Ping

Kaz signaled to Inej, and she leapt down. She shut the wagon door, fastened the padlock, and slid the bold home. A second later the opposite side of the door pushed open. Kaz had simply removed the hinges. It was a trick they’d used plenty of times when a lock was too complicated to pick quickly or they wanted to make a theft look like an inside job. Ideal for faking suicides, Kaz had once told her, and she’d never been sure if he was sincere. Inej took a last look at the road. The men had…

released in 1998, is a Disney movie set in Medieval China, at the time of a Hun attack. Mulan, voiced by Ming-Na Wen, defies the law by dressing as a boy and joining the defending army in place of her ailing father. After proving herself as her alias, ‘Ping’, she is unmasked as a woman and has to prove herself again. She ends up defeating the Hun army, led by Shan-Yu, saving all of China, and honoring her family in an nontraditional way. Definitely worth the 70 million dollars spent producing…

asked to just go over to his aunt’s house to play ping pong since that was the original plan. My parents said that was fine if we were home by midnight. We arranged for the boys to pick us up on the corner of my street instead of walking all the way to his house. We were pulling into his driveway when my mom calls me. “Allyson why are you at Taylor’s house and not Mrs. Lori’s house?” my mom yelled, “You told us you were just going to her house to play ping pong and yet you’re at his house.” I…

The world we live in is changing daily. Fossil fuel consumption has to be reduced, before our planet can begin to repair the damage man has caused. “It is estimated the world uses 87.8 million barrels of crude oil a day” (Friedman 195). “In 2000 it was estimated that the US consumed nearly 20 million barrels of oil a day, which is about 5% more than similar nations” (195). Oil consumption demand is going to increase as long as the supply can meet the demand. Once the supply is depleted, the…

SUMMARY: On Sunday, 10/22/2017, at approximately 1345 hours, V1 VARGAS, Diana reported her vehicle was vandalized while parked at 25 Poncetta Dr. Apt. 234 in Daly City, CA. VARGAS believe S1 REYES, Michael to be the suspect because he had damaged her vehicle in the past with spray paint. VARGAS has a restraining order against REYES for kidnapping, vandalism, Domestic Violence and other cases. REYES has not been taken into custody. Case open pending further leads. INVESTIGATION: On Sunday,…

The Tet Offensive and Nixon’s visit to China were two influential events in the 20th century. The Tet Offensive was the turning point of the Vietnam War. Although a victory for America it resulted in public approval of the war to decline, causing the gradual withdrawal of American troops involved in Vietnam. The withdrawal of troops from Vietnam may have resulted with the victory of North Vietnam. Nixon’s visit to China resulted in China no longer being a closed nation and for the U.S to have a…

I learned a lot about my positivity over the past two weeks of recording my data. My average from the past two weeks was .82 which is not a good ratio. My average negativity score was 2.7, and my average score positivity was 2.3. My best positivity ratio was 6 and this will be the day I reconstruct and find out where I am most positive. In these past two weeks I had several exams and some quizzes which could be why ratio was so low. I was overwhelmed with stressed the first week I was…

incoming calls will not be considered reliable information for the location. (Staff)" The information of the incoming calls is unreliable plus “ the tower pings gave the wrong location for 16 of the 22 calls for which the prosecution’s evidence showed the location of the phone at the time of the call(The Failure of)” This means that this cell tower ping is only about 27% accurate. Now, this may be a case where the cell tower was right but it's uncertain, this proves that the accuracy of the…

Garcia Perez1 Synthia Garcia Perez Professor D' Ettore ENC 1102 13 November 2016 Honesty is Far More Important "Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure" (Altucher). This quote can be related to Jay Wild's testimonies in the numerous consequences it has brought due to his constant changes. Jay has been inconsistent from the time he was first interviewed by investigators, to the time he testified at trial. He's lack of integrity makes the case difficult to…

“I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don 't respect.” - Sandra Cisneros (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/sandra_cisneros.html) Sandra Cisneros, famous author of works such as The House on Mango Street (1989), was born in Chicago in 1954, to a Mexican father and Chicana (Mexican-American) mother (Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature, “Sandra Cisneros”).…