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    September 11th 2001‚ a day that began as any other Tuesday‚ soon became a day no one would ever forget. As a freshman in high school‚ that day was just an ordinary weekday for me and my peers. As I would for any other school day‚ I woke up‚ took a quick shower‚ brushed my teeth and walked to the bus stop with my sister. My sister and I sat at the corner playing cards until the bus came‚ like we would every morning. The bus came and we sat in our usual seats. When I arrived to school I said goodbye

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    The significance of the Albatross in "The Ancient Mariner" has been left open to examination by the reader. The symbolism of the Albatross in Coleridge’s poem is rather debatable. By looking at different interpretations‚ I will investigate whether Coleridge’s Albatross is significant or not. The ancient mariner represents Coleridge himself and the albatross represents the fight with himself to overcome his personal guilt. The mariner’s sufferings are an expression of Coleridge’s strong addiction

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    Lost at Sea Exercise

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    Lost at Sea Exercise – Leadership & Team Building Lost at Sea Scenario Your team has chartered a yacht. None of you have any sailing experience. You hired a skipper & two-person crew. As you sail through the Southern Pacific Ocean‚ a fire breaks out & much of the yacht & its contents are destroyed. The yacht is sinking. Your location is unclear because navigational & radio equipment have been damaged. The skipper & crew have been lost to the fire. Your best guess is that you are approximately 1

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    Never Say No to Panda

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    Reed Millek Anna Hoffman First Year Writing Sec. 9 6 February 2013 Never Say No to Panda A series of television commercials to sell Panda Cheese were released in 2010. They were produced in Egypt by Arab Dairy‚ the manufacturers of Panda Cheese. The premise in each commercial is alike‚ someone offers someone else Panda Cheese‚ they decline‚ and a Panda shows up to terrorize their surroundings. In my favorite‚ there is a dad and his son going grocery shopping. The son spots the Panda Cheese

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    Never Marry a Mexican

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    Professor Denton English 1A 14 October 2012 Never Marry a Mexican Clemencia said‚ “So‚ no. I’ve never married and never will. Not because I couldn’t‚ but because I’m too romantic for marriage. Marriage has failed me‚ you could say. Not a man exists who hasn’t disappointed me‚ whom I could trust to love the way I’ve loved. It’s because I believe too much in marriage that I don’t. Better to not marry than to live a lie” (69). In the short story “Never Marry a Mexican” by Sandra Cisneros‚ a young

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    Never Give Up

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    Never give up” When someone says you cannot do something‚ it’s only a better opportunity to prove them wrong. Tearing my ACL was one of the worst days of my life. It was my senior year in high school‚ my last year to prove a point. I was hoping I would be recognized‚ I wanted to show that it was my turn to make something out of myself. I went up for the ball and “WHOMP!” My leg flew forward. I fell to the floor more shocked then in pain. I didn’t know what to do. I called my mom and she rushed

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    Never Give Up

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    not failed. I’ve just found 10‚000 ways that don’t work.” -Thomas Edison If we allow ourselves to become discouraged during the process we may give up right before we reach our goal. How sad it would be to go through the learning curve and then never experience the benefits of our new

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    Never Die Networks

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    Never Die Network Based on Cognitive Wireless Network and Satellite System for Large Scale Disaster Noriki Uchiday‚ Kazuo Takahata Dept. of Informational Social Studies Saitama Institute of Technology 1690 Fusaiji‚ Fukaya‚ Saitama 369-2093‚ Japan fuchida‚ takahatag@sit.ac.jp Yoshitaka Shibata Faculty of Software and Information Science Iwate Prefectural University 152-52 Sugo‚ Takizawa‚ Iwate 020-0193‚ Japan shibata@iwate-pu.ac.jp Norio Shiratori Research Institute of Electrical Communication

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    Salt To The Sea Analysis

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    Although many people go through extreme hardship during war‚ they can find things to love that gives them the endurance to pull through. The novel Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys‚ details the story of a group of refugees that are desperately trying to escape the encroaching Russian army who are brutally pillaging‚ raping‚ and massacring everything in their path‚ by getting to the ship the Wilhelm Gustloff. The Wilhelm Gustloff is attacked by a Russian submarine and sinks and only four out of the

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    Joseph Chin ENG 1A Matthew Duckworth 28 February 2017 The Human Cost of Shipbreaking In The Outlaw Sea‚ author William Langewiesche states‚ “Even the lowliest laborers are proud of what they do at Alang. There is no ship too big to be torn apart this way. More important‚ the economic effects are substantial. Alang and the industries that have sprung from it provide a livelihood‚ however meager‚ for perhaps as many as a million Indians” (205). In Chapter 6‚ Langewiesche examines the lives of the

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