Ron Silver

fit and just lay my chair back and was scowling. At this time Stef says “hey at least the radio still works”, and she hooked her iphone up to it and started playing relaxing music, which instantly flipped my mood. I think that her ability to see the silver lining in situations is one of the main reasons that I find it so enjoyable to be around…

Have you ever thought what if I had tried harder then I would have succeeded? Most likely you have and that is known as counterfactual thinking. Counterfactual thinking is the theory of what could have been. We tend to correlate our failures with counterfactual thinking. For example, if we had studied harder on that test and not gone out that night we might have gotten an A on the test not a B. We can also look at counterfactual thinking in a positive way and how that helps us in our lives. In…

Counterfactual thinking and living in imagination is another aspect of life that distracts adults and children from their realities. These individuals get captured in their thoughts of how life should be or how things should go. By adults and children carefully planning out their future’s and how certain things should happen, it causes misery when their “blueprint” does not go as planned. In Jeanette Winterson’s essay “The World and Other Places”, she introduces characters who live their lives…

in the original compound (Gravimetric Analysis, n.d.). A precipitate forms what two salts that are soluble together to form one or more insoluble products, which is the precipitate (Definition of Precipitate, n.d.). An example of a precipitate is silver chloride; it is created when a sufficient amount of…

When talking about older people in terms of physical activity it refers to peoples aged 65 or over. The guidelines for physical activity for older people are stated as . Adults aged 65 years and above should carry out moderate intensity exercise for around 150 minutes this exercise should be aerobic physical activity done every week, on the other hand elderly people could complete about 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity exercise or physical activity and this should also be aerobic and this can…

Death, Love, Life, Murder! George Patton was a rising leader in the world as a young boy. The future famed World War Two General always had a knack for leadership. General George S. Patton was a tank commander during the Second World War that managed to do unbelievable things in war. His men respected him and hated him at times. Since Patton was such a great leader he got business done. George Patton was a great American hero that had a knack for leadership and lead America to success even…

Lee Harvey Oswald sat in the Texas School Book Depository on the sixth floor with his Mannlicher-Carcano rifle out the window awaiting the President's motorcade to round the corner. Oswald supposedly fired three shots in anywhere from four to seven seconds, "However, FBI tests revealed that Oswald’s rifle could be fired no faster than once every 2.25 seconds—which, on Zapruder’s camera, translated, to 40 or 41 frames" (Holland). By applying this information, Oswald could not have acted as a lone…

had a long pig or wolf-like snout. Its colors varied between red, red with grey spots, red with stripes on its back, and sometimes black and white. When people attempted to kill the beast, it appeared to be bulletproof. That is until someone tried a silver bullet. Many believe the beast to be a new species or subspecies (Hall n.p.). According to Unknown Explorers, “the first known encounter with the Beast of Gevaudan too place in May or June of 1764 in the…

In the United States of America when people talk about politics only two major parties come to mind, the republicans or the democrats. People usually think that if one does not like taxes, then they tend to associate with the Republicans, if they want more social programs they associate themselves with the Democrats. One fact that people always seem to forget is that the United States of America is not a two party state and that there are several other parties out there with which the people can…

named Dobby who wants to protect Harry and warns him not to go back to Hogwarts. When Harry refuses, Dobby gets very upset and makes a scene which makes the Dursley’s mad and they declare Harry is not going back to Hogwarts. Thanks to his best friend, Ron and his twin brothers, Harry is rescued from his personal prison. To illustrate, in the article entitled “10 Important Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Book and Movie Differences” from Bustle, Casey Rackham writes, “In the book, Fred and…