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Introduction Thanks to the US Constitution and its amendments and many other laws, segregation is no longer an issue in the United States. Or is it? While nothing can legally be made segregated it doesn’t mean that it won’t end up segregated. A great example of what I am talking about is residential living. America’s neighborhoods and cities are still formed along racial and ethnic lines. This is very popular in big cities and very small towns. This paper will focus on the residential…

The Decline of General Aviation Airports The Rise of General Aviation In the early days of aviation, aviators were limited to flying during daylight hours, in near ideal weather conditions. Early pilots were not regulated as they are today, and would take off and land their aircraft in any flat open area, often a farmer’s grassy field, which allowed them to choose their direction relative to the prevailing winds. As aviation grew, pilots began to congregate in common areas, which allowed for…

In 2009, during Southwest Flight 2294 to Baltimore, a crack caused an aluminum panel to tear open midflight. This occurred at an altitude of over 30,000 feet. This created a hole on the top of the 737 aircraft near the area of the tail. Two years later, in 2011 there was another skin related midair incident with a Southwest flight. During Southwest Airlines Flight 812 as it was leaving Phoenix a crack caused an opening in an aluminum panel while…

training philosophy for flight attendants called the Advanced Qualification Program, or AQP. At the time, AQP had been around for decades for pilots but only a hand full of airlines had attempted to apply the philosophy to flight attendant training. I was selected to lead the project, and after reading the material published by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) about how to develop an AQP, I discovered the majority of the guidance was not applicable to creating a flight attendant…

Forgive But Don’t Forget Forgiveness, needed by the ones who offend but can only be given to by the ones who are offended. In Judith Guest novel Ordinary People forgiveness is needed throughout by major characters and minor ones too. Guest shows that forgiveness is needed from other before you can forgive yourself through the main character Conrad. He thinks he made an unforgivable mistakes and blames himself for the result of it but he can find forgiveness through the help of a ‘ doctor,…

attention to many people worldwide. On February 6, 2017, a flight attendant noticed a girl with bruises on her body. The flight attendant proceeded to tell her where the bathroom was and she left a note on the mirror for the girl. The flight attendant asked the girl if she needed help. The girl wrote she needed help. Later, many officials were waiting for them to arrive when they landed. Saving the girl's life was important for the flight attendant. However, not every person is as lucky as this…

make more than a dozen flight trips annually. Flying may be fun and fast, but at that high altitude, the body has to acclimatize and adapt to a new environment. Frequent flyers experience jet lag and fatigue, side effects of the flight experience. While these two are the most common, flying carries other health risks. Failure to address these risks in the long term eventually makes your body vulnerable to a host of health complications. This article highlights these flight associated health…

Airline industries are on the cutting edge of human accomplishment. Just over a century ago the act of flight was something humans only conceptualized, moreover imagined what soaring through the air by way of a mechanical invention felt like. Technologies both hard and soft evolved with the invention of aircraft flight. Rapid expansion in the world’s technologies allowed for the act of flight to be possible in a relatively short time span of human history. Hard and soft technologies alike…

In the film Cast Away, directed by Robert Zemeckis, compulsively prompt FedEx executive Chuck Noland is on his way to Malaysia when his plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean during a storm. The sole survivor of the flight, Chuck washes ashore on a deserted island. When his efforts to sail away and contact help fail, Chuck learns how to survive on the island, where he remains for four years until he manages to escape the island. During the last scene of the film, after Chuck has returned the last…

The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Throughout time the Bermuda Triangle has been home to several different disappearances. Ships, planes, and people have all gone missing in this odd area. Mystery arose starting as early as the 1800s. Some believe in different theories as to why there have been so many disappearances such as hexagonal clouds acting as air bombs, a strange ocean floor, and erratic weather conditions but, nothing proves to be the answer to these peculiar occurrences. The mystery of…