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Rise of the Rocket Girls beings with the telling the start of the California Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). In 1940 when the men working at JPL where shooting rockets out of dry Canon in Southern California they needed help figuring out calculations. One of the men was married to a woman named Barbara Cartwright. She was really good at numbers. Barbara Cartwright calculated speed, Trajectory, combustion among many other things that helped with rocket and propellant development. Her findings…

Afterward, he finished his significant Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and he co-founded the popular surf wear company, Maui & Sons. In his painting (picture 3), he depicts the mythology figure of mermaid with a graphing design technique. In John William Waterhouse's oil painting “A Mermaid”, the artist creates a setting…

friend that he made in the school called champ. When they get inside the house they seen the books and they opened one of the manuscripts and those manuscripts where locked and when they opened the main character who was the abominable snowman of pasadena goes out and run away dropping all the books and Zach with Champ and Hannah found the Yeti in a local ice rink and Mr. Shiver sucked back into the book and when they came back into the house the found one of the most dangerous book open and…

Racial segregation is the separation of humans based on their ethnicity or color. (Long, Russ ch8) Segregation was mainly present in the years of 1849-1950s. The “separate but equal” called laws that were made to separate humans was a law that prohibited those with different ethnicities from using the same restrooms as whites, eating at the same place as white, and speaking to whites otherwise the minority would be severely punished. Racial segregation is often said to be similar to racial…

is good. Vigilantism is dangerous, hard to deal with, and it can be both beneficial and hurtful. Vigilantes get out of hand very quickly and can make the area very dangerous to live in. “In 2007, 61-year old Joe Horn looked out the window of his Pasadena, Texas home and saw a pair of black men in his neighbor's yard, apparently involved in a burglary. Horn called 911, and, as journalist Liliana Segura would later report, became agitated, deciding he needed to stop the crime himself.” (The New…

on piping at corrosion monitoring locations. • NDT methods Guided Wave, UT-T, VT, Open Vision X-ray, and Profile X-ray using Computer Radiography. • Verified and/or updated P&ID’s and Isometric drawings to represent the piping within the units of Pasadena Refining Systems Inc. • Safety Representative for a project at Tesoro Oil Refinery. During the over 6,000 man-hour project I led daily safety meetings, reported weekly Behavior Based Safety Observations, fall protection safety harness…

responsible for the founding of the Cepheid, a type of star, in the Andromeda Nebulae in the year 1924, at the top of Mt. Wilson. Another great achievement that happened in Hubble’s life in the year 1924 was when he happily married Grace Burke in Pasadena, California, and even though the couple never had children they remained together until his death in…

A couple years ago when I was in 1st grade I started at a new school in Pasadena, California. The school was called Garvanza elementary. I liked living in California and having new friends at this school, but about half the school year my mother wanted to move to Arizona with my brother, sister and I. We didn't want to leave, but my mother said that she already got a house and a job over there. Even after we kept telling her that we didn't want to leave she made us pack everything and put…

Julia Child was born Julia McWilliams, on August 15, 1912, in Pasadena, California. The eldest of three children, Julia was known by several pet names as a little girl, including “Juke”, “Juju” and “Jukies.” Her father, John McWilliams, Jr., was a Princeton graduate and early investor in California real estate. Her mother Julia Carolyn Weston had inherited a paper company. Her grandfather served as the Lieutenant Governor for the state of Massachusetts. In 1930 she attended Smith College in…

selects its participants because they are available and convenient (Rubin & Babbie, 2013). Participants will be referred by Passageways Intake Center, a Union Station Homeless Services program in the City of Pasadena. Passageways, is the entry-point to the homeless services network in Pasadena. They provide intake, assessment, medical, mental health services, as well as referrals to shelters and rehabilitation programs to homeless individuals in Service Planning Area (SPA) 3. Passageways agency…