is coming, do you have some plan? Yan: i like playing pools ,snooker, and some time i prefer to do some excises in gym to keep fit in my leisure time . and what about you? and as we known the longest distance in the world is like from monday to friday, and probably i have been exhausted this week, so I might just stay at home and have a good rest. And what about u? Ban: usually, i just want to stay at home and have a good rest, but when it is a good day, i would like to have a short trip to
Words: 533 - Pages: 3
The Alamo The 300-year-old Mission San Antonio de Valero was the site of a pinnacle battle during the Texas Revolution in March of 1836. Here, 189 Texas defenders held off Mexican General Santa Anna's 4,000 soldiers for thirteen days. Mission San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo) was established in 1718 as the city's first mission. On the east side of Alamo Plaza is the famous spot in Texas where 189 defenders fell on March 6, 1836, after repeated attacks by Mexican General Santa Anna's army which sealed
Words: 1381 - Pages: 6
and his co-pilot sat in the dark cockpit to get their eyes adjusted to the night time before they took off for flight to Dallas from Boston. 2. The ‘rods’ are thin, cylindrical receptor cells that are highly sensitive to light, they also play a key role in peripheral vision. Since the pilots sat in the dark cock-pit the rods in their eyes were more sensitive to the light he saw. 3. The cues he used were that the light was faint but growing brighter, it also stood out against the darkness of
Words: 922 - Pages: 4
Fitzgerald first sets the scene as the reader learns that it is through the 'summer nights' and it's his 'neighbour'. This encourages the reader to grasp a setting before the writer goes on. Additionally, we learn that the neighbour has 'blue gardens'. The use of the adjective 'blue' forms imagery that is much more vivid and allows the reader to form a clear image of how his 'neighbours house' must look. In addition, the writer describes the 'men and girls' that came and went as 'moths'. This
Words: 881 - Pages: 4
such as the construction supervisor and also the building supervisor. This will limit the amount of people that can come and go as they please which will cut down on the possibility of someone getting the key and going in during the middle of the night. The next step of perimeter protection is perimeter lighting. Lighting is going to be needed so that it will help with deterring people from
Words: 1456 - Pages: 6
attend to French classes, from Monday to Friday, from 9:00-12:00pm, and I didn’t see this so complicated. My journey began on July 26, 2012, taking a night flight from Santo Domingo to Paris. That flight was one of the worst of my life, the feeling of being in the middle of two people who don’t know for more than eight hours, was something that irritated me and made me feel uncomfortable. Even though I had a bad flight, my welcome to the city of lights wasn’t pleasant, the cold it was killing
Words: 560 - Pages: 3
the speed of light time slows down and at the speed of light stops—but I could have sworn that it has only been a few short weeks since I last wrote in this blog. What’s more, I have not posted any of my course work for the past two classes that I completed. Although I must admit that the B’s I received in the past two classes barely warrant such a posting. I think the papers were good at any rate. I will update my Psychology blog tomorrow. Today I will write in this blog and by Friday I will have
Words: 779 - Pages: 4
I will never forget September 28, 2013. It was a cold night in Harrod, Ohio, as our football team was getting ready to go to battle against the Allen East Mustangs, under the friday night lights. The talk was cheap at school all week about how we were going to crush the Mustangs with ease, but everything changed the instance that first whistle blew. The first drive of the game seemed like we thought we had already won the game. The Mustangs marched right down the field, and their side of the bleachers
Words: 1391 - Pages: 6
the hurricane's eye had crossed Jamaica and emerged off its northern coast near the town of Port Antonio, meteorologists said, but rain and winds continued to pound the Caribbean island, and hurricane conditions were predicted to last well in the night. It was the first direct hit by the eye of a hurricane in Jamaica since Hurricane Gilbert 24 years ago, and fearful authorities closed the island's international airports and police ordered 48-hour curfews in major towns to keep people off
Words: 2524 - Pages: 11
played on JV. I had led the defense in tackles and was a team captain. He also coached my sophomore year where I earned the privilege of being on varsity. This was the time of my life. Little kids looked up to you, and the whole town shut down on Friday nights to watch you play. But as Junior year came, so did new people. Brad Davis was that man, and he carried with him a very prestigious past. He was a coach from a huge 6A powerhouse and was making the huge transition into my small 3A town. Things
Words: 1416 - Pages: 6
