Transmitter

The following is summary of my life after graduation. Right after graduating in 1963 John Callahan (Geibel High School class of 63) and I enlisted in the US Air Force. On the August 20th 1963 we left Connellsville for Lackland Airforce Base in Antonio TX for basic training. He and I ended up spending some of the hottest months of the year in Texas. I can still remember getting off the airplane in San Antonio at 3 AM and being shocked at the heat and humidity (~85 degrees). After our twelve weeks…

The word communication has been derived from the Latin word ‘communis’ which means to share. Thus, communication means sharing of one’s ideas, beliefs, thoughts, opinions, feelings emotions etc. with the other person. Communication is the expression and exchange of facts, opinions, ideas or feelings. Communication may be intrapersonal i.e. when we are trying to communicate with ourselves, may be regarding some issue, it involves communication with only one self only. While interpersonal…

In the story “ Marionettes, Inc.” Ray Bradbury conducted a prelusion effects throughout his sequence; he created a visual, that the underdog will overthrow it’s supreme oppressor .The same content was included in the story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt vonnegut, Jr.However, it was achieved in a divergent method;both writer’s take on their stories in dissimilar schemes, such as the environmental context,the theme of the stories, and . Furthermore, the author’s created duplicate aspect of…

Many people may think that science fiction is only about aliens and space but is way much more than that. Science fiction is about the future, technology, and science. Not only by authors but ones who dream. In a world where the strong wore heavy handicaps and the beautiful wore hideous masks a young boy named Harrison Bergeron was growing up. As Harrison develops into a powerful man he becomes too powerful and the government takes him away at a young age. Harrison then breaks away from the…

Armed resistance Hannah Szenes was a remarkably brave woman who worked to defeat the Nazis in World War II. She was born in 1921 in Budapest and she herself had Jewish descent. She moved to Palestine in 1939 and studied at Nahalah Agricultural School and then Kibbutz Sedot Yam. She heard about the situation in Germany and surrounding countries and Hitler’s dictatorship. Yearning to make a difference in the war, and aid fellow Jews she left the safety of her home to join the British Army. 30,000…

we’d be watching a deaf film. Credits rolling across the screen, I stay sitting, faintly observing the muted chatter. Startled by a hand waving in front of my face, I look over and see a little girl; blonde hair, pale eyes and the unmistakable transmitter of a cochlear implant. “Hi” she croaked out, followed by a wrinkled…

function of the inner ear, giving patients a better chance to hear and communicate with others. The cochlear implant is intended for those who are considered profoundly deaf. The implant provides an inner microphone, which captures sound, while a transmitter receives the signals and converts them to electric impulses to the brain. Differing from hearing aids, which amplify sound, the cochlear implant, bypasses damaged…

It was tuned to a government transmitter” (Vonnegut 1) that “would send out some sharp noise to keep people...from taking unfair advantage of their brains”. (1) This is an element of dystopian literature as citizens are not given the right to think freely, and are forced to conform to…

Jaci Lowry Invention Research The invention I decided to write about was the invention that changed the world, and the one that I believe was the most influential in United States History. A telephone is a device that allows for users to have a conversation. It transmits sounds, usually voices, through wire or radio. Bell’s invention was not the first by any means. It was just better and clearer. Alexander Graham Bell, a scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator, is…

When Brian was a thirteen years old boy, his parents had been divorce.basically Brian had to live with his father who was working in Canada in summer. Before Brian took the plane to visit his father, his mother gave him a hatchet as a present. Momentarily the pilot suffered the massive heart-attack and he died.Brian control the plane by himself. As Brian almost ran out of the gas he falled down on the edge of lake.After the plane crash, in spite of Brian’s forehead and his leg got hurt, yet he…