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Point Of View Thoughts And Feelings
1,684 words"What am I doing here?" Rick thought to himself. Just yesterday morning he had gotten out of his warm bed. He had kissed his wife goodbye and told her that he would be home around lunch time. He had explained to her that, because it was the Christmas season, he only had to work a half-day schedule until Now, eighteen short hours later, he and one hundred and nineteen other paratroopers are packed like sardines in a military airplane bound for Panama. He has a parachute strapped on his back and i...
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Bridge Between The Past Past And The Present France
674 wordsProvence has been called a bridge between the past and the present, where yesterday blends with today. This beautiful place lies in the southern part of France, and is bordered on the east by Italy, on the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the west by the Rhone River. The area abounds with flower fields, vineyards, orchards, and olive and mulberry groves. Along the seacoast is the French Rivera and the Ports of Marseille and Toulon. Provence has its own language The region originally formed...
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Dps Vs City Cops
744 wordsKnock! Knock! Tap! Tap! License and registration please. Where is the emergency son? The speed limit is 55 mph. Not 120 Mph. This is a highway not the Autobahn son. This is DPS not the city police. I will let you off with a warning this time I will take you to Jail for criminal driving. Are all cops like this? Some are and some aren't. Let's see if they are. People get certain kinds of cops mixed upshot. For instance when people get pulled over by a DPS officer people call them PIGS but they are...
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Back To 2035 Back To 1996 Cole
635 wordsBruce Willis plays James Cole, an inmate in the year 2035, almost the whole population of the earth has died from a virus released in 1997, the survivors have fled the surface of the earth, seeking refuge from the virus. Scientists in the movies present (2035) have traced the release of the virus to a radical animal rights group called the Army of the Twelve Monkeys. Back in 2035 James Cole is volunteered to go back to 1996 and obtain the virus in its pure form so a cure can be made in 2035. Tha...
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Told Me Stories Mix Of Cultures Eyes
1,034 wordsI can remember it like it was just yesterday. It was the mid-eighties and I was just an awe-stricken young eight-year-old as I accompanied my aunt to Shannon Airport. She was the second of my relations that was travelling to spend a summer in Australia and I can still remember the look in her eyes as we saw her off. To me, she exuded an air of nervous anticipation, tinged with the excitement of what was no doubt going to be one of the most memorable summers of her young life. As we entered throu...
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Red River Hotel Red River Hotel And Conference Room
334 wordsTHE RED RIVER HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER The new Red River Hotel and Conference Center in Albuquerque has just been completed. It's the perfect place to stay for seeing all the local sights or as a stopover to other New Mexico destinations. The hotel has extended very attractive discounts to all Gateway travel agencies, which we can extend to our customers. The hotel has 400 rooms, all of which are spacious and tastefully furnished. Each room is equipped with individual climate control, a direc...
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Thing Paris Mother
557 wordsThis has been a quiet trip. My mother was sad, surely worried about my grandmothers health, maybe that is why my father wanted me as her companion, so that at least she didnt pass the night alone in Paris. But it doesnt seem that Ive been of any help, because I just couldnt distract her away from the silence, the anguish. Could be the disease of my grandmother the thing that depresses her, or there is something deeper? The relationship between my parents is not going well. Even the strangers not...
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Main Thing Project Left
556 wordsGoing to Tanzania had been a childhood dream of mine and was soon to be realised in the summer of 1998. Now standing at the airport I am not only excited but also afraid of what to come. I had the image you would find in any travel brochure and in my mind, I knew it was false We boarded the plane and left the runway at 7. 45. We arrived in Brussels one hour later to transfer to a plane, which would touch down in Rwanda and take us safely to our final destination of Nairobi in Kenya. Nairobi was ...
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Speed Limit Left Lane Place
930 wordsI cannot fit in small cars; it is impossible. Two door sports cars are the worst. I scoot the seat back until it touches the seat behind me, and still I am kissing my knees. This situation and many others posed quite a problem for me in my 9 -month stint in Europe, a place of the unexpected, a place where common sense and logic do not exist, a place very different from what I am used too. This was my first ride on a super-charged, turbo, double-decker, high-tech 747 Jumbo Jet. The flight was LA ...
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Herb Kelleher Southwest Airlines
1,880 wordsCan you imagine if only one of those "doodles" that you have drawn while on the telephone had turned into a multi million-dollar business? Can you see your picture on the cover of Fortune magazine? Rollin King and Herb Kelleher, the creators of Southwest Airlines could. What began as a conversation between attorney Herb Kelleher and his client Rollin King, with a drawing on the back of a cocktail napkin, has become one of the worlds most successful business testimonials. Both men saw the need fo...
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Rules And Regulations United Airlines
1,224 wordsIn-flight aviation complications have a nine in ten chance of having been prevented by FAA (Federal Aviation Association) safety measures both in use today and being issued in the near future (Sign, 99). Some accidents are on a grand scale killing hundreds of people, while some are so small that passengers are unaware that they even happened. Meanwhile, the FAA is busy turning out new regulations, little attention is actually being paid to the jobs, making sure they are done, and done correctly....
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Fort Ord Ocean Freeway
875 wordsWarm sunny days, golden tans, beautiful sandy beaches, and bright shimmering lights of the cities at night. These are the images that came to my mind when I thought of California. As a child, I often daydreamed of living in such a wonderful place. Little did I know that the images of sunny beaches, people walking around in shorts, and gentle breezes portrayed in the advertisements of the magazines and television were not as they appeared: however, I would soon find all this out. My husband was i...
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Deep Sea March 30
1,577 wordsTurtle Island is one of the many islands in Fiji. Many say that it is the most magical island there also. Turtle Island the Resort, is five star, and a perfect place to spend your honeymoon, or a special event. Though it may be expensive, it is worth it, it is one of those vacations that you will remember for the rest of your life. Turtle Island has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, including the Blue Lagoon. The people that work at Turtle Island are very kind and helpful; they wa...
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5 7 97 Guest 5 7 97 Erik
998 words(Frank Poncherello) Erik was born on March 16, 1949 as Henry Enrique Estrada in NY City. Back around 1968, he was in a dance troupe and earned $ 38 a week with free lunches and all the acting lessons he could take. In return, he had to perform daily in downtown Los Angeles. He had a 10 -day hospital stay in August 1979 caused by on-set accident when he was thrown from his motorcycle and the 900 -pound bike landed on him. At 5 ' 10 '', 160 pounds, he was an inch shorter and 15 pounds lighter than...
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Ross Met Press Conference Movie
616 wordsCongo was an astounding bestseller novel. It was a great fictional novel that took place in the depths of the Congo rainforest. The novel was later made into a movie. Both the novel and the movie were good, however, I prefer the novel. It just seemed like a more entertaining piece than the movie. This movie was based much upon the novel, but had many alternatives and a completely different ending than the novel. The first difference between the novel and the movie was the press conference that w...
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Millions Of Dollars Equally Important
807 wordsIn the past, the effect on the environment and its living creatures wasn't a top issue when building military bases. Unquestionably, it has been a concern though. Since flying first became a reality, documented safety reports go back as far as eighty-eighty years. As a result of not making it a number one priority, today we have problems with environmental organizations under the Endangered Species Act and millions of dollars are spent on scientific systems and even more lost to accidents and fi...
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10 05 00 Didn T Paris
594 words10 / 05 / 00 NARRATIVEBlue Paris Gerardo Macias 10 / 05 / 00 NARRATIVE ESSAY? Blue Paris? This has been a quiet trip. My mother was sad, surely worried about my grandmother? s health, maybe that is why my father wanted me as her companion, so that at least she didn? t pass the night alone in Paris. But it doesn? t seem that I? ve been of any help, because I just couldn? t distract her away from the silence, the anguish. Could be the disease of my grandmother the thing that depresses her, or ther...
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Minimum Safe Altitude Minimum Safe Altitude Of Flight Airspace
916 wordsMany airports are located in areas populated by people. Most people dislike the constant noise of the aircraft, but deal with it anyway. However, sometimes the noise can be too much for some people and action will be taken. In some extreme cases, a major question becomes involved. Does the flight of aircraft over the property of another constitute a taking? Thomas Lee Causby and his wife were proud owners of a 2. 8 -acre chicken farm that happened to lie under the approach path of a military air...
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Sir Charles Miles South
1,263 wordsOur Most Renowned Aviator Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, known to the world as Smithy remains one of the most celebrated pilots of international aviation's golden age. For seven years, from 1928 to his death in 1935, he was the most revered public hero in Australia. His epic and dangerous oceanic flights, through destructive weather in fragile aeroplanes, were followed on radio around the world like the moon missions of 40 years later. At the end of his great pioneer journeys crowds of 200,...
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U S Air Charles Augustus
842 wordsLindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902 - 1974), American aviator, engineer, and Pulitzer Prize winner, who was the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born February 4, 1902, in Detroit and was delivered by his great-uncle. When he was three years old, his three-story house burned down and a simpler home was built in its place. From the age of six he had his own gun and soon became an expert marksman. His mother, Evangeline Lindbergh, first en...
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