Strap

helped to save John Glenn’s life, an astronaut orbiting Earth. During his descent back down to Earth, his capsule was overheating, because it’s heat shield was coming loose, and he would’ve died if it weren’t for Johnson, who suggested to use the retro straps to hold it in place. If it weren't for diversity, no one else would’ve thought of this and Glenn would have surely been burnt to a…

As the 35th and sworn in with democracy on his mind."Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country,” is one of the most important quotes you would have heard him say on January 20, 1961. This quote is presented by John F. Kennedy and he is an influence in my life. You could say I’m extremely into history, yes, but the life and bravery of Kennedy struck to me as exciting. This influential person is someone that everyone should experience through history! Before…

On page 70 of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave, the beginning paragraph opens with “He, however, lost nothing by his kindness,” and ends on the following page with “and finally reached our destination in a shorter period of time than I had anticipated.” On these two pages, Northup, at this time known as Platt, details the urge to seek Ford’s kindness and approval by constructing and successfully executing a design to better business on Ford’s plantation by creating rafts and maneuvering…

A major complication after surgery is the infection of the surgical site which is an indicator of the quality of care (Ozmen, Javadov & Yegen, 2016). These type of infection causes increased hospitalization and increased surgery-related costs. As the nurse educator, educating the staff would play an important role in the reduction of the rate of surgery infection, safety and cutting cost within the Summerville community. Evidence-based guidelines can play an important role in the preventive…

In the city of phoenix operational orders 7.1 under prisoners, in regard to restraining prisoners, subjects will be handcuffed behind their back except if doing so would create an injury. However, All subjects who are arrested for felonies, who are belligerent or combative, verbally abusive subjects who may turn combative, subjects who are a likely danger to self or others, or any other reason an officer deems as necessary. Prisoners in the previous categories will remain handcuffed at all times…

in movies, football games, or carhop restaurants. Usually on a date they wore their poodle skirts , cashmere sweaters or a "Peter Pan-style collared blouses" with their saddle shoes and penny loafers. Girdles were worn to tighten the waists, broad-strap bras, and full slips were used for lingerie. Hats, purses, and gloves were necessary for the fifties. Hair styles were either a bubble cut hairstyle or a poodle haircut. Boys wore their Levi jeans or Lee jeans and teenage boys wore their boots,…

Three thousand years ago in a beautiful part of the world that is now known as Greece was a remarkable story about a man named Odysseus king of Ithaca and his odyssey home after the ten-year Trojan War. In the story,"The Odyssey ", by Homer,Odysseus a cosmopolite, brave, courageous, and heroic man is struggling to get back home to Ithaca after the ten-year war with the Trojans, he faces many external conflicts on his journey home to his wife Penelope and son Telemachus but he first must face…

Back in the 1960's the style was very weird and odd and looked uncomfortable. The clothes back then look way different than they do now. There are some styles and clothes pieces that are still popular or came back. From shoes to shirts clothes have changed a whole lot. Sport shoes and clothes have had a dramatic change and some things have also changed a little bit. There were clothes for the poor and for the rich too. Shoes played a big part in the 1960s involving fashion, sports, and a…

I knelt in front of the cross, water spraying off the rigid rocks. I twisted the backpack around my arm and reached for the slip of paper. I read aloud the words of my heart and placed the paper underneath the Lily I had picked from the meadow just outside of Baron. My son and I had never had the close father-son relationship I had hoped for; I had never bonded with him the way he had with his mother. I sat down against the boulder lodged between two rocks, and shut my eyes. I thought back on…

Hockey sticks aren’t like they are now, made of fiberglass with a small curve and a slight bend. They have evolved from bamboo then to willow tree branches in the mid-1800s which was produced in India. After they found that this was a hard way to play the game they invested in actually carving hockey sticks out of wood with straight blades. These wood hockey sticks use to have a long bend in the end which was impossible to hit on the reverse side the hook was 124mm across. By 1850 and 1860…