FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION - Gene Kranz‟s leadership in movie < Apollo 13> INTRODUCTION Apollo 13‚ the 1995 motion picture directed by Ron Howard‚ is the true story of Jim Lovell‚ Fred Haise‚ and Jack Swigert‚ a team of astronauts reassigned to a space flight with diminished preparation time. Apollo 13 Mission in 1970 was planning to land on the moon as a routine‚ but after astronauts found oxygen tank‟s explosion and leaking‚ this routine mission to the moon suddenly
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school as she always being boycott by them. Therefore‚ Anna did not dare to take the risk of getting along with him. Anna never put the blame on others for not being warm towards her since everyone has their own right to choose the best thing in their life. Nevertheless‚ Anna’s intelligence and wild imagination had brought her to explore new things to disappear the loneliness endured by her. The blazing tropical sun was shining through the cloudless sky. Anna was pondering while sitting on the bench
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This essay will analyze the key factors that may lead the intelligence failures to occur. Through discovering various materials‚ I find out that the failures are commonly caused by a combination of internal and external errors. Before discussing some reasons for the error‚ we need to understand the nature of intelligence work. The work is an outcome of team effort‚ as it consist a series of human endeavours‚ therefore it cannot be completely accurate. In fact‚ the intelligence failure could cause
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I still remember his deep brown eyes that day‚ almost as if his soul was shining through them. They screamed innocence and confusion as we walked through the doors of the veterinarian’s office. He was so ignorant of his own fate‚ yet he still shook like he uniformly did just as if he was only going in for an annual check up. I was stuck deep in the paradox of wanting him to be set free from all his pain‚ but selfishly‚ I wanted him to stay. I yearned for the dog that he once was‚ but he was too far
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I was questioning myself when I read about the four job options from Joanne B. Ciulla’s Work and Life. I chose the “a well-paying position in an accounting firm” with a little surprised (Ciulla‚ 83). I know I want to earn more money‚ but I do not expect that I put money in the first place when I choose a job. However‚ it is true and I cannot ignore it. Money is quite important when we live in this world. As Epicurus said‚ “Wherefore both when young and old a man must study philosophy‚ that as he
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at me saying why did you take this street? She repeated this question about 10 times. I told the lady “mam this is not my fault that the bus is blocking the street” I told her how would I know that it is going to be like this? She still won’t calm down because she wants to get somewhere and she wants to get there as fast as she can‚ but the bus is on her way‚ she wants that bus out of there. After screaming at me for about
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Relay for Life is an annual themed walk held to commemorate victims of the deadly cancer and to raise donations for American Cancer Society. Typically‚ most clubs at school participate in Relay for Life; dedicated to community service‚ French National Honors Society was no exception. In this Relay for Life‚ the theme was traveling; therefore‚ different clubs were to decorate hallways of the school like a different
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do to get it. As a child‚ I have always been the type to take care of and keep every pair of shoes I get. The love I had for shoes was unexplainable and I often tended to go nuts if someone had worn them without asking. Still to this day I’m crazy about them and I have accepted the fact that I am a shoe fanatic. Every time I go shopping it’s a must I pick up a pair of shoes. When I was 13‚ I remember being mad at my mother because we went shopping but she wouldn’t buy me a pair of shoes. I remember
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on the streets‚ at school‚ at work. You know the people I’m talking about. The ones that are always smiling‚ surrounded by friends. The people that never stop talking and their laughter is so contagious you can’t help but smile. You see these people everywhere. They seem to have it all. The perfect life‚ the perfect friends‚ the perfect everything. But the truth is‚ under all the smiling and laughter‚ no one truly has a perfect life. I have friends‚ two in particular‚ that I thought had it all . They
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An Essay About Obesity How Metabolic Rate Changes With Caloric Intake The processing of food is a choreographed dance between the hormones and peptides of appetite and satiation; brain and digestive organs‚ and the neural communication pathways that conduct the messages between the two. Essentially‚ there are two phases of metabolic activity: Hunger (defined as “the internal impulse for food seeking”) and satiation (defined as “the feeling of fullness or satiation”) (Breedlove‚ Watson & Rosenzweig
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