Midway

In the middle of the night, the navy artillery is shot in the air and loud burst sounds come from every direction. This is World War 2 and “I’m a fighter pilot name Tom Hudner or my callsign is Chaos.” I have been in this war for two years bombing the Japanese and I have been serving this country for 11 and a half years. I will tell you about my legendary story about the attack on operation Midway.


"Hello, this is me, a 35-year-old pilot, living two years of my life on this stupid aircraft carrier named the USS Enterprise, which was one of the three US aircraft carriers in the Battle of Midway. Our squadron consists of 24 fighter jet pilots, divided into six air fleets of four pilots each. "My wingman's name is Dick Best, and he is probably one of the best pilots in the country currently." "He graduated from Top Gun school as the best pilot of the year, and Top Gun is the best aviation school in the world, so this means he is one of the best of the best."


Dick Best inquired sarcastically. "Yo, what's for breakfast today, bro?"


Tom Hudner then replied, "We have had pancakes and maple syrup for 2 years now; c'mon, don’t be such a jackass today."


Dick Best said, "Let’s go eat, and then let’s turn and burn in the air." Seconds later, the Japanese fighter jets come crashing in like a fireball. Get into position! Let's go!! Chop!


Tom Hudner then screamed, "Hey, the Japanese kamikazes are crashing in; go inform the captain to drive zigzag." C’mon, go bring your ass over there. They successfully shot down the Japanese planes after 3 hours of being bombed. Tom Hudner then announced at the squadron meeting, "We are going to get our revenge on them; we will bomb their ships and send them to the bottom of the ocean."


Powah!!!!


Minutes later, we were flying behind the enemy line and getting ready to bomb them. Suddenly, Dick Best got spotted by the Japanese Navy Artillery, and they started shooting him. Dick Best sarcastically spoke and laughed, "Holy sh*t, the canons are shooting at me, ahh, help, help, heh heh!"


Tom Hudner and his squadron dive very low to bomb the Japanese warships and their aircraft carriers. Tom Hudner spoke on the mic, "Hey, the bullets are flying in, their planes have taken off, and the dogfight has begun." Get into the flying position and prepare for contact. Next, the dogfight started, with planes flying around and shooting at each other.





Tom Hudner said, "Hey, I am getting shot. Can somebody come cover me?" However, everybody was busy dogfighting, so nobody replied. Tom Hudner said, "Yo, I must make an emergency landing behind enemy lines." Damn, there’s an enemy plane shooting at me, and I’m running through a snowy, frosty forest.


Dick Best said, "I am going to help you out of there; you’re my wingman, and I am not letting anyone behind." He then made an emergency landing on the snowy plain.


Tom Hudner screamed as he ran in to tackle Dick Best, "What the hell were you thinking? You’re supposed to be on the warship by now."


Dick Best, "you told me not to


Tom Hudner yelled, "I already sacrificed my life to save all of us, but now you came here to be stuck with me."


Dick Best then answered, “C’mon don’t act like hero and let’s try to find a way to survive.

Human activity is making the Earth a worse place to live.

      

                In this essay, I will be explaining how I agree with human activity is making the Earth a worse place to live. It will explain the reasons and give examples of the human activities that make the Earth a worse place to live in. This can be categorized into two distinct categories which are environmental and emotional wellness. This essay will explain both categories. These categories both play a significant role in making the earth a worse place to live in.

                This paragraph will be explaining about the first category, environmental wellness. First, humans create pollution and climate change worldwide, so the earth is getting worse to live in. It also affects the habitat of the animals that are being destroyed in nature. For example, water pollution destroys the sea animals' habitat and climate change destroys the polar animals’ habitat. Therefore, it also destroys the food chain of the animals. Second, humans travel around the world and trash things in the oceans. This can kill a lot of sea animals and those who might be eating them. In addition, humans made the world hard to live in by driving a lot of cars or traveling to school by car. This creates air pollution, and it would crucially impact the water cycle, numerous dirty particles will fly up to the sky and precipitate with the rain. This can kill the water animals and the rural peoples who must drink. In conclusion, this is how humans can destroy the environment to make the earth a worse place to live in.

                This paragraph will be explaining about the second category, emotional wellness. Additionally, emotional wellness can be distinguished into different sections. These sections are bullying, discrimination, prejudice, and racism. Subsequently, bullying is the term where most people in society gang up and try to attack, threaten, or offend someone. I have seen this in school, and it makes the world a worse place to live in. An example, in this school where the school wanted everybody’s academic performance to be great, so they must compete in the class. I just found out that a considerable number of students just wanted to get the grade/score, however, they do not even try to find and improve their mistakes. I have seen people being discriminated against by the other students in their class, for just a minor academic issue. An example of racism happened at the place where I am from in Montreal, Canada, there was vastly distinct between the white and the black students. Overall, this category initiated and its rules. These rules and criteria are created by humans, so this is again illustrating how human activities can make the earth a worse place to live in.

                In conclusion, this essay explains I completely agree with how human activities are making the earth a worse place to live. I have identified and explained the two categories of activity that make the earth a worse place to live in.

AP Human Geography

Compare and contrast Oregon and Iowa. These come from vastly different perceptual regions. Does the data look similar or different? Explain.


Oregon is the number 10th state by land area, but Iowa is the number 23rd state by land area. The area of Oregon is about twice the size of Iowa which is 95,962.6sqm and 55,838.9sqm. From the population perspective, Oregon has 1 million people more than Iowa’s population which is about 4 million and 3 million people. Iowa is a way more densely populated state than Oregon from comparing the population and the state’s area. The household income of Oregon is slightly more than Iowa's, however, the income per capita of Iowa is more than Oregon. The census also illustrates that Iowa’s employment rate is also slightly more than Oregon’s employment rate.

In conclusion, the geographical perspective is hugely different. The size of Oregon is twice the size of Iowa. However, from the economic perspective, Iowa is slightly better because the household income per capita, the employment rate, and the healthcare are a bit better than in Oregon.

Table Tennis

Ping-Pong is a ball game played on a flat table divided into two equal courts by a net fixed across its width in the middle. The goal is to hit the ball over the net and bounce it on the opponent's half of the table in such a way that the opponent cannot reach it or correctly return it. The lightweight hollow ball is pushed back and forth across the net by the player's small paddles. Ping Pong was invented in the 1880s in Victorian, England by Englishman David Foster. Table tennis was filed on July 15, 1890’s This sport was set in the Olympics in the year 1988.

2.2 The scoring system change was possibly the most significant change in table tennis history. Previous to 2001, games could be scored up to 21 points, with service changing every 5 points. If both players (or both pairs in doubles) score ten points, the game is won by the first player or pair to win by two points. In the present, the score is mostly for 11 points- for most of the major leagues.


You have two serves before it is your opponent’s turn to serve twice. This used to be five serves each but since changing to 11 it’s now just two.


At 10-10, it’s deuce. You get one serve each and must win by two clear points. This is sudden death or table tennis’ equivalent of a tie break.


If you are playing a best of 3, 5, or 7 (as opposed to just one set) you have to change ends after each game. This makes sure both players experience conditions on both sides of the table. You also change ends when the first player reaches five points in the final game of a match.

2.3 Table Tennis Balls

Plastic balls began to replace celluloid balls at the most important events under the rules of ITTF – including the World Championships, World Tour Tournaments, and other major competitions during the 2014-2015 table tennis season. The transition proceeded in such a way that the old celluloid balls were phased out, with them overlapping with plastic balls for a time before completely disappearing. Surprisingly, the introduction of plastic balls did not necessitate any rule changes because the rules do not specify the material of the ball; only the weight, diameter, and rebound are specified.




Table Tennis tables

Originally table tennis was played on the dining room or billiards tables. Players would set up nets across the table and sometimes even nets at the sides to catch the ball. It’s thought that in India the British army would make their own tables using a row of books for the net, more books as makeshift paddles, and then a golf ball!

Table Tennis Paddle
The paddle used came in a variety of different styles, shapes and sizes. The common ones were made out of wood and covered in vellum canvas that was stretched across the wooden frame. This is how ping pong got its name as the sounds made when the ball hit the paddle were at different pitches.

It wasn’t until 1900 that E.C Goode invented a paddle that is more recognizable to us today. He was the first to use a sheet of rubber on top of the wooden blade but it wasn’t until a lot later that sponge was used between the blade and the rubber.

2.4 There are two biggest tournaments of table tennis including the Olympic games and the World Table Tennis Championships.







2.5 The equipment required to play ping pong is similar to a scaled-down version of tennis. Table tennis is played indoors and requires only three pieces of equipment to play. To play, all you need is a paddle, a ball, a table, and a net!

Space Exploration

How to make space exploration farther and also have a human in that spacecraft?

This started because the Earth, our home planet has lost a lot of non-renewable resources, and someday shortly that non-renewable resources will disappear. So, we have to find another planet where humans can survive and sustain humanity. In the history of humanity, the farthest space exploration is nearly 14 ½ billion miles (23 million km) from Earth which is the Voyager 1. However, there was no human on the Voyager 1 spacecraft. My question is “How to make space exploration farther and also have a human in that spacecraft?” For the Voyager 1, NASA (The National Aeronautics Space Administration) uses the slingshot technique, slingshotting around planets to use its gravitational force and turn on the booster, so that a high amount of energy makes the spacecraft accelerate at a high speed.

At the present, the 3 main things limiting our space exploration are the resources that are devoted to it, the constraints of our existing technology (Voyager 1 thrust, etc.), and the laws of physics. For the first reason, we can’t devote more resources to support this space exploration because there are no people that are willing to ask society for the resource. If there are enough resources, humanity should have developed advanced technology to solve problems. Space travel to the other star systems is still a dream for the next generations because we don’t have the technology that can make this possible. Scientists at NASA couldn’t use the law of physics formulas to innovate a better idea than doing the slingshot technique around the planets, on the other hand, we have to create and experiment with nuclear-powered rockets, fusion technology, and Dark matter fuel-based, wormholes, or even warp drive.

The only thing that seems possible is the nuclear-powered rockets because we already have a small-scale Nuclear power plant (we will build a cooling system like a water cooling system in PC to cool the Nuclear power plant down). We will use an Arc Reactor which stores energy and can be used after each slingshot so that it helps boost the speed of the spacecraft. Then, we have to use the slingshot technique from the order of the closest planet to us depending on the day that the spacecraft has been launched. The design of the spacecraft has to be minimalized by removing unnecessary things. This nuclear-powered spacecraft and the slingshot idea are created from the applied and integrated from science. For the time issue, I have an idea of using a sleeping slot where you can sleep there and wake up when it reaches the destination of another solar system. There will be 7 astronauts in the spacecraft and each of them will have to wake up and do their job for an equal time. We can also use Science to experiment and create a code that would help stabilize the direction of the spacecraft. A possible invention in the present would be the Autopilot.

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Renewable Energy: Energy Around Us

    

During the past 150 years, non-renewable sources of energy such as fossil fuels and natural gas have decreased by a huge amount because all humans are using them as the main source of energy. This essay will explain how to use wind energy and the advantages and disadvantages of wind energy. It will also explain how wind energy would be the next main energy source that will give the world a more sustainable future.




First, wind energy is the use of wind turbines to convert kinetic energy to mechanical energy. Subsequently, electrical energy is generated from mechanical energy by the electrical generator. Additionally, wind energy is an emission-free source of energy because it does not release emissions that can pollute the air or water. Moreover, they do not require water for cooling the turbines.




In addition, wind energy has both advantages and disadvantages and I will explain them from all the perspectives. Moreover, the advantages of wind energy are Free fuel which means that they don’t need to be fueled at all. So they are one of the cleanest forms of energy because they don’t rely on fossil fuels as stated the point above, however, wind energy is mostly required during the production of material, installation, and construction. Wind energy reduces our dependence on Fossil Fuels. Wind energy is the cheapest form of energy source.




Furthermore, the disadvantages of wind turbines are dangerous to some wildlife like birds or bats whose habitats or migratory paths could injure or kill them if they fly into the blades. These wind turbines release noise pollution from their very loud noise that ranges between 40 to 105 decibels. This may cause negative effects on humans and all living creatures if we got too close to the wind turbines. Lastly, wind energy suffers from unreliable/unpredictable wind speed since the wind blows at a variety of speeds. It is hard to predict the amount of wind energy that can be collected at a given time. This means that suppliers and cities must have an energy reserve or alternative sources of power in case the winds die down for an extended period of time. This is called Intermittency, which is caused by the inconsistency of the wind’s speed.






As you might have known, fossil fuels and natural gas are the main sources of energy that humans worldwide use to generate electrical energy, however, they are both non-renewable energy which have a lot of negative impacts on the environment and the world such as air and water pollution and global warming emission. The solution to decreasing the use of both fossil fuels and natural gas is wind energy because wind turbines do not need any fossil fuel or natural gas, it just needs the wind flowing to the wind turbines. Thailand could be a role model to other countries because Thailand uses wind energy from the 2 main wind turbines at the coastal of 2.5 MW in Songkhla as a sea wind power plant and 2.5 MW in Nakhon Ratchasima as a land wind power plant. Fossil fuels and Natural gas can be reduced even more by connecting a wind turbine to the vehicle (boats or yachts) to generate the electricity for that vehicle while driving. Overall, it is believed that wind energy could be used as the main source of energy and reduce the use of fossil fuels and natural gas. For example, Denmark is the closest because it uses wind energy 47% out of all its energy sources.


In conclusion, wind energy could be used as the main source of energy and reduce the use of fossil fuels and natural gas, however, there are also a few disadvantages that we will have to fix future technologies and innovation.








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Education

During the past few years, numerous parents worldwide have wanted their children to do organized activities in during their spare time. In addition, the students are stressed because they don’t get to do their hobby even it is their rest time. Personally, I agree with how people or guardians should let the kids do their leisure activities or work on anything that they like during their relax time. In this essay I will explain about the children activities developing and improving them both physically and emotionally.




First, it is my belief that the kids should be able to do whatever they want during their free time, because this helps them to create and develop their creativity and other skills. For example, if they like to play Lego buildings, it will help them to develop their architectural design skills which could be used in the future. Furthermore, this would keep them relax and it is also a time for them to recover their usage of their brain while earning the knowledges from the school education system. This is very important for kids this age because it is the part where their brain is developing the fastest in their life. Also, referring to the ideology of “Learn Hard, Play hard”, this is true because we both earn experience and skills from their leisure activities.



Second, I think that letting the kids do whatever they want during their free time is also improving them physically. For example, if the children go out to exercise or play sports. This helps build up their health or if they get injured, they also earn the experience of pain and would make them stronger and ready for the harsh world in the future. Additionally, if they play a team sport this builds up confidence, teamwork, and soft skills. These skills are very significant for them when they are learning or working in the future. This gives them the habit of not giving up and the sportsmanship to help them be more of a good citizen.




In conclusion, numerous parents worldwide have wanted their children to do organized activities in during their spare time. This is why I believe that we should let the children do their favorite activities in their spare time. Moreover, this helps the children
to gain skills and experience in these activities that are crucial for their life in the future. I have explained the reasons to support my opinion in the essay.