Friday, October 31, 2008

The first few minutes after death...

VOCABULARY-
Expectation- The act or state of expecting: to wait in expectation.
Recruit-To enroll or list.
Consciousness- The state of being conscious, or aware.

This story is about near death experiances. How being near death is another state of consciousness. They are doing a research on the near death experiances, while patients are on cardiac arrest. While patients are on cardiac arrest, the monitor their heartbeat, and breathing rate. After patients are off cardiac arrest, they have the choice to continue to be tested.

Friday, October 3, 2008

http://www.tpwmagazine.com/archive/2008/jan/scout2/

Vocabulary-
1. Hazardous- Full of risk.
2. Immediately- Without lapse of time.
3. Regulation- A law or rule.

Summary
This story is about before 1949, how when starting a bout, that meant it began going immediately. It was very HAZARDOUS. They then began putting in a neutral, forward, and reverse, this made things a lot safer.

Thoughts
I think that its a very good thing that we have a N, F, and R. This makes it to where we have total control of our boats and vehicles. Without having this, what would we do? A lot more people would die from fatal injury.