Live edge

respect the Alaskan wilderness, while others could not believe someone could act so impulsive. Some even believed, “‘Krakauer is a kook if he doesn’t think Chris ‘Alexander Supertramp’ McCandless was a kook,’ […] ‘McCandless had already gone over the edge and just happened to hit bottom in Alaska.’” (71). Throughout chapter 8, Krakauer demonstrates that McCandless is hardly the only individual who had…

The town of a thousand cliffs. Surrounded by ravines, dips, and valleys. No way out, and no way in. How people got in, no one knows, not even the people who live there. But, of course, they don’t know outside life exists, and no one on the outside knows either. The town develops by mining ores in the surrounding cliffs, and due to the vast amount and high accessibility of ores, and highly conductive metals, the town’s technology is quite advanced, but the people are more primitive in other ways.…

In what way does transformation play a role in stories meant to scare us? Transformation plays a large role in most stories meant to scare us. In these stories, transformation is what can either get the reader on the edge of their seat, or can change the story to much and make people lose interested in reader. In a scary story, transformation of something such as a character, or a setting, can build major suspense / fright which could be something the reader didn't expect “Beware: do not read…

Without the additions from emotional intelligence, the colleges have managed to create communities in the past. For example the random placement of students into colleges, instantly plays on the phenomena of how people tend to conform to in group and out group mentalities as seen in the Robbers Cave Experiment (Sherif 1961). Once indoctrinated under one banner of a specific group, even if the group was constructed by random, people tend to grow allegiances to these groups. Exemplified in the…

(UK) Ltd has made substantial changes to the way in which diversity and inclusion is managed throughout the whole of the business. As a business it has been recognised that a major strength to maintaining sustainability and increasing the competitive edge is to implement strategies that will build upon the diverse workforce and ensure that equality and diversity…

Hello this is and I want to recap on everything that has happened from our fifth birthday to our awesome birthday, our meaning my twin James and myself, which recently passed. We were born late in the day on September 25, 1760.Enough about James and I let’s talk about the rest of our family there six of us including James and I:Ma, Pa, Lydia(age 8), and George(age 6).Well a little while after our fifth birthday Parliament passed The Stamp Act which I later learned meant that all paper documents…

In Defense of SF as a High School Elective High School is the educational backbone of what will create our society at large. What studies are necessary in order to create a functioning and prosperous society? Clearly, there is an emphasis on STEAM related fields, since those lead to well paying work opportunities, but we should not forget the value of critical thinking. There is no better way to enforce our STEAM educational goals than with introducing SF as an elective for students to take in…

This is evident through language that is present throughout their narrative. Returning to the earlier passage: “We settled on the edges of their towns, when they would let us,” the Picture Brides separate themselves from the Americans by using the words “we” and “they” (23). They are conscious of the separation and it appears in their language. In fact, all quotes from the novel that…

and related illnesses, and especially leukemia. Their mission statement is as follows: “Our mission is to improve and extend the lives of patients with cancer by discovering and developing novel products based on our cutting edge technologies”. This is a short and direct mission statement, but it captures nicely their main objective of creating drugs for saving lives of those with cancer. Celator’s webpage (www.celatorpharma.com)…

taken from the skies, specifically from helicopters, in parachutes. One notable incident is the Mann Gulch Fire of 1949 alongside the Upper Missouri River in the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness, Helena National forest, Montana in which it took the lives of 13 brave souls to their demise. The fire, sparked from a powerful lighting strike in the south side was mistakenly dismissed as a routine fire thinking it would not cause much harm the men casually took their time to organize themselves to…