Desmond Miles

Have you ever trained for a 5k? In training you have to keep track of where you run and what speed you were going at, imagine one day you went out to practice running the 5k and made it in 45 minutes! When you get home you notice you forgot to turn on your running log, all that work and nothing to show. That’s how it was for early sailors, they had trouble keeping track of how fast they were going, when it changed , and where they sailed. To solve this they had a Traverse Board an early…

According to business insider America is the world’s 10th most prosperous nation. Consequently, why should America compromise their success by sticking with an unconventional system of measurement? It is for this and many other reasons why the U.S.A should convert to the metric system. The metric system is a multinational unit of measurement in both the real world and the science field. It is not only renowned but also easier to use overall. Ultimately, the time for the metric system has finally…

Desmond Tutu, a South African Anglican cleric who went on to become one of the world’s most foremost spiritual leaders, was born on October 7th, 1931, of mixed Xhosa and Motswana heritage in Klerksdorp, South Africa. While Tutu was growing up, South Africa was thoroughly segregated. Black Africans were denied the right to vote and had to live in specific areas, whereas white Africans could do as they pleased. Despite this, Desmond Tutu managed to have a happy childhood, as he loved to read and…

Terry Turrell is a self-taught artist who is known for his various sculptures, paintings, and assemblages. He was born in Spokane, Washington on November 4, 1946, and he also spent his youth living in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. From Turrell's personal accounts, he said that him, his 4 brothers, and his parents used to move back and forth between Idaho and Washington. In terms of Turrell's art inspirations, he gives credits to his family and the time when he contracted a mild case of Polio at age 8.…

- On September 16 my brother and I attended the gym. For my warmup I ran a mile to get my blood flowing. I ran my mile in 8:45. Since my goal is to lose 10 pounds by the end of the semester I need to make sure I work on my cardiovascular health. After our warmup we hopped on the elliptical. We did the elliptical for 8 minutes. After we finished doing the elliptical we went in the sauna for 10 minutes. Starting weight is 245lbs. - On September 17, I decided to go to the gym before I had to work…

County.15 This is highly unlikely, since it required an approximately forty mile detour into Wisconsin to reach the source of the river. Charley likely used the railroad, either as a passenger or as a physical guide to direct him to his destination. He conceivably paused in Duluth to earn his rail fare to Rush City, the logical point of departure to embark on the final leg of his journey. However, the nearly one hundred mile hike following the railroad tracks perhaps seemed like a mere…

"But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision" (Coelho 70). This quote from Paul Coelho's novel The Alchemist reflects on that idea that when someone decides to take risks and persevere, they will discover so many opportunities and uncover their own character. Just like the protagonist,…

to eat it all by himself. Billy’s parents always thought he ate too much pizza, but they never told him. Billy had to make a blueprint of his pizza. Only he couldn’t find blue paper so he just decided to draw it. He drew a huge gigantic circle 6 miles long, but on 6 inches on the paper. There needed to be cheese, pepperoni, sausage, pineapple, oranges, fish, chips everything you could think of was going to go on that pizza. All Billy needed was to get dough and all the things he need on the…

That Others May Live I will always place the mission first, I will never accept defeat, I will never quit, I will never leave a fallen comrade. This is the ethos that Corporal Desmond Thomas Doss lived by every day. He lived up to the Army’s Warrior Ethos and the core Army values and did not deviate from those even though his religious beliefs forbade him from carrying a weapon or killing another even in combat. Doss refused a section 8 discharge and consequently became a combat medic in the…

The life of King TuTu and the Asante kingdom may be interesting to you but then again it may not be. It all depends on what you’re interested in. Osei Tutu was the king of the Asante kingdom, which was a pre-colonial West African state that emerged in the 17th century. Today it is called Ghana. Asante Kingdom wasn’t very good at first until King Tutu came along and made some trades for weapons and other things to help make the Asante kingdom great. Osei TuTu’s main objectives for building the…