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    My greatest ambition

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    * 5054/32 PHYSICS Paper 3 Practical Test May/June 2014 2 hours Candidates answer on the Question Paper. Additional Materials: As listed in the Confidential Instructions. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your Centre number‚ candidate number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. You may use an HB pencil for any diagrams or graphs. Do not use staples‚ paper clips‚ glue or correction fluid. DO NOT WRITE IN ANY BARCODES. Answer all questions

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    McCulloch 1 William A. McCulloch Professor Mejia English 1301 June 11‚ 2014 My Greatest Failure This is hard. A few years back I knew a young lady. Michelle was her name. We were not involved romantically‚ but we were in a relationship. Neither of us had many friends‚ she because she was rather abrasive; me because I have always been a loner. We met one evening at a Crown’s Book Store where we struck up a conversation about Terry Goodkind’s "Sword of Truth" series. I found her to be an

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    Basketball’s Greatest Players There are many great players who had the talent to be all pro and lost it in the streets. Probably the two most famous to fail are Lloyd Daniels and Earl Manigult. Both could of been all-stars but let the drugs and inner city life destroy there chances. It’s been said that Earl Manigult’s best feat was being able to jump up to the top of the backboard and take a dollar bill and replace it with four quarters. One other rumor was he once dunked a basketball backwards

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    opinions. I‚ for one‚ have an opinion about a question that will never really be answered. In this essay‚ you will read about my thoughts on the question: Should technology be used to serve the greatest number of people possible? Or should technology be used to serve the people who created it? Obviously‚ this paper was written using technology‚ and since I’m in highschool‚ you could easily assume which side I will be on. There are many benefits to technology being used by everyone. I believe that the

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    Washington was the first president of the United States of America. He came up with the concept of "Citizen Presidents"‚ wich means he leads the citizens. He believed so stronly in this concept that he refused to even run for president a third time‚ because "his time as a leader was over". Washington was also a courageous leader of battles‚ as he fought in the French & Indian

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    My Greatest Wish

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    structure on the original list of the seven wonders of the ancient world‚ which was compiled by Greek scholars about 2‚200 years ago. It is also the only remaining survivor from the original list. The Great Pyramid is the largest of three Pyramids at Giza‚ bordering modern-day Cairo. Although weathering has caused the structure to stand a few feet shorter today‚ the pyramid was about 480 feet (145 meters) high when it was first built. It is thought to have been the planet’s tallest human-made structure

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    year wasn’t one of my greatest year because I was going through a lot of things at that time. The one thing that I was going through and was the most painful was my dad leaving my mom and me. It was very painful because I felt that I have lost someone very important to me. Every thought that happened to me I still overcame it and still am but it don’t show I anymore my grades it shows the opposite. My dad left my mom because he was deported to Mexico and meet someone new it was heart broken to me

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    medicine. The discovery of antibiotics began by accident. On the morning of September 3rd‚ 1928‚ Professor Alexander Fleming was having a clear up of his cluttered laboratory. Fleming was sorting through a number of glass plates which had previously been coated with staphyloccus bacteria as part of research Fleming was doing. One of the plates had mould on it. The mould was in the shape of a ring and the area around the ring seemed to be free of the bacteria staphyloccus. Further research on the mould

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    to action for calculating and weighing the effect of any line of conduct on the general happiness." (Mill 23) A brief overview of Mill’s Utilitarianism concept is best described as the "Greatest Happiness Principle" (Mill 7) that states: you must always act to achieve "the greatest happiness for the greatest amount of people." (Mill 17) For Mill‚ happiness is defined as "pleasure and the absence of pain." (Mill 7) Therefore the objectors of this philosophy feel they cannot follow Utilitarianism

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    American chemist‚ inventor‚ and the greatest African American‚ Percy L. Julian. Percy’s research and studying helped the creation of drugs to treat glaucoma and arthritis. A Percy lived during a time of racism and segregation‚ he never let racism and it’s many challenges get in the way of his shaping of our world today. With his many achievements and awards‚ I personally believe Dr. Percy L. Julian is the Greatest African-American. Percy Lavon Julian was born on April 11‚ 1899 to Elizabeth

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