that the time was very wind assisted. Outside this race ‚ Griffith_joyners fastest time without wind assistance was 10.61 seconds ‚ which would give her the world record anyway.In the 100 m final‚ she ran a wind-assisted 10.54‚ beating her rival Evelyn Ashfrd broke that record again winning the final by 0.4 seconds with a time of 21.34. She also ran in the 4 x 100 m and 4 x 400 m relay teams. She won a gold medal in the former event‚ and a silver in the latter. Her effort in the 100 m was ranked
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she sighed. "If you keep eating this batter we won’t have a cake to cook!" Soda shrugged nonchalantly. "The batter tastes just fine‚" he drawled‚ "We should just make batter instead of a cake." "I second that motion!" Two-Bit piped up from the couch‚ taking his attention of the poker game long enough for Steve to slip a card out of his sleeve. "Full house‚ Two-Bit. Beat that‚" Steve challenged‚ grinning as he laid his cards out along the table. Two-Bit cussed under his breath‚ only to receive
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of 244 American men in squadrons 71‚ 121‚ and 133 of the Royal Air Force (Caine pg.xi). Meanwhile‚ Danny‚ along with Rafe’s girlfriend‚ Evelyn (who was an Army Nurse)‚ is sent to Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii‚ where there was very little threat at the time. Back in England in the RAF‚ Rafe’s plane was shot down and on the other side of world in Hawaii‚ Danny and Evelyn heard news that he was Killed In Action. Later im the film‚ we learn that Rafe was able to escape the cockpit of the plane after it the
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Don’t Be Too Serious Let’s say that someone handed you something unexpected. It could be anything: a computer‚ book‚ even a guitar! However‚ what if it was something of great value? What if it was a baby that was handed to you? Odds are‚ you’d probably freak out and hand the baby over to the authorities or something similar to that. But not Taylor Greer in the novel The Bean Trees! The words that Barbara Kingsolver chooses to use show a tone of informality and humor. One way Kingsolver establishes
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crime? MacDonald told investigators that on the evening of February 16‚ he had fallen asleep on the living room couch. He told investigators that he was sleeping on the couch because his youngest daughter‚ Kristen‚ had been in bed with his wife and had wet his side of the bed. He was later awakened by the sounds of Colette and Kimberley’s screams. As he rose from the living room couch to go to their aid then he was attacked by three male intruders. A fourth intruder‚ described as a white female with
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Midwife Everytime I see those blinding blue eyes that my 4 year old niece has‚ my mind goes straight to the day before she was born. On October 30th around 4pm‚ my sister‚ who was 9 months pregnant at the time‚ and I are sitting on our comfy brown suede couch. The cliche screams coming from the scary movie that’s playing in the front of the room. Little did I know that in just a few minutes my heart rate would go up‚ but not from the movie‚ from the horrors of childbirth. My sister and I just got back
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Hero’s Recognition Both Willy and the mother from “Taught me Purple” by Evelyn Tooley Hunt‚ have the same unrealistic expectations and false dreams. They fantasize the truth until they can no longer bear to live in reality. They hold the American Dream so high in their minds that “In its lack [they] [die]‚” and these phony ambitions go on to harm their children. Hunt describes how her mother taught her in purple and gold‚ but wore wash-grey. Her mother pretended to be special and wealthy even though
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Adversities or Challenges and How They Shape You Everyone has to face challenges‚ but not many confront it. Whether they are young or old‚ rich or poor‚ the struggle of a challenge can vary. In the biographical sports drama titled The Blind Side directed by John Lee Hancock‚ the protagonist Michael Oher faces countless challenges and difficulties and attempts to address them. As the film progresses‚ the director continuously exposes the viewer to Michael’s character along with the predicaments he
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Quadrat 8 also had 20% river mangrove and 40% salt-water couch. 3. Describe changes in abiotic factors along the transect. Identify possible relationships between abiotic gradients and vegetation zonation. The elevation between quadrats 12 and 13 rises greatly because of the zone change to above high tide
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“Huckleberry Finn” and is demonstrated through linguistic and literary techniques. In “The Catcher in the Rye” I have chosen the last three pages of Chapter 24 where Holden Caulfield‚ the protagonist‚ is spending the night sleeping on his previous teacher’s couch. The Huckleberry Finn extract I have chosen occurs in the beginning of Chapter 4. Huckleberry Finn has been kidnapped by his father and is now trapped in a cabin in the middle of the woods. Both the “Catcher in the Rye” extract and the “Huckleberry
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