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and the FBI collected the ransom on the ground while the plane flew circles overhead. Under the guise of a delay due to a “minor mechanical difficulty”, the staff attempted to keep the passengers calm, though the plane ended up circling the Seattle-Tacoma Airport for a total of two hours before they were finally able to land. After Cooper had been handed the cash ransom and the parachutes, he let all of the passengers and some of the staff off of the plane and demanded that it be refueled and…

take Cornell's Center for Inequality studies "Inequality Quiz. How did you do? What facts were most and least surprising? What further questions does the quiz leave you with? I scored a 12 out of 14 on the Inequality Quiz. I have taken several Tacoma Community College courses that discussed elements of racial inequalities within the American society. I believe this is a contributing factor to the high score that I received on the quiz. Many of the facts were not surprising to me dealt with…

How well do you really know General Motors Chevrolet? Louis Chevrolet is the man that founded Chevrolet motor company. The history of Chevrolet provides knowledge and tells you about the production of Chevrolet. Chevrolet motor company, also known as general motors, has an interesting history. Chevrolet created new jobs for the united states and helped the economy bring more money to the u.s. Louis Chevrolet teamed p with William c. Durant to create the Chevrolet motor company in 1911. The truck…

only a few block groups marked as ‘significant’, which in all honesty was not all that surprising. It was not all that surprising because Washington’s population of people of color is not all that large especially when you get outside of the Seattle-Tacoma metro region (QuickFacts Washington, n.d.). What was both surprising and unsurprising at the same time was that three of the seventeen counties that were ran through a cluster analysis had no significant block groups at all. These were…

In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s America seemed to find itself in the center of conflict often. America had just recently gotten out of a Civil War and was experiencing many problems. At this time there were a lot of different beliefs in the country on how it should be run and what to do with the growing country. Many of the issues in the country surrounded war and how and when America should enter wars. War should be considered a viable option when another country or foreign force attacks…

There are many career clusters out there in the fields to explore and it would be beneficial to the ones looking forward to going to college. The students might look forward to attending college while considering a college readiness program called AVID. The development of AVID began in San Diego 1980 (Sparks,Sarah) and stands for Advanced Via Individual Determination. The program introduces students to reading, writing, and organization skills. Many students need to develop these skills to…

Every day, from the moment we wake up to the time we go to sleep, our eyes are loaded with images we come across by; different people, an abandoned car by the side of the road, construction sites, and much more. As we go through our days we often get caught up in our busy schedules and miss out on the beauty of everyday sights that we have all too much have come accustomed to. Sometimes it takes artists to help us remember that there is beauty in the simple things and one such artist is Michael…

Dale Chihuly was born on September 20, 1941 in Tacoma, Washington. After graduating from the University of Washington where he studied interior design and architecture, Chihuly went on to be enrolled in a premiering glass program at the University of Wisconsin. Chihuly went on to the Rhode Island School…

he is gone I felt lonely so I needed courage. I was around 7 when we had a certain situation happened and my whole family was affected by it, especially my mom and I. It was 2007 when the situation occurred. My mom and I were currently living in Tacoma, Washington. We moved around a lot because my mom was in the army and she went to college in Washington. We all of a sudden got a phone call that would change our lives forever. My grandma was on the phone, all of a sudden my mom dropped the…

Do Not Make These Marketing Mistakes 5 marketing mistakes that will cost your company cash. Marketing is as old as time, from when Neanderthals were looking for new ways to trade with other cavemen, until today where we are still trying to come up with new advertising ideas. Not much has changed fundamentally with the actual concept of marketing in the last 300,000 years, though there are some that still cling to their primitive ways. Caveman aside, there is nothing basic or crude about the…