ground with all my might. I plop one foot to the ground and hop off my Mongoose bike. I am in the transition from biking to swimming in the Conejo Valley Reverse Triathlon. I am currently in first place because I’m pretty sure I overlapped everyone in my 4 laps of biking. I need to transition from biking to swimming fast so I don’t lose my lead. But first‚ I need my goggles. I look down the road from the easy obstacles and see another biker come down the road. I scan the area and spot my dad. I wave
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slowed and stopped by chunky rubber at the other end of the shooting range. Stewart describes it as “shooting into a bed of rice.” This brand new facility also has a very complex air system. It has an air defuser that filters air coming in‚ pushes it through the range‚ pulls spent gases away‚ and filters it again before releasing it outside. It has more than 500 firearms available for purchase. The prices range from $300 to $4‚000 for handguns‚ and $200 to $4‚000 for shotguns. The handguns will be
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The transition from slavery to freedom was as amazing as it was complicated. Newly freed African Americans experienced both joy and disappointment as they established themselves as free persons. Freed people frequently encountered violent resistance to their efforts to become paid workers and active citizens. Many white southerners refused to accept former slaves as free persons. Fortunately for the African Americans‚ they didn’t give up. These freed people took advantage of all the political‚ economic
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Sociology is the science of society. It is an attempt to account for the origin‚ growth‚ structure‚ and activities of society by the operation of physical‚ vital‚ and psychical causes working together in a process of evolution. The basic concept of sociology is the groups to which people belong and the social interaction that take place within those groups mostly shape the human behavior. Sociology appeared in answer to major changes related to social‚ economic‚ and political changes in the nineteenth
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Vietnam is a country whose economy is evolving. Its rapidly changing economy is facing significant alterations in the process of transition. Vietnam is moving away from its current economy‚ which is a non-market socialist one‚ towards a market economy with a socialist orientation. Vietnam is one of the poorest countries in the world with a Gross Domestic Product of only $300. High levels of population along with the proper training will allow Vietnam to effectively use its number one resource
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project manager for CAP has asked for an analysis for software configuration management. This paper includes the six major activities: coding‚ testing‚ installation‚ documentation‚ training and support. This document is a discussion on the transition from the design phase to the implementation phase. Implementation "In the implementation phase the system is constructed in a series of iterations where each Use Case and component is coded‚ tested and integrated into the overall system. This
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to play basketball like he did. This was the reason I joined my first basketball team at the age of 6. The team was called “los superheroes” (in English: superheroes)‚ so my life in basketball began. Coaches didn’t expect an ample amount of skills from me‚ but since I touched the ball in my first practice‚ they were surprised by how well I performed. I was really fast and smart with the ball‚ so nobody could handle me. Two months later‚ my team was registered in a local tournament‚ and due to the
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IP (VoIP)‚ email and instant messaging are all common forms of communication — several of which are free to use. Easy and broad access to these technologies means people are communicating more frequently than ever‚ from texting in the supermarket checkout line to making phone calls from the bathroom. A 2008 Nielsen Company study found Americans were sending 2.5 billion text messages per day. They averaged 357 per phone user each month. And teens 13 to 17 averaged 1‚742 messages per month. When kids
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Communication between the teacher and the parent is a crucial aspect of a child’s education. It is also important that the communication between the parent and teacher is frequent and appropriate. After reading an excerpt from a teacher’s Back-to-School Night speech‚ I have found aspects where the teacher demonstrated some sensitivity to the parent. The teacher demonstrated sensitivity when she utilized translators‚ with the distribution of a disclosure statement‚ and by having a late day for parent
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The elderly inmate’s population has grew a lot. “In 2003 prisoners 45 years and older accounted for about 17.8% of sentenced inmates‚ up from 13% in 1995 (Fields‚ 2005). Inmates 50 and older are now the fastest-growing portion of the prison population (Associated Press‚ 2005)‚ increasing at a rate three times faster than the general prison population.” Craig-Moreland and McLaurine identify 4 categories of elderly offenders and they are: first offenders who were sentenced to prison after the age
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