Cosmic ray

“No!" Wisty shouted, throwing down a large folder of paper on the desk with other equally large stacks, looking appalled at the group of middle aged to elderly men. They recoiled as if she would set the desk ablaze with her fury and was genuinely thinking about it. The time of parties and rest where over once again, and she was working had been a pleasant change trying to rebuild the city and, working this the people in making laws in hopes that history won’t be repeated itself. But, it was…

Response Diary 2 The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas The ones who walk away from omelas is a short story from the wind’s twelve quarters written by Ursula le Guin. It is a story about the utopian society which has a very strange and weird/disgusting condition for being able to have every happiness in the city. I personally liked the story after I got the hold of what actually is happening in it after reading twice carefully. It can be a bit confusing at first. The story deals with the utopian…

The X-ray, also called the Röntgen ray, was invented by German scientist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1985. The x-ray is undisputedly important and is used todays at airports and sporting events to check for weapons and dangerous substances and at hospitals in order to check for fractured or broken bones, internal damage, or items lodged in the digestive system. Despite the x-ray’s numerous and various uses, it’s discovery was unintentional. Wilhelm Röntgen discovered the x-ray while…

1. James Harden- Houston Rockets Since being traded to the Rockets in 2012, James Harden leads all shooting guards in points scored, usage percentage, and made free throws. He’s established himself as one of the most dangerous offensive players in the entire NBA, regardless of the position. Harden is about as close to a lock as possible to average 25 points per game next season. From his incredibly high usage percentage, to his lack of a legit number two star around him; it’s almost a lock that…

Author Print Profile Sam Preece is the spawn of a painfully abrasive family hailing from the flowery town of Shrewsbury. He has an incorrigible compulsion to waste his days watching science fiction films, both good and bad, and playing video games until his eyes are bloodshot. By obtaining a degree in journalism & creative writing, he hopes to write lofty screenplays and to not be swallowed by the voids of insignificance and obscurity. Author Web Page Text Bio…

radiation naturally but other sorts are made in a lab for specific purposes like radiotherapy for the treatment of some sorts of cancer. Radiation as a medical treatment has been around for a long time. X-Rays as such were discovered in 1896 by Wilhelm Roentgen and as early as 1901 low dose X-Rays were being used to treat cancer. It was found early on that radiation seamed to treat diseased cells in the body and if a method could be found for confining their effect to the cancerous cells and…

Computed Tomography (CT), also commonly referred to as a CAT scan, is a medical imaging method that combines multiple X-ray projections taken from different angles to produce detailed cross-sectional images of areas inside the body. CT images allow doctors to get very precise, 3-D views of certain parts of the body, such as soft tissues, the pelvis, blood vessels, the lungs, the brain, the heart, abdomen and bones. CT is also often the preferred method of diagnosing many cancers, such as liver,…

Jhoana Gutierrez Per. 2 Fahrenheit 451 Essay In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the mood is mostly intense and kind of dark. The situation he points out as dark is the way the world is living, and intense is the adventures that the character, Guy Montag has during the story. Montag is a fireman who wants to know more about life than just being a fireman and sitting down in his home with an unhappy marriage. This book really shows how out of control our government can get and how…

Don DeLillo’s novel, “Falling Man” deals with several topics that have surrounded the events that occurred on the tragic day of September 11th, 2001. In particular, I would like to examine how he translates the concept of time and loss. I would like to begin with looking at the passage on page five “In time he heard the sound of the second fall…. He heard the sound of the second fall, or felt the trembling air, the north tower coming down, a soft awe of voice in the distance. That was him…

Fahrenheit 451 & The 5th Wave Fahrenheit 451 and The 5th Wave, are two very good, very different dystopias. They both have their heartbreaks, their fights, their moments, but they cannot be called the same. But instead of distancing them with their differences, how about we compare and contrast these two dystopian novels. Fahrenheit 451 is a society that is still functioning at the time of the book, and firemen are a large part of the story. The twist in the story is that the firemen…