Astounded In Number Five Analysis

On November 27, 1971, in Portland, Oregon, a man claiming to be “Dan Cooper” bought a ticket for Northwest-Orient Airlines Flight 305 to Seattle, Washington. Dressed in a sharp dark suit with a pearl tiepin, this forty-five year-old man was about six feet tall with black hair (Abacha and Gilmore 233). No one would suspect him of going down in American history as the only man to ever escape capture after hijacking a U.S. plane (Warchol 1).

On September 11, 2001, four different planes were hijacked by terrorists. Two of them headed for the Twin Towers, the other headed for the Pentagon and the other nobody really knows for sure. The two that were headed for the Twin Towers, sadly made it there and crashed into both of them, they collapsed. The one headed toward the Pentagon also made it there. But the other plane didn’t make it to wherever it was supposed to be going, because of some brave passengers trying to take control of the plane and crashing it into a field, sacrificing their selves to save everyone else. (9/11 Mystery: What Was Flight 93 's Target?)

Heroes have achieved many feats that support the belief of a greater good and expressing valor and selflessness through the ages. There are fictional or real life accounts that have recognized these men and women for their vigor and marked them as heroes due to their events of success and motives of committing the heroic deeds. Yet there are copious amounts of people who have sacrifice themselves for a greater good but they have been lost through time even if their actions were prosperous or doomed in the end with a valiant purpose. They are unsung heroes who committed the actions based on their inner fire of what is right or honorable or rather than the fame they hope to achieve from those acts. The world or a populous may not know of their actions, but the actions and beliefs of an individual or group can entitle them of being hero-like without the necessity of recognition and success. They have lost their lives or a part of themselves to a cause based on righteousness rather than self-gain. They presented selfless heroism rather than the the intention to receive praise from the victories. Sacrifice contributes more to Heroism because the individual invested his or her own determination, valor and accepting the opportunity to risk their self-health (physical or psychological) based on great intentions rather than reaping the accolades of committing good deeds.

In the book, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park so much has happened and it makes the reader recognize that individuals are able to survive in challenging environments in remarkable ways. The character Salva has been through the Civil War for years and in the book, it says “More than Twelve hundred boys arrived safely. It took them a year and a half,”(Page eighty-two). Salva lost his uncle and after that, he left alive and he felt like a leader. He soon then became a leader and somehow led a gigantic group of boys to a camp for over a year. It is crazy how these boy is surviving these hot environments. In the book, it also says on page seventy-seven “Then Salva saw the telltale flick of a crocodile’s tail as it flopped into the water near

John Procters decision to give up his life an act of honor, rather than pride.

Hook - charles lindbergh was a famous aviator that changed the way planes were designed and how safe they are.

He stated that it was very late at night and Lawrence was driving to work meeting. As he was driving he got tired and more tired, and then he fell asleep at the wheel. Lawrence went off the road and into the river! He was awake by then, and he rolled down the window, climbed out, and got on top of the car and stayed there as the car was floating down stream. He might have been there a lot longer if a truck driver had not come by and seen him and called 911. Lawrence did not call 911 because there was no cell phones then. Well, the rescue team came in a rubber raft, got him off the car, then took him to shore where an ambulance was waiting to check him for hypothermia. It’s a big river that got him thinking he needed to do stuff in his life.

During the early hours of 9/11/2001, the deadliest attack on American soil was unfolding. During this attack four groups of terrorists boarded four different aircraft and overtook them. Three of the four aircraft reached their intended targets while they were piloted by the terrorists. The fourth aircraft never made it to the intended destination, presumably because the passengers on the aircraft fought back once they realized what was occurring.

Aron Ralston is an Engineer, born on October 27th, 1975 he is 41 years old, and lives Marion, OH. In the year 2003 when Aron was in Utah hiking he fell in the narrow passages of Blue John Canyon which was only three feet wide, and was stuck there for five days, and seven hours, because of his arm tragically trapped in between the narrow passages of Blue John Canyon, and a heavy boulder, “I have to do something” he thought, when he found that the only way to do that is to get out the dull pocket knife he carried around with him, and cut off his own right forearm.

there were five hijackers that crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the northern side World Trade Center, and at 9:03 a.m. there were another five hijackers that crashed a second plane which was United Aline Flight 175 that they crashed into the south tower. At 9:37 a.m. there were another five hijackers that flow the American Aline Flight 77 into the Pentagon. The United Airline Flight 93 was the fourth plane which four hijackers which had people believing that the hijackers were trying to crash the plane into White House. The passengers fought with the four hijackers to gain control back over the plane after hearing about the other three flights that crashed into three other buildings, but they crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in the southeast of Pittsburg. The (FAA) Federal Aviation Administration held all aircrafts grounded within the continental U.S. and any aircrafts that were flying were told to land

November 24th, 1971, a man by the name Dan Cooper sat in seat 15D on flight 305 from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington. Once the plane reached 30,000 feet, Dan Cooper gave one stewardess a note. His handwritten note said that there was a bomb in his briefcase and he would blow up the aircraft if they didn’t meet his demands. His note demanded for four parachutes and 200,000 dollars in 20 dollar bills. His resources were given to him after landing at Seattle Airport and the plane headed towards Reno, Nevada with Dan, one stewardess, the pilot, and two other crew members. On the way to Reno, the crewmembers left on the plane were told to lock themselves in the cockpit. That was the last time the man by the name Dan Cooper was ever seen.

Share an example of one of the most effective "pat on the backs" you have received. Describe the least effective. How did the two situations differ?

Although he realized that eventually his life would end, he still never gave up the hope that perhaps he could outsmart his fate to die, if just to steal a few extra hours.

The 6-4-4 plan is constructed so that the student experiences their elementary education during grades one through six, junior high during grades seven through ten, and their early adulthood education in grades eleven through fourteen. The latter portion of this tripartite merges the last two years of high school with two years of community college. I disagree with this plan for a few reasons.

an old man stuck on his roof top with no food, water or power after roaring floods hit the town of Toowoomba, Writes Jake Tye