Avro Arrow Essay

The Arrow Character Analysis

Previously, the protagonist Arrow was an ordinary college student before the war started, and shows significant development as she becomes an infamous sniper defending Sarajevo during the Civil War. Before the war, she identified with her real name, Alisa, and not with her subsequent persona Arrow, who was "the woman you knew who hated nobody"(13). Her choice to identify with another name signifies how much she changes as a person: her beliefs, actions, morals and personality that no longer mirror who Alisa was, and how she has assumed another identity. In contrast, Alisa used to be someone who enjoyed spending time with her friends, going for a drive or spending time in the park, but now, as someone who shoots soldiers and cold bloodedly...show more content... Within her, Arrow is torn between the relief and pride of defending Sarajevo from the men in the hills as "she shoots only soldiers" (10), yet she does not forget the fact that she is still truly killing people. Even so, she pulls her trigger with the belief that she is only doing good for the city, getting rid of the shooters before they kill innocent civilians, and helping restore the peace and balance in Sarajevo, that it has turned her numb and unfeeling to sympathize with the people she has killed. Comparing herself to the person she was before the war, she had only been part of the sharpshooting team in college, as this conflict has created much strife and forced Alisa to use her skill to take lives ruthlessly beyond pretending. Arrow reinforces her pride and love for the city of Sarajevo, and truly reflects and determines what is truly important to her. Unexpectedly, Arrow's next assignment is what she has never imagined in her career as a sharpshooter, to defend a cellist who is determined to play an Adagio in memory of the 22 people in line for a piece of bread who had passed away, "[she] will not allow this man to die"

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Canada has constantly looked for a way to prove herself and express her greatness throughout history. In World War One, she proved herself in battle as the Canadians brought home a great victory in Vimy Ridge. Yet, she neglected the one thing that could have brought utmost glory to her name, the Avro Arrow. The Avro Arrow, if it had lived to this day, would have caused a change in history because of its symbolism toCanada; the protection it would have offered would have revolutionized Canadian aerospace. If the Arrow was never scrapped, it would have been an outstanding symbol for Canadians. Already there are people defending the Arrow's honour; Paul Squires says, "In many ways it has become the symbol for the country."(Hobson, 2016)....show more content...

The Arrow was Canada's most advanced technological innovation at the time. The aircraft was not only one of Canada's best aeronautical inventions, but it was also one of the best all around the world. The Arrow's glory was short lived but not useless, it became Canada's pride and excellence (Campagna, 2016). The Arrow was such a huge step into aerospace aviation that many people wondered the possibility of Canada's future developments. Rob Cohen, the CEO of Canadian Air and Space Museum said, "If the company left it alone and develop the arrow process, Canada would have a man on the moon." This shows that the technology that the Canadians possessed was so advanced that with the right minds Canada would have made a full functioning rocket well before anyone else (Hobson, 2016). The Arrow was also "considered to be a serious contender for the top military aircraft for the next several years" according to many magazines at the time (Aviation week, 2016). Many engineers from Canada and the rest of the world knew that the Arrow was the cutting edge of aviation technology that existed at the time. It was the very lifeline of Canada's military aviation industry. It was a promising piece of technology that put Canada on the aeronautical map. The Arrow offered enormous advantages in capability in comparison to the other planes of the world. The Arrow, if given the time and money,

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What Does The Arrow Mean

Amanda maduike PHIL210_4001 2/25/18 "The Arrow" The Arrow is a strong powerfully word for Buddha used to name of a painfully feelings. The arrow is the highest destiny of human. The Buddha is the highest energy of positive spirits and the spirits does not have negative spirits. The arrow explains the stress and unhappiness that occurs in the phenomenal around the world. The arrow explains uninstructed the person feeling of pleasure, feeling of pain, monk try heal from the pain from the two arrows. The arrow teaches as it clearly explains what for many confusing aspect of they become distraught. As human, we experience the pains, physical & mental. Because they shoot the man with the arrow

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Congratulations new Ordeal! Congratulations on your recent completion of the Ordeal. This is the first, and to some, the most difficult endeavor you will encounter as a member of the Order. You will remember the experience of your Ordeal for the rest of your lifetime. I want to personally welcome you to our Order. You are now a member of the Sac–N–Fox Lodge #108. The Order of the Arrow is an honor camping society. Founded in 1915 by Dr. E. Urner Goodman and Carroll A. Edson. The Order of the Arrow was founded on a warm July evening at Treasure Island Scout Camp. On July 16, 1915 25 members were elected into the Order of the Arrow. Over a 100 years have passed since the OA was founded, and is on course for the next 100 years. Without members

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"He who serves his fellows is of all his fellows greatest!" This quote by Dr. E. Urner Goodman implies that those who put the needs above the needs of their own is the greatest leader of us all. For this reason, Dr. Goodman's efforts in organizing an honor camper society known as the Order of the Arrow has made a wave of change in lives of boy scouts over the past 100 years. To shed light on this subject we must have a brief look at its purpose and intent, its history, and its impact on the nations as we know it.

The wave of selfless service started in 1915 when a camp director, Dr. Goodman, and his co–camp director, Col. Carroll A. Edson, along with their camp staff witnessed several boys that were putting the needs of their fellow scouts...show more content...

One example being President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who was inducted in to the order in 1933. He was also the only President to be inducted into the order. Another example is the former CIA director and former Secretary of Defense, Dr. Robert Gates. Dr. Gates was involved in boy scouts in Wichita, Kansas. He would later be inducted into the Order of the Arrow in the 1950s.

The Order of the Arrow has a long history of cheerful service. One such example is that at each National Scout Jamboree there has been a service core. The purpose of this group is to run logistics for setting up for different events. Another event is Arrow Corp 5. This movement was a push for scouts to go out and work to preserve the national parks. In spark of this several local programs have stemmed from this to promote community service in local areas. These actions also promoted selfless service and leadership to each community. Dr. Goodman's quote, "He who serves his fellows is of all his fellows greatest," truly exemplifies how the Order of the Arrow provides positive reinforcement for those youth that are willing to serve others for more than 100 years. The purpose of the Order has provided an influential development for youth leaders and a long history of influential leaders since its creation as an

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Entomology 105 Assignment #2 ! 1. What was Redi's prediction about spontaneous generation and his experiment? !– Redi's prediction about spontaneous generation and his experiment was that flies or maggots cannot be produced nor originated from the meat in the situation where rotting meat is in a sealed flask. ! 2. What insect did Redi use to test his prediction in his experiment? !– To test his prediction in his experiment, Redi manipulated flies by preparing jars of meat that each is in different environment. ! 3. Was this insect a good choice? Explain your reasoning. ! – The insect that Redi used, flies, was the best choice that he could make because his main goal of this experiment was to discover the...show more content...

What did it show or not show? ! – The use of a scientific control groups is important because it can segregate the effect of independent variable on the experiment by conducting the experiment similar, but without the variable one is testing for. In this experiment the importance of the control was to compare the different results between the jars of meat that were unsealed and the jars of meat that were sealed (with lids & gauge). It showed that there was significant difference between the two situations that ultimately made Redi to conclude his experiment. Entomology 105 ! 8. What were the results of Redi's experiment? What happened in the experiment and what was concluded? ! – The results of Redi's experiment were that the jars of meat that were sealed with lids seemed to have no flies, maggots nor eggs entered in the jars, but the jars of meat that were unsealed appeared to have flies entered into the jars, hatched eggs on the meat and produced maggots that grew up to become adult flies. Lastly, for the jars of meat that were sealed with gauze, few maggots were seen in the meat because the flies hatched eggs on the gauze and those eggs were dropped down to the meat. Therefore, Redi concluded that non–living objects cannot give birth to living organisms, disproving the theory of spontaneous generation. ! 9. For years after Redi's experiment many still believed in

the time in which the first person/object had move, it will not reach by the second person/object because of n time and n distance between the two. Another elaboration is a large car that had enough gas to make it move while there's an undersized car compared to the first car in which it has no enough gas. The second car is bind by rope that connected to the first car. Between the first car, which has enough gas, and the second car, which has no enough gas, the distance of zero is present between them and the length of the rope which is 10 meters will be the distance between them after the first car tries to tug the rope to make the second car move. The large car started to move, but because of the length of the rope, which is 10 meters, the second car would not move until the 10 meters had tug by the first car, that's the only time that the second car will move. As the first car reach the first point, that's the time that the rope had expanded enough to...show more content...

For an instance, an arrow in flight, he said that the arrow didn't move at all or motionless because, before it was hit/released by the handler, it already occupies an equal space at rest, and when it was released by the person in locomotion, the arrow took the same space and no time lapses for it to move, therefore the flying arrow is at rest and motionless. In Zeno's third paradox, he believed that a motion should have time lapses in order to be in motion. Time lapse can be done if there is the presence of time and space acting together. For example, as time passes by, the roots of a tree grow, making it to be large and spread its root to hold the soil. Because of the presence of time lapses as well as the changes occur on the roots of the tree, we can say that the roots are in

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Arrow Symbolism

How would you describe the things that are most important to you? Are you able to describe them with a symbol, something that has meaning to you and your life? I would describe my overarching theme in my life with an arrow, something that is strong and can protect but can be also lead me in the right direction when I am lost. It has lead me in the right direction towards my education, independence, and help me find myself and create my personality. In the same way, a arrow represents strength and protection, a breaking chain can represent my strong personality and independency as a person. A chain represents the connections I have with my family and friends, connected through one another while strengthening our bond. The break in the chain symbolizes me really finding myself and becoming my own person. Additionally, it represents those relations still being there even though I might be moving on to bigger and better things. Both the arrow and the chain signify the strength that I have, whether it be mentally or physically....show more content... My education is something that shapes not only my goals in life but also my personality and how I've grown as a person. A light bulb represents bright ideas and creativity in the work that I do. The arrow works with the light bulb in leading me in the right direction of my education and showing me the right choices to make. The arrow also represents the courage to move forward with my plans and to not be afraid to move forward because there is also a light that will guide me through the darkness. The light bulb represents my goals for myself but also the goals for others and the world as a

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Major Project: The Order Of The Arrow

The Order of the Arrow was a major project in which I, along with my team, cleaned and maintained Camp McKee by transporting bunks for storage, painting the picnic shelter, and cutting grass and weeds from the side of the lake dam. I have been a patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, as well as a senior patrol leader. I have led the boys of my troop through their ranks and have given them advice on ranking up and living life as a scout. I have also volunteered to ensure the safety of those who are boating at the church picnic to thank the church for allowing us to charter with Get

Consumption and Mass Media Worksheet SCO/105 October 16, 2012 Michael S. Tuner, M.S. Consumption and Mass Media Worksheet 1. What is conspicuous consumption? How does conspicuous consumption influence purchasing decisions? Think about a high–priced item that you have bought or would like to buy. To what extent does conspicuous consumption affect your decision? a. Conspicuous consumption is receiving or buying expensive services or products that could be important or not the and individual in order to give a false impression that one is wealthy. This can greatly affect an individual's purchasing ability because one can buy outside their means to put them in a higher earning class. Personally, I have a new found love for...show more content... Thus reaching to an audience of higher class where money is in plethora. As far as hobbies this would be for people who enjoy music or like to listen to their choice of audio with out distractions. Leading to the conclusion that this product would be optimal to a higher class individual who travels often. f. The lifestyle presented is more of a thrill–seeking individual who can live life carelessly. This is not a realistic add because one who be killed if heading backwards on a paddleboat toward a water fall with headphones on. g. This advertisement is a photo of a beautiful waterfall with fluffy clouds in the sky and no civilization in sight. A lonely relaxed man in a small paddleboat rowing backwards dangerously close to the edge wearing the Bose head phones. The mad is small and the product being sold is hard to see as the company Bose is presenting the big picture of not being able to hear the danger nearing him. h. The hidden text is that one can feel free and not be disturbed by the out side world while wearing Bose headphones. i. Values of feeling no disturbance and feeling unchained from the normal every day stresses. j. Young children would not be interested but might mention the waterfall, still not fully understanding. An older person would see this add as a danger and would see that this product would be for someone who lives frivolously and spends money on pleasure items instead of Get more content

Iroquois Leadership Qualities

Although the Iroquois confederation, an ancient alliance of Indians in Mesoamerica, may not have survived the godly technologies of the Europeans, they did leave one great legacy behind: their qualities in leadership. Many of their leadership qualities are still vital for leaders today, but two in particular, sympathy and selflessness, work together hand–in–hand to build some of the greatest and most remembered leaders of all time. Sympathy has a very relative hold in the lives of people. It is not something humans teach; sympathy has been here since the beginning. We develop it from our own failure and use it to understand when or when not to use mercy when someone else fails. The Iroquois constitution states that their leaders should "be

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Throughout the Cold War cycle, there were many decisive people, technology and government. People effected Canada socially, technology effected Canada economically and government effected Canada politically. The Avro Arrow is thought of as a near perfect machine. It was a supersonic airplane created by Canadian engineers, technicians and skilled workers. This jet is capable of stopping a nuclear bomb. The Avro arrow was able to reach 2000 km/hour. Although, the project was canceled and this affected the connection between Canada and United States. I chose this Avro Arrow picture considering that this was the armament to stop a nuclear bomb if it happened. In addition to, this jet was the new technology which would effect our military in a satisfying

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Achilles as Tragic Hero

In his classic work "Poetics" Aristotle provided a model of the tragic hero. According to Aristotle, the tragic hero is more admirable than the average person. This results in the tragic hero being admired by the audience. For the audience to accept a tragic ending as just, it is crucial that the tragic hero be responsible for their undoing. At the same time though, they must remain admired and respected. This is achieved by the tragic hero having a fatal flaw that leads to their undoing. One of literature's examples of the tragic hero is Achilles from Homer's The Iliad. However, Achilles is different from the classic tragic hero in one major way – his story does not end tragically. Unlike the usual...show more content... This illustrates that Achilles can be considered as being more admirable than the average person. This is also expressed in the poem, such as where Apollo refers to Achilles saying, "Let that man beware, or great and glorious as he is, / We mighty gods will wheel on him in anger–look, / He outrages the senseless clay in all his fury!" (Homer, XXIV 58–60). This passage recognizes Achilles as great and glorious.

This passage also mentions the fatal flaw, which is the second requirement of Aristotle's hero. Achilles fatal flaw is his tendency to go to extremes out of anger. Apollo recognizes this where he refers to Achilles' fury. This fatal flaw is also expressed in the opening lines of the poem, "Rage – Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, / murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses" (Homer, I 1–2). The rage that is spoken of first causes Achilles to react and refuse to join the battle. When Patroclos is killed, it then causes Achilles to react again, with his rage driving him too far. This allows the audience to see that Achilles is a great man, while having a fatal flaw that leads to his own undoing.

The final aspect of the tragic hero is that his life ends tragically because of his downfall. If Achilles fit with this model perfectly, he would become aware of his excessive rage at the end of the poem. However, while he did become a better person

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Avro Arrow Impact

The Avro Arrow was born in the early 1950's during the Cold War out of concerns of a Soviet surprise attack. That would take place from the Soviets flying over the Arctic and bombing North America with long ranged bombers (Avro Arrow Archives). With the constant threat of a nuclear surprise attack, Canada was needing an aircraft that when news came in of an incoming Soviet attack. Although the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) had the Avro Canada CF–100 Canuck, it was not fast enough to shoot down a Soviet bomber. The RCAF demanded "an aircraft that would fly faster, higher and farther and carry the most advanced missile system" (The Canadian Encyclopedia, Marsh) this would allow it to shoot down a bomber before it reached civilization. The problem...show more content...

Avro Canada was finished. From the cancellation of the Avro Arrow; some of the best aviation technology was destroyed which prohibited anything like it to be replicated, a rise in unemployment of the best engineers and scientists anywhere who went to work for non Canadian companies, and Canada was now set back in aviation and completely dependent on the U.S for defence. The Avro Arrow was "One of the finest achievements in Canadian aviation history, the delta wing Avro Canada CF–105 Arrow was never allowed to fulfill its mission" (avroarrow.org).

Although the aircraft and all documents of it were destroyed, it still instills hope, aspiration and pride in Canadians and that cannot be

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In the study of Canadian military history the Avro Arrow has become a buzzword found on the lips of all technological, political and even airforce enthusiast. At the risk of seeming unoriginal in topic selection, this critique reviews the fascinating biography, Fall of an Arrow, by Murray Peden. Peden's historical biography accurately covers a variety of aspects of the A. V. Row Arrow, from specifics in military capability, to competing technological and political/economic significance. This critical evaluation of the mentioned secondary source sets out to evaluate the work as a historical source, focussing on evidence of bias, the apparent coherence of arguments and finally the effectiveness of Peden's underlying...show more content...

To further examine the book's worth as a historical guide it is important to note the great details described in terms of process and specifications of the late Arrow. Peden captures a multitude of statistics and draws on technical background making his book an excellent source for facts and figures. Moreover the book explains much of the technical focus of the Arrow project detractors, for this takes up the larger portion of his case. In the event that one should need to back up concepts and theories regarding the Arrow project and the surrounding political and economic affairs, Peden provides an extremely valuable source. There is much to be mentioned in terms of the people who drove the project, engineers, cooperative Americans who's resources made much of the project viable, and the leadership of Crawford Gordon. Unfortunately this source is skimpy on the preceding variables, compromising it's historic worth in terms of key personalities. It would be this papers contention that Peden's work is an excellent source for the enhancement and crystallization of prior knowledge on the subject matter, due to it's technological base. It is also being suggested here that the historic value of the political and decision making process observed throughout the period of the 1956–58, may be oversimplified in Peden's case

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Avro Arrow

Canada's reputation for developing good products wasn't too great even to this day. Most products bought were from the big industries namely from Germany, The United States, China and Japan. But the Avro Arrow was a possible step into joining the big industrial countries. This wouldn't have been made possible if the plan and design wasn't created by a genius in engineering part of Alliot Verdon Roe's enormous company. Also, it would've been extremely useful for NORAD to defend North America from Soviet bombers in theCold Warby serving as their main aircraft. Finally, all of this potential success went down the drain with the decision of John Diefenbaker. It is because of these three reasons that this essay will argue that...show more content... Roe (or Avro), which was a very well–known aircraft producing company. First, A.V. Roe was a British company, making a branch inCanada known as A.V. Roe Canada in 1945. Within only thirteen years, A.V. Roe Canada became the 3rd biggest company in Canada hiring over fifty thousand Canadians. Secondly, a British man working in A.V Roe Canada by the name of James C Floyd was the aerospace engineer working as the chief design engineer. James, for his entire work life, designed planes. He has designed biplanes, jet aircraft, and even spacecraft. Although he has designed so many aircrafts, he is most renowned for designing the Avro Arrow in 1953. After 4 long years of production, the Avro Arrow was finally completed. Finally, the rollout of the Avro Arrow gave excitement to everyone in Canada. People from all around the country came to see its first rollout in October 1957. To keep up the company's popularity, new projects were started like the Avro Car, the Avro Jetliner. The Avro Car in particular caught the attention of many people because it was a hovering saucer shaped "aircraft" that looked very futuristic. But with all these new projects, government funding couldn't keep up. This was a big problem that could hurt A.V. Roe Canada very badly by significantly reducing the number of projects it would work on. This led to fourteen thousand employees being laid off. To conclude, A.V. Roe Canada was a huge company with many amazing people working for it. Without a doubt the most important person in the company was James C Floyd because he created what the company was best known for and caused excitement that lasted for years in

The Avro Arrow

"The Arrow impossibility theorem and its implications for voting and elections"

Arrow's impossibility theorem represents a fascinating problem in the philosophy of economics, widely discussed for insinuating doubt on commonly accepted beliefs towards collective decision making procedures.

This essay will introduce its fundamental assumptions, explain its meaning, explore some of the solutions available to escape its predictions and finally discuss its implications for political voting and elections. I will begin by giving some definitions and presenting the fundamental issue of social choice theory, consisting of the identification of an "ideal" device for preference aggregation, capable of converting individual...show more content...

The existence of such trade–off poses serious obstacles for the identification of an optimal voting system in real society elections and has strong consequences in welfare economics and justice theory.

There are possible solutions to escape the paradox by accepting to relax one or more of the theorem fundamental assumptions. For example, by restricting the voting choice between just two alternatives, a coherent group decisions can always be obtained through majority voting. In politics this is commonly achieved using different methods among which are the assignment of agenda power to an individual, the elimination of defeated alternatives from the vote and the limitation of voting rounds. Individuals having the power of making such choices can actively influence the results of the elections and have their most preferred outcome implemented. Another popular approach consists of restricting the application of the voting system to a specific type of individual preferences denoted as "single–peaked", characterized by the presence of a most preferred alternative for each individual. Furthermore, in the context of a uni–dimensional policy space we can also apply "Black's median voter theorem" to identify the Condorcet winner in the societal ranking, consisting of the most preferred alternative of the median voter.

Despite the existence of a number of cases where it's possible to circumnavigate the paradox, many political problems present complex and

Operation Husky Invasion Analysis

Secondly, I want to discuss if the skepticism from the British and Americans had anything to do with Canada's stationed positions away from combat. British 8th army division has a high reputation in the African campaign and had included two inexperienced Canadian divisions into Operation Husky. Even withCanada's prior engagements, the British army did not exclude them from the operation. Canada's participation changed the perspective of their allies and placed them as a center role in the invasion. There is still the skeptical premise I will address in my paper to explore how Canadian soldier's role alongside its allies changed their views throughout the invasion.

Nichols Review In 2011, Simon & Schuster published Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis– Suez and the Brink of War by David A. Nichols. The book's main purpose was to illustrate how Eisenhower guided the world through 1956 without a global war. That year saw both the Suez Crisis and the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Despite a plethora of personal troubles, including a severe heart attack and major intestinal surgery, the president continued to lead theUnited States (US). He even ran for reelection in the midst of illness and international chaos. Overall, Nichols does an excellent job of telling the story in great factual detail while maintaining the attention of the reader. He hardly develops any characters beyond Eisenhower,...show more content...

Within the US the major players are President Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers. John Foster Dulles was the secretary of state and his brother, Allen Dulles, was head of the newly established Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). While Eisenhower was in the hospital following his medical emergencies, these two, for all intents and purposes, controlled foreign affairs. John Foster Dulles was in the middle of a major health crisis, but aside from his hospitalization, its effects on his decision making are rarely mentioned. In 1956 Sir Anthony Eden led the British as prime minister. He also experienced severe health complications, but Nichols hardly mentions them either, leaving the reader with a very negative perception of Eden and his leadership. Prime Minister Guy Mollet led France during the Suez Crisis, but the author provides even less information about him than he does regarding Eden. Israel at this time was commanded by Prime Minister David Ben–Gurion, a hawkish diplomat with a burning desire to see the fall of Nasser and his anti–Israeli regime. The USSR's leader, Premier Nikolia Bulganin, is typically portrayed as a reasonable man, aside from his brutal repression of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Neither he, nor President Eisenhower wanted to be the cause of the next major global conflict. The final main character is President Gamal Abd al–Nasser. Nichols does an excellent job of painting Nasser to be a prudent, approachable, and non–violent leader. Despite his dislike of Israel, he was willing to cooperate with pro–Israeli nations in order to achieve peace. Throughout the book, the author gives great attention to the personal interactions between these key players, adding a level of detail and intimacy with the characters unseen in many accounts of this same