The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed‚ strength‚ and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point. This event has been an Olympic medal event since the first modern Olympics in 1896 At the elite level‚ competitors run down a runway and jump as far as they can from a wooden board 20 cm or 8 inches wide that is built flush with the runway into a pit filled with finely ground gravel or sand.Each competitor has three attempts.The competitor
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Whenever thinking of my short and long-term goals‚ five total goals come clearly to my mind. Three of them are short-term goals‚ and two of them are long-term goals. My first short-term goal is getting a leadership position in Sigma Alpha.There are multiple officer positions‚ and I want to apply to one. My second short-term goal is to get a job as a Summer Staff member at Gasper River Catholic Youth Camp & Retreat Center. I have volunteered as a counselor for Gasper River in the past‚ but this year
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Suicide and humor are two words not often associated with each other‚ but Nick Hornby takes the pair on in his novel A Long Way Down‚ a dark comedy about suicide and life after a failed attempt. The book is narrated by four characters taking turns telling the story in their voice. The resulting hodgepodge gang includes Martin‚ a quasi celebrity who loses everything after an affair with a fifteen-year old girl; Maureen‚ the middle-aged mother of a severely disabled son; Jess‚ an obnoxious teenager
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Bill – Huy Tien Minh Nguyen 02/10/2011 “Hell Is Other iPods: The Aural Loneliness of the Long Distance Shuffler” In “Hell Is Other iPods: The Aural Loneliness of the Long Distance Shuffler‚” author Caspar Melville rises an issue about the domination of iPods in the society nowadays. The product of Apple urges the desire inside each person when he or she sees others get one. But the iPod itself has to have attractive points so as to induce people‚ and they are the gorgeous in looking
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to those events. What history does not tell us are the interesting and exiting stories that were kept silenced. This is a main theme in Andrea Levy’s reflecting essay “The writing of The long song”‚ publicised in 2010. In the essay we hear how Andrea Levy got her motivation and inspiration to her book “The long song”. She stumbles upon the idea‚ when she hears a young woman asking; how she could be proud of her ancestors‚ when they had been slaves? Levy finds this to be an interesting question‚
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A Long Walk to Freedom • This extract is an autobiography by Nelson Mandela talking about the transition from a small undemanding child to a contributing factor in society. The writer engages our sympathy by effective use of vocabulary‚ various linguistic techniques and through his nostalgic tone. In the title‚ ‘Long Walk to Freedom‚’ the long‚ drawn out vowels like ‘ee’ and ‘o’ reflects the struggles and difficulties in this exhausting walk. Even the word ‘walk’ co notates to the‚ strive for
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In this assignment a focus on an individual with the long term illness/ condition of a stroke will be undertaken‚ examining the impact of the condition/illness from the perspective of the individual and their family and also the impact of person centred care upon nursing practice. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC‚ 2008) Code of Professional Conduct Guidance has been maintained throughout this essay and therefore‚ all names have been altered for the purpose of confidentiality and anonymity
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period of 1700 to 1900‚ there were many changes in long distance migration. Near the end of this period the slave trade across the atlantic was outlawed‚ so indentured servants from east and south asia began migrating to the U.S. There was activity throughout America and Ireland‚ while some changes in long distance migration from that time period occurred as European‚ African‚ and Chinese laborers were sent to the Americas. There was continuity in long distance migrations during this time in that‚ there
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years of family history and relationships was understandably difficult‚ and my grandfather was forced to fit his entire life into two suitcases. The first one he filled with clothes and books; the second with hundreds of photographs - faded memories of long-lost relatives gazing at us sadly. As I thumbed through the prints with my grandfather‚ I saw his face light up with a yearning to return to those happy times. In Russia‚ the affectionate word for grandfather is atkai. It’s a word that conveys
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The article “Yes‚ Sitting Too Long Can Kill You‚ Even If You Exercise” by Susan Scutti claims that sitting for long periods time can lead to death. Many people and I included sit too much. Many people have to sit in school or at work all day long. The article states that “people who sat for less than 30 minutes at a time had the lowest risk of early death”(Scutti). However‚ students in our school have 56 minutes of sitting time before they travel to their next class and then sit again for another
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