Steven Johnson

Jared Diamond's "The Last Americans: Environmental Collapse and the End of Civilization" draws conclusions between past civilizations and today's global civilization. His essay deals with the Analyzing the similarities in our actions to key turning points for other civilizations right before their fall. The main example stems from a civilization that Americans are acutely aware of, the Mayans. Diamond links ideas ranging from politics, environmentally unfriendly practices, and globalization as factors leading to the downturn of societies.

In “Auscultation” Steven Church writes about the importance of sound and listening. To emphasize their importance he talks about miners trapped underground and provides to examples. In one scenario the miners didn’t make any noise and were never found. In the second scenario miners did make noise and were rescued. In this passage Church uses simile when he writes that the “drill punches like an amino needle”. The use of simile emphasizes the importance of the moment. It also relates to the rest of the text because earlier he talked about hearing his child’s heartbeat in the womb and how that was the moment he realized he was going to be a parent. It seems like Church is trying to say that this moment of the drill reaching that room is as important

It was a pleasure to meet with you last week. This memo is in regard to your concerns that you mentioned during our meeting and my recommendation for each one. Please review this memo and call me if you have any questions. 1) John Smith tax issues: a. How is the $300,000 treated for Purposes of Federal Tax income? Gross income means” all income from whatever source derived, including (but not limited to the following items: Compensation for services, including fees, commissions, fringe benefits, and similar items…..” (http://www.taxalmanac.org/index.php/Internal_Revenue_Code:Sec._61._Gross_income_define d#Location_in_Internal_Revenue_Code) According to IRC Publication 3402 Taxation of Limited Liability Companies “an individual owner of a

Have you ever thought about what kind of technology we will have in the future? Or have you thought about how technology will affect us in the future? In the story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut and the story “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benet both the futures with technology look pretty awful. In “Harrison Bergeron” anyone with special gifts or talents are forced to wear a handicap to make them like everyone else in society. In “By the Waters of Babylon” tells a story about how our technology is so advanced that if we went to war we would destroy everything we have and we would have to basically restart. In both books our technology in the future is way too strong and

Jebidiah Ethan Smith (1 December 1808-23 June 1870?) was born in city of Hastings, in the county of East Sussex, on the south coast of England. He was an English Oxford Professor, archaeologist, scholar, occultist, ceremonial magician, ancient world explorer and curator. His crowning accomplishment was the translation and publication of "A Commentary on the Book of Gates" and promoted an unnamed religion of the First Gods. He had never considered himself a prophet of this belief but considered himself a medium responsible for guiding the world into the coming Age of the First Gods.

Literary Essay: Character Analysis In the short story Ponies by Kij Johnson, there is a character named topGirl, Johnson talks and embarks about TopGirl by using power, traits, and archetype. Johnson showcases how TopGirls archetype is the villain; he shows this by using traits and power to prove it. Johnson uses internal and external traits such as personality, attitude, and dialogue with others. This is significant because it tells the reader how TopGirl is a villain.

Ryan Smithson was born in California, but then early in his life, his family moved to New York. The book starts off with him in high school talking about typical high school things like his job, girlfriend, and what it means to be “cool”. He continues by telling how September 11, 2001, was a normal day in school until the teachers all turned on the TVs in their classrooms. He saw the North tower of the World Trade Center on fire; he thought it had to be an accident and it was just a rogue plane. Then, he witnesses the second plane come and hit the South tower and realized it was an act of terrorism. That day changed him, he started thinking about joining the Army once he got old enough. “If I don’t do something, who will?” (Smithson, 16).

Until the recent year of 1987 people often saw the neolithic age as a glorious turning point that made us the great spices we are today, but Jared diamond a brilliant scientist of his age wrote an article for discover magazine called The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race by Jared diamond which presented a rare idea of the neolithic age being a mistake by our ancestors. He talked about how with agriculture came biased and disease like a real pandora's box. Disease was mostly caused by things like an unhealthy diet, and biased was caused by an unnecessary social classes. A few years ago a blogger and a supporter and student of traditional farming countered Jared diamond’s article with rage due to him believing that everyone was siding with Jared Diamond.Although his argument is sloppy and could not be called a scientific paper. Jared diamond was and is more convincing than Jim Woods in arguing that the neolithic age should be a considered a negative turning point in human history. This is because with agriculture came the faults of humanity such as racism, sexism, biased, etc., the very problems that humanity has been

Steven is a thirteen-year-old gifted drummer with an imagination that takes him from writing in his daily English journal to musing on his own life. The book is about his experience of the year his five-year-old brother, Jeffrey Alper, gets diagnosed with leukemia. He totally didn’t expect his little brother to get leukemia. This was a big change for him. From worrying about a drumming performance, and attention from Renee Albert, to a huge worry for his brother he had thought would only try to embarrass him. When people from school found out about Stevens sick brother, Steven gets a lot of attention and sympathy from his friends. As time passes and Jeffrey goes to his treatments, Steven stops doing all his school work to only think about his

As soon as Magic Johnson announced he had HIV, he immediately was a role model for others to get tested and have hope of living a long and fulfilling life. In 2011, Magic Johnson talked about living with AIDS/HIV for 20 years, and how this disease is not a death sentence. He encourages others to get educated and get tested. However, when Johnson first found out he had the AIDS/HIV virus, his concern was not how did he get the disease or what is going to happen or how will he afford the medical expenses, but rather, “How am I going to live a long time?” (Moughty).

Justin Rein is a teenager at Piedmont High school, Oklahoma. He is in his last year of high school making him a senior. Due to taking advance classes and putting careful work into them. Justin will graduate in the top ten percentile. Giving him the edge on where he wants to go for college. Justin wants to enroll in a college out of state. Most preferably is Evansville, Indiana. A D1 college that has a swimming program that will enable him to swim as athletic student in Evansville University. Although his main goal is to capture a field in chemical engineering and/or biochemistry. A rigorous course that require precious, high accuracy, and a brain to calculate it all. All charitable aspect that Justin carries that’ll hopefully land him a job

The 18th Olympics Games was held in Tokyo from the 10 – 24 of October, 1964. This also made it the first Olympics to take place in an Asian country.

R v Andrew Leigh Jones pleaded guilty in the magistrate court to trafficking a controlled drug and well as 12 other offences that was brought up from the magistrate court to be sentenced in accordance to section 18 A. Some of the 12 other offences included 5 counts of failing to comply with bail agreements, 2 counts of driving while disqualified, 1 count of driving a motor vehicle without being authorised, one count of driving an unregistered vehicle, 1 count of driving an uninsured vehicle, 1 count of possessing a prohibited weapon and 1 count of unlawful possession. For trafficking a controlled drug a maximum penalty of 50,000 or imprisonment for 10 years while the other 12 offences accumulative not including drug trafficking

During a time when blacks were considered less than equals to whites, Jack Johnson refused to be oppressed by racist America. He was both unafraid and uncompromising. He went wherever he chose, did whatever he wanted, and controversially had sexual relations with whichever race of women he wanted.

The unplanned urbanization adds challenges to sanitation system design. Still many places are far from proper latrines and hygiene concept. The important field like water and wastewater treatment, solid waste management, disposal methods seems far beyond. News of the death of people due to dysentery is no new headline of a newspaper, whose sole prompt is due to lack of pure drinking water and proper sanitation facility. In such scenario, I think environmental engineering is the only field I should contribute to.