Geronimo

FFA organization and I loved the idea of helping others reach their full potential in the blue jacket. However, simply stated, things change. As I finished my first semester of college, I faced a difficult decision. Ya know the ones where you say "Geronimo", close your eyes, and pray you can score a decent landing? It was one of those decisions. If I took this jump, it would mean that I leave everything I had planned for in my future in the past; and even scarier, the organization that I…

Chapter One October 21, 1975: The Greatest World Series Game Ever Played After taking a 3-2 series lead on Thursday in Cincinnati, the Reds returned to Boston for Saturday’s scheduled Game Six of the 1975 World Series. A seemingly endless rainstorm had delayed the game for three days – they played Game Six at a soggy Fenway park on Tuesday. The Reds started the classic “Big Red Machine” lineup against Boston starter Luis Tiant, who came into the game on an absurd hot streak. Already 3-0 in the…

The first photographer I have chosen is Ansel Adams. His photographes, were known as the first photo taken in 1927. He created a portfolio called “Parmelian Prints of High Siera”. This portfolio is well known in the photography industrie. In 1930, Adam dedicated his life to photography and became the owner of a studio that Virginia’s father owned. In that decade, Adam had many photographs shown at the Smithsonian Imstitute (1931). Later, he opened his own gallery and published “Making a…

III. TOFFLER’S CONCEPT Famous futurists like Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler have quoted that, “a military revolution, in its fullest scene, occurs only, when an entire society transforms itself, forcing its armed forces to change at every level simultaneously from technology and culture to organization, strategy, tactics, training, doctrine and logistics” Alvin and Heidi Tofflers' scenario portrays a world once bisected into First Wave (agrarian) and Second Wave (industrial) powers changing…

The Aztecs, as they are known, were a group of people who originated as a nomadic tribe in northern Mexico. Although the origins of the Aztecs are uncertain, they "are believed to begun as a northern tribe of hunter-gatherers whose name came from that of their homeland, Aztlan (“White Land”)." The Aztecs were also known as the Tenochca derived from their capital city, Tenochtitlan, and the Mexica. The Aztec empire was built in 1428 under leader Itzcoatl, forming a three-way alliance with the…

American Identity Through the West Two things come to mind when I think of the West; vast open spaces that seem to go on and on and also Clint Eastwood’s movie, “A Fist Full of Dollars” theme music. Whatever vision comes to mind for people, the west has been a part of American identity for decades. Westerns in film have been a huge portion of this identity. First, it began with documentation of Daniel Boone explorations, then on to the dime store novel. Western film would be the biggest…

Cheri Baker Sheryl LeSage EG. Comp. 2 10-9-2015 Annotated Bibliography George, Nneka M., Julia Whitaker, Giovana Vieira, Jerome T. Geronimo, Dwight A. Bellinger, Craig A. Fletcher, and Joseph P. Garner. "Antioxidant Therapies for Ulcerative Dermatitis: A Potential Model for Skin Picking Disorder." PLoS ONE PLOS ONE (2015). Web. 6 Oct. 2015. This article is about studies done on mice with ulcerative dermatitis, which is being compared to skin picking and trichotillomania in humans. The mice…

The Portrayal Of Native North Americans In Hollywood No group of people of the same ethnic origin deserve to be misrepresented in such a way that it distorts the world 's understanding of who they truly are. So what makes Native North Americans any different? Neil Diamond 's documentary "Reel Injun" studies the image of Native North Americans in Hollywood throughout the history of filmmaking and vividly illustrates how they were practically robbed of their identity through use of stereotypes,…

The history of the deaf society constitutes not only a culture but a society intertwined with a unique way of communicating using facial movements and hand gestures to convey emotions, thoughts, and needs. Throughout history, the view of deaf people has been seen as gifts from God to the oppressed and shunned. Deafness consists for two reasons; conductive hearing loss and sensorineural hearing loss. Conductive hearing loss occurs when sounds cannot make it to the inner ear, sensorineural…

Veláquez, who is the Spanish governor of Cuba, Set out on ill- Fated ventures to the Yucatan and Mexico's gulf coast (1517 - 1518). Diego Veláquez Commissioned Hernan Cortés to lead a new expedition westward. Hernan Cortés ransomed fellow Spaniard Geronimo De Aguilar who had been forced to live among the Mayas after surviving a 1511 shipwreck during one…