Ember

December which was linked to gift giving. Christmas was preceded by a month of fasting in the season of advent. Advent was a time at Christmas where you could only do certain things: you had to fast for three days a week, these were also known as Ember days (Wednesday, Friday and Saturday) you were only allowed to eat one meal a day which was either fish or vegetables.…

almost routine event through the Apollo missions, this fevered excitement began to decay until the Apollo missions were terminated and funding for space exploration became almost non-existent. It is now our generation's turn to rekindled the burning embers of our everlasting adventurous instincts to turn the next small step for man, into the next great leap into the future.…

Edgar Allan Poe used many elements to create suspense in his works and it helped him develop the mood and theme in his poems and short stories. Poe was an author known mostly for his scary and suspenseful short stories and poems and eventually earned the name “The Father of the Detective Story”. Poe used imagery and sentence structure to build suspense throughout his works. Sentence structure played a big part in developing suspense within Poe’s short stories. The sentences grew choppier as the…

000 year ago. Homo sapiens are the complete modern humans Homo is the human genus. Which also includes Homo erectus and Neanderthals plus many other extinct species of hominid family. Question is what species evolved into Homo sapiens. According to Ember & peregrine (2007). “Most Paleoanthropologists agree that Homo erectus evolved into H. sapiens” (p.171). Reason being because, of classified fossils that were recorded fossils was piece of skulls and jaw bones. Fossils was not the only major…

both reported to be used as tools. Assumptions can be made of the early hominin lifestyles by analyzing these prehistoric tools, the experiments showed that they were most likely used for work like cutting meat, slitting hides and sharpening wood (Ember, Ember & Peregrine, 2007, p.143), which indicated a hunter gatherer lifestyle. The Oldowan tools, may look simple in appearance, but yet it already shows much advancement from those used by chimpanzees and illustrates the cognitive development…

The hustle of every-day life takes place underneath the surface of the ocean instead of on land. The shrinking ice caps that David Kramer talked about in the Physics Today magazine have all melted. “The melting of the Antarctic ice cap may have reached the point of no return and threatens to raise sea levels by more than three metres, according to a new study.” Now the world is covered in water. There is no longer land available to live on. Phil Pauley designed a self-sustaining dome for people…

An Administrative control for a fire department includes training. Before becoming an active-duty firefighter, a trainee spends about 600 hours in training, over the course of 12 to 14 weeks. That's somewhere between 40 to 48 hours per week, which makes firefighter training a full-time job. Firefighters work under extremely dangerous conditions, risking their own lives to save others. They must have courage and stamina as well as great physical strength, because firefighters often carry heavy…

I think that it is not that hard to love one another and that everyone needs a little push to do so. “We live through times when hate and fear seem stronger, we rise and fall and light from dying embers, remembrances that hope and love last longer. And love is love is love is love is love is love is love, cannot be killed or swept aside” proclaimed Lin-Manuel Miranda. A better world is possible with hope, respect and love. Hope is the desire of a…

Successful teams require effective communication and proper guidance. When teams do not communicate the outcome will be lower efficiency, poor morale, and decreased innovation; causing team embers to experience job dissatisfaction. The team process will not work without communication and a common plan (Robbins & Judge, 2011, p. 334). In contrast when teams communicate and have a strong plan team members will experience job satisfaction. Team members must be willing to work with all team…

As I looked up into the vast, empty nothingness dotted with sparkling and surreal spots that encompassed us like a warm, fuzzy blanket of hope, I pondered at its perfection; a pitch-black curtain draped over the sky. The warped, cumbersome conformation of the stars speckled and danced along the outer fibers of the curtain, bursting against the blackness. I felt its throb in my mind; a slow pulsating beat of curiosity. An inescapable, unending, unexplainable call in pursuit of a complete…