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    Drill Team Captain Becoming Drill Team Captain was such a great experience. I feel as if becoming captain helped me with my leadership skills. Whenever my coach isn’t at school‚ or she’s busy‚ I have to be the one to make sure my team is on task with whatever we are doing. I lead warm ups‚ go over routines‚ etc. What made being captain so special to me was that I was able to help out my teammates. I helped them not only physically ‚ as in perfecting the routines‚ but I also helped them

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    Captain Philips is a movie featuring the ever rising piracy activities in the great seas of the Indian Ocean off the Coast of Somalia a country in the horn of Africa. Tom Hanks‚ Paul Greengrass and Billy Ray teamed to tell the true story of Richard Philips a US cargo ship captain who surrendered himself to the Somalia pirates so that his crew would be safe. The movie shows how Lots of men and women risk their lives to make and deliver goods that some people take for granted. A world away‚ some other

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    Although it may not be apperent at first glance‚ the popular Marvel movie Captain America : The First Avenger and the ancient Babylonian myth The Epic of Gilgamesh are similar in many ways. Captain America is the tale of a meek man named Steven Rogers who wanted to join the army to help serve in World War II. When he discovers he is not eligilbe for health reasons‚ he is chosen to partake in an experiment that enhanced his physical and mental strengths‚ which he uses on his journey through combat

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    Kirk’s decision vehemently and when Kirk is still insistent on direction to load he nuclear warheads on the Enterprise‚ Scotty aggressively but half-heartedly offers up his resignation. In a surprising instant‚ Captain Kirk accepts his resignation which shocks Scotty. Though the Captain values Scotty’s opinion and expertise‚ he needed to move the mission forward and that was one of the conditions for it to do so. The back and forth between them is curbed instantly with Kirks acceptance of Scotty’s

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    The first ever documented arrival of an explorer to Hawaii from Europe was in 1778 by Captain James Cook. He was a British explorer who‚ throughout his many voyages‚ explored the Southern part of the globe‚ along with New Zealand‚ parts of Australia‚ and some Pacific Islands. The captain sailed to many places including Tahiti and parts of North America. On January 18‚ 1778‚ Cook sighted O’ahu as well as Kauai. The Hawaiians treated Cook and his crew well and made trades‚ forming bigger bonds and

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    Jameisha Tucker Divine Purpose Dance Team 08.01.11. Co-Captain Admissions Essay The term captain is synonymous with the term leader. By definition‚ a leader is someone who is in an advanced position to take the initiative in order to go forth and show the way. A dance captain should be able to make intelligent and creative decisions quickly and efficiently. Being a dance team captain for the Mighty Marching Lions has so much more to do with choreography and precision. Because we are

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    The deposition describes the nature of the “plague among our blacks”—physical diseases‚ madness‚ and thirst arising from “sweltering” conditions—and a shipwreck. The lasciviousness and immorality of the “Crew and Captain” are indirectly introduced as a “curse” upon the captured Africans: “the negroes howling and their chains entangled with the flames‚” The horrible conditions of the Middle Passage are hard to overstate. Captive Africans were packed together in cargo

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    transactional motives by presenting awards are punishments‚ transformational focus on inspiration and change‚ participating more hands and subordinates are involved in planning‚ and delegating in which subordinates are accountable for their own action. Captain Herbert Sobel leadership style can be put in the transactional category. Colonel Bauer loves to quote the saying “An officer on duty has no friends.” I always assumed I knew what he meant but I got the full

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    presume that they could have done something greater or undo their misprints if they were given a second chance. Naïve or not‚ those who often regret are under an illusion that they have the power to conjure up another option as the deliberation happens. Baron Paul further explains the concept of deliberation in his essay “A Defense of Determinism”. To deliberate is to oscillate between two motives‚ until one of two causes has overpowered the other; to determine its will; he is not free for a single instant

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    Roger Chillingworth is a physician in The Scarlet Letter‚ by NathanielHawthorne. Captain Ahab is the experienced captain of a ship called The Pequod inMoby Dick‚ by Herman Melville. Although there are some differences between them‚Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab have evident similarities in the way evilmanifests itself in each of them.First of all‚ Chillingworth and Captain Ahab both want revenge on someone orsomething that has wronged them. Chillingworth’s wife‚ Hester Prynne‚ committedadultery

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