Airborn Essays

  • The Importance of Believing in Yourself, Illustrated in Oppel's Silverwing

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    Silverwing: Believe in Yourself When one is constantly being put down, one tends to put themselves down and feel weaker than what is true. When that person attempts something, one does not perform to their full potential, only the low standards set for them. In Silverwing, by Kenneth Oppel, Shade is a Silverwing bat, the runt of his colony. He is constantly being put down, so he tries to do something crazy which gets his colony in trouble and results in resentment by his peers. Later, when he

  • Tuberculosis Essay

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    Tuberculosis or TB is an airborn infection caused by inhaled droplets that contain mycobacterium tuberculosis. When infected, the body will initiate a cell-mediated hypersensitivity response which leads to formation of lesion or cavity and positive reaction to tuberculin skin test (Kaufman, 2011). People who have been infected with mycobacteria will have a positive skin test, but only ones who have active TB will show signs and symtoms. Basic signs and symptoms include low grade fever, cough with

  • Hydrofoils and How They Work

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    Their main reason for puting foils on the plane was to make the landings smoother and to make takeoffs much quicker. The plane can get out of the water much faster with foils because there is less drag inhibiting the plane from gaining speed to get airborn. This is useful when taking off of short lakes or in rough water. There are many purposes for hydrofoils. The main reason people or buisnesses install hydrofoils onto their watercraft is to decrease the drag of the boat as it travels through the

  • Outbreak Movie Analysis

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    infectious agent was the Motaba Ebola Virus. The symptoms were blisters of the skins with puss and bleeding with high fever. The government was very aware and thought they had a vaccine but the micro-organism morphed into another pathogen that was airborn and the previous vaccine was no

  • How Did Orval E Faubus Speech On School Integration Influence The Civil Rights Movement?

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    The Civil Rights Movement, the fight for racial equality, first began when Soviet diplomats used racial segregation and discrimination in America against blacks as an anti-American propaganda tool to express defects in America’s society. (pg. 1052) President Eisenhower began to address multiple racial concerns by eliminating racial discrimination in military bases and desegregating multiple public facilities such as libraries, restaurants, playgrounds, and parks. (pg. 1052-1053) Of course, those

  • Hepatitis B Essay

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    is another source of infection especially as a non-parental infection. The virus has the ability to enter a healthy body as an airborne disease by coughing and sneezing, from mouth-to-mouth kissing, biting or by sharing chewed toys and candies [2, airborn] REFRENSES 1a - Epidemiology of acute and chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Norway, 1992-2009 - Gražina Rimšelienė1,2*, Øivind Nilsen2, Hilde Kløvstad2, Hans Blystad2 and Preben Aavitsland2 2b - http://www.aphc.info/pdf/archives/2004/07PHC_Book_Chapter15

  • We Were Soldiers

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    and of the war in Vietnam in general. In doing so, it glorifies the military establishment and bolsters the current propaganda drive for US military action on foreign shores. In the Ia Drang Valley, paratroopers of the 7th cavalry of the 1st US Airborn division, led by Col Harold Moore (played by Mel Gibson), engaged in ferocious combat with North Vietnamese army regulars over three days and nights. Though initially outnumbered, the US troops defeated the Vietnamese thanks to massive air-born firepower

  • Bubonic Plague In London

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    was the pneumonic plague, characteristic by a patients chest pain and severe cough. The other main strain of the plague was the bubonic plague, spread by bites from fleas carrying the bacteria, as opposed to pneumonic plague, which was spread by airborn toxins. Once infected a patient would develop characteristic swellings of the lymph nodes (referred to as buboes), followed by a severe fever with symptoms such as headache and vomiting. The main theme in treatment of the plague was the way it was

  • Historical Accuracy In Saving Private Ryan

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    After an intensely bloody and graphic scene where the Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day, 1944, a squad of eight American soldiers was assembled for a special mission to find and save Private James Ryan, played by Matt Damon. Mrs. Ryan, played by Amanda Boxer, was about to received notice that three of her four sons had been killed in action during war. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, played by Harve Presnell, made the decision to try and