The First Flight

Rudy’s best friend was the only one who believed he could. Though Rudy’s grades were not great in high school; he worked hard to get decent grades in college. Rudy was given the opportunity to attend a community college to earn better grades that would get him into Notre Dame. Rudy studied endlessly to get B’s and A’s in his classes. The road to reaching my goal is a difficult one. To develop a story will be a long, difficult process and I will struggle with scenes and character development. My goal will be difficult to achieve, but I will never stop working hard to achieve my

Shoot! I thought. I didn’t want to wake up Darry, he looked so peaceful. More peaceful than I have seen him in years. He only worked one job now so he could spend more time with Sodapop and I. The judge said that he would take care of some of our expenses so Darry could be home to help me get better. It really worked. My grades in school improved as well as my attitude. I worked really hard on my English grade, I wanted to make my teacher proud. I wrote a story for extra credit about this past year and it began like this: When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home…“It was really scary.” I started. “One of those boys was pushing Johnny’s head into the freezing cold

HP did many things correctly when addressing the challenges for disruptive change. For instance, they organized a smaller team of “hungry” individuals from marketing, manufacturing, and research and development that moved the project away from the core group essentially acting as a small startup business. The smaller group was motivated to establish itself and prove their product was worthy of funding and upper management support. They also differentiated themselves by choosing team members that were uninterested in maintaining status in the company mainstream way of thinking. HP allowed a lot of leeway to the Kitty Hawk team in making decisions and providing financial backing to the project’s

The next morning a young boy woke up startled by his mother shaking him and telling him to get up. She said they were leaving and Ben didn’t know why they were leaving, but he trusted his mother. He got up and followed his parents to where everyone else was standing. Ben wondered why everyone was wanting to leave. He thought about all the fun times he had had there with all of his friends. Running around, playing tag, and swimming

He graduated flight school in 1925 and, using his reputation as a cautious and capable pilot, became an airmail pilot at Lambert Field for the Robertson Aircraft Corporation of St. Louis. He carried mail between St. Louis and Chicago for several years before he saw an advertisement in the local newspaper for the Orteig Prize. A New York hotel owner Raymond Orteig offered a prize of $25,000 to the Pilot who completed a non-stop flight over the Atlantic from New York to Paris. Charles could not get that ad out of his head. He soon relented and challenged himself to make the

An incoming freshman who goes by the name of Junie B. Jones had her first day of high school today. It was her first time ever driving to school without a parent present in the car, and boy was she nervous. After she had gotten ready and eaten breakfast, she headed out for her first day at a school called Dubuque Senior High school. As soon as she gets there she realizes she'd have to parallel park because all the parking spots in the lot were sadly taken. Junie was nervous, she'd never parallel parked before and this time everyone was watching her. It was time for Junie to make her move and she wings it! It was a huge relief for her, and she was just happy nobody saw her terribly mess up on parking, and didnt make a bad first impression.

When Noriko and Don Carroll moved from New York City to suburban Las Vegas, they found a tiny nest on a clothesline on their back porch. As the Carrolls settled into their new home, so did a female hummingbird they named Honey. For weeks, and years, the Carrolls watched in fascination as they witnessed an event few humans are privy to-the birth and growth of two hummingbirds.

Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris May 21st and landed in Ottawa on July 1st the week before the 1927 aerial photos were taken over Muskoka Township, Blackstone and Crane Lakes. The purpose of these excellent resolution photos was to take stock of resources in Canada such as forests, water sheds and eventually for mapping. The resolution is good enough, with some image sharpening, to just discern the grassy centre of the roads by the lake.

As the students of Mrs. Davis class were researching a paper about their future careers, all Chris could do was just sit there and think. He didn’t have a plan, he didn’t know what he was going to do after high school but most importantly he didn’t know what he was going to do after college. He hadn’t decided on what career he wanted to choose. With the many careers that there were out there to be offered he just didn’t know which one best suited him. All he really wanted was a career that didn’t require him to leave his home and a career that would help his community.

Once there was a girl named Anna. She was a pioneer, and she grew up in Texas, but when she turned twelve her family decided to move to California during the gold rush. She was the second oldest child of three, she had a older brother named Tom and a younger brother named Ted. They wanted to move because of the gold rush of 1849. She was a very busy girl because her mother died after she had her youngest brother three years ago. Anna took the jobs of her mother, cleaning the house, taking care of her youngest brother Ted, curing meat, and making dinner every night. When her dad brought up moving many miles away everyone was scared, but Anna was the most scared. They are not very rich so her father wanted to make money to help his kids grow up and have a better life. “I want my kids to have a good life,” the father said.

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Connie who had a harsh time. Lots and lots of people tried to help her, but they didn’t seem to have any improvement. All Connie was doing was trying to bring her grades up. Connie really could not handle the pace of learning. Mrs.Kiln was her teacher, but she didn’t know how to make Connie learn faster. Mrs.Kiln and Connie knew her grades were going down at a fast pace. At home, she was studying very hard on the computer. On the next day, she met Mr.Eli, he was going to help Connie on her studies. Also, he would say her grades if she asked. When she came to school, she also had a test. Her simple test was: “Okay students, now you have to write a sentence in

“Okay, here we are” The man in the moving truck says as he hops out of the truck to help me unload. “Thanks for the ride.” I said shortly as he opened up the hatch and started unloading my furniture. “You a college girl?” he asked being a bit nosy, I replied simply with “ Yeah, it’s my first year,”. He looked at me and laughed, his voice echoing through the rural neighborhood. “Ain’t no colleges in Chandler.” I looked at him rather surprised as I said “Yes there is, the community college.” He looked at me with an almost worried look on his face. “Didn’t figure you would be going to a smaller college like that. My mistake.”

Amelia Mary Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas. Her name was given to her according to customs after her two grandmothers. Her nickname was “Meeley.”

“Man, I’m telling you I can’t wait to get out of college.” stated the Jock. “HA! You probably won’t even graduate after all the detentions and write ups you got!”a random person answer back. Slam! I grab my books out my locker and I began to walk to my next class. Truth is, I was very exciting that I made it this far, into this master class-like school.

Wilbur Wright was born near Millville Indiana on August 19 1867.Orville Wright was born in Dayton, Ohio on April 16 1871. The Wright Brothers are known for inventing building and flying the world's first successful airplane. Between 1899 and 1905 the Wright Brothers made the first motorized plane that worked. In 1899 and 1901 they were mainly focused on a glider but then put a motor in it. Also in 1889 they had a printing and newspaper business. In 1893 the opened the wright bike shop and did that until 1895. The wright brothers were buried in woodland cemetery and arboretum orville died in January 30, 1948 and wilbert died in May 30, 1912.The wright brothers were two of seven children. The two brothers brought home a toy helicopter and played