...Chongwen Yang Robin Stewart AE 20C 2015/1/15 Movie Essay Teamwork is an action that several people do a specified work instead of doing by one single individual. With the help of teamwork, every team member has an appointed goal to focus on in order to increase the efficiency of whole work. The movie October Sky , which is directed by Joe Johnston, shows the teamwork of 4 high school students who become inspired to learn how to build rockets and get success in the National Science Fair. The main character Homer dreams of launching a rocket ,which obeys his father's wish as being a miner in a mining town called Coalwood. His high school teacher Miss Riley encourages Homer to follow his heart and do his best to finish his yearning rocket. At the end, Homer and his team win the prize and get college scholarships. In the real life, teamwork is also important to be applied to solve many problems. A few years ago, my friends and I worked on a group project about photosynthesis. We were required to research how photosynthesis worked and made data report. So 2 team members worked on recording the data, and another team member and I worked on finding the theory of photosynthesis from books and internet. Because of appropriate arrangement of every member's work, we finished the project very quickly. In conclusion, teamwork is necessary to people's daily lives. There are three benefits of teamwork: teamwork can make...
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...October Sky Marion Eady The film October Sky (1999), directed by Joe Johnson is based on a true story of Homer Hickman ( a coal miners son) who is inspired to build a rocket after the Russian launch of the first artificial satellite (Sputnik) into orbit. The film definitely focuses on the course theme of being a social outcast. This is explored in the film through three people, John Hickman (Homers Father), the town of Coalwood and Mr.Turner (Homers principle). Firstly, John Hickman, father of Homer Hickman and a coal miner at the Coalwood mines in West Virginia, socially outcasts his son. Why? Because John doesn’t agree with his son building a rocket. This is explored through Homers father getting in multiple fights with his son. John called Homer many hurtful words for example a minis and a thief. John never wanted to go watch Homers rocket launch, he never agreed with anything that Homer wanted to do. Homer’s father wanted him to work in a coal mine not build rockets. Homer’s father is thrilled when Homer decides to go work in the coal mine after John gets hurt at work. Homer decides to quit school, quits making rockets and go into the coal mine. After John is out of the hospital and is able to go back to work, Homers mother want him to go back to school. Homer tells him mom that he’s not going back to school and John agrees with Homer. Although John is thrilled that Homer quit building rockets, the family is finally happy and everything is good, Homer decides...
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...The film is set in Coalwood, West Virginia in the year 1957. The coal mine is the town's largest employer and almost every man living in the town works in the mines. John Hick, the mine superintendent, loves his job and hopes that his boys, Jim and Homer, will one day join him in his mine (“Plot”). When it appears that Jim will receive a football scholarship to attend college, this leaves Homer to fulfill his father's dream, although his mother, Elsie, hopes for more for her son. In October, news of the Soviet Union's rocket launch of Sputnik 1 reaches Coalwood (“Plot”). As the townspeople gather outside the night of the broadcast, they see the satellite orbit across the sky. Filled with awe and a belief that this may be his chance out of Coalwood,...
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...The pinewood derby starts with Don Murphy, Cub Master for Pack 280C in 1953. Don Murphy wanted to create a new father-son Cub Scout activity he could do with his 10 year old son who was too young to race in the Soap Box Derby, which requires the boy to drive a home made car down a hill. Don's young son couldn't wait 2 years to race in the Soap Box Derby, so "Dad" Murphy wanted to invent another activity to do with his son and the younger boys in his Cub Scout Pack. The ideas started percolating in Don Murphy's mind. His dedication to family values and Cub Scouting ideals, drove him, as stated in the quote above, to develop the idea of racing miniature pinewood derby cars down a track. He just needed to figure out a basic kit for these cars and design a track to race them on. Years after Don created the concept of the derby car, boy scouts around the world still hold derby competitions mostly for fun but competiveness does get involved. Parts List: • Saw • Derby car kit o Wooden block o Four Wheels o Four Axels • Sand paper • Paint • Carving tools • Plastic Engine • Plastic Spoiler • Plastic Exhaust • Plastic Roll Cage • Graphite • Lead • Hammer • Markers • Pencil Rules and Regulation: Wheel bearings, washers, and bushings are prohibited. The car shall not ride on springs. Only official Cub Scout Grand Prix Pinewood Derby wheels and axles are permitted. Only dry lubricant is permitted. Details, such as steering wheel and driver are permissible as long as these details...
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...Homer Hickam lives a coal mining town, where he is expected to take after his father and become and coal miner. However, when Homer sees the Sputnik satellite in space, he is inspired to build his own. With no support from his family and classmates, Homer ask the school nerd, Quentin to help him build rockets. Together with Homer’s friends, Roy Lee and O’Dell, the four of them team up and build homemade rockets, testing them in an empty area away from town. The boys get support from their teacher, Miss Riley, who informs them of the science fair and getting scholarships if they win. After many failed attempts, they finally get some success, and the local paper writes a story about them. However, the “Rocket Boys” as they are known as, get...
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...The third installment of Homer Hickman’s memoir entitles Sky of Stone, dictates the struggles of a small town boy returning home after experiencing the vastly different environment of higher education. Sonny’s summer of 1961 has a vastly different plan than the one he had imaged, lazing around the hot North Carolina beaches, strolling for girls and having the summer of his life. Instead he finds himself back in Coalwood, West Virginia, doing what he vowed he would never do. As mining coal proves to be more than he bargained for, with long and tolling days, he finds himself changing physically and mentally, caring more and more about the people around him and his hometown. Sonny is dedicated to earning his way, making it back to college in the fall,...
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...The movie October Sky contains some interesting philosophical content. The movie takes place in West Virginia in the town of Coalwood in 1957. The town has a coal mine, which employs most of the men who live there. John Hickam is the foreman at the coal mine. John has two sons, and he intends for them both to work in the coal mine. One of his sons, Jim, gets a football scholarship. The other son, Homer, becomes interested in Rockets. In the movie, Homer overcomes many obstacles in order to launch rockets and get to science faire. John Hickam has a very limited world view. He thinks that the most important thing in life is working in the mine. He only seems to value people in as far as they can work in the mine. To John, any other profession is somewhat frivolous. Homer Hickam seems to be a normal teenager with normal ambitions until his world-view is turned upside-down by the sight of the Sputnik satellite streaking across the October sky. Homer decides that he wants to build and launch rockets. Logic – Homer uses logic in order to gain knowledge of rocket science, so that he can make a rocket. First, he reads science fiction comics and reads about Wernher Von Braun, who is the German rocket scientist. Then Homer meets the nerd in his school who knows about rockets. Then, Homer gets some books on science and math and teaches himself. Then Homer and his friends use trial and error to test the rockets, until they make one that launches correctly. Homer also uses the logic...
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...In October Sky it was about spending time with your loved ones while you still have them. It’s about homer, his friends, and family, they have different problems through the movie. Homer and his dad don’t really see each other eye to eye so they have a difficult relationship and now that he is getting ready to leave for the science show his dad doesn’t really care but he ends up having to help homer because someone stole his rocket stuff. Homer and his dad don’t really see eye to eye in some situations but that's normal for kids and their parents to have problems. They don’t like what each other are doing like the dad doesn’t like what Homer is doing and not going into the coal mine like him and homer doesn’t like the coal mine. Homer and his dad don’t...
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... Ever since March of this year, our eighth grade class has been reading an inspiring novel about perseverance, friendship, and belief in oneself. Written by an enriching author, Rocket Boys teaches the readers about working hard to achieve one’s goals. Mr. Hickam had to push through many boundaries and challenges for him to become the person he is today. He has set an example for the students in this room and for students all across the country. His perseverance helped him achieve his goal of becoming a NASA engineer. If the students in this room, including myself, use that as an exemplar to shape our lives, we could become amazing and important people. A major theme in Rocket Boys was perseverance. Throughout the entirety of the book Mr. Hickam had a multitude of obstacles obstructing him, but he had pushed through. Quote Yes, it is true that a few of his relationships were suppressed to achieve the success that his rockets had. One example of that would be his relationship with his father. During the whole book, Mr. Hickam and his father had a very difficult bond. True, there was a time where his father had supported him, but, and especially at the start of his rocket building process, his father had opposed his journey in the beginning because he did not understand the importance of the subject. No matter, Mr. Hickam had overcome that adversity. If we use Mr. Hickam's drive to propel ourselves in each of our unique lives, we will go far. He had pushed through...
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...DBRAE200D Professor Daily 28 October 2012 Position Essay: The Necessity for the Explanations of Weather in Ancient Greece The complex, but plausible circumstances surrounding the explanations for different forms of weather in ancient Greece were necessary due to the lack of technological and intellectual advancements it took to really explain the origins of wind, thunderstorms, and rain. “The economy of the ancient Mediterranean world was agriculturally-based. Given the importance of weather to agriculture, it should not be surprising that there was a good deal of interest in the explanation and prediction of weather in the ancient world” (Taub). The mortals of ancient Greece were “normal” people. They worked for a living, served the gods and feared Zeus’ wrath. More revolutionary explanations for the weather in their world would not come around for hundreds of years, leaving a haze of uncertainty and a flurry of stories. The ancient Greeks had many explanations for and references to natural occurrences such as rain, wind, and thunderstorms. The thoughtful myths and the reasoning behind them made these curious occurrences suddenly logical and rational. It was through the descriptions of these events that the mortals of Greece realized that the actions of the gods were out of their control. Taking into account the simplistic lifestyle that Greek mortals led in a society sustained by growing crops year-round, they needed to know-or think they knew why their crops would die...
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...Rosa Birth Center was accepting baby clothes, wipes and other supplies for children. The Lake County Animal Care and Control was assisting in providing shelter to any displaced animals. The LoveLakeCounty.org provided a list of donation centers with items that are still needed. (2015) Along with all of these different organizations, hundreds of other people helped donate anything from food to clothes to toiletries as well as providing housing and shelter for those affected. The grounds they used were obvious. When the fire happened you could see the smoke from miles away! It covered the sky of Ukiah. As soon as the fire started it was all over news station and all over the internet. People were posting videos and pictures of them running away or driving down the interstate with the fire blazing on each side of them, it was terrifying. The warrants for this cause are like I said earlier in the essay, people in a community help each other when a disaster like this happens. People who have no connection to the fire helped promote donating and informing people how they could help. For example, this is how I heard about helping out at the Bushay Campground. The conclusion to...
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...Airline: The grounded kangaroo EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Qantas is the world’s second oldest airline and it fall into a long-run labour dispute which once stopped the running of the company. The CEO of Qantas, Alan Joyce has taken several actions before and during the dispute. This essay will discuss the reason and the cause of such industrial relations problem. Then, to analysis and judge the industrial action of both Qantas and the labour unions with some of the management concept. In the last, possible solution and recommendation will discuss to show the benefit of management skills. Table of contents INTRODUCTION 1-2 PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION2-3 PROBLEM ANALYSIS AND JUSTIFICATION3-5 ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS5-6 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS6-7 INTRODUCTION Qantas is the world's second oldest airline. Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, it is Australia’s largest domestic and international airline and is recognized as one of the heads of world long distance airline companies, having services from Australia to North America and Europe. Qantas today employs approximately 33,600 people and offers services across a network spanning 182 destinations in 44 countries around the world. On 29 October 2011, Qantas chief executive, Alan Joyce took a big gamble; He claimed to ground all the planes and cancelled all flights in order to get rid of a long-run labour dispute and the conflict with Unions. This bold or perhaps impetuous action caused several negative influences. Over...
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...Phung Tran October 27, 2014 WAC 101 Evaluating Essay Santa Barbara A week before Labor Day, one of my friends asked me if I wanted to visit Santa Barbara, and I said yes. I had been looking forward to this two day weekend trip because it would be the first time I had traveled to a place that is far away from Arizona without my family. Early Saturday morning, I packed up my clothes in a huge black backpack that looked much more like a hiking backpack. Then I was ready to go to the bus station. It was still dark when I reached the bus station to go to Santa Barbara, and very few people lined up behind me in the station. I was nervous looking around but I was also very excited to begin my first independent adventure to a gorgeous place called Santa Barbara that known for its beautiful mountain landscape and its exquisite beach. After fifteen hours in the bus, I finally reached my destination and settled down in my hotel. My first view of Santa Barbara’s landscape, the place was wrapped around by a long range of mountains that were covered by a thick green layer of grass and trees. Alongside the hill, there were a lot flowers showing off their beautiful petals in the rays of the sunset. I could see a chunk of yellow dandelion that mixed with the green carpet of grass on the ground as my friend drove me around the mountain. The scattering of sunlight across the sky at this point painted an image of pinkish-orange color clouds that mingle with the blue sky. Opposite to the...
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...Foreseeability Study Report on Amazon Prime Air service About Amazon Prime Air Amazon has invented the new product to deliver the various products to the customers by the drones. It will be the new technology, which will make the company innovative. It is a technological scenario, which makes Amazon capable to develop the new thinking in regards to improve and make the products delivery system fast, In future, the drones will deliver the products in 30 minutes under the control of technology experts. Introduction Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has been a staple of the society’s daily life and the significance has increased tremendously over the last decade, as the internet becomes more integrated and as technology advances rapidly. With a United Kingdom market share of approximately 22.5% in the entertainment market alone (Butler, 2015), beating the likes of Apple and HMV in the sales of music and movies, Amazon is without a doubt a force to be reckoned with in the e-commerce ecosystem. Its service has evolved over the years from the introduction of Amazon Prime which includes free one-day delivery and its movie streaming service, to Amazon Fresh which delivers fresh cooking ingredients delivered on the same day of ordering. Amazon’s latest offering, Amazon Air, a new method of delivery using flying drones has piqued curiosities among experts in the industry. This report will explain further Amazon air’s service as well as pointing out five aspects that...
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...Professor Samios-Uy English 102-E1A October 22, 2007 Essay #4, Draft Title In Henrik Ibsen play “A Doll’s House, Norma Helmer, one of the main characters is a woman who does immoral and unjust actions in order to save her husband’s life and then realizes her actions were done under false pretenses. She thought that she has committed a crime for love and find out the she really does not know what love is. The other characters attitude in the story toward Nora plays a major role in understanding Nora and significance of the play. One character, attitude toward Nora is that she is a simple woman. She walks talks and think as a child according to her husband Mr Torvald Helmer. In the beginning of the play Norma stuff her mouth with macaroons and when she hears her Torvald comes in she hides them. Like how a child would do if they would sneak and eat something after their parents not to. Torvald also had many pet names for his wife such as my little squirrel, or my little sky lark. Nora and Torvald never have and adult converstions. They talk about the children or Nora going shopping. Torval always say be a good little wife. However, toward the end of the play Mr Helmer attitude changes about Nora. He upset with her that she decides to leave him. He said that she is ungrateful Another character is Ms Kristine Linde who is a friend of Nora’s attitude toward her is the the same as Torvald simple minded. However, Kristine call relate to Nora because she was in a similar...
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