The Great One Section A 1. Summary Wayne Gretzky grew up in Branford‚ Ontario. When he was just three‚ his father made him an ice rink in their backyard. Gretzky was only seven years old when he scored more than three hundred goals in the season. Wayne Gretzky loved hockey and made it his life. His talent‚ diligence and perseverance got him into the National Hockey League at the age of seventeen and went on to win the Stanley Cup; he also won the Canada Cup. Gretzky played for the Edmonton Oilers
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interests then doing what she loved to do. Margaret got her first pet when she was in Kindergarten and it was a bunny. Margaret’s nickname that her friends used to call her was “Brownie”. Margaret Graduated from Hollins University and Dana Hall School. Few years after‚ in 1935‚ she then graduated from Bank Street Cooperative School. Two years after she graduated‚ she began her writing career at the age of 27. She published her first book soon after called When the Wind Blew. One
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Dying with Dignity: Journal Entry Seton Hall University When I first heard the word cancer I was in elementary school and I had no idea of what it meant; all I knew was my grandmother had it. The word cancer was something I never really understood until I got older and heard a friend of mine say that her father was dying from brain cancer. My grandmother fought cancer for fives years until she got tired of the never ending fight. That was my first
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Explain the political threats to the Weimar republic from the left and right in the period 1919-1923 There were many on the political right and left in Germany who wanted to see the new Republic overthrown by force‚ for the right wing the ‘stab in the back’ theory simply strengthened their resolve. Opposition from the extreme right was very different both in the form and in its extent to that of the extreme left‚ there was a mixed collection of opponents of the republic but all representatives
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As I sat in front of my computer downloading my favorite song from Napster‚ I started to think about how hard it must have been to write a song so sublime with the way the words flow from one another‚ and how talented one must be to do so. I started to think how hard people work on their music for themselves and their fans‚ and how their fans don’t realize what they are doing every time they download a song off the internet. What they don’t realize is that it is messing over the people who worked
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Alex Hoffman IB Film Mr. Evers January 10‚ 2012 Paul Thomas Anderson: An Auteur of Film There are two types of directors in the world: those who write their movies and those who don’t. This doesn’t mean that one is a better director than the other‚ but it does however define if a director is truly an auteur of their film. Paul Thomas Anderson dropped out of film school after just 2 days. He went on to spend his savings and college money to produce his first short film Cigarettes & Coffee. It
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Then all of a sudden a member of the tribe signaled to back down. They turned their heads the direction member was looking at trying to find a hope to live. Down the stretch of a forest were brown-coated men lined up with a M1819 Hall rifle aiming right above our foreheads. “Shoot us‚ ” said the tribe leader “ I Dare you to‚ ” The leader was smart enough to know that the accuracy of the gun was lacking. And if they were to shoot both the tribe and the hunters were in harm’s way
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THE GRIP OF CULTURE: EDWARD T. HALL Edward T. Hall is an anthropologist and one of the founders of intercultural communication study. His works have played a key role in describing how people’s view of the world and behavior are largely determined by a complex grid of unconscious cultural patterns. In The Silent Language (1959) Hall outlined a broad theory of culture and described how its rules control people’s lives. In The Hidden Dimension (1966) he introduced proxemics‚ the study of our
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Of all the 1980 ’s films‚ that can be described as "Eighties Teen Movies" (Thorburn‚ 1998) or "High School Movies" (Messner‚ 1998)‚ those written and (with the exception of "Pretty In Pink" (1986) and "Some Kind of Wonderful"(1987)) directed by John Hughes were often seen to define the genre‚ even leading to the tag "John Hughes rites de passage movies" as a genre definition used in 1990s popular culture (such as in "Wayne ’s World 2" (1994 dir. Stephen Surjik)). This term refers to the half dozen
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The main threat to the stability of the Weimar republic in the period 1919-1923 came from the political violence of the extreme right There were many threats posing Germany in 1919‚ the political system formed on the back of failure produced resentment towards Weimar from both the extreme left and the right. Other factors linked to economic issues caused by war‚ such as hyperinflation and the war guilt clause which `led to much suffering for the German people through loss of savings and jobs and
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