Sports is a huge part of some students lives here at westwood. In the he winter season we have many different sports and teams competing‚ there is boys and girls basketball‚ wrestling‚ competition cheer‚ boys and girls track‚ ice hockey‚ swimming and bowling. Even though it’s only half the season for some and the start to others‚ student athletes here are accomplishing some great things. Boys basketball has already played eight games in their season‚ currently holding a 5-3 record. They have a huge
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I have heard many people around me saying that you should go walk the Brooklyn Bridge at least once and I never have a chance to fulfill it. Through this opportunity‚ I called my friend up to accompany me to walk the Bridge for the first time. Based on the information from the history of the United States‚ the Brooklyn Bridge was completed in 1883 and considered as an engineering marvel for that time. It remains as one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. During mid-1800s‚ the ferries
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10/2/13 L1 The poems “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman‚ “I‚ Too Sing America” by Langston Hughes‚ and “On the Pulse of the Morning” by Maya Angelou are very similar but also very different in many ways. All three of the poems talk about equality‚ diversity‚ pride‚ and hope for the future. Whitman talks about various working people “singing”. I think that he is trying to tell his readers that each person contributes to the life and culture of America. The mechanic‚ the carpenter‚ the
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Whitman wrote‚ “I hear America singing.’’ The purpose of the poem was to tell the reader how the American dream was going when Whitman wrote this poem. Langston Hughes wrote‚” Let America be America again.’’ The purpose of this poem was to tell the reader that not everyone could have lived the american dream. What i have gathered they can both agree on that they want america to get better. Since‚ “ I hear america singing‚”and “Let America be America again” are similar and different. I can compare
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In Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851) by Emanuel Leutze (1816-1868)‚ we see then a general in the American Revolutionary War‚ crossing the Delaware River with his troops on the night of Dec. 25‚ 1776. The crossing instantly advanced Washington’s surprise attack on the Hessian forces in the Battle of Trenton. Although the painting portrays a historic part of the American Revolution‚ it isn’t just a representational work of the success of the American general or the history of the American Revolution
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Many Americans perceive their country differently‚ whether it appears as the land of freedom and liberty‚ or the land of oppression and injustice. In the case of modernistic writer Walt Whitman‚ his poem "I Hear America Singing" expresses America as the land of the hardworking and the humble. He focuses on the idea of the American dream and the specific types of people who are the backbone of this country. On the other hand‚ the view of another modernistic poet‚ Langston Hughes‚ is very different
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Occupy Wall Street * What is Occupy Wall Street? Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17‚ 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District‚ and has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1‚500 cities globally. #ows is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process‚ and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest
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Walt Whitman entails a man questioning his own existence‚ only to answer himself with a simple answer. It begins as a list of the negative parts of life. For example‚ he feels as if he is “forever reproaching [him]self” (3); this means that no matter what happens in his life‚ the speaker still disapproves‚ and he can never feel truly content in his actions. When Whitman is spelling out “the struggle ever renew’d” (5) in life‚ he uses a repetitive device to emphasize the multitude of hardships people
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RUNNING HEAD: THE CHESAPEAKE BAY The Chesapeake Bay Watershed and Tourism on the Eastern Shore of Maryland Angela Cotton Chesapeake College The Eastern Shore of Maryland is one of the most beautiful places‚ not only on the East Coast‚ but in the United States. Given this fact‚ which most of the locals are painfully aware of‚ it only makes that the Eastern Shore receives thousands of visitors throughout the year every year. One must wonder however‚ what exactly it is that brings all of these
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Francis Keala was Honolulu Police Department’s former chief‚ beginning 1969 and retiring in 1983. He is a Saint Louis graduate‚ and went to the University of Hawaii and got his bachelor’s degree in sociology. Not much is known about his early life. In the Honolulu Police Department‚ he spent 25 years as the police chief. His main goal was to focus on the drug abuse in Hawaii. He had commanded several operations‚ including “Operation Hukilau”. Francis is the first police chief with a college
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