The Longest Time

position to reach out to more people to make an impact in her community. This year the Mortal Combots mentor FTC team 12753, FRC team, and FLL teams. Along with mentoring teams, the Mortal Combots go to a local aged care center regularly, spending time with the elderly, making them feel more involved. With these (adj) events, Mackenna has helped improve the outreach hours by a whopping 185% from last year. This year (2017/2018), the Mortal Combots have also impacted over 450 people in the Quad…

class. ”After that she didn’t play around with the soldier anymore, but only with a few flat-footed, short young men in town, who couldn’t get into the army at all.”(Pg 75) So it shows she lost interest in soldiers, which gatsby was a soldier at that time and was a low class. “Daisy was popular in Sanchez 2…

diseases, cataracts, and beak down of the central nervous system. Long term exposure is a factor strongly considered when thinking of sending astronauts to mars and they would be exposed for a long period of time. Suits are in the works to eliminate the risk of all the radiation. Limiting a crew’s time exposed to radiation was used in the early space programs. During the Apollo missions to the moon exposure to radiation belts was minimized but on the way to a planet like mars other factors may…

Animal Diversity Report: Comparison of the Nervous and Reproductive Systems of the Compass Jellyfish, Axolotl, Horseshoe Crab, and The Compass Jellyfish (Chrysaora hysoscella) - The Compass Jellyfish (Chrysaora hysoscella) is a species of jellyfish that can be found in cold and temperate waters near the continental shelf regions of the Irish and North Seas, the Mediterranean, and coastal regions of South Africa (Doyle et. al.). The Compass Jellyfish belongs to the Genus Chrysaora and the…

New York City's Graveyard Shift is an essay about everyday people having night jobs in New York City. The essay talks about some of the people’s experience and thoughts about their night jobs. It is the norm to have a 9 to 5 job in the city, coming home to having the rest of the day to yourself, or going home to cook dinner for your family. For the rest of the city, people are just getting up to prepare themselves for night of labor. My favorite photo from the essay has to be of Villavicencio a…

Mrs. Barger AB 3/4 2/13/17 Simone de Beauvior, a writer, intellectual, and philosopher once stated the following: “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” In other words, Simone is saying that not taking advantage of opportunities to change for the better may lead to dire consequences. In comparison, the novel A Christmas Carol’s main character is a man who desperately needs to change, or he will face nasty repercussions. He must make a choice: change, or…

An American philosopher named George Santayana once interestingly stated: “Those who cannot remember the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat it.” With this same philosophical idea proposed by George Santayana, the study of our nation’s history and foreign policy efforts should be used as a lesson to guide any future behavior on how the United States should deal with the threat ISIS presents because of the clear thread that exists between the past and present. The same gap of…

In modern day society, we use technology on a daily basis to do almost any task. From studying to cooking, and even shopping, technology has advanced to make tasks like these simpler. However, the advancements in technology has a few flaws. One flaw involves how we interact with other people on a daily basis. Due to how anonymous social media can be, new threats have emerged, including cyber bullying, and internet predators. In addition, a man named Nicholas Carr has essentially stated that the…

Accepting others helps people get through life. In the novel, A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park, acceptance comes in and out of the story, many times. One example was that the old woman let Salva stay in her barn for many nights before he had to go walk to the refugee camp. Another example was that Salva accepted another part of a Dinka tribe and the Jur-Chol into their group to walk with them to the refugee camp. My last example was that Salva accepted fifteen hundred boys to walk with…

In the play jacob’s wake by Michael Cook a major focus is on the kitchen of the house. Culturally in newfoundland the kitchen is the hub of the household. A majority of the time it was the only place in the house where there was heat was thus becoming a congregating ground. The symbol of the newfoundland kitchen ties the newfoundland family together. The kitchen not only ties the family together in a symbolic way, but also in a physical way, being the kitchen is one of the only warm places in…