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    If I were a Tim Hortons Restaurant Owner I would find the best ways possible to make sure my team is committed and engaged. Getting to know my team members is one way I would start. To find out the learning style and how my teams works best‚ I would create a survey that would be distributed to each team member to complete. The survey would consist of questions like‚ “What encourages you to work harder?” or “What can be done to help you feel more motivated to achieve goals?” By getting to know

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    as true as any actual war story. Furthermore‚ many of the characters and experiences found in these stories have been created from composites of real people and places. Essentially‚ the stories are first-hand accounts of things that never happened. Tim O’Brien uses this fictional world to negate death‚ to emphasize meaningful events and character traits‚ and to enrich the stories with feelings as oppose to factual details.

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    The Things They Carried The Things They Carried is a novel by Tim O’Brien that makes someone face reality. War is crazy. Some things seem true and other things they just don’t know what to think. Surrealism means not real. Surrealism has a big part in the war. The hard thing is figuring out what’s not true and what is. It can be tricky‚ some things that may be false sound like they can’t be made up. Then that’s when their imagination takes over. They have to fight with their imagination and comprehend

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    In the book titled‚ The Things They Carried‚ the author‚ Tim O ’ Brien‚ depicts a world where traumatic memories and crushing emotional baggage are far heavier than any combat pack or assortment of weapons that has ever burdened the back of a soldier. The author‚ O ’Brien‚ explores the physical and emotional burdens that the soldiers of the Vietnam War "hump" or carry with them. The author portrays the things the soldiers carry throughout the story as both literally tangible items and figuratively

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    The French and Indian War marked a major turning point in American relations with Great Britain. Before the war‚ there was a period of neglect/disinterest with Britain and the colonies. Great Britain only seemed to be interested in the colonies maintaining the mercantilist policies and did not care for how the colonies decided how to govern/run themselves. After the war‚ there were major changes on the relations between the colonies and Great Britain in terms of British involvement in the colonies

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    and artificial medicants‚ the concept of reality can sometimes blur. Connections with others and with life can dull‚ and by shaking off the shackles of materialism and rediscovering the baser parts of the human condition they can be restored. In Tim Winton’s Dirt Music‚ I followed the character Georgie Jultand’s awakening through the story.

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    arguments in the text Ordeal by Fire and whether Antietam and Emancipation‚ Gettysburg‚ Vicksburg‚ and Chattanooga‚ represent the three critical turning points in the Civil War. Second‚ I will rank the three points from greatest to least in terms of their importance on the Civil War. Third‚ I will add a fourth event I feel was significant to the turning of the war. Antietam and Emancipation The Union and Confederate Armies met at Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg‚ Maryland‚ on September 17‚ 1862

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    a powerful clan leader who hoped his son would one day become the next king. Siddhartha made the decision to relinquish his home to learn how the majority of Indians lived. Throughout a person’s life‚ they will have many turning points that shape who they are today. A turning point is a specific event that results in a significant

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    The turning point in the history of Eastern Europe In my opinion‚ in the 20th century a lot of unique events happened that shocked the whole world. Undoubtedly‚ there were the first and second world wars that led to the death of millions of people‚ people of different nationalities with different cultures‚ languages and religions. These two wars have drastically exhausted all the countries of the world‚ in particular the countries of Eastern Europe. I believe that the most important at that time

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    Tim Winton’s iconic Australian novel‚ Cloudstreet has been highly regarded by audiences as a text of great value. Its resilience is a direct consequence of its ability to appeal to readers regardless of personal context. This is because Cloudstreet explores universal values relevant to modern society. By appreciating and developing a deeper understanding of Winton’s promotion of spiritual wholeness and quintessential Australian setting‚ it is possible to reflect back on that novel as a symbolic representation

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