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    make more than a dozen flight trips annually. Flying may be fun and fast, but at that high altitude, the body has to acclimatize and adapt to a new environment. Frequent flyers experience jet lag and fatigue, side effects of the flight experience. While these two are the most common, flying carries other health risks. Failure to address these risks in the long term eventually makes your body vulnerable to a host of health complications. This article highlights these flight associated health…

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    Airline industries are on the cutting edge of human accomplishment. Just over a century ago the act of flight was something humans only conceptualized, moreover imagined what soaring through the air by way of a mechanical invention felt like. Technologies both hard and soft evolved with the invention of aircraft flight. Rapid expansion in the world’s technologies allowed for the act of flight to be possible in a relatively short time span of human history. Hard and soft technologies alike…

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    In the film Cast Away, directed by Robert Zemeckis, compulsively prompt FedEx executive Chuck Noland is on his way to Malaysia when his plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean during a storm. The sole survivor of the flight, Chuck washes ashore on a deserted island. When his efforts to sail away and contact help fail, Chuck learns how to survive on the island, where he remains for four years until he manages to escape the island. During the last scene of the film, after Chuck has returned the last…

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    The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Throughout time the Bermuda Triangle has been home to several different disappearances. Ships, planes, and people have all gone missing in this odd area. Mystery arose starting as early as the 1800s. Some believe in different theories as to why there have been so many disappearances such as hexagonal clouds acting as air bombs, a strange ocean floor, and erratic weather conditions but, nothing proves to be the answer to these peculiar occurrences. The mystery of…

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    All of Rains life she has known her Genie as her guardian. Anything and everything Rain needed Genie was there, he was her “parents”. Rain didn’t recall much about her actual parents but she was told they had passed away when she was 3yrs old. Rain is now 15, she attends Bayside High School and comes home to her Genie, that’s normal life for her. Until now, everything is going in a downward spiral. Her grades were down, and Genie was not thrilled. As they argued over a algebra, Rain was furious…

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    Disappearing out of thin air or falling into a rocky and huge ocean, what happened to The Flannan lighthouse men . These three people disappeared while waiting for the next shift of lighthouse men to show up. This happened on the date of December 26, 1900. Location of course is The Flannan Isles Lighthouse in the West Coast of Scotland. This island is named after Saint Flannan who lived there and died there. There were three people that disappeared, they were all males. No bodies were ever…

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    Dragonfly Research Paper

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    The Warpaint Emerald Dragonfly is a fascinating dragonfly. The size of this dragonfly is above the average size for the genus. Each of the four wings of this dragonfly can move independently and are powered by powerful muscles. The wings normally beat 35 times per second and propel the dragonfly to speeds of 35 miles per hour. Dragonflies have a visual field of almost 360 degrees. The legs of dragonflies are not able to walk. The Warpaint Emerald Dragonfly is about 49-50 mm long in adults.…

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    Sue’s Employee Review Sue is a great worker, with a great attitude. Sue is part of the cleaning crew where she cleans the planes for Frontier airlines. What makes her so great at her job is that she is worked in a rush fashion. Not many people can do the work as fast and as quick as she does with a great spirit the entire time. I plan to prove that Sue is a great worker by: helping you understand her conditions and comparing her amount of work to the other competitors (airlines). Sue is in…

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    A flight attendant, known as Sarah Low’s legacy lives on with Karyn’s wings. In the article “On the Wings of memory¨ By Jon Ramirez, the story of Karyn’s wings is shared. These particular wings have been through many important events. They carry on Sarah’s legacy. Sarah Low was a flight attendant for the American Airlines flight 11 on September 11, 2001. A friend of Sarah’s, Karyn Ramsey, was at the memorial service and to display her respect, gave her flight attendant wings to Mike Low,…

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    ships, such as Flight 19 and the USS Cyclops, but most of these disappearances can be explained by natural occurrences. The Bermuda Triangle is a geographic area of the North Atlantic Ocean located off the southeast coast of the United States. The enigma of the area is its great controversy. “The enigma is that more ships and planes disappear in this area, in fair weather, more than in any other place in the world, for no readily explainable reason” (Bermuda Triangle: Introduction). Flight 19 is…

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