Ride Lonesome

Sally Ride was an American Astrophysicist and an astronaut. In 1978, Sally Ride joined NASA. One of the most prestigious jobs you can acquire in this world. She was a very intelligent woman, who worked very hard for the life she earned. Ride had considered a career in professional tennis; she was an amazing athlete. Especially when it came to tennis, which was her favorite sport. She decided that a career of being an astronaut would take her much farther in life than a short-lived career as a tennis

The “Freedom Riders” was a powerful and inspiring documentary on the six months of 1961 that altered America’s history. More than four hundred African Americans and whites put their lives in danger, bearing mob beatings and incarceration, as they travelled through the Deep South in numerous buses from May until November of 1961. As the freedom riders knowingly violated Jim Crow laws, they were confronted with cruel racism and violence which painfully pushed against their mindset of nonviolent activism

The usual morning greeting has been exchanged, and a plan of action for upcoming drug bust is about to be discussed. “A consistent team of six undercover vehicles must be accumulated.” Lt. Marshall began to appoint his team. “Thomas and Peterson, take down car number one. Jones and Davis, take down car number two. Navarro and William, fully marked car. Lee and Montez, unmarked car. Gomez, Yang, West, Walker, surveillance van. Nunez and Cavil, eye car and Gibson and Salazar, drug buyers.”

Cities all over the world are developing. This urbanization process is causing a number of problems and can be met by sustainable development policies. In the beginning, it is important to know what is the reason for urbanization. Most people move to the city because they want to get a better life. Another important term is a sustainable development. There are some definitions for sustainable development, but simply they say that sustainable development is a development which using resources now

Introduction What is traffic congestion? Traffic congestion is a term whereby congestion is mentioned as “clog”, “impede” and “over utilised”(http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/congestion_report/executive_summary.htm#what_is_congestion). This term is used to describe a traffic situation is with enormous amount of vehicle on the roadway, causing the flow of vehicle to be inefficient. In another word, number of traffic is higher than the supply (capacity) of current highway facilities will cause traffic congestion

Straddling Bus (SB) Current situation Road traffic congestion is a major problem in Singapore and it results in delays in the transport system such as buses not reaching their destinations on their scheduled time. Because of that, it also results in commuters not getting to their destinations on time even though they already take the shortest route to their destinations. Although the governmental organisations are putting in effort to deal with transport capacity, the majority of the citizens are

3. Pay Attention To Where You Put Your Attention When you start to become aware of where you put your attention, you can start to change your life. Why? Because if your attention is on things that make you feel negative, and you become aware of that, then you can move it to things that help you stay positive. For instance, if you are at a conference, and you are listening to a brilliant speaker talk about something you are very interested in, then your attention is on him and you feel good. But

Jerry Mason, senior vice president and general manager at Morton-Thiokol, and Morton-Thiokol were on the brink of negotiating the booster’ rocket contract renewal with NASA. Although, it is not an acceptable reason, we could see how engineers and others below the authority of Jerry could be afraid to state something contrary to what he stood by. When someone’s self-interest and pride gets in the way of engineering, it can neglect the welfare of the public, and cause them harm. This case study highlights

In the books, A Nation Forged in War: How World War II Taught Americans to Get Along by Thomas Bruscino and Freedom’s Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides by Derek Charles Catsam, both focus on the subject of racism, religious tolerance, and segregation. Although both books deal with the same topic the authors have different opinions toward what was the cause of the beginning of bringing these matters to an end. These are a few of the reasons the authors give for their opinions

Throughout these pages of reading the clear idea was how we as people see the work we must do every day. Are you happy that you go to work everyday? The way you view your work will determine how much you invest yourself. There are three kinds of work orientations, or mind frames, that you as a worker can hold. You can have a “job” frame of mind, which is it 's a paycheck, a means to an end only. You could see your job as a career, and “mark your achievements through money, but also through advancement