Nearly thirty years later, former CEO of Manico, Inc., Jack Kahl “officially” changed the name to Duck Tape® by commercializing it and giving it personality. Today, duct tape is offered in over twenty different colors and patterns. Besides its World War II association, duct tape was used to help one of the most “successful failures” in history. When Apollo 13 was crippled by an explosion only two days after the launch, astronauts were left with a limited oxygen supply that was slowly running out. Of course, they fixed it with duct tape.
The voyage that Thomson did it had birthed oceanography. All this data that Thomson collected was served as a basis for the study of Marine Biology for many years. A British explorer, Edward Forbes, said that marine life doesn’t exist below 550 m or 1,800 feet in sea. The HMS Challenger was well built and stocked with a lot of supplies. It had laboratories on the ship and microscopes, chemistry supplies, trawls, and dredges etc.
I will discuss three topics areas that will demonstrate the context for the artifact: JFK as a rhetor, the occasions on which the rhetoric was presented and the audience to whom the rhetoric was addressed. Background John Fitzgerald Kennedy graduated from Harvard University in 1940 and shortly thereafter joined the Navy. While serving in WWII, his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer; Kennedy suffered critical injuries, but still managed to get him and other survivors to safety. Kennedy became a Democratic Congressman in the Boston area and then progressed to the 1953 Senate (JFK). John F. Kennedy was elected the youngest and first Roman Catholic President of the United States on November 8, 1960.
In 1930, Charles, helped make a medical breakthrough by helping surgeons develop a new heart pump to make open heart surgery more possible. Charles also had many other inventions throughout the rest of his life. Tragedy struck his family in the late hours of March 1st, 1932. 20 month old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was abducted from his crib while the rest of the family was asleep. A 10 week nationwide search was started for the baby with a reward for his safe return.
Shomoi K. Francis March 3, 2011 Ms. Wright Chemistry 1 Patricia Bath Patricia Bath was born on November 4, 1942, and the daughter of Rupert and Gladys Bath. Her father an immigrant from Trinidad was a newspaper columnist, a merchant seaman and the first black man to work for the New York City Subway as a motorman. She was raised in Harlem; Bath was motivated academically by her parents. Inspired by Albert Schweitzer, she applied for and won a National Science Foundation Scholarship while attending Charles Evans Hughes High School; this led her to a research project at Yeshiva University and Harlem Hospital Center on cancer that irritated her interest in medicine. I n 1960, still a teenager, Bath won the "Merit Award" of Mademoiselle Magazine for her contribution to the project.
********* ********** 17 November 2011 Encyclopedia Project Dundee, Oregon In 1874, a man named William Reid made the voyage from Dundee, Scotland to Portland, Oregon with high hopes of economic success. Back in Scotland, Reid was American vice consul for five years. While acting in this role he published a pamphlet, “Oregon and Washington as Fields for Capital and Labor.” In Portland, Reid became a resident agent at Scottish bank, later organizing the Oregon and Washington Mortgage Savings Bank, then the First National Bank in Salem. Due to his work in these fields, Oregon enacted a law that authorized foreign corporations to build railroads. In 1880, immediately after this law was put into place, Reid began construction on The Oregonian
In 1942, a year after he was made a diplomat of surgery by the American Board of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University, he became the first African American surgeon to serve as an examiner on the board. Charles Richard Drew was the oldest of five children. He was born on June 3, 1904, in Washington, D.C. His father was Richard T. Drew, a carpet layer, and Nora Drew, a school teacher and graduate of Miner Teachers College. As a student, Drew excelled in academics and sports, winning four swimming medals by the age of eight. In 1922 he graduated from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, where he received the James E. Walker Memorial Medal in his junior and senior years for his athletics in sports, including football, basketball, baseball, and track.
The world continued to honor and reward him. In 1934, he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by King George V. The Death of Sir Banting Later in his life, he joined the army in World War II. Aviation medicine became his favourite line of research. Shortly before his departure on a mission to Great Britain, he was uneasy and told his cousin Fred Hipwell that he was "a little bit afraid." On February 21, 1941, the plane carrying Banting 50 miles out from Newfoundland airport, heading over the Atlantic Ocean.
David Diment Block 7 October 5th 2012 Journey to America and beyond. Ann Elizabeth Harris was born May Fourth, 1932 in Essex, England. She spent the early years of her child hood there, in Essex, before moving to London around 1939, or the start of World War 2. While in London she survived the nightly bombing raids of the Nazi’s Luftwaffe that pummeled London. It was then in 1944 she moved across the ocean to American, settling in the Detroit metropolitan area with her family.
By November 8 JFK is elected president he tells NASA that he wants the U.S. to get mankind in space before Russia. The space race was heating up and NASA was trying to reach JFK demands of being first in space a military pilot John Glenn was selected for the project mercury astronaut training. He went thought vigorous training but was named mercury 7. On February 26 1962 Glenn was in earth orbit for 5 hours and spinning 3 times. After this mission Glenn became a Hero John F. Kennedy gave him the NASA distinguished service medal and numerous accolades.