The Dragon: A Short Story

“Slaying the Dragon” by Deborah Gee is a comprehensive look at media stereotypes of Asian and Asian American women since the silent era. From the racist use of white actors to portray Asians in early Hollywood films, through the success of Anna May Wong’s sinister dragon lady, to Suzie Wong and the ‘50s geisha girls, to the Asian-American anchorwoman of today. The movie also shows how stereotypes of exoticism and docility have affected the perception of Asian-American women.

On April 13, 1970, NASA's Mission Control heard the five words that no control center ever wants to hear: "We've got a problem here." Jack Swigert, an astronaut aboard the Apollo 13 aircraft, reported the problem of broken down oxygen tanks to the Houston Control Center, less than two days after its takeoff on April 11th. Those at the Control Center in Houston were unsure what had happened to the spacecraft, but knew that some sort of explosion had occurred. This so-called explosion sent Apollo 13 spinning away from the Earth at 2,000 miles per hour, 75 percent of the way to the moon. In order to get the astronauts back to the

Gordon Cooper, or better known as “Gordo,” was the pilot for NASA’s Faith 7. While he was orbiting Mercury, his whole ship short-circuited, which meant there was no electricity powering the control systems. He had to manually re-enter Earth’s atmosphere. That required a lot of math, skill, and courage. Gordo managed to land safely, and the whole way through he was perfectly chill. Even though I would be panicking if I was in a spaceship in the middle of nowhere, I would enjoy that kind of scenario. You have to really think under pressure because it is life or death. I like to look out for opportunities that strike out of the normal daily routine. This makes life exciting. It’s like playing the card game BS. You could win the game by not lying

mission. At lift-off, the temperature at ground level was 36° Fahrenheit, which was 15° Fahrenheit cooler than any past dispatch by NASA. It was the Challenger's tenth flight. Take-off had been postponed a few times. At long last the bus had taken off. The van had moved high in the sky thirty-five seconds after take-off, and it was getting hit by solid winds. The on board PCs were making persistent modification so the bus would keep focused. Around eight miles noticeable all around, around seventy-two seconds after take-off, individuals watched in trepidation and ghastliness as the van was overwhelmed by a tremendous flame ball. All the group individuals were murdered quickly.

crew’s survival as well. When he had to set the ship’s course for Earth manually it took a

Becoming The Dragon by Alex Sapegin is a Fantasy Fiction about the boy named Andrew Kerimov. Andy’s exciting story began when he was struck by lightning the day when his teacher took their class in a promised trip in the woods. Thereafter that horrifying event many things have changed and he then has no choice to put himself into a new regime. His time spent for computer games was now spent on reading books and skating in the park with some of his close friends. He even learned how to cook remarkably and took bow lessons with a local artist aiming to become a skilled bowsman.

This series starts off strong, and the first book plunges the main character Elena into a new confusing magical world. You become interested in her journey because so much of it is surrounded in mystery. Most of the series hits on Elena, trying to fill the holes in her memory and the past, while trying to adapt to her new world. Her dad dies at the beginning of the first novel, and this leaves questions unanswered.

The Dragon holds one of the most powerful meanings in the Chinese culture and mythology. This creature represents the power over rain, any types bodies of water (river and seas), and the water itself; it also represents the concept of power and it is claimed to symbolize divine powers. In the Ancient times it represented the power the emperors held.

Raios turned in the direction Raziel pointed. There was a large marble pillar on top of a pedestal. Engraved on it, there were five names.

Hi! and welcome, this is terraria, a fun game and i’m Chris and i’ll be showing you a full game playthrough of terraria. {WARNING, my game character may get turned into stone by Medusa, laser-eyed by Moon Lord, chainsawed by Skeletron Prime, bombed by Skeletron Prime, and crushed by Golem.} {don’t ask any questions}So let's start!. When I first joined my world, I got lucky and found a chest near my spawn, it had a pointy spear, {pointy is a prefix} 5 recall potions, {they teleport me to my spawn} and 6 lesser healing potions. So i got to work and started chopping down trees so i can make armor and build a house for me and my guide Jeff, after I was finished, my house was horrible, so i started killing some slime for gel so i can make torches, then I found a few vases and when I broke them, one of them gave me a coin portal which gave me ten gold coins, then it started turning

A few days later Lovell and his crew take off on the Apollo 13 mission. At first all is well until the second oxygen tank explodes, causing many problems for the crew; the most potent problem being that the crew was losing oxygen fast. Luckily, due to much ingenuity by the crew and mission control, the crew is able to arrive safely to earth without the deaths of any astronauts.

For a thousand years dragons have guarded the land of Ilyad from the creatures and forces of the dark. Now with the land at peace it is time for them to rest, ten years they will sleep till the dragon prince wakes them, a child of noble birth gifted with the Tears of Blood. During that decade something go’s wrong, the dragon prince was never born. The dragons sleep for another five hundred years. In that time chaos ensues and war breaks out between two nations. With the nations at war a Jintary master attempts to bring about the rising, a call for help that legend says will awaken the Masters. In his attempt he unleashes a plague that annihilates a nation, when asked by the others what happened the Jintary denies everything leaving the nation

Long ago there was a single mountain. It was a dark and brisk mountain, with no joy. No, for joy was a hard thing to come by in those days. For those were the days of dragons. For where there are dragons, there is fire. Where there was dragons fire there was always sorrow. Man lived in fear of total annihilation by the the dragons and the armies of darkness they created. On that mountain the most fearsome of the dragons made his home. He was Cantorok the Golden Blaze. All feared his name. And his reign was absolute.

Seth awoke with a start. It was dawn and the dew on the glass panes had frozen in the night and left little crystals that looked similar to veins of a wing. This gave the window a beautiful life like appearance. He breathed heavily as is he came to reality from what he assured himself was a dream. He got up shakily and walked over to his window, and peered out. As he looked through the frosty window of the log and timber farm hut, he found himself wiping his breath from the window which traveled from his mouth as a cloud of vapor and came to rest on the window as a circle of fog. The world outside his uncle's home seemed alien and foreign to him. The entire world had been engulfed and covered with glimmering sheets of white.

It was a cold December night and everyone was out doing the usual, and the weatherman had a 70 percent chance of snow by the morning, and everybody went to sleep, and when everybody woke up the next morning, and no snow has fallen, and everybody was shocked because there was usually snow by this time, but there was no snow, so everybody met up in the town hall and had a meeting, and everybody was yelling and worried, some people thought the world was ending, but some people said it was the snow dragon, and so the townspeople said they couldn’t do something about the global warming so they were looking for three volunteers to go out and talk to the snow dragon and see what happen, they found the volunteers, the first one was Pluto Anderson,