Reason why.Dr Sammy D.James

The Body of an eagle is made for flying and for catching prey. To do these things, the body must be light in weight and very strong. It must be light enough to get off the ground and fly high in the air, but strong enough to swoop down on prey and carry it away. To make their bodies lighter in weight, eagles have hollow bones. In some places, there are braces inside the bones to make them stronger (as shown above). But many parts of the bones have nothing inside them them but air. As incredible as it may seem, the entire skeleton of a Bald eagle weighs only a little more than half a pound (272 grams).
When an eagle flaps its wings, most of the power for flying comes from the downward stroke of the wings. For this reason, the muscles that pull the wings down are much larger than the muscles that pull the wings up. The flight muscles are so Important to an eagle that they often account for half of the bird's total weight.An eagle can fly faster or slower by changing the position of its wings. When It wants to fly fast, it turns the front edges of the wings into the wind and "cuts through" the air. When the eagle wants to slow itself down, it turns the wide surface of the wings into the wind, and the wings "drag" through the air. There is no room for a sloppy landing on top of a tall tree or on a cliff, so eagles have to be good at landing. To slow themselves for a landing, they spread their wings and tall down, and "drag" them through the air to act like brakes.It is really amazing to see the many ways in which an eagle's body combines low weight with high strength. There doesn't seem to be an extra ounce of weight anywhere. For example, the feathers on a large eagle can be very sturdy but each feather weighs next to nothing. A Bald eagle has more than 7 thousand feathers, but all of them put together weighs less than 21 ounces (586 grams). If you took 30 of these feathers in your hand, they would weigh less than a penny. The wings of eagles are powerful and eagles often use them with great skill. Eagles know how to climb high into the air without working too hard. They can swoop down on prey at incredible speeds. And once they have caught it, they can lift very heavy prey into the air. (Some eagles can even fly away with prey that weighs more than they do). When an eagle first leaves the ground, it gains altitude by flapping its wings. The flapping motion causes air to flow faster over the top of the wings, and the bird rises.Sometimes, an eagle is able to take advantage of natural currents of air to help it rise. When wind runs into a hill or a mountain, it is forced upward - and the eagle can go along for the ride. This kind of air current is called a slope updraft.The wings of an eagle are a miricle in lightweight design. A female Bald eagle can have wings that are almost 8 feet long (243 centimeters) - and yet, the wings weigh less than 2 pounds (900 grams). This is possible because the feathers are light and because they overlap, with lots of air spaces between them (as shown). Pound for pound, an eagle wing is stronger than a wing of an airplane. Most eagles have wings that are rather long and wide, to help them soar and glide with less effort. At low speeds, broad wings can hold a bird up in the air longer than narrow wings. And broad wings provide extra lift when an eagle has to carry its prey up into the air. To rise really high into the air, eagles often hitch a ride on rising bubbles of hot air called "thermals." Once an eagle gets into a thermal, it can just spread its wings and float upward with very little effort. Eagles are wonderful flyers, and they often seem to do their most spectacular tricks just for the fun of it. Some eagles can swoop through the air at incredible speeds as they dive. They may go as fast as 200 miles per hour (325 kiolometers). Other eagles turn over and over and over and sometimes lock their claws together and spiral down for thousands of feet.Scientists divide the feathers of an eagles wing into groups. Each group has a different role to play in helping an eagle to fly.Eagle feathers can be incredibly strong. This is because each feather is held together by more than 350 thousand hooks. the picture here shows what a feather looks like when you look at it under a microscope. The part with hooks are called hook barbules (BARB-yulz), and the parts that they are hooked to are called bow barbules. Every part of the feather is made up of keratin, the same thing that your fingernails are made of.
Feathers are very important in the lives of all birds. They provide an outer covering for the bodies of the birds that helps keep them warm and waterproof, they assist in flight and make birds look beautiful in order to attract a mate to raise their young. Different kinds of feathers cover different parts of a bird. Flight feathers cover the wings and tail. They are long and wide, so they can cover a large area without adding much to the weight of the bird. Contour feathers cover the body. These are often the most colourful feathers. Down feathers grow under the contour feathers. When you look at a feather under a microscope, you can see that it is made of thousands of spines. These spines are called barbules. Normally, they are hooked together, and this makes the surface of the feather seem smooth. When a feather gets a lot of hard ware, the barbules may come apart. When this happens, the feathers start to look ragged and messy. The eagle has large eyes. A young bald eagle is spotted brown and white. Its white head and tail is created when it is four to six years old. A young eagle has a mix of brown and white colors. A young eagle's bill is black and a mature eagle's feathers develop at four or five years of age. The eagle is not bald but is named the bald eagle because of the snow-white color on its head. The female can range from thirty-five to thirty-seven inches in height and a wingspan of seventy-nine to ninety inches. The male could be thirty to thirty-four inches in height with a seventy-two to eighty-five inch wingspan. The female is a little larger than the male. The male bald eagle weighs seven to ten pounds and the female weighs about fourteen pounds. The bald eagle's body is very intricate.The bird's wings are long and broad which makes them effective for flying. The eagle has approximately seven thousand feathers. The feathers are lightweight and hollow yet very strong and very flexible. The feathers trap layers of air, which protects the bird from the cold as well as the heat from the Sun. The bald eagle changes the position of the feathers to keep a good and normal body temperature, which is one hundred and two degrees Fahrenheit. When the American bald eagle suns on a cold morning, it ruffles and rotates its plumes. The plumes are either opened to the air or drawn together to minimize the insulating effect. The feathers provide waterproofing and protection, but are most important for flying. The feather structure helps the eagle easily stay in the air. When plumes overlap, they can make a dense covering in which the bird can freely open or close. There are many feather layers, each layer serving a different yet important part for the American bald eagle. There are two main layers of feathers, outer and inner layers. There are smaller feathers that are under the outer layer of feathers. The feathers allow the eagles to live in extremely

Take me, train me, be firm with me .

1. Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life – In a society where people blame everything from their parents to the government for failure, those who don’t buy into this mentality or succumb to the “victim” thinking succeed. To blame something or somebody outside yourself is saying they have control of your life and not you. Someone else’s opinion of you doesn’t have to become your reality.

2. Live Your Life On Purpose - What separates motivational thinkers from the unsuccessful is that they believe they’re doing what they were put her to do. The difference between this and just living, is that the latter is just getting through the week with the least problems. But when you live your life on purpose, your main concern is doing the job right. For the entrepreneur this means finding a cause you believe in and building your business around it.

3. Be Willing to Pay the Price - Be willing to pay the price for your dreams. Wanting a big house, a luxury car, and a million dollars in the bank is all very nice, and everyone wants these things – but are you willing to pay the price to get them? This is one of the major differences between the successful and unsuccessful.
I am your constant companion,
I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am at your command.

Half of the tasks that you do you might just as well
Turn over to me and I will do them quickly and correctly.

I am easily managed; you must merely be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done.
After a few lessons, I will do it automatically.

I am the servant of all great people
And the regret of all failures as well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.

I am not a machine but I will work with all its precision
Plus the intelligence of a person.

Now you may run me for profit or you may run me for ruin.
It makes no difference to me.

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Be easy with me and I will destroy you.
I am called Habit.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.Inspiring people the world over to a new level of thinking about who they are, what they've got, and how to more effectively and successfully present themselves to the world.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, It is the only thing that ever has.People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.

About Friendship.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I do not believe I deserved my friends.A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dr,Sammy D.James

About Enthusiasm .
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.Flaming enthusiasm backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.In the end, the size of a person's accomplishment can best be measured by the size of their heart.

about Hope & Dreams .
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, It is the only thing that ever has.Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.Never let yesterday's disappointments overshadow tomorrow's dreams.To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway.A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.It may be those who do most, dream most.

About Sports & Competition.
A champion is one who gets up when he can't.It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities.Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.Most games are lost, not won.Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.Thanks to everyone of you, God bless you all.Dr Sammy D.James