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    After 6 months of flying, I was ready for the check-ride. I've been ready since before Christmas, having completed my training on the 23rd. I scheduled my check-ride on the 28th. That day was quite interesting. I went to the flight school to check everything over with Josh and make sure I was ready. Then we called the examiner to schedule the check-ride. It was about 5pm, and Josh made the call, which was very fortunate for me as it interrupted the examiner's dinner. He said to have me to call

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    *get a commercial pilot certificate> comes from completing pilot ground school and logging 250 hours- this includes alotted time for certain maneuvers and situations with inclement weather * once completing the pilot ground school test, and all the log hours then you need to complete a check-ride> a check ride is like a pilots drivers test- A Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) examiner asks to plan a flight, tests your knowledge on aviation matters and then comes along for the flight, the FAA examiner

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    can make this dream come true. Many people who are serious about becoming an airline pilot have questions about prerequisites and majors they should choose and degrees they should get in order to reach their goal. They wonder if they need an aviation degree or whether they have to attend an aviation college to become an airline pilot. Although a college degree is not a requirement to become an airline pilot, it is definitely an added advantage while applying for jobs with major airlines. Reputed

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    During World War II, the United States had a shortage of pilots, and the leaders decided to train women to fly military aircraft so male pilots could be released for combat duty overseas. The group of female pilots was called the Women Airforce Service Pilots, WASP for short. Young women between the ages of twenty-one to thirty-five, all civilian volunteers, flew almost every type of military aircraft but were not considered to be formally militarized. The program began in 1942, and was closed by

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    Office uses this technique often. One of the ways a character can break the fourth wall is by using it as an introduction. In the first episode of The Office each character went into an interview and it previewed what their character would be like (“Pilot”). Another way of using this technique is to share their thoughts and emotions. Jim would explain how he has feelings for Pam, but unfortunately she was engaged to someone else (“Gay Witch Hunt”). Nonverbal expression was a technique Jim used a

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    Antisocial Personality Disorder Dr. Gregory House was born on the 11th of June 1958 from a relationship between Blythe house, his mother, and an unknown male. His mother was a house wife married to a marine pilot, John House, who was not present when House was conceived being on overseas active duty. His mother also had an affair with another man, Thomas Bell, who House mistook for his father because of the physical characteristics that they shared. House’s father was

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    Hank and House the Most doctors on television accomplish heroic medical procedures to save their patients; Royal Pains and House are no different. The main character on Royal Pains is Dr. Henry "Hank" Lawson, a former ER doctor that was dismissed from his previous job when one of the hospitals wealthy benefactors died under his care. Hank struggles to locate work, but soon finds himself as with the title "concierge doctor" who treats the rich in their Hampton homes. On the television show House

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    In the past decade, network television has been bombarded by crime shows attempting to make their mark on viewers. All of these programs—CSI, Lie to Me, Numb3rs, Law & Order—have the same general set up of a male lead with a hot-head who is complemented by his team of FBI agents. As a loyal viewer and fan of Bones, I often wonder what makes it stay afloat with so many shows out there like it. Could it be that Bones isn’t like any of the other crime shows? Through its crimes and unsolved murders

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    The Marshmallows Meet Aristotle (An analysis of Aristotle’s Poetics in the episode “A Trip to the Dentist” in the Veronica Mars series) The twenty-first episode of the first season of the TV show Veronica Mars entitled “A Trip to the Dentist” displays surprising parallels to Aristotle’s Poetics. At the beginning of the season we are introduced to Veronica Mars, high school junior at Neptune High. Veronica Mars’s best friend Lilly Kane has been murdered a year prior to our introduction to Veronica

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    Inhaling and exhaling a deep breath, Veronica tried to ignore the ticking in her head that counted the seconds she’d been seated at Dominick’s. Her table was a strategic choice; far from, but angled towards, the door- a perfect position to watch for any man that had the slightest potential to be CA152. Talking to a stranger and daring to meet the man and be nervous about it, there was some silliness in that. Waiting at a table alone, with a rose as identification felt completely silly to Veronica

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