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    What is your proudest accomplishment? (Word limit: 150) My brother was very ill as a child and spent a great deal of time at the hospital with other sick children. After seeing the immediate need for blood donations‚ I decided to coordinate a blood drive in my community during a critical need period. I organized‚ recruited for‚ and oversaw two separate blood drives in my first year alone. And at each blood drive‚ I far exceeded the expectations set by my Red Cross liaison. I recruited 32 new blood

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    Elizabeth Pena English 2302 Dr. Charlie Scott 02 November 2012 Essay 1: Definition of a True‚ Authentic Hero In my eyes‚ a true‚ authentic hero is someone with firm courage‚ nobility‚ faith‚ valor‚ hope‚ motivation‚ and bravery. It is someone who devotes time to help others and can truly be admired‚ one who fights or does things for a good cause. Being a hero means to be the one who steps forward and strives to do what is right‚ rather than what he/she finds pleasant‚ convenient‚ or just simply

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    People often look back on the Roaring Twenties as a time of unbroken prosperity and optimism. The 1920s were remembered as a decade for easy money and high standards of living‚ short skirts and raccoon coats‚ jazz music and the Charleston‚ American gangsters and Canadian rum-runners‚ fast cars and bathtub gin. In the last years of the 1920s‚ most Canadians were unprepared for the abrupt end to the boom and the optimism that they had enjoyed throughout 1920s. However‚ the economic prosperity had come

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    SOCIOLOGY AND SPORT Sociology is concerned with the social and cultural context in which behavior occurs and the connection between that behavior and the setting‚ and sports sociology specifically focuses on the relationship between sports and society. It gives us a closer look at human social behavior within the sports context. It is within sports sociology that the issues surrounding the relationships between individuals‚ groups‚ and sports are considered‚ explored‚ analyzed‚ and explained. In

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    in order to bring her back to him. Gatsby is also highly optimistic about achieving his goal‚ and thinks that he “is going to fix everything just the way it was before.” Gatsby does not want to lose sight of his dream through petty pessimism. Gatsby also has unending loyalty to his goal of pursuing Daisy. When Daisy strikes and hits Myrtle with Gatsby’s car‚ Gatsby takes the blame for it. He believes that lying for her will help him in his quest to get Daisy to love him. Gatsby

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    Bre Brittain 2/3/2013 English 2332 In Joanthans Swifts’ Gulliver’s Travels Part IV he uses a certain character to be his perfect example for what the human race should be. With this character he then will compare to the lowest of all beings to illustrate all the faults of man. These characters in his story are called the Houyhnhnms‚ which have a uniquely similar pronunciation to the word humans‚ and the Yahoos‚ who are the evil beasts of this particular island that Gulliver has washed up

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    While analyzing the demand for holding money‚ it is found that there are different motives behind such demands. It shows as to why the community demands the money balances and how the amount of money balances for different motives is determined. Many economists; however‚ argue that such a classification for money is unnecessary and useless. It is argued that the demand for money should be considered as a complete whole instead of dividing the demand for money artificially into three parts. People

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    admire this particular phenomenon of Smith that he continues to deal with ever since his first volume of the fiction began in 1998 till the recent fourteenth volume in the series. An overview on the state of the sub Saharan Africa exemplifies how the optimism has been effective in the African nations. Needless to repeat that it is a cauldron of distress‚ an economic survey report caters a more positive picture of the SSA along with the First and Third World nations. Life in Africa is extremely pathetic

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    Yet‚ this would not account for the pessimism that could be created inside of the original position even when there is no prior knowledge of the concept. It is an innate feeling – parties may not realise that they are leaning towards conservative principles. Some critics believe that Rawls’

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    Compare/Contrast: Modest Mouse Modest Mouse is an indie-style alternative rock band that had its origin in the 90’s‚ and has since been making music with big labeling companies. Most of their music has been hailed by fanatics and critics as sincere and thoughtful art that portrays the pessimistic nihilism seen in most of today’s society. The vocalist/lead guitarist for Modest Mouse‚ Isaac Brock‚ usually prefers to uphold his lyrics on the darker‚ rebellious side of the creative spectrum. There are

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