Bethany Hamilton: Shark Attack One of the best women surfers is Bethany Hamilton. She has won a National Scholastic Surfing Association National Championship (Sandler 29). She came in second at the national championship in 2003 at San Clemente‚ California against girls almost twice her age before the shark attack (Sandler 12). Some people need amputations because of all different types of reasons. Amputations are normally done on a person who is diabetic. In some other cases it could be because
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In reading Sick Societies I learned that many different cultures have different ways of attempting to make themselves look better by inflicting pain on themselves. In this reading created by Robert B. Edgerton he spoke about how the Chinese men would have their wife’s feet binded because as the text says: “ the tottering style of walking it produced and created more beautiful buttocks and tightened the vagina” (115). In adding this Edgerton is giving the reader an understanding to why the Chinese
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Their names of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Both of these two men were brilliant and had strong feelings about their beliefs of how to manage our country. Both Jefferson and Hamilton had me hooked very strongly and Jefferson did get me on his side for a little‚ but overall Hamilton is the one I believe had better viewpoints as to how to run our government. Some of Hamilton’s main points were believing in the central government‚ a balanced economy‚ and he wanted to raise voting qualifications
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Alexander the Great is often thought of as the greatest military commander that the world has ever seen. He was born in July of 356 B.C to King Philip II of Macedonia and Olympias. Since his youth‚ Alexander was tutored and trained by great philosophers such as Aristotle and Leonidas. His legacy of greatness started with the taming of the wild horse‚ Bucephalus. Alexander of Macedonia is worthy of the title‚ Great‚ due to his strategic military operations‚ his expansion of the Greek Empire‚ and the
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Robert Gordon Menzies was Australia’s longest serving Prime Minister. He held the office twice‚ from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966. Altogether he was Prime Minister for over 18 years – still the record term for an Australian Prime Minister. Robert Menzies was born in Victoria in 1894. He went to primary school in Ballarat‚ then to a high school at Wesley College in Melbourne. He graduated in law from the University of Melbourne in 1916 and became a barrister in 1918. He débuted in court
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Philosopher Robert Louden presented a criticism of virtue ethics. Rather than arguing that virtue ethics as a moral theory is wrong‚ Louden argues that the agent-centeredness of values ethics fails to provide adequate guidance for the action of the agent‚ thereby making the theory useless and disregardable. Louden’s first criticism is that virtue ethics does not allow for actions to be viewed separately from the agent (Louden‚ 228). This focus on virtues and not actions result poses a problem when
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Alexander‚ the young king of Macedonia‚ was the greatest military commander ever to lead an army into battle and is deserving of the title‚ Alexander the Great. Here are a few reasons why. Prior to inheriting the throne‚ Alexander was tutored by the philosopher Aristotle. Alexander The Great was a very intelligent person because in the Background Essay‚ it claims that he fought his way to the top and conquered the Persian Empire. In Document B‚ the text states that Alexander placed his army in a
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Bethany Hamilton - 20th Century’s Most Effective Citizen " Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you." -Bethany Hamilton. Bethany was born into a family of surfers on February 8‚ 1990 in Kauai‚ Hawaii. Bethany began surfing at a young age and entered her first competition at the age of eight. She is inspiring to many people because of her tragic story and how she got back up and did it again. Bethany was surfing in Kauai‚ Hawaii on October
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The Federalists and Antifederalists Debates during the 1780s and 1790s The American Government has come along way since the American Revolution. The Revolutionary War spawned from America’s determination to break free from the British Empire and its monarchy and develop a more democratic form of government. During the revolution‚ America was looking for a more decentralized form of power and ratified The Articles of Confederation‚ which divided the majority of the power between the states.
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Robert Peel’s twelve standards of policing starts with the standard of police being “stable‚ efficient‚ and organized along military lines” (Bohm & Haley‚ 2011‚ p. 141). This basically means that policing in general needs to be structured‚ much like the military. The second standard states that the government must control the police force‚ which in America means that they are not independently ran by a company‚ but by the government of that jurisdiction. Next he states that the police will be judged
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