Pikes Peak

Living a life that is filled with the desires of God can be quite challenging for most individuals, and if people allow their wants and needs to stand in the path of God’s will, life will only become more challenging and fruitless. God’s design for my life may be completely opposite of how I foresee the end results of my lifespan, so I have learned how to decipher when the Holy Spirit is interjecting and redirecting where I am supposed to be in areas of my life. In this paper, there will be an…

Sigil: the City of Doors. Considered by some to be the jewel of the Outlands, the nexus of power of the multiverse, a place of great beauty or ugliness. Every day in Sigil, deals are made that seal the fate of hundreds and thousands, negotiators barter for peace in the Blood War, and factotums seek the truth to the meaning of everything. People die, ideals are born, and great power is wielded with the flick of a finger. Sigil is a place of contradictions. It’s the centre of an infinite…

White protestant groups started a Klan revival in the 1920s and this new generation was against Jews, Roman Catholics, foreigns, and even organized labor (History.com Staff, “Ku Klux Klan”). At this peak in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan had around four million members and created a new name for itself with this second revival. Their new symbol is a burning cross and members wore white hooded robes (History.com Staff, “Ku Klux Klan”). In 1925, they staged…

After watching a movie about Charles Muntz, an “explorer,” Carl Fredricksen starts his own life adventure on the way home from the movie theater. Carl, a young lad uses his imagination to create his own adventures. On his way home he conquers “Pikes Peak,” the “Grand Canyon,” and even surmounts “Mt. Everest.” While “flying” in the Spirit of Adventure, Carl confronts a conundrum and loses his balloon. Creeping towards the abandoned house, he apprehensively knocks…

She knew everything about everybody, and had premonitions - that were always right, or close! My mom and I joined my dad in Colorado Springs in the summer of 1968. Milton was in awe with Colorado, he reveled in the snow covered rocky mountains of Pikes Peak and the glorious red rock in Garden of the Gods. The serene climate and peaceful living suited hem. He had traveled the globe through the military, and never felt so alive as when he was stationed at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs.…

Mexico is a vast country with rich history, complex terrain, and a deep devotion to the Catholic religion and its traditions. Merriam-Webster defines culture as “the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; the characteristic features of everyday existence (such as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time” (2017). Mexican culture is defined by their significant military conflicts, social structures, religion,…

1) Introduction a) Federalists versus the anti-Federalists where Hamilton supports a central gov’t and Jefferson supports the state’s and people’s rights 2) Federalist and Republican Mudslingers a) The Federalists were mad at John Adams for not allowing them to declare war against France, but they ran up the debt with the war preparations, which established new taxes i) The Federalists already had many enemies due to the Sedition & Alien Act b) Federalists fought back against Jefferson by…

The strategy that Starbucks uses is broad differentiation where they seek to differentiate their product offerings from rivals’ with attributes that will appeal to a large variety of consumers. The key market characteristic for the strategy of differentiation to work is that buyers’ needs and preferences are very diverse and cannot be satisfied with a standardized product offering. This is an evident characteristic of the market because consumers all have different preferences on the way they…

As a rule, the gill area is greater in fast-moving crabs (Portunids) than in sluggish bottom dwellers; decreases progressively from wholly aquatic, to intertidal, to land species; and is greater in young crabs than in older crabs. Often the gills are enclosed in protective chambers, and ventilation is provided by specialized appendages that create the respiratory current. As in cephalopod mollusks, oxygen utilization is relatively high—up to 70 percent of the oxygen is extracted from the water…