Dear John,
You really should have been with us at Disaster City! Disaster City is a Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) facility reminiscent of a Hollywood movie set near College Station, TX. TEEX serves as a training ground for the Texas Task Force 1, a search and rescue team that helped during national emergencies including 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. The Disaster City program was part of the Residency week for the 50 member team in the EMBA class of 2016 at May’s Business School. I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to be part of this unique learning activity program.
The team of professionals from TEEX who conducted the training activities had planned the activities meticulously and engaged us in meaningful conversation before and after each activity. After briefing us on the safety precaution, we were divided into 6 teams. Each team was assigned to each of the six stations - earthquake zone, train wreck zone, dark room simulation, rescue from tall building, repelling zone, and road block activity zone.
Our team of 10 members were assigned the first task of searching for victims in the rubbles of a building that had collapsed from an earthquake. We took turns crawling though narrow tunnels to look for victims. As we reached the center of the building, we were surprised to see an injured victim in the middle of the rubble. As a team we had to figure out a way to rescue the victim to safety.
While the frantic search and rescue operations were in full swing, we were suddenly surrounded by media correspondents with the camera and all their paraphernalia, asking us questions about the situation. It’s not always easy to communicate effectively under stress. It is indeed a special skill in communication to address the media. We learnt valuable lessons in communication through these exercises.
All the exercises planned for the day were designed to teach unique aspects of leadership and communication. There were 2 activities that truly tested my mental endurance. It was the dark room simulation where we had to rescue fire victims and the repelling exercise. I am usually terrified of darkness and height. My team cheered and encouraged me to go through the
said that the vision of America rests upon freedom of expression, the right to property, and self-determination. These ideas are explored in one European’s examination of American agricultural society in the late 18th century. Letters from an American Farmer by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur illustrates the gilded nature of the early vision of America; one that appears to be simplistic and based in freedom, but lies on a foundation of oppression and greed. Crèvecœur was a native of France, who - at…
movie focused on John, an African American slave who was being sold. John was advertised as the best, but his flaw was that he always got into trouble. Even though he was insulted, beaten, bruised and sold for $50 without his clothes on, he stood on his two feet, strong like a soldier in the field. Little did his new master know the John knew something that would soon change the world as it was. One night in the hut after a hard day of work, John asked for a trade of “tobacco for letters.” That is when…
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John Marsden is a popular author for teenagers. He has written many books, including novels and picture books, and has won a number of awards for his work. His novels range widely in topic and subject matter, from war to school life. However, a number of similarities can be noticed in many of John Marsden’s books, which help to make his novels different from other authors. The first of these similarities is the recurrent theme of being confined. In many of his novels, especially ones for…
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nation’s heroes for saving the slaved people. On 1818 letter from “Judex” warns that teaching slaves to read and write was illegal, also Slaves John W. Jones and his half-brother escape to New York, and on 1866 Black trustees for “the Colored people of Waterford and vicinity. Slave John W. Jones and his half-brother, George Jones, assisted some 800 slaves to escape Canada; this was a very dangerous and risky mission to accomplish. First of all, a letter from “Judex”, a court arbitrator, in Leesburg’s…
Romeo and Juliet, but I think it should to blamed Friar Laurence.He makes three mistakes that lead to Juliet's death or the tragedy happen. He help juliet and romeo secret marry.He gave a poison to Juliet. He trusted someone else with the important letter to deliver to Romeo. If he didn’t made these three major terrible mistakes, Juliet might not have killed herself, that Romeo and Juliet might not be died. Friar Laurence’s help in the marriage of Romeo and Juliet has caused a tragedy. Romeo and Juliet…
The development of John Proctor Per 6 The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller, centers around the time of the witch trials in Salem. The story centers on John Proctor, whose wife, Elizabeth Proctor, gets accused of witchcraft because of the adultery he had committed with his former worker, Abigail Williams. Abigail gets fired and kicked out of Proctor’s house by Elizabeth when their affair is revealed. When Abigail is praised as one that can see devils, she claims that Elizabeth had sent…
