Essays Tagged: "five feet"

The Mercury Program

ensive jet aircraft flight experience and engineering training. The applicants could beno more than five feet eleven inches tall, do to the limited amount of cabin space that the Mercurymodules provid ... Atlantic Ocean where it was recovered, successfully ending the MercuryProject.The Mercury Project, five years and $392.6 million dollars after it began, came to a close.The entire project was highly ...

(2 pages) 72 0 4.6 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

"Hackers" analyzes the many misconceptions of the Hacker culture, which often contributes many unrecognized positive influences on the computing world today.

n today's society of business men and women one can not walk around without seeing a computer every five feet. Computers are something that society has come to rely upon, and with it the reliance upon ...

(10 pages) 148 1 4.6 Oct/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

In an Instant: A Chicago story

efore me. Fully clad in cast-off clothes; hood up, boots laced tight, a young black boy barely over five feet slid effortlessly across the hood of the sleek black Mercedes and held the petrified drive ...

(3 pages) 30 0 4.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

"A Streetcar Named Desire" by Stanley Kowalski.

ing Stanley to the reader shortly after he is introduced in the play. He is of medium height, about five feet eight inches, and has a very compact, sinewy build. Stanley takes please from the simple t ...

(2 pages) 71 0 4.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Jean Paul Sartre.

erm supposedly made up by the media, and later adopted by Sartre.Sartre is a very short man at only five feet two inches. His mother told him as a child that he was beautiful, but because of being bea ... gular with Sartre. One of these was De Beauvoir. She stays with him to the end, and outlives him by five years. She wrote better than he did, and made more sense, but Sartre keeps her "under his wing" ...

(3 pages) 80 0 4.0 May/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

"A Street Car Named Desired" by Tenneesee Williams.

her-in-law) is one of the central character in the play. He is a 28 years old, medium height, about five feet eight or nine, strongly, powerfully, and compactly built. He is a boisterous brawling blue ...

(3 pages) 44 0 1.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"A Seperate Peace" by John Knowles.

lls briefly about some of his time at Devon School and about his best friend Phineas. Gene is about five feet eight inches tall and isn't exactly into sports. After meeting and befriending Finny he is ...

(1 pages) 16 0 0.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

This essay is an essay that I had to write on something that infuriated me.

veling, when suddenly I had to come to a screeching halt for a car had pulled out less than seventy-five feet ahead of me. I took the situation quite calmly and waited patiently for the car to quicken ...

(1 pages) 24 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Was Napoleon a liberator of France or a betrayer of the revolution.

ide invasion, in 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte began his liberation of France. This man standing at only five feet three inches, packed a powerful punch and lead France through the end of an ugly revolutio ...

(2 pages) 49 2 4.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution

Write a creative writing peice to do with tradgedy and triumph. Aprox 900 - 1000 words

iers, a quarter of whom, judging by the noises and the movement, were still alive.One man, not even five feet from Martin, had suffered the misfortune of having part of his brains blown away. The man ...

(4 pages) 71 2 4.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Monica and the Tower Of Magi

become a knight. Monica did not look very menacing to the untrained eye for she was no taller than five feet and had straight brown hair, but her father was a trained swordsman and as a girl she was ...

(4 pages) 16 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Sonnet 73 , William Shakespeare - analysis

This is a traditional sonnet comprised of fourteen rhymed lines of ten syllables. Each line has five feet consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, indicating the poem was w ...

(2 pages) 160 5 3.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

English literature cretive writing

Allison is a 38 year old white female. Her skin is soft and an olive color. She is five feet five inches tall and 120 pounds. She has soft, silky, straight, full, light-brown hair tha ... op of it. Her stats are 38D+/28/32. She is wearing a jet-black short mini-skirt, short white socks, five inch high-heel jet-black shoes, very short sleeve button-up dark-blue silk blouse. Under that s ... ni lingerie panty and bra set. History: She has two children a boy and a girl. Her husband left her five years ago and she got the children.Jennifer is a 20 year old white female. Her skin is soft and ...

(14 pages) 194 13 1.9 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Bookrepork of Holes by Louis Sachar

was sent to Camp Green Lake (a boot camp) where you had to dig a hole everyday while you were there five feet deep and five feet wide. Right now you're probably wondering why did Stanley have to go to ... ng with, were stolen from a homeless shelter where they were estimated to be auctioned off for over five thousand dollars. Later that day Stanley was arrested and in court he was given the decision to ...

(1 pages) 34 0 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

James Madison

James Madison seemed fragile, standing at only five feet six inches and weighing less than 140 pounds, and did not look like the type to be an infl ...

(4 pages) 55 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

America: Land of the Free - Home of the Misanthropes A Response to Florence King Summary/Strong Response Essay

. The smoke made me nauseous. I grimaced as I noticed that the smokers were not the required twenty-five feet from the entrance to the building. What are smokers thinking? Don't I have the right to br ...

(6 pages) 70 0 4.6 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

The Middle Passage

nd restrained with shackles. Their living space was often a deck within the ship that had less than five feet of headroom. Throughout a large portion of the deck, sleeping shelves where cut that limit ...

(4 pages) 46 0 5.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Prisoners of War - Chapter 27

ful reality.Paul jumped off of his bed and I looked away as he dropped his shorts to use the toilet five feet away from the beds. "You better not be looking at my ass." He said chuckling and began to ...

(15 pages) 26 0 4.3 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Mother and Daughter Relationship

NugyenTopic: Mother and Daughter RelationshipBy all accounts, mother is a petite woman who is only five feet tall and noweight more than 100lbs, yet she has a heart of gold. She has long dark hair th ...

(5 pages) 56 1 3.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

A book report on Peter Pan by James Barrie

fe and his writing. Barrie could be described as small and shy. As a man, he stood little more than five feet, was quiet and awkward around women.Fortunately for Barrie, he was a success as a writer. ...

(4 pages) 32 0 3.7 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature