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    I think I would be a good sports captain because I will do my best by encouraging you‚ motivating you‚ supporting you and most of all‚ being a good sport. encourage others to participate in sport Criteria: SCHOOL VALUES FOR HOUSE CAPTAINS The elected house captain should (already) and will: HONESTY: § Tell the truth. § Not give into peer pressure when loaning equipment‚ and will not favour their friends over others. § Report people misusing equipment or being unfair in sport. KINDNESS

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    May-8th-2014 Final Paper Post Civil War up to the beginning of WWI was one of the most significant time periods for immigration here in the United States. From 1865 through 1920 an unprecedented and diverse stream of immigrants arrived in the United States‚ 27.5 million in total‚ In all‚ 24.4 million came from Europe. Immigrants were pushed out of their homelands by poverty or religious threats‚ and pulled to America by jobs‚ farmland‚ and family connections. They found economic

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    yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly‚” declared the father of narrator and author of A River Runs Through It‚ Norman Maclean (Norman Maclean‚ A River Runs Through It‚ A River Runs Through It and Other Stories‚ NY: Pocket Books-Simon & Schuster‚ 1992-1976‚ 1-113‚ 89. Print. All subsequent quotations are documented by page number only.). Norman’s attempt at helping people throughout the book is obvious as he is contrasted with a brilliant man who fly-fishes at a tremendous

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    Industry: Rags-Riches: The idea that anyone can come to America to follow the American Dream. They can be a person that has nothing at one point in their life to become a person that is super rich. Get money‚ get paid. Example would be Carnegie being inexperienced and then owning Carnegie hall and like everything. Captains of Industry: During the days of the American Industrial evolution‚ names such as Carnegie‚ Morgan and Rockefeller regularly appeared in leading newspapers around the country

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    ‘O Captain! My Captain’ is a moving poem in which Whitman expresses his profound sense of grief at a tragic end of a leader of men is addressed to Abraham Lincoln‚ one of the greatest presidents of the United States of Americawho fought a war (the American Civil War) against the Southern States to give the Negro slaves freedom and human dignity. The war was won‚ the slaves were freed‚ but Lincoln‚ soon after his election as president for a second term‚ fell a victim to an assassin’s bullet.

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    O Captain! My Captain!

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    “O Captain! My Captain!” Literary Analysis Every great nation’s past contains a great leader who sacrificed everything for his or her country. Abraham Lincoln gave his life after striving to abolish slavery. Soon after Lincoln’s murder‚ Walt Whitman wrote an apostrophe poem to Lincoln. In this eulogy‚ Whitman praised Lincoln’s accomplishments and mourned his death. In “O Captain! My Captain!”‚ Walt Whitman uses repetition‚ symbolism‚ assonance‚ and metaphors to portray the theme that every great

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    community or an economic‚ social‚ or industrial infrastructure‚ made up of a varied collection of individuals. It has been evolving from the time the first men appeared on earth to the present moment. An Industrial society is a society driven by the use of technology to enable mass production‚ supporting a large population with a high capacity for division of labour. A post-industrial society is one where the service sector produces more wealth than the industrial or manufacturing sector. It also

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    Carthan Dr. Jackson English 1102 [ 8 March 2011 ] Literary Summary/Analysis of “O Captain‚ My Captain” by Poet Walt Whitman “O Captain! My Captain” is a poem written by American poet Walt Whitman which expresses admiration for the 16th president of the United States of America who was assassinated. Written as an elegy in memory of Abraham Lincoln‚ who led the nation through turbulent times during the Civil War‚ the poem invokes the emotions both of pride and solemnest that Whitman felt for Lincoln

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    HISTORIAN AND HIS FACTS In the first chapter of "The Historian and his Facts‚" Edward Carr laid out the question of what defines history and the role of facts in writing history. Carr laid out the opposition viewpoint that facts speak for themselves and that it lay out directly how history should be written. Carr compares the writings of Acton and Sir George Clark. Acton‚ who wrote in the later Victorian age‚ wrote with a sense of awe and admiration towards history‚ while Sir George Clark seemed

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    The Captain of the Ship The poem “O Captain! My Captain” by Walt Whitman was written after the murder of the second president of the United States of America Abraham Lincoln. The poem was published on November 4‚ 1865‚ in Saturday Press in New York. This poem became one of the most famous poems of Whitman‚ which the readers immediately accepted. In this paper‚ I will look at the historical background of the poem “O Captain! My Captain” by examining the time period in

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