Every school celebrates its Sports Day and‚ to this all‚ the children very longingly look forward to. My school the St. Andrews Sr. Secondary School also has its Sports Day every year sometime in the month of November. The month of November is earmarked for the occasion‚ as‚ at this time‚ the weather is congenial for a long span of games on the field. When this day is about to come‚ there appears to be a lot of activity in the entire school premises as take lime. Avocado so there is a lot of
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Wilson established November 11 as a day to show honor and thankfulness for those who have risked their lives for our country. This day was significant because it was "The War to end all Wars‚” World War I. This day was mainly set aside to show pride to our veterans of World War I. In 1938‚ Armistice Day‚ Veterans Day original name‚ became a legal holiday. In 1945 just after World War II ended‚ congress changed Armistice Day to Veterans Day. Since then‚ Veterans Day was created to show pride to American
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Megan Kaufmann As the arctic cold rain drops sprinkled diagonally with my loose‚ flowing auburn hair‚ I splashed across the street to the bus stop. Although it was showery and very damp‚ I was happy about my upcoming day‚ the clouds were fluffy and dark grey‚ and there was a wonderful scent in the air‚ which perfumed of the spring morning. Just as I strode across the street‚ the mustard tinted bus‚ filled with immature‚ junior high students pulled up beside me. I wasn’t thrilled to be riding the
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Race day‚ those words may not mean much to an ordinary bystander‚ but those words now light something inside of me that I once never knew existed. Waking up with butterflies in my stomach‚ I had my first cross country meet. After months of intense training‚ it was time to display our fitness to the competition. The meet was at our home course‚ it had rained the night before and I swear I still remember the exact smell of the morning air. A combination of grass & mud‚ almost as if they were blended
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. Saint Valentine‚ officially known as Saint Valentine of Rome‚ is a third-century Roman saint widely celebrated on February 14 and commonly associated with "courtly love."Although not much of St. Valentine’s life is reliably known‚ and whether or not the stories involve two different saints by the same name is also not officially decided‚ it is highly agreed that St. Valentine was martyred and then buried on the Via Flaminia to the north of Rome.In 1969‚ the Roman Catholic
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where Jimmy Valentine was assiduously stitching uppers‚ and escorted him to the front office. There the warden handed Jimmy his pardon‚ which had been signed that morning by the governor. Jimmy took it in a tired kind of way. He had served nearly ten months of a four year sentence. He expected to stay only about three months‚ at the longest. When a man with as many friends on the outside as Jimmy Valentine had is received in the "stir" it is hardly worth while to cut his hair."Now‚ Valentine‚" said the
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two siblings‚ Valentine and Peter. Ender has a good caring relationship with his sister valentine. He has been picked on at school by bullies like Stilson and his gang. However ender is able to handle his bullies just like he did Stilston. He was able to handle his bullies because he has some of the aggression that his brother peter has. Ender does not want to be like his brother‚ he does not want to be a bully to others. This shows me that he has the kindness of his sister valentine in him. Ender
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which he was forever known as Saint Valentine. Now! There are always two sides to a story‚ here is the side not told. During Valentine’s studies at the university‚ he discovered cures for ailments such as epilepsy. The world thought he could rectify people through the will of God; however he was healing them with the medication he was cooking in his hidden lab. Consequently‚ medication was not the only entity he was experimenting with in his lab. Saint Valentine had created a serum that would forever
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Valentine ‘Valentine’ is a controversial love poem written by Carol Ann Duffy. Throughout the poem the poetess compares love to an onion and she does that by using a variety of techniques such as imagery‚ symbolism‚ word choice and structure. All these techniques justify why Valentine is an unusual love-poem as they help the poet express her different point of view. Overall‚ the poem is unusual as its title mistakenly leads the reader into thinking that the poem will be typical. I felt deeply moved
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Distinctive Voice and Character Analysis Claudia Valentine‚ being the protagonist of The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender‚ has been successfully developed in the text to both support and subvert the stereotype of a male hard-boiled detective‚ where she is portrayed as a female private detective who inheres the traditional characteristics of a tough talking male detective but also presenting feminist points of view. Thus the author‚ Marele Day has created this powerful distinctive voice of Claudia’s
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