April 2015‚ Bruce Jenner had a sit down interview with Diane Sawyer‚ coming out as a transgender woman. A few months later Bruce was no longer‚ and was introduced as Caitlyn Jenner to the world. Jenner is an enormous symbol to the public‚ most importantly‚ to the transgender community. Jenner won the Arthur Ashe Courage Award‚ giving various transgender individuals the courage to keep moving forward as well. “The most important thing in life is that you are true to yourself‚” Jenner said. Another example
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Lester B. Pearson Born 23 of April 1897 died 27 of December 1972. Lester B Pearson was one of the greatest Canadians ever. During his life‚ he was a professor‚ historian‚ civil servant‚ and a politician‚ he was also very talented at sports‚ and making friends. He was born to Annie Sarah‚ and Edwin Arthur Pearson‚ who was a church minister. At the age of 16 he graduated from Hamilton Collegiate Institute‚ and in the same year studied at Victoria College‚ at the University of Toronto
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There is no doubt that hurricane Harvey was one of the worst natural disasters ever‚ and it happened in my own backyard. I have been through Rita in 2005 and Ike in 2008 and nothing happened to our family‚ so I really did not see hurricanes as anything to worry about. I was very wrong. The Houston Flood Control District had a conference on the news saying that water was going to be released from Addicks reservoir‚ which I lived right next to. They told us that there will not be flooding in our neighborhoods
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Forests are precious national resource whim not only play significant role in national condor but help in pollution control and maintaining logical balance. These offer a number of direct indirect advantages which have been realised sin time immemorial. Direct Advantages 1. Forests provide valuable timber for dome tic and commercial use. Industries like paper‚ matt making‚ plywood‚ sports goods‚ lakh and furniture at directly based on raw materials derived from forest 2. Forests supply a
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A forest is an area with a high density of trees. There are many definitions of a forest‚ based on various criteria. These plant communities cover approximately 9.4 per cent of the Earth’s surface (or 30 per cent of total land area) and function as habitats for organisms‚ hydrologic flow modulators‚ and soil conservers‚ constituting one of the most important aspects of the Earth’s biosphere. The emerging trends of deforestation‚ desertification and soil erosion are closely linked with societal
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that is shorter rather than a longer text. Furthermore‚ it is possible that they might think that a shorter text will get straight to the point and require absolutely no analysis because of the text’s brevity. However‚ anyone who has ever read H.D.’s poem‚ “Oread”‚ will understand that this is not the case. The poem is only twenty-six words‚ which means that it might take a person about ten seconds to read it. Nevertheless‚ analyzing it is a completely different story. The reason for this is because
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office every morning. Janice in accounting is usually right behind me. I have at least 15 minutes before she walks in‚ so I get a cup of coffee and brace myself for her bright and shining presence. Janice is a classic morning person. I could be silent for days if
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Harvey Milk’s dream was a better tomorrow filled with the hope for equality and a world without hate. Harvey Milk’s ground breaking election in 1977 as one of the world’s first openly gay elected officials-and its most visible one- symbolized the freedom to live life with authenticity to millions of LGBT women and men around the world. Harvey served less than a year in public office before his brutal assassination but his life profoundly changed a city‚ state‚ nation and a global community. His
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Being true to yourself in an important virtue to carry on throughout one’s life and should be focused on vigilantly. In S. E. Hinton’s novel‚ The Outsiders‚ it features a young Greaser dubbed Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy‚ the protagonist in The Outsiders‚ has matured since the ending of the novel‚ and is now ready to graduate from high school and enter into the real world. Although‚ he must make the decision of whether he would prefer to remain as a greaser‚ and stay in his comfort zone‚ or change to
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Forests A forest is an area filled with trees which provides homes for many different living things. The forests found in Trinidad and Tobago are called Tropical Seasonal Forests because they are found near the Earth’s equator and have both wet and dry seasons. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A forest is made up of different layers. The Emergent Layer is very sunny because it is at the very top and only the
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