At 6:00am, 183 planes launched all within fifteen minutes and only two failed to get into the air. ... Not two minutes later marked the first mistake of the Japanese. ... Hickam Field was especially intense as the first wave caused it to turn into flames in just fifteen minutes, and the second left many dead. ...
At 6 in the morning, 183 planes were launched within fifteen minutes. ... It was only two minutes and the first mistake was made by the Japanese. ... Hickham field had lit on fire within the first fifteen minutes, killing many soldiers. ...
At thirty-five minutes before launch, evacuation of the area had been proceeding on schedule. ... The capsule orbited the earth for approximately thirteen minutes (Mercury: BJ-1). ... Shepard, Jr. was the only crewmember, and the successful mission lasted for over 15 minutes (Mercury: MR-3). ... In less than fifteen minutes I was backing awkwardly out of the hatch and onto the surface to join Neil, who, in the tradition of all tourists, had his camera ready to photograph my arrival" (Apollo 13). ... On July 24, 1969, the astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, and within minutes, they w...
Are Sweatshops Necessarily Evil? Since the employer's main objective is to sell as much of the product as they can, the factories hire many people to get more of their product produced. The more workers they hire, the less the money they are willing to give their workers. Many workers work at the f...
The average prison sentence of men who kill their female partners is two to six years and women who kill their male partners are sentenced on average to fifteen years, despite the fact that they did it in self defense (Talvi inthesetimes.com). Ever three minutes a woman is raped, every fifteen seconds a woman is battered and every six hours a woman is battered to death. ...
Categorizing The unwritten rules of putting oneself in a category are endless. No one ever sat down and wrote out the qualifications that a person needs to obtain in order to be in the category of their race. Is it the place where you were conceived but what if your parents were on vacation in...
Just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Urged by Hungarian-born physicists Leo Szilard, Eugene Wingner, and Edward Teller, Einstein told Roosevelt about Nazi German efforts to purify Uranium-235 which might be used to buil...
Southern Pride: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Was there a purpose behind King's honorable humbleness and humility to those who so rudely besmirched his attempts at equality? To Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., hostility and spite were not ways of achieving his goals for equality. Instead of rashness a...
I still did not understand, it took a few minutes for my father to strongly state that he came illegally. ... The night he arrived he found shelter with other immigrants in a two bedroom home with nearly fifteen men. ... Hispanics are known for having Quincenieras, the coming of age party thrown for young women at the age of fifteen. ...
By making the statement "it was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither" (Twain 55), Huck realizes that Jim-although an African American, runaway slave, and criminal-is a person, too. ...
