Tahiti

“When I had journeyed half of our life’s way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray” (Inferno 3). Realistically, my journey to the underworld cannot be described in such poetic terms. That quote just came from a book that I read during my freshman year in college. I died on April 10th, 2018, on my 21st birthday, in an alcohol induced accident, caused by my friend Erin. On that fateful night, my friend Erin and I were walking down Commonwealth…

and grape products for grain. Since they were located on the coast, Greece had a strategic point for trade and cultural diffusion. Athens became a rich commercial center and Greeks had a money system. They had city-states with identities and cultures. They were considerably independent and were always competing with each other. Sparta was militaristic and agricultural while Athens was cultural, political, and commercial. In Sparta, women had more rights than in other areas. They had adult male…

Surfing has grown exponentially over the past several decades and with it surf brands have exploded and surfing has become considerably more marketable. However, at one point in time, this did not seem like it would ever be possible. In the 1960’s there was a vast expansion of surf culture, but before that surfing was not seen as a popular activity. The counter-culture ways that were associated with the sport created a view that surfers were slackers and druggies as their time was largely spent…

The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The biographer Richard Cordell notes that the book was influenced by Maugham's study of science and his work as a houseman at St Thomas' Hospital. The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925). Beginning in May 1925, it was serialised…

The important characteristics of IR is that it can’t penetrate walls or other opaque materials. Typically, with an IR-based system, a receiver is placed in every location in which a tagged device might be found. The tagged device emits IR light, and if the tagged device is in the same room as a receiver its position is known. The major advantage of an IR-based system is that as the oldest and most installed positioning technology, solutions are generally available from a variety of sources…

"Well, use your head, son," he said, smiling. Which really meant, "That's all I'm going to tell you," or "I don't know the answer, so don't embarrass me." A Partnership Is Formed The next morning, I told my best friend, Mike, what my dad had said. As best I could tell, Mike and I were the only poor kids in this school. Mike was like me in that he was in this school by a twist of fate. Someone had drawn a jog in the line for the school district, and we wound up in school with the rich kids. We…