Can an Island Have Nine Lives?

Today most people think of ships as common every day tools that don’t take much to understand. One builds a hull and some little structuring later and bam you have a ship. But ship building is much more than taking some metal and building a floating structure. It takes years of understanding and research to build such a vessel. Mankind has been building ships for centuries but it was not until the 17th century that Archimedes, a great Greek Mathmatitions, ideas were used and studied closely. Today no one would even think of building a ship without using some type of calculations or a computer to draft out a design. The same principles used in the dynamics of ship building are used in the manufacturing of kneeboards, water skis and

Next, I went to America’s Best History site to find more detail about what was happening at this time. I learned that in 1914 the basic wage rate was increased by the Ford Motor Company. At Ford, workers would now work for $5 per 8 hour workday versus the $2.40 per 9 hour workday that they used to earn. This meant that parents could begin to afford toys for their children, which would have been unthinkable before. At $.60 per set, Tinker Toys were reasonable enough for even the immigrant children who were flooding into the

Over 100 years ago, when humanity looked for new places to conquer, two men looked to the skies. Wilbur and Orville Wright built the first working motor airplane, and after that day, the world took a huge interest in aviation, causing many leading pioneers and innovators in the aerospace field to emerge, revolutionizing the way we look at the skies.

Today, I can walk into almost any toy store in America and expect to get bombarded by plastic figures with extreme bodies. But if I were to play this same scenario out in previous time periods, I would find it difficult to encounter the same types of products. This is because children’s toy trends have shifted in America throughout the 20th century. I recently came across an article from TIME magazine that reflects this idea. In it, author Allie Townsend, managing editor of Facebook, ranks 100 of the most influential American toys since the 1920’s.25 I moved through the list from the beginning, and rarely did I come across a toy resembling a doll or action figure until decades later. The toys that populated the store shelves during the first

Having ample time to play was also important to the life of children in the Middle Ages. Toys then were made from their families’ own hands. Sometimes children would make their own from things they found around their house. Most older children read stories that were myths or stories about traditional heros. Their toys included dolls, tops and blocks, and an example of one story that they might have read would have been Robin Hood. A little girl might have dressed up a doll as a courtly lady or a boy might have made a castle out of his blocks, and they would play make believe just like children today (Children

Ronnie’s School of Music was thus established and open its doors for the first time in 1987. Currently, LaBeau teaches a wide variety of instruments, predominantly the piano, the guitar, and voice, but she also offers lessons in the ukulele, the violin, and many more. LaBeau guides students in whatever instrument they so choose, making certain that the students’ passion to learn music is met. One of her current students, Angelica Montes, remarks, “Mrs. LaBeau is open to whatever instrument you want to play, and the best part about it is that she’s so helpful and encouraging. My friend wanted to play the banjo, and Mrs. LaBeau helped her out. So for the upcoming recital, my friend and I are going to have this intense banjo/guitar duel remake

Later in the 1920’s they started to make the toys with more technology the price if the toys went up. They say people never seen a toy like this before and they thought it would be the last one made like that. The toy wasn’t really a toy it was a radio. From that day on the toy’s started to get better and everyone didn’t know what would come after that. The first toys ever made was made out of wood and metal and terra cotta those were only in the united state.

Neither of the brothers attended college, but instead, ventured forward together in becoming entrepreneurs. The two went to work in mastering the printing business, learning to work together to build their own printing presses. The teamwork between the two brothers led to the two opening a bicycle shop in 1892, at first selling and mending bikes, and later building them (Garber 2). Their success in the bicycle business led to their nickname, “The Wright Brothers,” and produced a reputation for their mechanical designs. Their skills and profits gained from mechanizing and building these bicycles would give them the basic knowledge and funding to help in their endeavors to mechanize aircraft later on (Garber 2). The boys’ experiences of working together and crafting printers and bicycles gave the two brothers skills that would be later used for their greatest challenge, flight. The Wright brothers did not simply forget the helicopter toy that their father brought home, dreams of man-controlled aviation still lingered in the brothers’ heads. The aviation endeavors of German aviator, Otto Lilienthal, sparked the duo’s earlier interest in aviation, which gave rise to the brothers beginning to devote their mechanical and design skills to solving the mystery behind

As Thomas Maupin’s grandson and musical performing partner, I have known him nearly all my life and, at the time of this writing, I have been performing music semi-professionally with him for approximately nine years. From the time I first became enamored with music, he tried to ensure the healthy development of my interest by providing me access to his large collection of Old-Time, Country, and Bluegrass music, including field recordings he had made of rural musicians, in addition to bringing me to several festivals where I was able to hear these forms of music played live and meet many musicians. Upon my decision to pursue playing the banjo, he provided constant encouragement and made sure that I was able to make contact with skilled banjoists who were mentors to me. He has always encouraged me to create my own musical style rather than mimic others, and to always strive for perfection rather than being content with my musical status quo. Not only has his enthusiasm and advice led me to pursue musicianship, but his efforts to record rural musicians and

In this particular photo my brother, Wes, and I were out for a pleasure ride in our fly carriage with Joan the rocking horse. This was a regular activity of ours. Sometimes we would sit on the couch and pretend that we had a conestoga wagon, using blankets and we would spend all day playing in it. We would get so absorbed in our fake reality that we would feel genuine fear or joy depending on the situation we’d created. Why were we so easily entertained by our own imaginations when most kids were watching TV or playing on their Game Boys?

In the play Once on this Island, the theme (thought) is love can defeat anything, even death. This play probably has more than one theme but I will be focusing on “love can defeat anything, even death”. Throughout the play, Ti Moune faces obstacles than keep pulling her away from the guy she falls in love with. Some obstacles had to do with her people telling her that someone like her could only serve Daniel as a shoe shiner, most likely as a servant, because she was a peasant and he was royalty.

The men of aviation before the Wright brothers had little but significant impact on the process of building the airplane. George Cayley lived in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. He was one of the first men to understand that “to fly is not to imitate the flapping wings of a bird but to use rigid wings.” This was a very important idea that proved to be true for the future. Europeans were at work to beat the Americans in building the first heavier-than-air plane. Otto Lilienthal, a German engineer, experimented with hang gliders. His main focus was on a fixed-wing glider not on a

Ever since I was little I always enjoyed standing beside my grandpa as he worked on projects in his shop. The smell of sawdust and the sound of power tools sparked my curiosity. My grandpa has a history with woodworking. He worked on building boats for his job and he was very good at it. People often come to him and asks him for help building things and he for the most part takes on the job and does it well. I’ve watched him over the years build one Chris-Craft boat and another Thompson from basically scratch. Just recently a

The Wright Brothers had an interesting life that led to the inspiration of their inventions later on. On April 16, 1867, Milton was born in Millville, Indiana; Orville, his brother, was born on August 19, 1871 in Dayton, Ohio (Ryan). Neither of them attended college, but this did not diminish their intellectual abilities. Instead, they founded a print shop in 1889 and a bicycle shop a few years later to make money for their family and themselves. These businesses helped fund their aeronautical interests. They started off by making kites to observe the basics of flight (Reynolds 44). After making enough money, they began to experiment with various contraptions that resembled the German glider created by Otto Lilenthal and Octave Chanute. To help figure out how they would make their

The Wright brothers invented the first airplanes. “During 1890 while Orville and Wilbur Wright were working in a bicycle shop, the Wright Brothers got