...“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.” This phenomenal quote was stated by none other than the legendary Robert Goddard. The father of modern rockets was born on October, 5, 1882 in Worcester, MA in the United States of America and passed on August, 10, 1945 in Baltimore Maryland. Who knew that one man could influence the whole world in a single lifetime. During his lifetime he had plenty of significant accomplishments. His first significant accomplishment by 1926 Robert Goddard had successfully put together and tested the first rocket using liquid fuel. The first flight of the rocket was March, 16, 1926 at Auburn, Massachusetts. This was A triumph time...
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...Over time America has evolved into a high functioning society because of its trials and tribulations.The hardships of the past expanded the size and cultural to better it as a whole. By the events that occurred, more territories became part of the union which led to new creations that further improved America. In the beginning, only a small amount of the country was inhabited by future United States citizens, but that would quickly change. At first the colonial people lived in 13 colonies which aligned with the right side of the country in a small amount. Subsequently other events came to pass in the United States leaving the occupied space the same as it is now. The United states consisted of Northern, Southern, and Western states that had some form of government. The remainder of the United States were territories that had not been officially set up with a government. The total mass of the United States increased because of boundary pushing event that made history. On the journey to become America, the colonist first had to declare Independence from the British mother country. Through the influences of great men and women along with the support of France and Spain, the colonies had passed the Declaration of Independence. The British conceded and negotiated the...
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...BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT KUOK Date of Birth: Saturday, 06 October 1923 | Born in: / Nationality: Malaysia | Robert Kuok is a Malaysian billionaire and business tycoon who is currently the richest man in both Malaysia and Southeast Asia, with an estimated wealth of 17 billion dollars. He owns multiple companies in numerous fields of business—from sugar mills to food products, from farms and plantations to hotels and resorts. He is most known for owning the world-class Shangri-La Hotels, a chain of hotel-resorts that now runs over 60 hotels worldwide in cities like Tokyo, Dubai, Manila, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Vancouver, and Paris. THE RICHEST MAN IN MALAYSIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA Robert is also called the “Sugar King of Asia” for having 80 percent of the Malaysian sugar production, which accounts for ten percent of the total world production, under his control. Robert’s amazing story of rising up from poverty and becoming Southeast Asia’s richest person has become a shining inspiration for a lot of people. Robert is a firm believer of hard work, diligence, and a broad set of thinking. He believes that these traits allow a person to achieve their goals, and enable them to properly set the course of their life. Robert has a deep root in Buddhist and Communist beliefs, in helping others and how everyone has an equal opportunity of succeeding, but is hindered by so much corruption—not just in politics, but a corruption of the entire system of life itself. In his interviews...
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..."A GIRL'S A Literary Explication on the Poem "A Girl's Garden" by Robert Frost Galen College of Nursing A Literary Explication on the Poem "A Girl's Garden" by Robert Frost Even people who are not a connoisseur of poetry are familiar with Robert Frost and his works. Even though he was a very complex man who kept to himself he excelled in poetry. He found success in poetry that few poets are able to achieve. He lived from 1874-1963. Living most of his life in the New England area, his poems reflects the New England life style and ways of thinking. The poem “A Girl’s Garden” was written in 1916 by Frost. (Meyer, 2008, pg. 1118-1136). The narrator in this poem is unknown. It is told in first person reflecting on a neighbor that tells the same story to all the new people that she meets. A sweet poem with many thoughts and values hid away in the stanza makes the reader reflect on their childhood and experiences of achieving independence. Although the little girl in the poem thought she was starting on an adventure that was fun and exciting, her father was truly teaching her a lesson of independence and hard work. As child, many children venture into doing large projects without thinking about all the hard work that is put into the end product. This is much like the young girl in the poem that decides that she wants to grow her own garden. Without batting an eye her father finds her a small piece of land to place her garden. However, not only did she have to...
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...Abstract Racism and discrimination plagued this nation for many generations. It halted the progression of one race and exceled the advancement of another. These advancements were for Caucasian leaders whom thrived such as Patton, Custer, and York. The accomplishments of these men should not succumb to diminishment because they in fact earned what they received regardless of skin color. However, they did not face as many hindrances as African-American leaders such as Powell, Flipper, and McKinney. The accomplishments of these men paved the way for future African-Americans to flourish. These men along with the Buffalo Soldiers and Tuskegee Airmen provided heroes for young African-Americans to admire and thrive to be like. Thrive to break barriers, prove wrong unwarranted doubt, and change the perception of a racially entrenched America. They were the beginning, some of the firsts, and they initiated the way for a new way of thinking. They started the healing in a deeply seeded illness. An illness called hate. It is an outstandingly hard illness to cure; however, not one of impossibilities. These valiant African-American leaders set underway a cure for a race, a nation, and a dream. African American Servicemen Contributions to Military History The United States Armed Forces has been one of great failures and great successes. One of its greatest failures was the inability to recognize at the time the contributions made by African-Americans as well...
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...Ahmad Ibrahim English 103 David Overly, Ph.D. July 23, 2014 Paper #2 The poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” is about a young athlete from a small town who represents for his town and people by winning a footrace. The athlete is being cheered on and praised for the accomplishments he has done for his fans and town but at the end of the race the athlete has no idea what’s in store for him as soon as he reaches the finish line, sudden death. The young athlete is dead and his people are devastated after they have witnessed glory and fame cut short. Ironically A.E Housman doesn’t laminate the athlete’s sad death nor does he acknowledge it in a negative way instead Housman talks about the perks of dying at young age after accomplishing something glorifying. Bob Marley, the first superstar celebrity to sell more than 20 million records throughout his career. In 1963 Bob and his friends have formed the Wailing Wailers and in 1972 the Wailers came up strong by signing a contract with Island Records. Bob Marley has helped introduced the world with reggae music and until this day he remains one of the most beloved artist his fame has not died nor did his music because of the impact he has made to music listeners. Bob was almost assassinated in 1976 back in Jamaica due to his political beliefs; he was attacked while on stage by a group of gun-men luckily he was struck on his biceps but his wife Rita was shot on the head, Bob continued his show but even more motivated. In 1981 Bob...
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...Click here for more information - Click here to register. 1 2 3 Deinonychus is a genus of carnivorous dromaeosaurid dinosaur that existed during the Early Cretaceous. It contains only a single species, D. antirrhopus. Fossils of the 3.4 meter (11 ft) long dinosaur have been recovered from the U.S. states of Montana, Wyoming, and Oklahoma, though teeth attributed to Deinonychus have been found as far east as Maryland. A 1960s study of Deinonychus revolutionized the way scientists thought about dinosaurs, leading to the "Dinosaur renaissance" and igniting a debate on whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded. Where the popular conception of dinosaurs had been one of plodding reptilian giants, the study's description of Deinonychus' small body, sleek horizontal posture, ratite-like spine and enlarged raptorial claws suggested an active, agile predator. As in other dromaeosaurids, the tail vertebrae have a series of ossified tendons and super-elongated bone processes. These features would seem to make the tail into a stiff counterbalance, but fossils of closely-related species suggest that, in life, the tail could swish to the sides with a high degree of flexibility. Deinonychus teeth and other remains have been found closely associated with those of the ornithopod Tenontosaurus, implying that it was hunted or at least scavenged upon by Deinonychus. (more...) 4 5 A 1925 photo of Wongudan, an altar site in Seoul built in 1897 as a location for the performance of the rite...
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...You may mistake Rosa Parks for just your ordinary African American women but she is more than that. Just because she refused to move on a bus she had to be arrested just because she stood up for her rights. She stands up for her rights and doesn’t let anyone mistreat her just because of the color of her skin. When Rosa was born she was very small and had a large family. She was born on February 4th 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, and named after her maternal grandmother. Her large family consisted of her mother, Leona Edwards her father, James McCauley, and her younger brother Sylvester her two uncles Robert McCauley and George. Finally her grandparents Leona and Sylvester Edwards. Rosa was raised in her grandparents house for most of her childhood. She was very small and delicate for her age and...
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...James Oglethorpe was a wise, clever man. He changed others’ lives. He saw the good in people and would fix it. Oglethorpe had many great accomplishments, including: being in the military, creating a colony, creating Georgia, and being in the House of Commons. Not only did Oglethorpe do amazing things, he also did things for others not just himself. Oglethorpe is a great man to remember, and is a big part of history. James Oglethorpe’s childhood starts off on December 22, 1696. He was born in London, England. Oglethorpe’s mother was Eleanor and his father was Theophilus. He was born into a big family that lived in a small town. In 1714, Oglethorpe attended Oxford University. Soon after, Oglethorpe dropped out of school to enroll into a military...
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...industrialized and strongly dependent on agriculture. More than being a social issue slavery was the basis of economy in the Southern part of the United States. The problem was not about whether slavery was morally correct, but whether the South could economically survive without this type of labor; for Southerners slavery was an economical pillar and crucial for their subsistence, to the extent that it would rather fight or secede from the Union before giving up their profitable labor system. In contrast, the North was more densely populated and had more resources in terms of money, men, and supplies than the South did. Slavery for the North was not as necessary as it was for the rural South. Further more, the South was a strong believer of small national government and strongly advocated state rights over national laws, while the North was a strong supporter of federalism and believer in the Union with no option of secession or nullification, which was a common thread of Southern states against the Union. As all these differences grew bigger between the two, more issues and sectionalism emerged and finally led to the American civil war. To summarize, the American Civil War was caused by the differences between the North and the South leading to economic conflicts, as time passes, the Southern Sates seceding, and these trepidation led to idealistic differences between the Union and the Confederates on the problem of federal power versus states rights. The economy in the North...
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...Running head: COLD 1 The Cold War Corwin Schneider HIS 104 Professor Patrick Williams June 19, 2012 COLD 2 The Cold War Keep your Finger Off the Button! The Cold War, how did these two countries get to this point in history? While the United States and USSR should have been more grown up and learned to work out their problems, who were the major players in the Cold War and how were the two sides involved in the space race, when did the Cold War start and end, and what were the two sides arguing over. The United States was in an intense war with the USSR for five decades. It started in 1945, shortly after Communist Leader Joseph Stalin learned of the first atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Japan August 6, 1945. “The Cold War was a strategic struggle that developed after World War II between the United States with its allies and the Soviet Union with its allies” (Bentley, J., Ziegler, H., & Streets, H. 2008 pg. 638). But, this was not an ordinary war between the two, it was a Cold War. It had more attacks of words and propaganda competing which was the better country. One reason these two superpowers never had direct military action against each other was they both possessed Nuclear Weapons. The major powers in the Cold...
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...Assignment 1: Bank of America April 26, 2015 Bank of America is one of the largest retail banking brand in the United States. Bank of America began as a small regional North Carolina National Bank and has become one of the largest companies in the world. Bank of America services individual consumers, small, middle market businesses and large corporations. 1. Outline the talent management program that led to success for the company. Bank of America has always been a leader in the financial services industry. Its philosophy of talent management and development is driven by seven guiding principles that create a mindset that is pervasive across the bank’s executive ranks. The seven different philosophies are stated below: 1. Leaders really do matter in managing and driving accountability, results and culture. 2. Performance rules: Top performers, then high potentials 3. Talent is an enterprise resource. 4. Today’s top-performing leaders are not necessarily tomorrow’s. 5. A broad set of experiences and assignments is the best classroom; yet, a balanced approach is necessary for development. 6. Today’s top 100 must leave a legacy of future talent by teaching, mentoring and serving as role models to others on what it takes to succeed. 7. Invest in the best and focus the rest. Bank of America’s talent management and development efforts are structured around a core set of frameworks that includes the Bank of America core values, a 70-20-10 development frameworks...
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...[->0] How Do You Change An Organizational Culture? [->1]Changing an organization’s culture is one of the most difficult leadership challenges. That’s because an organization’s culture comprises an interlocking set of goals, roles, processes, values, communications practices, attitudes and assumptions. The elements fit together as an mutually reinforcing system and combine to prevent any attempt to change it. That’s why single-fix changes, such as the introduction of teams, or Lean, or Agile, or Scrum, or knowledge management, or some new process, may appear to make progress for a while, but eventually the interlocking elements of the organizational culture take over and the change is inexorably drawn back into the existing organizational culture. Changing a culture is a large-scale undertaking, and eventually all of the organizational tools for changing minds will need to be put in play. However the order in which they deployed has a critical impact on the likelihood of success. In general, the most fruitful success strategy is to begin with leadershiptools, including a vision or story of the future, cement the change in place withmanagement tools, such as role definitions, measurement and control systems, and use the pure power tools of coercion and punishments as a last resort, when all else fails. [->2] Frequent mistakes in trying to change culture include: • Overuse of the power tools of coercion and underuse of leadership tools. • Beginning with a vision...
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...Ever heard of Pasteurization? It was a method created by Louis Pasteur to stop milk and wine from carrying disease. Louis Pasteur is a French chemist and microbiologist from the 19th century. He had many influences in both the causing and prevention of many diseases. Now let’s take a look in detail at the many accomplishments of this biologist. Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, on December 27th 1822. Louis Pasteur comes from a poor family of tanners, not a likely place for such a person to sprout from. He was an average student early on in his life and was also very good at painting and drawing. In 1840 the young Louis acquired his Bachelor of Arts degree and two years later in 1842, his bachelor’s in science, at the École Normale Supérieure. In 1848 he shortly worked as a professor of physics, and a year later became a professor of chemistry at the University of Strasbourg. At this university he met and later married Marie Laurent, whom he had 5 children with. Sadly of his five children only two of them lived all the way to adulthood, the others killed by a disease called typhoid. This is actually the reason that Pasteur decided to try to find cures for the multiple diseases that had killed his children. Pasteur has had many impacts on biology, such as pasteurization and certain cures for diseases and vaccines. Focusing on pasteurization, he was faced with a problem nobody could seem to answer. Why did some wine go bad and why didn’t...
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...From Fondue to the Environment, Economics Encompasses it All You could say that it all started when I heard Robert Smith, the host of Planet Money on NPR, talk about the origin of fondue and connect it to a Swiss cheese cartel, or possibly when I read Freakonomics, where sumo wrestlers are compared to teachers. The strength of the associations were undeniable and my passion for economics soon developed. I enjoyed imagining the possibilities of the subject, especially because it can involve two seemingly uncorrelated topics that upon closer inspection have some subtle common ground and interdependence. These connections can vary widely from something I am familiar with, such as sports and music, to topics I have yet to learn about such as...
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