become‚ a nurse. I have worked for as long as I can remember to make that dream of mine come true. I work hard in school and I take up every opportunity imaginable to get experience in the medical field. St. Ambrose offers a wonderful nursing program that I would be greatful to attend. St. Ambrose has everything I have been looking for in a college and I feel I also have several qualities that qualify me to attend the school. I have worked extremely hard all of my high school career. I have taken several
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Eastern Front against the Russians to the Western Front. Ambrose highlighted some rather well analyzed and calculated possibilities that could have been a product of a failure on D-Day. Ambrose’s given points are logically reasonable and could have been a true history if all the key factors that fell perfectly together to create the successful attack were to have been slightly off‚ causing the attack to fail. At the beginning of the article‚ Ambrose wrote about the weather and how much it affected the
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St. Ambrose was the inventor of Christian Latin hymnody. St. Ambrose‚ Bishop of Milan‚ composed many beautiful hymns for the church‚ for example “Aeterne Rerum Conditor” (Maker of all‚ eternal King). When listening to “Aeterne Rerum Conditor” the chants sound intertwined with one another. I was able to hear the different voices but they can also sound like the same person. The hymns were sung by all men‚ and in the hymns you can hear all the dominate voices. The tone and pitch of the hymns sounds
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family. Which possibly shows that anything can be raw material to the open mind‚ for it was on those trips that he developed a great fascination with the Lewis and Clark expedition that explored the West when the country was twenty-five years old. Ambrose creates a precise and true story of the expedition in witch most readers would be enthralled. His style is smooth‚ readable and enjoyable‚ unlike many historical nonfiction of the day. Undaunted courage has succeeded and conveying the meaning of
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Est. 1952 Ambrose Weeres was born and raised in Minnesota‚ the land of 10‚000 lakes‚ and grew to become a farmer who wanted a more sturdy boat. With some experimenting‚ the pontoon was born‚ calling the first prototype The Empress. Ambrose made more and generously sold them throughout the area‚ but the small shop Ambrose worked in was not spacious enough for the large number of orders coming in‚ so he opened the Weeres Pontoon Boat Company in 1952. Although the beginning was hard‚ Ambrose went on to
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Merriam-Webster defines literacy as the ability to read and write. The term may also refer to familiarity with literature and to a basic level of education obtained through the written word(Merriam-Webster‚ 2012). Most people have absolutely no idea what it means to be literate; what tribulations had to be endured in order for reading and writing to be extended to common individuals. Literacy was hoarded by priests‚ monks‚ and scholars during the Dark ages. It wasn’t until the invention of the Gutenberg
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Satire and Criticism in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita It took Vladimir Nabokov nearly five years to finish perhaps one his most famous masterpieces‚ Lolita. Because of Lolita’s subject matter‚ many readers during Nabokov’s native mid 20th Century were appalled and disturbed. How could someone write a novel about pedophilia‚ murder‚ and the sexual abuse and rape of a child? However‚ amongst the many offended (and particularly ignorant) readers‚ there emerged an understanding of Nabokov’s true intent
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responses 1. This story is about a man‚ Peyton Farquhar‚ who broke the Union law and is now getting hung off of Owl Creek Bridge. In part one‚ the story is going through what Farquhar is thinking while he is awaiting his inevitable death. In part two‚ Bierce gives you background information on Farquhar and what he did to deserve his death. Part three is about Farquhar finally escaping his demise by freeing his hands and neck and hiking the thirty miles back home. It turns out in the end that Farquhar
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Jefferson’s godmother wants him to become a man before he dies. She persuades two men‚ Grant Wiggins and Reverend Ambrose‚ to visit with Jefferson and teach him what it means to be a man. While both men desire the same outcome‚ they disagree about what it means to be an educated man. Grant believes that his college degree gives him all the knowledge he needs. However‚ Reverend Ambrose
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In this essay‚ Ambrose reveals his purpose in many different ways. He uses language‚ events‚ and different people to inform and describe Thomas Jefferson’s contribution to history. “Thomas Jefferson’s 1801” is all about how Thomas Jefferson did many things. Like wanting to expand the U.S. to the pPacific oOcean and wanted waterways to connect. Ambrose gives us many examples of people that were an influence on Thomas Jefferson and tells us of different things that happened during Jefferson’s time
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