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    An Athelete Giant- Ernie Davis Ernie Davis was once a Syracuse University student. As an Afriacan-Amierican‚ he is known mainly because of his great achievement in football career in 1950s to 1960s. Ernie contributed a lot not only because he did a outstanding job in his football career life‚ but also becasuse he made a profound and positive impact on American society. People speak highly of him not only because he was a remarkable football player‚ but also because he had a great personality such

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    James Madison

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    Both‚ James Madison and Thomas Jefferson served very successful terms as president of the United States of America. Madison’s greatest accomplishment was the moral victory in the “War of 1812”‚ while Jefferson doubled the size of America with the “Louisiana Purchase”. Also‚ having an exceptional relationship allowed them to create the Democratic- Republican party. Despite sharing the same views on government‚ the aftereffects of their presidencies turned out to be far different. Because James Madison

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    James Baldwin

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    James Baldwin Has writing ever changed your life? Have you wondered about the author of the amazing work? James Baldwin was the author of books‚ plays‚ and essays that broke literary ground. His work explored social and racial issues regarding discrimination. James Arthur Baldwin was born in Harlem‚ New York in August 2‚ 1924 to Emma Berdis Jones and an unknown father. His stepfather was David Baldwin‚ a Baptist preacher and a factory worker. Baldwin grew up with an abusive father and a poor family

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    James A. Garfield

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    James A. Garfield James A. Garfield was born in Cuyahoga County‚ Ohio‚ in 1831. His father died in 1833‚ when Garfield was only two years old and so his mother had to carry on working the family farm by herself. With the death of his father‚ the family feel into poverty. Even though they had very little money‚ his mother made sure that her children went to the neighborhood school to get a good education. He belonged to the Desciples of Christ Church. While growing up‚ James drove canal boat

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    Lebron James

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    Lebron James‚ a NBA player for the Miami Heat is recently all the talk in sports news‚ but why? I think it is all just a lot of hype for no reason‚ I mean all this publicity for a single basketball player seems kind of outrageous. Miami’s season tickets were sold out after He made the trade to the Heat. Who buys season tickets to see one player? People really thought that he was going to change that team and make it an unstoppable force. He has taken advantage of this attention and banked off of

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    James Garfield

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    James A. Garfield was born in 1831 in a small place called Cuyahoga County‚ Ohio. He was born and raised fatherless‚ so he grew up strong-willed as the man of his house. When he became of age to start going of to college‚ Garfield chose the prestigious Williams College in Massachusetts in 1856. Garfield studied to become a politician and his hopes and dreams came true as he was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1859 as a Northern Republican. Garfield was well known as a loyal Unionist and kept his ways

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    James Cameron

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    director’s other films. For example‚ all the movies (except for Piranha 2) started on either the letter A or T. Another example is actor Michael Biehn whose characters have been bitten in the hand in one way or another in all of Cameron’s films. James Cameron began his Hollywood career by working with special effects. He built‚ among others miniatures for various low budget films. In 1980‚ he was art director of the science fiction film Battle Beyond the Stars. His first assignment as director was

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    James Blunt

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    James Blunt James Hillier Blount (born 22 February 1974)‚[2][3] better known by his stage name James Blunt‚ is an English singer-songwriter‚ musician and former army captain. He had signed with EMI music label before signing a recording contract withAtlantic Records and Custard Records. Blunt rose to prominence in 2005 with the release of his debut studio album Back to Bedlam‚ before achieving worldwide fame with the singles You’re Beautiful and Goodbye My Lover. The album sold over 11 million

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    For the Giant drop ride if you wanted to find the final velocity you would multiply the acceleration of gravity‚ which is 9.81m/s/s‚ times the amount of time it took for you to fall. This equation is Vf(velocity final)=Vi(velocity initial)+a(acceleration)*t(time). Since the initial velocity of the drop is zero we don’t have to worry about adding that on. The final velocity comes out to be about 84 miles/hour. This equation says nothing about mass or weight meaning that the weight of the passengers

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    James Joyce

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    James Joyce Short Story Comparison The Little Cloud (pg. 71-88) Counterparts by James Joyce (pg. 89-102) Whether it is in reality or a novel‚ it is very common that when people are unsatisfied with their lives‚ they tend to take their anger out on those around them. This is just a typical emotional response for many people. In both Counterparts and The Little Cloud by James Joyce the main male protagonists‚ in their stage in life‚ are depressed

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