On And Off Essay

The movie “Breaking Away” presents the story of a young man from working class origins who seeks to better himself by creating a persona through which he almost, but not quite, wins the girl. The rivalry between the townies and the college students sets the scene for the story of four friends who learn to accept themselves as they "break away" from childhood and from their underdog self-images.

Like murder, the boy thought. The flashlight made it happen. Dumb and dangerous. And as a

After two years of experimenting and helping himself to the manuscript and studies of scholars, he was finally to create the electric light bulb. He knew society would profit from this invention but was unsure of how to share this with society since being in the tunnel was breaking the rules. His best bet, according to him, was to show his idea to the scholars. While working on his

Morgan often said “If it's in a book, you can do it, if it's not, then use your imagination” meaning that don’t give up, if you find it in a book, you can make it happen, if it's not, then make your own steps on how to make it happen. If Garrett never went by this quote, fires would be more deadly than they are now and car crashes would happen more often than they are now. Morgan made the first “illuminated traffic lights” to direct traffic. How Morgan thought of this was when he witnessed a horrible car crash leaving a poor girl in critical condition. With his Morgan’s don't stop attitude and creativity, Morgan found a solution to car accidents. To this day forward, we still use them today. Finally, Garrett created the “Gas Mask”. Back then, fires were deadly due to the toxic gasses and of course the flames. Morgan’s gas mask was popular, but not well known. Then, Morgan had the chance to show that his invention truly worked. When a mining tunnel blew up, the tunnel as filled with toxic gasses, many were either passes out or they had died. Morgan got a call from the police officers at the scene at 3 O’clock in the morning, explaining what had happened. Morgan grabbed as many gas masks as possible and flew down to the scene. Once he got there, 3 volunteers, volunteer to put on the gas masks, including Garrett. After 15 minutes the volunteers went down, they came up the

In the biography Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, a troubled adolescent boy named Louis Zamperini revolves his life around his running career. Starting at such a young age, running had many impacts on Louie’s life. The high demand of training kept Louie distracted from making unintelligent choices he had previously been making. Running changed the young teenager he was and the man he was going to become.

He started to gather manuscripts from the House of Scholars very secretly. He then experimented in the tunnel that was secret, only his friend and himself knew. The experiments that he did in the tunnel lead to the discovery of the light bulb. He wanted to present his idea to the Council of Scholars but they didn’t like the idea for multiple reasons. He did not belong the the House Scholars, ideas that that are individually created don’t exist, and many other scholars came up with ideas that were also

As Cabeza De Vaca was making a fire after he had hiked miles and miles to warm up is numb, raw hands. He has only eaten prickly cactus pear in ten days. He was using his precious flint to make a fire,all of a sudden, a band of six hunters suddenly appeared. They carried spears, but no game. Their ribs showed clearly through their skin just like his. They spoke in a different language that Cabeza De Vaca did not know. They motioned him to drop his flint and his precious fruit in a 40 degree night. He was shipwrecked in Tampa Bay and traveled in raft that he used melted fire arms to make it with, and landed on Galveston Island. He has to find a way to go to Mexico if he ever wants to see his family again. Cabeza De Vaca was able to survive by using his respect for Native Americans, being a healer, and using his wilderness skills.

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Equality 7-2521 had discovered a tunnel that contained remnants of the Unmentionable Times. By performing an experiment consisting of a dissected frog hanging from a copper wire and a metal knife, he later discovered and holstered the power of the sky, or electricity. With his discovery, he performed another experiment by sticking an iron rod outside of his tunnel during a thunderstorm, learning that the power of the sky causes lightning and that it is attracted to metal (Rand 52-54). After gathering multiple materials from around the tunnel, he combined them together and placed them into a box. When Equality 7-2521 closed the current, the wires of the lightbulb glowed without the use of flint or fire, and thus the invention was reborn. The single light consumed the entire room and was far brighter than any candle. Equality 7-2521 determined that his discovery and invention of a lightbulb, a symbol of knowledge, was far greater than any man and should be shared with all of his bothers. By sharing his invention with the World Council of Scholars, he would be forgiven

The Light bulb changed the lives of many people; it had a big impact on illuminating the night. The night was always dark until the light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison in 1879 and ever since then, the night has been able to be bright if people wanted it too. The story of the light bulb begins long before Edison patented the first commercially successful bulb in 1879; in 1800 Italian inventor Alessandro Volta developed the first practical method of generating electricity, the voltaic pile, made of alternating discs of zinc and copper, the pile conducted electricity when a copper wire was connected at either ended. An English inventor by the name of Humphrey

When the Constitution was written, few opportunities were had to learn about presidential candidates. Become of that; the job for the Electoral College to choose the President. Appointed by their states, better educated individuals had strong votes, for the average citizen was deemed not capable of an informed decision. From the natural upbringing of technology and service industries, we have mass media at our fingertips. We have the ability to look up candidates, their platform, hell, maybe even what they ate for dinner. The Electoral College is an outdated service now distorting the sheeple of our generation, giving higher power to smaller states, distorting the media, excluding campaigns, etc. No equality within the vote.

Writing has many tools and devices that can be used to influence the purpose and meaning of the a piece of work. In the two pieces of work, "Private License Plate Scanners Amassing Vast Databases Open to Highest Bidders-which is written in a way that it is anti-license plate tracking- and "Who Has the Right to Track You?'-which is written to be for license plate tracking- many different tools and devices are used by the authors. These pieces of work describe the benefits and drawbacks of collecting data and tracking fellow citizens, but use different forms of pathos, ethos, and logos to portray what they are trying to say. Also, both articles state how many are opposed to this tracking, arguing that it is against the First Amendment,

The ‘Going off Grid” assignment was going to be a challenge to really see how much we rely on technology and electronics on a daily basis just to get us through the day. Not knowing what to think before taking part in this assignment I definitely had my worries that I would not be able to make it through a whole day without using any electronics. This 24-hour period was really eye opening to see how much we do use electronics without giving it a second thought. To start off the day I woke up at 11am, it was irritating not being able to see if I had any notifications on my phone. I decided that I would go make breakfast, usually I have some sort of background noise playing while I am cooking either Netflix or music, although not having that was quite weird to me sitting there in dead silence.

1.      What am I talking about? I am the thief of productiveness and time. I sound simple, but in fact I’m quite complex. I am a strange phenomenon. My purpose seems to make my life more pleasant, but instead it almost always adds stress, disorganization, and frequent failure. I want to achieve some outcome, usually something myself and others can value and respect; “I’ve got to start.” I delay briefly thinking of real and imagined advantages of starting to change later; “I will do it tomorrow.”

Through the knowledge of himself he was able to realize the not only the candle is real but the same regardless of it being melted.