Massachusetts Institute of Technology

I am currently pursuing a degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Daytona Beach campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. One main issue that interests me and is an area I can focus my skill set towards is in the field of renewable energy. With the rising use of fossil fuel as an energy source, other means must be found to satisfy humanity’s need before our oil and gas reserves run out. An interesting alternative to conventional fossil fuel energy methods is that of nuclear power.…

Christa was a teenager, she was inspired by Project Mercury and the Apollo Moon Landing Program. She married her boyfriend from high school, Steven McAuliffe and had two children Scott and Caroline. She graduated in 1970 from Virginia Military Institute. She got her first teaching job at Benjamin Foulois Junior High School, then at Thomas Johnson Middle School. Her last job was at Concord High School where she got the opportunity to go to space was offered. She completed her application for…

were general education students, 32% were students with disabilities, 12% were English language learners (ELL), and 4% were both ELL and had a disability. At the end of the 2008-2009 school year, data from two standardized achievement tests, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System English Language Arts (MCAS ELA) and Northwest Evaluation Association Measures of Academic Progress (NWEA MAP), were collected and analyzed. The findings showed that there were significant measurable gains…

a scientist who mainly focusses on animal behavior, animal cognition, and comparative psychology. Pepperberg was born on April 1, 1949 in Brooklyn, New York. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University and her B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After this, she became a psychology professor at Brandeis University, where she also became involved in wildlife conservation. Alex and Me is about a parrot who becomes very intelligent in which he creates a deep bond with Irene…

The Evaluation of Deceitful Appraises Jones Howard The Declaration Of Independence: Critiques The Declaration of Independence was presented in 1776 by American colonies that believed King George as a tyranny, cruel and took away as far as to their “unalienable rights” [1]. While the Declaration of Independence was mainly divided into five parts: exordium, indictment of King (26), the statement of a general political theory to which appeal is made, resume of 161 words of legal resources, and…

On October 1st 2013 in Glen Park library, a branch of the San Francisco Public Library; an FBI agent presented Ross Ulbricht a warrant for his arrest, Ulbricht was the founder and the operator of the notorious, and highly illegal Silk Road Market, operating deep within the internet, which is not accessible by standard search engines, nor is indexed by these search engines. The arrest have sparked a nationwide interest, and introduced a variety of new terms, unknown to most computer users, the…

Steven Castellano PR-425-01 Dr. Corey Dzenko October 20, 2016 Midterm Exam So far this semester in my Critical Play class, we have been developing a framework to talk about “values” in video games throughout different game elements. In reflecting back to all the readings assigned so far in this course, the two I enjoyed reading the most was chapter one in Helen Nissenbaum and Mary Flanagan’s book, Values at Play in Digital Games and “Once More With Feeling: Game Design Patterns for Learning…

Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are, and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth. The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri first novel, written in September 2003 and later directed into a film by Mira Nair in the year 2006 develops her concept of loneliness. The Namesake is a great book, which accurately highlights characters transformation as a result of indisputable loneliness. The theme is depicted in many ways throughout the movie and the novel. Loneliness is an important…

Currently, society is evolving at a faster pace than ever before, with professional and research fields developing at speedier rates, changing lives and population views on world crisis’s. This progress is in large part due to the rise of new technologies, as it opens the doors of the professional world to whole new slew of possibilities. For example, it has helped the medical field greatly in curing deadly diseases, permitted global and instant communication, and even sent a man into outer…

for students would cause problems. This is shown through expert testimony and has two rhetorical purposes which are explaining and formulating belief. The second piece of evidence is an infographic provided by Akansh Murthy of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It claims that eBooks are overtaking and should overtake textbooks using visuals and statistics. Its rhetorical purposes are virtual experience and formulating belief. The…