Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto and the twin brother to Artemis. He is the god of music‚ poetry‚ the sun‚ healing‚ manly beauty‚ art‚ and prophecy. His symbols are the lyre‚ the tripod‚ the laurel tree‚ and the navel stone. Both him and his sister are associated with archery. Apollo was said to be very handsome and according to the myths he had many lovers. Apollo once insulted the god Eros‚ more popularly known as cupid‚ who got his revenge by shooting Apollo with an arrow that made him fall
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The movie Apollo 13 stared‚ Tom Hanks (Jim Lovell) Bill Paxton (Fred Haise)‚ Gary Sinise (Ken Mattingly) and Kevin Bacon (Jack Sivigert) . The movie was directed by Ron Howard and is based on the book “Lost Moon” by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. This was America third trip to the moon and Apollo 13 mission was to land in the Fra Mauro area of the moon. Two day before launch Mattingly was scrubbed from the mission after being exposed to measles. He was replaced by Jack Swigert (kevin Bacon)
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Apollo: God Of Music‚ & The Sun. Apollo was the son of the God Zeus & Zeus’s lover Leto. Also born a twin with his sister Artemis only nine days after his birth Apollo came along. He grew a fine young man & became the God of Music & the sun in the coming years to follow. Apollo the son of Zeus & Leto was born into the world with a older twin that was nine days older than him born on the island Delos. His family grew to give him a nickname “Phoebus“ meaning “bright” or “pure”. This name connected
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Jose Professor Pappas AAS 254 16 April 2008 “Our Theater: The Hey Dey of the Apollo Theatre” Apollo was the Greek God of music‚ Poetry and the arts. His temple was at Delphi and was known to be a place of purification. There is a temple of a different that bears the name of the Greek god and its at 253 West 125th Street Harlem in New York City. The Apollo Theater would become as famous as the temple at Delphi. The Apollo Theaters home was in Harlem. Harlem is known worldwide as a major African-American
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Apollo and Green Arrow/ Oliver Queen When I first learned about the Greek god Apollo in my Classical Mythology class‚ he reminded me of Oliver Queen. Oliver Queen is a character from one of my favorite television show called “Smallville”. He inherited a big industrial empire from his parents when they passed away. He was a playboy who did not care to give back to the society and only did what pleases him. One day‚ when Oliver was out on his boat‚ he was pushed overboard into the sea by an employee
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On December 21st‚ 1968 Apollo 8 launched off of the surface of the Earth. It was the second mission in the United States Apollo space program involving human spaceflight. Three brave men departed the planet on the spacecraft‚ Lunar Module Pilot William Anders‚ Command Module Pilot James Lovell‚ and Commander Frank Borman. These brave astronauts made history in several ways; they became the first human beings to be launched out of low Earth orbit‚ they were the first humans too see the entire Earth
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Apollo Group Inc. was launched in 1976. John Sperling came up with the idea that rather than catering to 18-22 year olds he focused on the neglected market of working adults and he recruited working professionals as teachers rather than tenured professors. The University of Phoenix Online has more than 18‚000 faculties‚ only about 450 are full time. Sperling ran his University to make money‚ despite the critiques from the education establishment. Sperling faced failure everyday for the first 10 years
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Apollo 13 Formations of group dynamics are important to achieving a set of goals set forth by a group of individuals. Groups tend to follow a natural course of cohesion and function. Research has been done to understand group dynamics and one of the most widely accepted models is that of Bruce Tuckman. His research shows groups follow a set path of Forming‚ Storming‚ Norming and Performing. Apollo 13 gives several examples of Tuckman’s model. In the following‚ we will touch briefly on the
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Apollo 13: Flight vs. Hollywood On April 11‚ 1970‚ 1:13 p.m‚ Apollo 13 was launched at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Fred W. Haise‚ Jr. who would be the Lunar Module Pilot‚ James A. Lovell‚ Jr. who would be the Commander‚ and John L. Swigert‚ Jr. who would be the Command Module Pilot‚ and would replace Ken Mattingly‚ would be the crew for this operation. This would be the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo Space Program‚ and the third intended to land on the moon. When mission control
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Apollo 13 “Houston We ’ve Got A Problem” 12/1/11 Apollo 13 was supposed to be the third mission by NASA to land a space shuttle onto the moon. The crew aboard the ship consisted of James A. Lovell‚ Jr.‚ John L. Swigert‚ Jr.‚ and Fred W. Haise‚ Jr. (KSC). The launch date for Apollo 13 was set for April 11‚ 1970 at 13:13 Houston time (James A. Lovell). The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum summarizes the events of the Apollo 13 incident as “An explosion in one of the oxygen tanks crippled
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