onto the house,causing it to become a magical house for a magical and tough boy. His name is Floresis and as a young hero, only 17 years old, he can still pack a very brutal punch to whatever stands in his way. He would start off his day by polishing and shining his magic scythe,…

“If you lose military people during a military operation; it’s sad and it’s tragic, but they’re professionals doing a job… But you’re taking someone who’s not a professional and it happened to be that mission that got lost- it added to the shock.” said Chiao, a former astronaut. The shuttle Challenger had gone into space nine times before this mission. All nine of those missions had launched and landed properly without any trouble, so they were not expecting this shock. The Challenger shuttle…