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    The costs of the Olympics were really high.it was estimate of £2.4 million in 2005 to£9.3 billion now. The average overspend is 179%. The games will inspire people to exercise more. The London 2012 had more disadvantages. Some people might disagree to this statement as they might think they had more benefits than disadvantage. The Olympic Games have some benefits like the stadium we can use the stadium for other sports and will have a track or we could sell the stadium for example football group

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    Adolf Hitler‚ leader of the Nazi party and once the führer of Germany is responsible for an estimated 11 million deaths‚ many of which were very brutal (biography.com). Adolf was an Austrian Hitler expanded and led the German empire‚ and many other countries to World War II (history.com). To the German people Hitler was an amazing leader‚ orator‚ and economist (biography.com). In the archives of human history there are powerful and noteworthy leaders‚ some were a blessing and others a curse‚ of those

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    Anton Chekhov Legacy

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    A few months before he died‚ Chekhov told the writer Ivan Bunin he thought people might go on reading him for seven years. "Why seven?" asked Bunin. "Well‚ seven and a half‚" Chekhov replied. "That’s not bad. I’ve got six years to live."[85] Always modest‚ Chekhov could hardly have imagined the extent of his posthumous reputation. The ovations for The Cherry Orchard in the year of his death showed him how high he had risen in the affection of the Russian public—by then he was second in literary

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    Thomas Jefferson was an American founding father who was born in April 13‚ 1743 and died in July 4‚ 1826. With his good 83 years of life Thomas became a third President of the United States‚ his father died when Thomas was 14‚ his mother decided to move to Tuckahoe Plantation. Thomas inherited 5‚000 acers of land by the age of 21. Jefferson got educated at a collage called Wren Building‚ by age nine Jefferson new how to speak Latin‚ Greek‚ and French. By age 25 Jefferson had married his third-cousin

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    Du Dubois Legacy

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    “In 1888 Du Bois enrolled at Harvard as a junior. He received a B.A. cum laude‚ in 1890‚ an M.A. in 1891‚ and a Ph.D.” ( Holt‚ Thomas C) In 1896 he was invited by the University of Pennsylvania to conduct a study of the seventh ward in Philadelphia. Thereafter an estimated 835 hours of door-to-door interviews in 2‚500 households‚ Du Bois completed the monumental study‚ The Philadelphia Negro (1899). The Philadelphia study was both highly empirical and hortatory‚ a combination that prefigured much

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    The Legacy of Jesse James

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    JJ waas a great man Jesse Woodson James (September 5‚ 1847 – April 3‚ 1882) was an American outlaw‚ gang leader‚ bank robber‚ train robber‚ and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a celebrity when he was alive‚ he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death. Some recent scholars place him in the context of regional insurgencies of ex-Confederates following the American Civil War rather than a manifestation of frontier lawlessness

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    I Know Your Twenty Cell phones have become the leading source of communication in the world. However‚ it is not just phone calls or e-mails anymore‚ someone might take down time to play angry birds or candy crush saga. If your cell phone is left on and completely unattended someone‚ knows your location. Over 200 million Americans who own a cell phone have been watched on a data base created by the cell phone company‚ keeping track of tower signals‚ recording conversations‚ and making copies of

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    Legacy is one of the most important aspects when looking back at the greatest players in professional sports history. All fans have these everlasting images in their heads about the all-time great players‚ that can be positive--Michael Jordan hitting the winning shot over Bryon Russell‚ John Elway winning back-to-back Super Bowls to finish his career-or negative--whatever has happened to Tiger Woods‚ Brett Favre’s last season in Minnesota. These images drastically affect how we remember legends of

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    probably the most important of them all. Excellence isn’t an act it’s just a habit something you just do without thinking about the thing you’re excellent at. In the Leaving a Legacy unit‚ many social and historical movements‚ as well as people and legacies‚ have been explored. Some of these people are still going on or have left a legacy worth learning about‚ one of which is Aristotle. Aristotle is a Greek philosopher who is the icon of western philosophy who started out as a student of Plato to one of

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    thesis is “I think legacies do deserve extra attention from the admissions office”. 2. Is it significant? Yes‚ this issue affects all current and future students and applicants to Cromwell‚ and could influence the entire scholarly community. 3. a. List the claims being made (you need to find 6 + claims) 1] Legacy applicants are more likely to do well when they get to Cromwell because they understand what college is all about. 2] Legacies know the old traditions

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